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Proem

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2021 - Twelve Tails
2019 - Until Here for Years
2019 - As They Go
2018 - Modern Rope
2015 - Before It Finds You
2010 - Enough Conflict
2009 - Till There's No Breath
2007 - A Permanent Solution
2006 - You Shall Have Ever Been
2004 - Socially Inept
2001 - Negativ
2001 - Among Others
1999 - Burn Plate No. 1

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1 Male

Popularity
21

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13,652

Origin
Los Angeles, USA

Genre
Experimental

Style
Electronic

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Active
1999 to Present...

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	Bites Their Tongue	79,402		4 users
	Deep Like Airline Failure	175,109		4 users
	Invisible for All	86,638		4 users
	Place Gun to Head	99,849		4 users
	When Frailty Fails	86,625		4 users

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Richard Bailey has been releasing emotive, ham-fisted electronic music under the pseudonym of "Proem" since the release of Burnplate no.1 on Hydrant records in 1999. For the last fifteen odd years, he as released a sizable collection of full lengths, ep's, and various artist appearances for underground electronic labels such as n5md, merck, hymen, and toytronic.

Inspired by dramatic lighting and insomnia, our hero began his journey armed with thrift store record players, some tape (for locked grooves), tape decks, casio sk-5's and a handful of effects. The early recordings focused largely on locked groove drones, harsh noise, mangling and making sound by any means necessary. These experiments, while more textural than tonal, set in motion the murky underpinnings of his later work.

Once Richard discovered that the family computer, with the aid of a DOS based tracker (modedit) and his 16bit sound card, could remove most of the hardware and timing limitations he quickly changed directions and dove head first into computer based music. He looked up from the screen a year later with a demo he sent out to labels that would welcome his brand of distorted beats and somber melodies. A few false starts and a pile of silent rejections later, the nice folks at Hydrant agreed to release a 1000 copy run and then promo the hell out of it at the winter music conference that year. A few other fledgling labels took notice and before long, Proem had a regular release schedule on several different labels.


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