Gridlock is an experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994. A year later, Mike Cadoo joined up, and the duo released their first two demos, Sickness and Frozen, and soon signed to Pendragon Records in 1997. Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ...

Their style was originally akin to the sound of Skinny Puppy with less vocals and an ambient aspect not normally found in industrial. Eventually, they took on more and more ambient and electronic sounds and slowly removed their industrial edge and any trace of vocals. Today, they could better be compared to Autechre due to their newer IDM sound and to Panacea for their Drum & Bass experimentation. Skinny Puppy (left to right, cEvin Key, Nivek Ogre, Dwane R. Goettel), Circa 1986 Skinny Puppy is an industrial band, formed in 1982 by cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) Nivek Ogre (Kevin Ogilvie) and engineer/producer Dave Rave Ogilvie, adding keyboardist Wilhelm Schroeder (aka Bill Leeb) for their debut LP, Bites... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Ambient music is a loosely defined musical genre that incorporates elements of a number of different styles - including jazz, electronic music, new age, rock and roll, modern classical music, reggae, traditional, world and even noise. ... Autechre is an English electronic music group. ... IDM, short for intelligent dance music, is an electronic music genre which began as a style of techno in the early 1990s and moved on to include the textures and sound manipulation methods of Musique concrete and early, true industrial bands such as Coil and Nurse With Wound. ... Drum and bass (drum n bass, DnB) is an electronic music style. ...

Discography

• Sickness (1995)
• Frozen (1996)
• The Synthetic Form (1997)
• Further (1999)
• 5.25 (2000)
• Trace (2001)
• Formless (2003)

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See also

• Dryft

External links

• Gridlock's Official Site (http://www.5-25.com/gridlock/)