Heavily influenced by the sound, fury and Dada-inspired artistic sensibilities and cut-up techniques of electronica pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire, Tackhead and Meat Beat Manifesto, 3kStatic is an electronica collective founded in 1999. Recording for the dPulse Recordings, Cargo Records Germany and INgrooves labels, 3kStatic releases are distributed by ONE Digital, Universal Music Distribution Digital, Zebralution and Sony BMG Music Germany. Additional 2008 3kStatic releases have also been issued on the Nightshade Music, Televisionary and Sick Watona labels. Earlier in the evolution of digital music, 3kStatic logged more than 225,000 downloads on the former MP3.com, and were named 2003 Artist of the Year by the Mixdown, a weekly broadcast of Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU FM (Nashville, Tennessee). ...show more

Heavily influenced by the sound, fury and Dada-inspired artistic sensibilities and cut-up techniques of electronica pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire, Tackhead and Meat Beat Manifesto, 3kStatic is an electronica collective founded in 1999. Recording for the dPulse Recordings, Cargo Records Germany and INgrooves labels, 3kStatic releases are distributed by ONE Digital, Universal Music Distribution Digital, Zebralution and Sony BMG Music Germany. Additional 2008 3kStatic releases have also been issued on the Nightshade Music, Televisionary and Sick Watona labels. Earlier in the evolution of digital music, 3kStatic logged more than 225,000 downloads on the former MP3.com, and were named 2003 Artist of the Year by the Mixdown, a weekly broadcast of Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU FM (Nashville, Tennessee).

The group's recorded output has been featured on the past several seasons on the soundtrack of MTV's Real World and Road Rules, and has also being licensed for various television commercials and independent films. Notable licensees of the band's music include Pontiac, Hypnotiq Vodka, PHisoderm, The Cleveland Clinic, Edmunds.com, TheKnot.com, and many others. Their 2004 album Perversion: for Profit; uses audio sampled from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit, an anti-pornography diatribe hosted by George Putnam and also garnered favorable reviews especially in Germany, where the band's often aggressive political comment was seen as a throwback to the earlier days of post-punk electronic and industrial music. In addition to the ardently activist statements that have become a centerpiece of the band's output, the band has been said to fuse an "eclectic, Dadaist soundscape" into their sound, which incorporates elements of art rock, trip hop, funk and house into an often densely produced collage reminiscent of Dada art.

Due to this clash of sounds and activist stance, their work has been described as "anarchist disco" and "post-industrial house" Although their recordings could be considered album-oriented electronica, their college and independent radio singles include 'Drumbeat Litany', 'All The Way Alive', 'Brutal Realities', 'Shattered' and 'The Music' - which charted #1 on various underground dance charts in late 2004. Additional charting tracks include 'Second Coming (Create Their Own Past)', 'Brilliant Disguise' and the (2007 remaster) of 'End of The Reel' which features Drumfire of Om Records artists Afro-Mystik. In 2006, the band embarked on a more vigorous series of live dates, appearing at the legendary New York rock venue The Knitting Factory, electronic music festival events in Michigan and Tennessee and many others. Members of the band also began hosting and programming the weekly electronic music broadcast CounterprogamFM airing on The Electric Circus program of the Columbus, Ohio-based radio network RadioU. ...show less