A New York student of electronic music influenced by experimentalists
John Cage and
Terry Riley,
Kim Cascone later moved to San Francisco and founded the Silent label. The label was best known for recordings by
Cascone projects PGR,
Heavenly Music Corporation,
Thessalonians and
Spice Barons as well as a 1992 tribute to acid named Fifty Years of Sunshine (featuring
Nurse with Wound,
Psychic TV,
Hawkwind,
Timothy Leary). After his frenetic release schedule of the early '90s,
Cascone took time out to work as a sound engineer for
Thomas Dolby's Headspace studios. He returned to active recording with 1999's
Blue Cube, his first album as
Kim Cascone.
Cathode Flower followed later that same year and was followed in 2001 by
Residualism on Ritonell through Mille Plateaux. [See Also:
Heavenly Music Corporation, PGR] ~ John Bush