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...trio recorded its 2003 debut, “I Am the Fun Blame Monster,” using “Deeler,” a proprietary computer program written entirely by Brent Knopf, their giddy keyboardist. Knopf’s ace coding allowed the band to compose complex pop suites by looping and sequencing live improvisations into tricky recursive structures. The components of its instrumental arrangements swooped in and fell out of trapdoors, constantly intertwining and unraveling like the title’s dorkily brilliant anagram (“The First Menomena Album?...
After graduation, Marx began working for Japanese media and pop culture publication Tokion Magazine in New York, while DJing on the side. It wasn’t enough. A year and a half later, Marx was yearning to write and record his own music...
While attending Harvard, Sylvester made his enrollment in the college known in his Pitchfork reviews; references to Cambridge and Harvard pop up in reviews of Wig in a Box: Songs from and Inspired by Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Daft Punk’s remix album Daft Club. For the latter, Sylvester, a former writer for the Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—collaborated with Lampoon cartoonist Farley T. Katz ’06 to create several cartoon panels, with hilarious results...
...anything, I’ve been guilty of pushing music on The Lampoon,” Sylvester says, “booking crazy concerts and B-list rock stars, and the issue I edited was exclusively about pop culture and music...
While an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator at Harvard, Marx spent two summers studying pop culture in Japan. While there, he worked for a Japanese fashion magazine and eventually focused his senior thesis on the cultural influences of trendy Japanese clothing line “A Bathing...