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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.

The dPulse label recently released of a 'best of' compilation titled Other Ideals: (The Best of 3kStatic 1999-2007). The compilation spans the first eight years of the band's releases, and follows up the band's 2006 release Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World?' which charted in the Top 25 on the iTunes Music Store in Europe for ten consecutive weeks, including #1 (Dance) on the iTunes (Spain) chart. That album includes guests artists Joy Askew, Annette Strean of Venus Hum, Pete Miser, Robert Bond and funk legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee George Clinton.

On its own, the Other Ideals: compilation went on to chart Top 5 at the eMusic download service, and became the band's first entry on the iTunes Japan Top 100 Album Sales chart. 3kStatic regularly appears on the Top Artists charts at Rhapsody, where 'Other Ideals:' climbed to #19 on the album sales charts in the Industrial/Dance and IDM/Leftfield genres.

The band's recent European album release The Great Republic (Cargo Records Germany) was selected as one of the label's Top 10 releases of 2006, and a recent single was selected for inclusion on the 'Songs of The Times' website curated by protest rock legend Neil Young.

3kStatic embarked on an aggressive live schedule in 2007, appearing in at Winter Music Conference (Remix HotelMiami, FL) and a series of dates including Philadelphia, Allentown, PA., New York City, Atlanta, GA., and Chicago. A live recording of a set from the Philadelphia dates was released on the dPulse label. At Remix Hotel events at Winter Music Conference and at SAE Institute in New York, 3kStatic performed on the Microsoft Sound Stage courtesy of Sony.

3kStatic also was invited to the Cornerstone and Popkomm music festivals in 2007.

Following their 2006 double album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? - which was a GRAMMY® Award entry in the 'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category - 3kStatic released the digital and compact disc release Voodoo Science (also a double album) featuring guests artists including members, former members, live players and producers of Petra, Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Enemy, Skinny Puppy, The Orchestra / ELO Part II, Thompson Twins, Cabaret Voltaire, Hula and others.

An advance EP of tracks taken from Voodoo Science and released in November 2007, Worked Over Nasty: Singles rose to #7 on the Leftfield genre charts at eMusic, and includes tracks that simultaneously occupied the #1, #2 and #3 chart positions on the Downtempo charts at music retailer Play It Tonight in early December of 2007.

The album's title track, released 12.18.07, also quickly rose to #1 at Play It Tonight, #4 on eMusic and was selected as a featured track at dance/dj retailer AudioJelly.

During the recording of Voodoo Science, the band announced the addition of producer Kerwin Young to its ranks. A member of Public Enemy's Bomb Squad production team, Young produced numerous entries in the Public Enemy catalog. He also produced albums for Professor Griff, who also appears on Voodoo Science.

During this time the band also became the first artist accepted into the AMP Alliance, a music industry trade group spearheaded by Microsoft Corporation, and also began work with SlamJAMZ video producer C-Doc on new music video projects.

The 3kStatic track 'Rail' also appears on the soundtrack of Liquid Vinyl, a documentary of rave music culture that features noted DJs Carl Cox, Mark Lewis and others. The film is scheduled for release in Summer 2008.

The single 'Counterprogramming' featuring legendary rock vocalist Greg X. Volz (Petra) and remixed by Rom DiPrisco (Skinny Puppy, Richard 'Humpty' Vission) was be released January 15, 2008. The singles 'Ma-Ma-Ma Belle feat. Parthenon Huxley will be released on 12" vinyl March 2008. The single 'Council Housed and Violent' feat. vileevils followed.

The 3kStatic album Voodoo Science was released in the US January 29, 2008 and was released in Europe via Cargo Records Germany March 14, 2008.

3kStatic (presented by Sony Creative Software and Microsoft) returned to Winter Music Conference/Remix Hotel in 2008, with a celeb-filled set March 29. 3kStatic was joined by Parthenon Huxley of The Orchestra / ELO, Part II.

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