Antihouse

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“Describing their inspiration as “an interest in electronics and technology as a mode of communication and expression”, Jimmy Tamborello and Forster David Rudolph, a.k.a. Antihouse, are devoted to ambient music because of its dissolution of boundaries. To them, ambient is not “drifty floaty music”; it is a realm where anything is possible.
Jimmy, the main songwriter and electronics expert, is a recording arts major and music director for KXLU, while Dave focuses on visual and graphic art, writing music, and being the voice for Antihouse. Both are in indie-rock bands outside of Antihouse, and have developing solo projects. For them, working together is a matter of mutual motivation and appreciation, as they tend to be overly critical of their work.
Jimmy and Dave started their music collaboration in high school as Skillet, an electro-industrial outfit, switching over to flat-out techno in early ’92 in response to the cheesy techno-house (e.g. Snap, C&C Music Factory) climbing the charts at the time. The Antihouse name became a part of that reaction…
The CD sleeve represents each song with a corresponding food item, priced according to the amount of the album that the song comprises, thereby pointing to the fact that music, like almost everything else, has become a commodity to be bought and sold. Above that, though, the common grocery store imagery is Antihouse’s statement that ambient music is for everyone. Dave notes, “if ambient music is to mean anything in the real world, it should be applied to the real world we all share, and not to something as intangible as meditating angels or new-age dolphin mantras…. It is just a different take on what music should do.”
Antihouse reacts very strongly against the lofty claims that many make with ambient music, rather intending to be real, true, and simple. The music is pure, all instrumental, with no samples, no “message”. They are content to let the music speak for itself.
The Antihouse project is now defunct, as Jimmy and Dave have gone on to other projects in other genres, we know not where!”