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Chicago visual artist, musician, and sound artist

ALBUMS

List Of Demands

3D Sonic Adventure

Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek

New Future City Radio

Avant-garde Jazz/Future Jazz

High Anxiety - Remix EP

Broken Beat/Trip Hop/Dub/Free Funk/Afrobeat/Leftfield/Experimental/Avantgarde

The Jai-Alai Savant

Thunderstatement

Dub/Electro/Indie Rock

Assembly Line People Program

Subdivision Of Being

Alternative Rock

Dub/Post Rock/Experimental/Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk/Afro-Cuban/Avantgarde

Hurtmold / The Eternals

The Eternals / Hurtmold

2003, CD, Album, Submarine Records (2),

Post-Hardcore/Post Rock/Dub/Avantgarde

2002, 12", EP, Ltd, Aesthetics

The Broadcasting System

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble

Avant-garde Jazz

Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble

Where Future Unfolds

2016, LP, Album, New Atlantis Records, Submarine Records (2),

Free Improvisation/Avant-garde Jazz/Jazz-Rock/Post Rock/Dub

Approaching The Energy Field

2011, LP, Addenda Records, Submarine Records (2)

Exploding Star Orchestra

Stars Have Shapes

Heavy International

The Special 12 Singles Series

2005, 7", Single, Ltd, Whi, Gold Standard Laboratories

Out Of Proportion

More Motion: A Collection

2003, CD, Comp, Thick Records

Dub/Post Rock/Soul-Jazz/Leftfield/Experimental/Avantgarde

Where Will We Live Now?

1999, 12", EP, Thrill Jockey

Trenchmouth Vs. The Light Of The Sun

Inside The Future

Construction Of A New Action! Volume One: First There Was Movement

Kick Your Mind And Make It Move!

Volumes, Amplifiers, Equalizers

CD, Album, Comp, Runt (3)

APPEARANCES +

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra/Small Unit*

Spectral Fiction

2024, CD, Corbett vs. Dempsey,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

2024, LP, Album, Original Cultures

A Window & A Mirror

2024, Box, Comp, Ltd, Num, Sig + LP, Album, RE, Aqu + LP, Joyful Noise Recordings,

Emo/Post Rock/Indie Rock/Folk Rock

Before You Have Understood

2024, CD, The Bridge Sessions

Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings Complete Edition

2024, 3xCD, Comp, Rings, International Anthem Recording Company

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra

Live At The Adler Planetarium

Avant-garde Jazz

Now Playing (15 Tracks Of The Month's Best Music)

2023, CD, Comp, Uncut (2), Kelsey Media,

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra

Lightning Dreamers

Fly Or Die Fly Or Die Fly Or Die ((World War))

Contemporary Jazz

Sun Ra Arkestra* Directed By Marshall Allen

Avant-garde Jazz/Big Band/Free Jazz/Space-Age

Momentum 5 : Stammer (triptych)

2021, CD, Album, Ltd, Audiographic Records,

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

Spiritual Jazz 13: Now! Part One / Modern Sounds For The 21st Century

Contemporary Jazz/Modal

Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra

Dimensional Stardust

Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Contemporary

Irreversible Entanglements

Free Jazz/Spoken Word

Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings E&F Sides

Contemporary Jazz

Irreversible Entanglements

Homeless/Global

2019, File, MP3, Single, 320, International Anthem Recording Company,

Free Jazz/Soul/Spoken Word/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation/Psychedelic/Poetry

Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise

Contemporary Jazz

Nicole Mitchell

2018, CD, FPE Records (2)

The Other Side Of Time

Makaya McCraven

Universal Beings

Not Living In Fear

2017, CD, Album, International Anthem Recording Company, International Anthem Recording Company,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz

Nicole Mitchell And Haki Madhubuti*

Liberation Narratives

2017, CD, Black Earth Music,

Contemporary Jazz/Spoken Word

Irreversible Entanglements

Irreversible Entanglements

At The Drive In*

2017, Vinyl Black/Doublemint,

At The Drive In*

in•ter a•li•a

2017, CD Digipak,

Emo/Hardcore/Post-Punk

Nicole Mitchell

Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

2017, CD Digipak,

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation

São Paulo Underground

Cantos Invisíveis

2016, CD, Album, Cuneiform Records,

M. Takara* & Rodrigo Brandão

Takara & Brandão / Brandão & Takara

2015, 10", Cle, Loop Play Discos

Mike Reed's People, Places & Things

A New Kind Of Dance

2015, CD, Album, 482 Music

Tomeka Reid Quartet

Tomeka Reid Quartet

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra

Galactic Parables: Volume 1

Nick Mazzarella Trio

Avant-garde Jazz

Joshua Rainhorn / Paulinho e Beatriz

Wine And Cigarettes / Você Tem

2014, 7", Single, Drag City

Rob Mazurek And Black Cube SP

Return The Tides: Ascension Suite And Holy Ghost

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

Solutions, Silence, Or Affirmations

2013, LP, Album, Cle, The Cultural Society,

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Orchestra Featuring Roscoe Mitchell

Matter Anti-Matter

2013, 2xCD, Album, Rogueart

The Star-Faced One

2013, CD, Album, Atavistic,

Avant-garde Jazz/Spoken Word

2013, CD, Album, Delmark Records

Rob Mazurek, Exploding Star Electro Acoustic Ensemble*

The Space Between

2013, CD + DVD-V, Delmark Records,

Experimental/Leftfield/Avant-garde Jazz

São Paulo Underground

Beija Flors Velho E Sujo

Break It Yourself

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Living By Lanterns

New Myth / Old Science

Rob Mazurek Pulsar Quartet

Stellar Pulsations

Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein

Freddie T & The People

2011, LP, Album, Gypsy Wagon Records,

Crisis Of Conformity

2011, 7", Drag City

Breakbeat/Downtempo/Synth-pop/Big Beat

São Paulo Underground

Três Cabeças Loucuras

Lateef The Truth Speaker

Free Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

"Shaking Hands"

Folk Rock/Art Rock/Indie Rock

Wrekmeister Harmonies

Recordings Made In Public Spaces Volume One

Avantgarde/Field Recording/Math Rock/Drone/Post Rock

The Midatlantic

2008, CD, Album, After Hours

Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra

Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra

Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz

2007, 2xCD, Comp, Catlick Records, The Cultural Society, Letterbox (2),

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock/Post Rock/Post-Punk/Pop Punk/Acoustic/RnB/Swing

Il Ne Peut Y Avoir De Prédiction Sans Avenir

The Jai-Alai Savant

Flight Of The Bass Delegate

Alternative Rock/Dub/Electro/Indie Rock/Rocksteady/Psychedelic

Omar Rodriguez Lopez*

Se Dice Bisonte, No Bùfalo

Tha Civil Rights Movement

2006, CDr, Album, Creativity Recordings,

A Lazarus Taxon

2006, 3x CD, DVD, Box Set,

Своё Радио 5

2005, CD, Comp, Promo, Play Magazine

The Jai-Alai Savant

The Special 12 Singles Series

2005, 7", Single, Ltd, Gre, Gold Standard Laboratories

One Bright Sunny Morning

2005, CD, Comp, Iseler Communication Recordings, Flameshovel,

Indie Rock/Art Rock

Looking For A Thrill: An Anthology Of Inspiration

2005, DVD-V, NTSC, Thrill Jockey,

Version City Rockers

2003, CD, Album, File 13 Records,

Missing Dragons

Dub/Experimental/Future Jazz

Two Guns, Twin Arrows

2002, CD, Album, 54º40' Or Fight!

Landscape Tracks

2002, CD, After Hours

The End Of The Beginning

Fantastic Damage

2000, CD, Album, Slowdime

At The Drive-In / Burning Airlines

At The Drive-In / Burning Airlines

Punk/Indie Rock

At The Drive-In

Relationship Of Command

Post-Hardcore/Indie Rock

Who Stole The I Walkman?

Future Jazz/Experimental/Fusion

Assembly Line People Program

1997, 12", S/Sided, Ltd, Constructive Interference

The Promise Ring

30° Everywhere

20 Supersonic Mega Explosive Hits

1995, CD, Album, Comp, Runt,

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Trenchmouth / Bliss

The Position Of The Right Hand

Trenchmouth / Circus Lupus

Sea Of Serenity / Heathen

1992, 7", Pic, Skene! Records, Dischord Records

1990, LP, Comp + 7" + Album, What The Fuck?,

Garage Rock/Hardcore/Punk/Ska

20 Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hit Explosions!

Alternative Rock/Indie Rock

Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson Presents International Anthem

2025, 2xLP, RSD, Comp, Ltd, Fro, International Anthem Recording Company

Below The Radar 31

2019, 15xFile, MP3, Comp, 320, Wire Magazine,

Minimal/Abstract/Free Improvisation/Experimental

2007, CD, Comp, DeSoto Records,

Alternative Rock/Power Pop/Punk/Indie Rock

The Godlins*, Various

He Is My Rock...Will You Be My Roll

CDr, Comp + VHS, Roctober Records, Freak 76 Records

Break It Yourself

At The Drive-In

Relationship Of Command

2000, Cassette,

Post-Hardcore/Indie Rock