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Kim Flint
Age:	31
Location:	PO Box 40240, Berkeley, CA 94704
Email Address(es):	kflint@annihilist.com
Website URL(s):	http://www.annihilist.com/
Instruments:	guitar, some percussion, drum samples
Looping Gear:	Echoplex digital pro's, Klein custom guitar, Fernandes Sustainer Guitar, the Trusty Old Aria Pro II, E-Bow, assorted pedals, Mesa Boogie Triaxis, Rocktron Intellifex, Mesa Boogie Simulclass 2:90, drum machines, sequencers, hopefully more soundsources soon
Influences:	(in chronological order) John Denver, The Beatles, AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Exodus, Rush, Steve Vai, Al DiMeola, Queensryche, Michael Hedges, John McLaughlin, Tuck Andress, The Beatles again, The Doors, Hank Garland, Jane's Addiction, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Sonic Youth, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Parliament-Funkadelic, Primus, Voivod, The Limbomaniacs, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Zappa, Prince, Public Enemy, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Bill Laswell, Tom Waits, Music of the Ewe people in West Africa, C.K Ladzekpo, Ravi Shankar/Indian classical music, Mr. Bungle, Pharoh Sanders, Buckethead, Trent Reznor, Terry Date (production for Pantera, White Zombie), The Orb, Future Sound of London, David Torn, Underworld, dj shadow, dj krush, dj spooky, the automator, large assortments of drum and bass artists.
Musical Style:	heavy-industrial-ambient-jazz-experimental-techno-improv

I started playing guitar when I was seven because I liked John Denver and wanted to play his songs. Things generally went downhill from there. As an adolescent, the powers that be decided I was too good at science and mathematics to waste my life as a musician; I was to have a Career as a Scientist or Engineer or Doctor or some such Professional, and music was to be a Hobby. So despite my obvious interest in music, I was tracked into engineering. I ultimately overcame boredom, despair, hatred-of-everything, etc. and earned a degree in Electronics Engineering from UC Berkeley. Nevertheless, I managed to add a strong jazz foundation to my rock and fusion vocabulary, and began moving into much more experimental territory. After graduating I went on to work for the Gibson Guitar company, designing new musical instrument technologies at the infamous G-WIZ labs R&D facility. That is where I first encountered Matthias Grob, where we developed the Echoplex Digital Pro, and where I became a full on looping fanatic. I've moved on from there, to the lucrative multimedia frontier in the silly-con valley, but I've maintained my interests in the loop world by creating the Looper's Delight mailing list and web site. I hope to have my hands deep in the next generation of looping instruments as well. I like creating music with a strong rhythmic foundation. Darkness, anger, tension, aggression, power, moodiness, and chaos are themes I have the most attraction to. I'm currently developing my style and gear collection into a sort of improvised ambient-techno-artrock-jungle-deathmetal-hiphop something or other. I still like to play jazz once in a while, and lately there has been a bluesy/country-ish twang coming from god knows where. Now if I only had some free time.....

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