Since 1996, Tomorrowland have been releasing their critically-acclaimed vision of abstract, minimal rock. Nick Brackney and Stephen Baker were a part of an Ann Arbor / Detroit experimental rock and electronic scene that also includes
Kiln,
Füxa, Asha Vida,
Windy & Carl , and quite a few others. Tomorrowland's early influences included Krautrock, psychedelia,
Brian Eno,
Seefeel,
My Bloody Valentine,
CAN, and teutonic post-rock acts like
Mouse On Mars.
They began recording in 1996, releasing first couple of 7” singles on labels in Tokyo and Detroit. That same year, they were invited to participate in the Darla Records' Bliss Out series. Released in November, Stereoscopic Soundwaves became the sixth volume in the San Francisco-based label's ambient pop series. In September 1998 their first full-length recording,
Sequence of the Negative Space Changes, was issued by the Chicago-based Kranky label. In October, the duo returned to Darla to release the 12"
People Mover. The band followed with
Microbe in 2000, an album of forward-looking abstract compositions. Anemone, the following year, added dynamic drummer Eric Morrison to the mix of recordings and live shows.
Variable, in 2002, bookends the catalogue as a series of abstracted compositions based on performances and installations that year.
"Undoubtedly the work of people who creep about exploding campanile and symphony orchestras just to shudder joyfully in the vibrations." - New Musical Express