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Adult.
Biography
Of the innumerable electro-techno acts to arise from Detroit during the 1990s, Adult. may be the most unique, instantly recognizable for their starkly grim visual style as well as their anxiety-ridden music style. Adult. (note the period) is comprised of married couple Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, who began their recording career together as Plasma Co., a name by which only an obscure 12", Modern Romantics, was released in 1998. Miller had been releasing music on his electro-techno label Ersatz Audio since 1995, beginning with his debut as Artificial Material. He also released music on Ersatz Audio as Le Car, a duo also including Ian Clark; confusingly, the two billed themselves in Le Car as Adam Equation and Ian Cinch-Jones. However, it wasn't until 1998 that Miller began releasing music produced in conjunction with Kuperus.

The two debuted their Adult. project in November 1998 with the Dispassionate Furniture EP. Another EP, Entertainment, followed a year later, while their song "Lost Love" appeared on the Ersatz Audio various-artists 12" Oral-Olio a few months earlier, in June 1999. Kuperus unveiled her talent for photography in 2000 on the limited-edition New Phonies EP, released by the Dutch label Clone; the foreboding images on each side of the picture disc 12" are typical of her trademark style, which would thereafter become a celebrated staple of Adult.
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