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Mission Giant
Biography
Quite often, musicians from the Lone Star State have been known for favoring an earthy, rootsy, down-home, meat-and-potatoes sort of approach. That has been true in everything from honky tonk (Waylon Jennings) to instrumental jazz (the Crusaders, David "Fathead" Newman, James Clay) to blues (Lightnin' Hopkins, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Albert Collins) to Mexican norteño (los Tigres del Norte). Even Texas' gangsta rap groups (such as the Geto Boys and UGK) could be described as part of that tough, gritty Texas tradition. But Mission Giant is one Lone Star group that defies Texas stereotypes and will never be called roots music; their specialty is a quirky, eccentric, bizarre, high-tech combination of synth-pop and electronic experimentalism. Some of their material adheres to a conventional song structure and has a standard verse/chorus format--"Inhaler Voice" and the snappy "You're in Love," for example--but other times, Mission Giant's tunes lack a traditional song structure and are collages of strange, odd, whimsical electro-noise. One of Mission Giant's major influences is the seminal German group Kraftwerk, who were experimenting with synthesizers and drum machines as far back as the early ‘70s and influenced everything from disco to hip-hop to new wave to techno--and the Texans' work also owes a lot to various new wave and synth-pop stars who emerged in the late ‘70s or early ‘80s, including Devo, Gary Numan, the Talking Heads, Thomas Dolby and the Human League.
Selected Discography