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Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger

Smoke Detail [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD]

Brant, Cody / Carl Kruger: Smoke Detail [CASSETTE w/ DOWNLOAD] (Copy This!)

Developed using recordings made in Oregon and in North Carolina from West Coast sound and multimedia artists Cody Brand and Carl Kruger, Brant expanding Kruger's initial tracks with his own rhythmic additions and sonic embellishments to create twelve compositions with a recommended use of "reflective open-road journeys", noted as "Reality-dream boundary: blurred".
 

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Cody Brant-guitar, drums, synthesizer

Carl Kruger-synthesizer

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Label: Copy This!
Catalog ID: CT004
Squidco Product Code: 35551

Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cassette
Recorded in Oregon and North Carolina, in the Fall of 2023 by the artists.
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Artist Biographies

Cody Brant, born 1980, is a multimedia artist and multi-instrumentalist from Las Vegas, NV, performing on analog synthesizers, guitar, bass, drum machine. He is known from the groups Black Acid Laser, Body Has No Head, CBSM, CoBraMaBaPa, Crude Mirage, Dead Channel, Flaspar, Kambrik Zone, Laugh Stains, Love Gun, Memory Metal, Psychonic Imaging, and Toning.

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1357423-Cody-Brant)
6/16/2026

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American abstract sound artist influenced by micro and macro sound. Know for groups Baby Daddy, Caucasians, Ibiza Shock Troops, Kevin Brodenheimer, Nipple Stools, Peer Group &c.

-Squidco 6/16/2026

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