Sonic Animation
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| Origin | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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| Associated acts | Scarlet Garden |
| Website | sonicanimation |
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Sonic Animation (stylised as sonicanimation) are an Australian dance, techno musical group which were formed by Adrian Cartwright on keyboards, drums and programming and Rupert Keiller on lead vocals and programming in 1994 year. They have released five studio albums, Silence Is Deafening (May 1997), Orchid for the Afterworld (October 1999), Reality by Deception (2002), Defective Perspective (2004) and Once More from the Bottom (8 March 2013). Their highest charting single, "Love Lies Bleeding" (1999), reached the top 50 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Both Orchid for the Afterworld and Reality by Deception peaked in the top 50 of the related albums chart. The group disbanded in 2006 and then reformed in 2011.
Sonic Animation were formed in Melbourne by Steve Bertschick as a DJ, Adrian Cartwright on drums, keyboards and programming and Canadian-born Rupert Keiller on lead vocals and programming in 1994. Cartwright on drums and Keiller on vocals were both members of Scarlet Garden, a rock group formed in the early 1990s in Geelong. The pair had met as employees at a local graphic design business.
Cartwright recalled "I absolutely hated dance music ... But Rupert took me to a rave, and that was it for me. I'd always thought that dance music was so minimalist and easy, but when you get into it it's actually quite intricate and complex. I loved that. And then when we heard what Underworld were doing with vocals, we wanted to do that, too." In 1995 Sonic Animation released their debut single, "Time Is an Illusion", on a self-funded independent label. They followed with three extended plays, From Sand to Stars (1995), Zero Zero Zero Zero One (1995) and Force Feed (May 1997).
Their debut studio album, Silence Is Deafening, was issued on Azwan Transmissions in May 1997. All the tracks were written, produced and engineered by Sonic Animation. At that time they were using a 386 computer for programming. In March 2002 Keiller recalled how "people would yell out 'nice one 386!', cos you know, we didn't really do anything, it was all just the computer. There are still some people that hold that view but we don't see it as much because of the kind of shows we play these, days." Bertschik left the group in 1998 to "pursue his own musical interests." The band signed with a new label: Global Recordings / Festival / FIIDO.
In January 1999 the group issued a single, "Love Lies Bleeding", which reached the ARIA Singles Chart top 50. Jasper Lee of Oz Music Project felt that it "builds up into full blown dance goodness with no doubt an anthem to club culture with the main vocal". Its lyrics contain a reference to illegal drugs, "I feel ecstasy". This initially concerned Keiller "I used to be worried about that sort of stuff — I don't know why — but nothing so far has happened." Their next single, "Didley Squat", did not chart.
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