Cicierega released Spirit Phone as Lemon Demon’s seventh studio album on February 29, 2016. The album was the No. 1 best-selling album on Bandcamp for the first week of its release. On July 10, 2018, it was announced that copies of the album on CD, cassette, and vinyl would be…
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Cicierega uploaded the song “Funkytown” to his Patreon page in 2017, later contributing it to the 2020 charity compilation album Needlejustice , which benefits the NAACP Legal Defense Fund . It would later be released as an official single alongside “One Weird Tip” on January 21, 2023.
After the success of “The Right Man”, Units signed with Epic / CBS Records and produced a music video for “A Girl Like You” that went into medium rotation on early MTV . They released an EP titled New Way to Move on Epic Records, but typical of a hard-luck…
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In late 2005, Cicierega and animator Shawn Vulliez released a Flash animated music video for Lemon Demon’s ” The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny “. The video amassed over 6.5 million views in 6 months on Newgrounds and topped the “Funny Five” on The Dr. Demento Show for several weeks,…
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Neil Cicierega began releasing instrumental music and several remixes of video game music under the moniker Trapezoid in the late 1990s and early 2000s, creating 4 albums: Outsmart (2000), Microwave This CD (2001), Dimes (2002) and Circa 2000 (2007) while he was frequently active on Adventure Game Studio . The…
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In 1984, after recording the sound and music for the artist Tony Oursler ’s film EVOL , Ryser and Webber moved to New York, putting an effective end to Units.
In 1982, Units released a single on UpRoar Records entitled “The Right Man”. The song was recorded at the Different Fur recording studio, founded by the electronic music composer Patrick Gleeson . The recording was produced by Michael Cotten, the synthesizer player of The Tubes . The song went to…
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Units’ DIY, self stamped, 7” EP entitled “Units” was released in 1979. It was followed by another record in early 1980, “Warm Moving Bodies”/”iNight”. Their first album, Digital Stimulation , was released in 1980, and was the first album released by 415 Records .
Units was one of the most popular bands of the San Francisco punk and performance art scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s, headlining at the Mabuhay Gardens (aka The Fab Mab), The Savoy Tivoli, The Berkeley Square , The Deaf Club , Valencia Tool & Die , Geary…
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