"The act that sounds like nothing you've ever heard before" is not a loudmouth-phrase to get attention. It's a quote from the Hardwired Magazine reviewing the record INNOCENT Pt.II...

And this quote is very good for us because it takes the weight of our shoulders to explain what exactly the utopia:banished sound is.

Utopia:banished is the brainchild one person and the story began around the turn of the century.

Fed up with the bands he played in before and unable to find the soulmates to translate his ideas into music Chris started off alone with a guitar, a synth and a computer. The attempt of combining electronics with the songwriting and the main elements of rockmusic wasn't new then anymore.
"I started to explore all the great music I have missed in the 90s. Industrial, Drum n Bass, TripHop and so on... I was just a little late."
Equiped with a selftought but solid musical abbility and not ready to get along with other musicians who joined (and then left) the project a selfish egotrip started. With no compromises a very unique universe of sounds, noises and feelings was build from scratch. Within this space the vocals of the selfdeclared "lyrical war correspondent" range from vulnerable honesty to brutally screaming anger.

"The music disturbing, noisy and constantly evolving. It features elements of uncertainty and it's something not to be practised at cocktail-parties. It's an attempt of leaving. A decomposition of preformated struktures in an amusing way."

Until 2007 utopia:banished have released three records (NANO in 2003; INNOCENT pt.II in 2004 and DIRTWARD in 2006) and where featured with an instrumental track on Aentitainments Vinyl-Compilation WHITELINE Vol.1. They did remixes for several artists and composed the score for a shortmovie.

In 2007 they made a track for the theatreplay "Irrlichter" and do bandpractise to take the songs of the DIRTWARD-album to the stage.

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	dirtward CD by utopia:banished, released on AENTITAINMENT
	Innocent Pt. II CD by utopia:banished, released on AENTITAINMENT
	Nano CD by utopia:banished, released on AENTITAINMENT

APPEARANCES / CONTRIBUTIONS
Whiteline Vol.1
released on AENTITAINMENT

Bombs of happieness Sampler
released by the Synthetics Magazine

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Interview with Synthetics-Magazine (thanks to synthetics for giving us the allowance to re-print this here! copyright: www.synthetics-radio.de)

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