James Charles Watts[1] (born January 24, 1980), also known by the moniker KiloWatts, is an American electronic musician. He has toured across Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States since 2002. His 2007 release Ground State was said to lead the devoted listener to a state of total hypnosis by Side-Line Magazine.[2] In 2006, Igloo Magazine called his album Routes "a lifetime of travel compressed into an hour of aural head-tripping."[3] His project with Tanner Ross, entitled Voodeux, was reviewed by XLR8R Magazine and could only be described as "...if maverick producers Ricardo Villalobos and Bruno Pronsato plundered Lustmord's harddrive full of tar-black ambience..."[4] His collaboration with Bluetech, called Invisible Allies,[5] was included in Headphone Commute's Best Of 2010 collection.[6]
Jamie Watts | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | James Charles Watts |
| Born | January 24, 1980 |
| Genres | Electro-acoustic, downtempo, Psydub, psybient |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, composer, musician |
| Years active | 2002–present |
| Labels | Thoughtless Music, Native State Records, KiloWatts Music, Mothership |
| Member of | Voodeux, Invisible Allies, Skeetaz, KiloWatts & Vanek, Super Galactic Expansive |
| Website | kilowattsmusic |
Discography
editKiloWatts
edit- 2002 – Perfected Everything (DayLite Records)
- 2003 – EP Phone Home (DayLite Records)
- 2005 – Pasta EP (Kahvi Collective)
- 2005 – Problem/Solving (Artificial Music Machine)
- 2005 – Problems/Solved (Artificial Music Machine)
- 2006 – Routes (Artificial Music Machine)
- 2007 – Ground State (Native State Records)
- 2007 – Quickfire (KiloWatts Music)
- 2007 – Teknopera (KiloWatts Music)
- 2007 – Uprouted (KiloWatts Music)
- 2008 – Exit The Laugh (Harmonious Discord)
- 2008 – Snakewinds (Thoughtless Music)
- 2008 – Luna Rd (Harmonious Discord)
- 2009 – Love on Saturn (Thoughtless Music)
- 2009 – Six Silicates (KiloWatts Music)
- 2009 – Undercurrent (Somnia)
- 2010 – Nocturnal Sunrise (Harmonious Discord)
- 2010 – Timekeeper (Thoughtless Music)
- 2010 – The Right Words (KiloWatts Music)
- 2012 – Acceptitude (KiloWatts Music)
- 2014 – Seven Succulents (KiloWatts Music)
- 2019 - Sympathetic Vibrations (KiloWatts Music)
- 2020 - Eight Experiments (KiloWatts Music)
Rena Jones & KiloWatts
edit- 2021 - Force Multiplier (Cartesian Binary Recordings)
- 2024 - Caesura (Cartesian Binary Recordings)
Invisible Allies
editInvisible Allies is KiloWatts and Bluetech.
- 2010 – Hyperdimensional Animals (Native State Records)
- 2014 – Conversations With Bees (Aleph Zero Records)
KiloWatts and Vanek
editKiloWatts & Vanek is James Watts and Peter Van Ewijk. Together they have released albums on Diffusion Records,[7] founded by Andrew Sega, and German-based industrial label Dependent Records.[8]
- 2004 – RawQ (Diffusion Records)
- 2009 – Sinnerstate (Motor Music)
- 2009 – Focus & Flow (Dependent Records)
- 2022 - Perennials (End Of Time Records)
Voodeux
editVoodeux is KiloWatts and Tanner Ross, who have released on Dirtybird Records and Mothership, founded by Claude VonStroke.
- 2007 – The Curse (Mothership)
- 2009 – Bones (Mothership)
- 2009 – Just A Spoonful (Mothership)
- 2009 – The Paranormal (Mothership)
Skeetaz
editSkeetaz is a collaboration between KiloWatts and Bil Bless.[9]
- 2007 – Ma Skeeta Bytes Vol. 1 (Proboscis)
- 2007 – Skeetaz EP (Addictech Records)
- 2008 – Off (Proboscis)
Super Galactic Expansive
editSuper Galactic Expansive is a collaboration between KiloWatts and Amagine. They have released two albums on Sound Tribe Sector 9's label, 1320 Records.
- 2010 – Supersensible Science (1320 Records)
- 2012 – Constants Variables (1320 Records)
- 2022 - Satellites
References
edit- ^ "A LONELY AFTERNOON". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved July 9, 2023.
- ^ "KiloWatts ? Ground State (Cd Native State Records) - review, free links at SIDE-LINE". Archived from the original on June 11, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ "Kilowatts :: Routes (Artificial Music Machine, CD)". July 13, 2006.
- ^ "The Paranormal | XLR8R". Archived from the original on July 19, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ "About". Archived from the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ "Headphone Commute's Best of 2010 : Music for Awakened Spirits and Open Minds". January 3, 2011.
- ^ "Diffusion records 8.0". Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved January 10, 2012.
- ^ "Dependent | since 1998". Dependent.de.
- ^ "Skeetaz". Discogs.com.
External links
edit- Official site
- KiloWatts at Discogs
- It's Time You Heard KiloWatts in-depth interview on Lost in Sound 2011