Hi. After a relatively quiet year for shows, I'll be playing my first solo (synth) show in ages, and Anatomy of Habit will play a few days later. Links and details can be found below. BLOODYMINDED has a new design in our Threadless shop. As always, thanks for reading! Mark
Anatomy of HabitFormed in Chicago in 2008, ANATOMY OF HABIT has been described as a hybrid of doom metal, post-punk, death-rock, early-industrial, psychedelic, and shoegaze. Although they’ve experienced significant membership changes since forming, today’s band, which includes Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal percussion), Skyler Rowe (drums), Mark Solotroff (vocals), and Sam Wagster (bass + lap steel), represents their longest-standing and most prolific lineup. The band credits their treasured chemistry to their intertwining histories as friends and collaborators. Rowe and Latus have made music together since they were teenagers, growing up in Indianapolis’ heavy music scene, while playing in the band Still. Rowe and Wagster create sweeping, pastoral instrumental music together in Mute Duo. Reyes and Solotroff are old friends who’ve played together for many years and they continue to record and perform in both BLOODYMINDED and The Fortieth Day. This deep connective tissue contributes to what the band describes as consistently effortless writing sessions and innately unified live performances. Facebook Event
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BLOODYMINDEDBLOODYMINDED is a heavy electronic band, formed in New York, in 1995, after the dissolution of the pioneering American post- industrial noise group Intrinsic Action, founded by Mark Solotroff, in Chicago, in 1984. BLOODYMINDED’s live shows are exceptionally energetic and are characterized by physical engagement, layers of abrasive analog synthesizer, aggressive vocals, and abundant feedback.We added a new design to our Threadless shop. As we continue working on our next album, certain lyrics have been inspiring visual references. This comes from a song with the working title, "Beneath The Strobe."   https://bloodyminded.threadless.com/designs/bloodyminded-beneath-the-strobeBandcamp
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Ensemble Sacrés GarçonsEnsemble Sacrés Garçons is a post-industrial band split between Milan and Chicago and composed of Paolo L. Bandera, Andrea Chiaravalli, and Mark Solotroff. The three members are connected to numerous groups including Sigillum S, Sshe Retina Stimulants, The Sodality, Iugula-Thor, BLOODYMINDED, Intrinsic Action, Anatomy of Habit, The Fortieth Day, etc."Sanctification: Seeing The Singularity"LP/CD/DL  For US orders, please visit: https://ensemblesacresgarcons.bandcamp.com/
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The Fortieth DayThe Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key players in the heavy-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a band known for its aggressive and confrontational live shows. In The Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, drum machine, and analog synthesizer to create epic, blackened, psychedelic-industrial drone soundscapes. All of our albums, dating back to 2006, are available to stream on all major platforms. A limited number of LPs, CDs, cassettes, and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also shirt designs available on Threadless.
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Intrinsic ActionIntrinsic Action was an early American power-electronics band founded by Mark Solotroff in 1984. Intrinsic Action albums and archival releases, dating back to 1984, are available to stream on all major platforms. CDs and shirts can be found on our Bandcamp page. There are also numerous shirt designs available on Threadless. Bandcamp
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Mark Solotroff formed the band Intrinsic Action in 1984 and he's a founding member of Anatomy Of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. His other bands include The Fortieth Day, A Vague Disquiet, Ensemble Sacrés Garçons, and Nightmares. He recorded 100 cassettes of analog synth music under the name Super Eight Loop and he releases synth-based and feedback system music under his own name.
 Bridge Books Release Celebration for The Genocide House by Robert Kloss
The Genocide House by Robert Kloss is a compendium of American atrocities, as violently blurred and self-obliterating as history itself. From King Philip’s War to the Industrial Revolution, from the trials of Leopold and Loeb to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, from the living room of an Oppenheimer-esque scientist to exploded fields across time, Kloss takes us through the interconnected floors, corridors, and secret chambers of the American Genocide House. In the words of Babak Lakghomi, The Genocide House is “poetic and hallucinatory, a visceral novel of visionary power.” In the words of Kent Wascom, it is “a black and brilliant jewel, with each slashing sentence carving facets one darker and sharper than the next.” And in the words of Johannes Göransson, “It might be Kloss’s best novel yet, adding an inventive, powerful book to a growing authorship that has flourished outside the mainstream channels of U.S. literature.”
This event will celebrate the Bridge Books release of The Genocide House with live readings from four authors (Olivia Cronk, Johannes Göransson, Meghan Lamb, and Robert Kloss himself) along with a performance by Chicago musician Mark Solotroff.
For context on my connection to Bridge: https://www.bridge-chicago.org/bridge-audio/solotroffEvent link
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The Mercury ImpulseThe Mercury Impulse was created in 2024 by JR Robinson and Mark Solotroff. Robinson is well known for Wrekmeister Harmonies and Solotroff is best known for Anatomy of Habit and BLOODYMINDED. Our debut album is available on CD and it's streaming on all major platforms.Bandcamp
The Sodality
Originally created in 1984 by Andrea Cernotto and Pierpaolo Zoppo, The Sodality bloomed under Andrea‘s guidance across seminal works in the 80's and 90's. The project was revived by original members Paolo Bandera and Eraldo Bernocchi for a 2014 concert in Rome, with Mark Solotroff on vocals, and again in 2023, for a live show in Dresden, and new recordings with that line-up, along with founding member Andrea Cernotto.All of The Sodality's albums and singles - including remastered versions of all older releases - are available via Bandcamp.
I have copies of our "Unburdened Underpass" CD via my webstore.Bandcamp
Super Eight LoopMINIMAL SYNTH MUSIC FOR ANALOG OBSESSIVES.
Overloaded tape saturation - no FX.
1993-1996, 2005-∞  100 remixed and remastered Super Eight Loop recordings are exclusively available on Bandcamp
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