Hi everybody, yes it’s a message from a dead band.
We just wanted to let you know that, even though Replicator is gone, you can still have a taste of the final days.

Namely, your own copy of our very final release the Whangbar Province EP, put out by our lovely label Radio is Down.

It includes:
1) Baby, I Want to Terraform Your Planet (a tour favorite!)
2) Arthur Jermyn (A BABYLAND cover)
3) Barely Regal

There are a little less then 40 copies left, it’s a hand assembled, hand stamped package (meaning each and everyone was hand assembled by at least 2 members of Replicator) and they include a full color poster that is a historical retrospective of our band through the lenses of some of the amazing photographers we’ve been lucky enough to have shoot us.

when they are gone, they are GONE!
No more will be made, limited edition… it will not exist in physical space anymore.
So if you are interested, buy yours today for the CHEAP, CHEAP price of $5.
http://radioisdown.com/catalog.htm
http://radioisdown.com/store.htm

You will receive one more message from Replicator before communication ends for good…We will probably be “garage sale-ing” the remainder of the merch we have left, so more on that soon, but for now… get Whangbar while you can as it will NOT last.
http://radioisdown.com/catalog.htm
http://radioisdown.com/store.htm

If you haven’t seen them, there are some fantastic pictures of our final show here:
here: http://shannoncorr.com/replicatorhemlock4508/index.html
here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stiricide/tags/replifinale/
and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinball_mafia/2394426167/in/set-72157600099195865/

(if you have pictures, please send them to us!)

Also if you want to get a hold of a member of the band, it’s probably best to contact them through their individual e-mails or myspace accounts, as this is (obviously!) not getting checked very often anymore
-C, C and B
(formerly known as…)
Replicator
http://www.replicator5000.com

The first of a few photo galleries from the last Replicator show, you can practically feel the sweat! (eewww!)
These are all from Shannon Corr, who has photographed us more then anybody else I can think of.

Please check out all of them as well as the rest of his stuff too.

Replicator! http://www.shannoncorr.com

Ben Adrian http://www.shannoncorr.com

Conan Neutron http://www.shannoncorr.com

Replicator!!! http://www.shannoncorr.com

Conan is sweaty http://www.shannoncorr.com

Ben Adrian on keys http://www.shannoncorr.com

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(from the liner notes of the Whangbar Province EP)

There’s something to be said for a terminus, closure, for having the guts to push the button and set the self destruct active. End it on top, before the inevitable slide into self parody and hackery. Oh, how I wish I had the power to make other bands do the same.

In a sense this band could not have existed at any other time, the end of the world always seemed right around the corner, yet things just kept grinding on in increasingly goofy and scary manner. Replicator arose during the era of the iPod, the internet, and when cell phones went from a novelty to a near necessity. Mediocrity and fear held sway, usually at the same time, and when we were written about we were called paranoid, and/or chaotic.

The fact of the matter is this band was always reflective of the world around us, albeit through our warped and runaway allegorical perspective. It wasn’t so much paranoia, as a cracked mirror and if we brought the chaos, it’s because the world itself did a pretty good job of bringing it too.

We were never the kind of band to follow a trend, or do what was popular, in fact our timing seemed to always be a bit off, and we never really offered what people wanted. Every once in awhile it was what they needed though, which is different.

Stubborn as a mule and making music just about as ugly, we always did our thing with 100% enthusiasm and intensity. If you were into it, great! But it existed without outside approval or desire, a shambling, spasmodic beast that dragged itself along without outside provocation. Flawed? Perhaps, but never insincere.

I never told people I “played in a band”, I played in Replicator.

Not everybody got that, but it was an important distinction, as this band was a family and tried our hardest to be an uncompromising force of nature. I feel absolutely overjoyed to have spent every second with these fine gentlemen, my brothers of different mothers, putting together something greater than the sum of its parts.

Look: We never fit anywhere easily, and in fact, the only places we did fit in are the places that we forged ourselves with the other ones that were the last ones picked. The freaks, nerds and weirdoes that didn’t fit in with the cool kids, but didn’t much give a damn either. See, it turns out the cool kids were all insecure and really weren’t that cool anyway. Besides we outlasted most of them, and outclassed even more, so we won by default.

We had a good run; we far exceeded all our wildest expectations, and then some. We saw places we never would have seen otherwise, met people we never would have met otherwise, and had experiences that will last a lifetime, and make for some very funny anecdotes later in life. (Tragedy+Time=Comedy). We did our best to give back the ass kicking that music had given to us, and hopefully touched a few lives in the process.

Vans were broken, so were glasses. Relationships and credit wrecked, Hearing was damaged.

Good times were had.
-End Communication-

-Conan Neutron

Hemlock Tavern
1131 Polk St.
9:00 PM, $7

http://www.myspace.com/kowloonwalledcity
http://www.hemlocktavern.com
http://sonicliving.com/event/572840/Replicator_Kowloon_Walled_City
http://events.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&eventID=414787.42404

firstly, here is a preview from our final ep: Baby, I Want To Terraform Your Planet:

Replicator – Baby, I Want to Terraform Your Planet

Also, our final show is Saturday.

and our final Oakland show.

Come see us play with our labelmates from Sicily and Olympia, as well as Garo from Outline Kit’s new outfit.

-C.

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If this is all being done correctly, you should see a fancy style flash music player of a lot of our songs to the right of this.
If you aren’t, you are probably viewing the site in internet explorer, which needs it’s hand held for anything and a big picture down below is breaking the frame.

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Hi everybody, there are two more Replicator shows, one in Oakland, one in San Francisco.
We are not playing the show with Suzanne*Silver and Wisdom Teeth in Sacramento, our apologies.

Hi everybody, so we’re planning something kind of cool for the final release, and i’m throwing out a request for a little help.

What we need are photos of Replicator, either completely and utterly badass shots of live performance, promo photos, or especially funny/awesome incidental or tour pictures.

We already have a ton, I mean a ton.
as Ben once joked on stage: “…it used to be that everybody int he audience looked like they worked in an office, now it looks like everybody in the audience is a photographer.”

Maybe you had to be there.

The important thing is that there is a lot, and I mean a LOT of fantastic Replicator photos out there.
We are/were a very well documented band.

I’m sorting through them all, but there are literally, THOUSANDS, of which i’ve already got 100 or so that are great.

So here’s the thing, if YOU have a Replicator photo, any era, that is just totally badass, or can think of one where you say to yourself:
“that photo rules it!”

Let us know, write back in the contact box below, or e-mail me (Conan) at neutron at replicator5000 dot com.
It would be much, much, MUCH appreciated.

thanks.
-Conan Neutron
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Replicator just began recording basic tracks for what will be our final release.
A 3 song ep, that will be out in limited release just in time for our final show.

Here are some pictures of us recording and such!:

Ben and the Door we used as a baffle.

the door.

it really bisected the room together.

There are a lot more interesting pictures behind the fold.
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Hey everybody we’re playing the 3rd to last Replicator show in the bay area on Saturday at the Cyclecide Warehouse:

Cyclecide Warehouse
2255 Mckinnon st., SF, CA
2255 Mckinnon st. behind bayshore, w/ Hurry Up Shotgun and the Amino Acids (Detroit)

http://www.cyclecide.com/beer/
http://www.myspace.com/theaminoacids
http://www.hurryupshotgun.com
http://www.replicator5000.com

The Amino Acids are friends of ours from Detroit and are RIYL Man…or Astroman?, DEVO and the church of subgenius.

They put on a hell of a show and it should be a fantastic time.

our pals in the local powerhouse Hurry Up Shotgun (Members of The Vice, Greenlight the Bombers, Black Ghost and Coma Girl) are going to open up the show, so make sure to come out early style.

this show starts up around 7, music starts around 8, so don’t be late, because if we’re lucky some of Cyclecide’s patented pedal powered ferris wheels and such will be around, which will be totally awesome!

There’s no cover charge, but there is a bar, bring some money for the bands for donations and for the merch, we want to make sure to send Amino Acids out of the bay area with a tank full of gas and a smile on their face.

awesome!
-C.C and B
Replicator

From the Reviews section

A few things that immediately and refreshingly pop into mind about 21 seconds into this record: 1) that 90’s brand of (often Midwestern) noise-snark stomped out by godheadSilo, Tar, Hammerhead, Rapeman, Steel Pole Bathtub, Killdozer, and the Laughing Hyenas, 2) endearing earnestness and dorkiness of that scene, and the whole Albini Army for that matter, and most importantly, 3) that this record is loaded front to back with excellent music/lyrics and excellent band dynamics all over it.

Machines Will Always Let You Down is a refreshing listen start to finish. It’s got that type of songwriting, musicianship, and execution, not to mention spot-on and loud recording done by Unwound/PNMV dude, Vern Rumsey, that doesn’t come around too often in a bands career. Not to mention the dead-on mixing by bassist Ben Adrian.

Topically, it’s kind of a combination rant on topics ranging from technology to loneliness/malaise, urban living to laziness, paranoia and coolness. While that sounds like a heavy list of topics, this is a clever and humorous record. Song title highlights are Delicious Fornicake, Assloads of Unrespect, Outrage Fatigue. At their best, and this record is their best, Replicator pound out, pummel, and swagger heavily and otherwise produce engaging and powerful music that’s as good as the best from the list above, if a little timelier.

This is the record I wish Shellac would’ve just made, or rather, this record is exactly on par with where Shellac were when they released At Action Park. Replicator are vets themselves now, having been a band for nearing a decade, and this is by far their most cohesive piece of work. They’re at their best when they keep the bombast levels at 9.6, and talk about the frustrations of technology, and nail out a song in three minutes. Occasionally it comes too close to its influences, but not ever to the point of full-on aping, just pay a wee bit too much tribute to the Fargo/Minneapolis/Chicago noise warriors who preceded them. This CD comes in a beautiful package courtesy of the Stumptown printing outfit in Portland, and marks one of three brand new releases for newish Olympia Washington label Radio is Down.

-Josh Vanek

Thanks Josh!

No Police Teeth unfortunately as their tour was cancelled, but this show will absolutely rule it!

2255 Mckinnon st. behind bayshore, http://www.cyclecide.com/beer/
http://www.myspace.com/theaminoacids
Hurry Up Shotgun

Thanks Mateo for getting this on film, now: Mosh in 6/8: