Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT USA

"Anthony VanVranken describes his music with appropriate efficiency-as "minimal ambient electronic with beats," programmed instrumental suites with one-word names and little human interface. Electronica's not an easy genre to coax warmth or personality from, but AVV's 15-cut Shift actually breathes and flows with surprising vibrancy, like a cyborg DJ discovering his own blood. Most tracks are clinically clean, making static dirty deviations like the title cut stand out even more--highly recommended for cubicle farmers." -Bill Frost

"A. Vanvranken is like mellow, warm industrial filtered through molasses, so it comes out sloooow. Keyboard sounds lurk under voices from movie samples, giving that contrast that industrial songs utilize often, and that is effective here: the warmth of homo-sapien vocals over the eeriness of cold machines. The twist here is this industrial is not so machine-like; it's not so impersonal, yet it still leaves you with a sense of darkness. It's spaced-out, quite simple and moderately hypnotic." -Rebecca Vernon

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