Duotron was formed in 1994 by Rikkeh Suhtn of Cornelius Gomez (in Detroit) and by Jodie M'Kahn of Math (a Chicago avantgarde band that split into Quinton, Duotron, Flossie & The Unicorns, Monotrauna) and of Dot Dot Dot.
When Suhtn moved to Chicago, he reformed Cornelius Gomez with Jodi on percussion and Weasel Walter on bass. Then boy and girl formed Duotron.
This duo (M'Kahn on percussion and Suhtn on guitars and tapes)
played a psychotic form of abstract pieces that mixed
progressive-rock, noise, absurdist vaudeville, no wave
and free-jazz, like a hybrid of
Mars, Boredoms, God Is My Co-Pilot, Half Japanese and Art Bears.
Their repertory consists of
the albums We Modern We Now (Bulb, 1995) and
Battalia Feminil (Bulb, 1996) and the
eight-song EP Ot/Duotr (Coat Tail), and is entirely
compiled on Complete Book Of Duotron Illustrated (Scratch, 1999),
for a grand total of 40 tracks.
Duotron's compositions were fits of delirium tremens. The girl wails and
screams and mumbles, while she is beating the drums like a madwoman breaking
kitcheware in a mental hospital. The guitar is never in tune (in fact they
would break a couple of strings to make sure it could not possibly be in
tune) and is generally strummed frantically at random
(the guitar tunings were actually complex microtonal formula).
Tracks (some as short as ten seconds) are sheer chaos.
Switching to guitar and changing name to Rikkeh X, Duotron's former drummer
Rikkeh Suhtn formed X27 with Lydia Lunch-soundalike bassist and vocalist Carmen X.
Their Your Neu Favorite Band (Narnack, 2003) offers
lascivious garage-rock in the vein of the (old) no-wave.
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