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Icy Demons is an experimental music project started by Bablicon's Griffin Rodriguez (credited as Blue Hawaii) and Man Man / Need New Body's Christopher Powell (Pow Pow). A project of various Chicago musicians, they have released three albums, Fight Back! on the Elephant 6-associated label Cloud Recordings. Tears of a Clone on the Eastern Developments Music, and in 2007 Miami Ice on Easel (Japan release only).

Influences & Style

Demons can be seen as a continuation of the Canterbury Scene which involved acts like Soft Machine and Robert Wyatt. They do however move forward into new ground by mixing this Canterbury style with a noticeable Krautrock influence, especially that of Can. Other similar acts include Aksak Maboul, Pit er Pat, Pop-off Tuesday, Lightning Bolt, and Cheer Accident.

Discography

  • (2003) Fight Back!
  • (2005) Jump Off 7" b/w Pit Er Pat
  • (2006) Tears of a Clone
  • (2007) Miami Ice

Members (Past and Present)

  • Blue Hawaii aka Tombstone G
  • Pow Pow aka Rick Daggers
  • The Diminisher aka Da Minister aka Thousand Rabbits Running
  • Moylando Calrissian
  • Ilcativo
  • TA-FREAK-YA
  • Ali Hawkbar
  • Young Master Schneider

Shape Shoppe

Blue Hawaii also runs a recording studio in Chicago's south loop called the Shape Shoppe. Besides Bablicon and Icy Demons, he has engineered and mixed many local and regional bands' records.

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Bands in the collective
The Apples in Stereo | Beulah | Black Swan Network | Chocolate USA | Circulatory System | Dixie Blood Mustache | Dressy Bessy | Elf Power | The Essex Green | Frosted Ambassador | The Gerbils | The High Water Marks | Major Organ and the Adding Machine | Marbles | The Minders | The Music Tapes | Neutral Milk Hotel | The Olivia Tremor Control | Orchestre Fantastique | Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't | Secret Square | The Sunshine Fix | ulysses | Von Hemmling
Other notable bands and side projects
The American Revolution | Bablicon | Fablefactory | Great Lakes | A Hawk and a Hacksaw | Icy Demons | The Instruments | The Ladybug Transistor | The Late B.P. Helium | M Coast | Marta Tennae | Midget and Hairs | My First Keyboard | Of Montreal | Synthetic Flying Machine | Thimble Circus | Visitations
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Bill Doss | Jeff Mangum | Robert Schneider | Will Cullen Hart | Hilarie Sidney | Laura Carter | Jeremy Barnes | Jill Carnes | David Barnes | Julian Koster | Derek Almstead | Scott Spillane | John Fernandes | Pet Sounds Studio | Orange Twin Records
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