Baxter

trip-hop

There are, at least, seven artists known as Baxter: 1) A Swedish band, combining drum and bass loops & the hypnotic, sometimes melancholy, voice of Nina Ramsby. 2) A Long Island, NY prog rock group, who did one eponymous album in 1973. 3) A Chicago post-hardcore band (sometimes typset .baxter. in artwork - disbanded). 4) A Mannheim, Germany punk band. 5) A Poitiers, France melodic hardcore punk band. 6) A Toms River, NJ singer who later formed The Trans Megetti. 7) An alias of Willy Baxter, a Finnish electronic artist. 1) From Sweden - in 1996, Ricky Tillblad, one of the Swedish recording industry's pre-eminent designers, dub/reggae aficionado, and the man behind the Stockholm dub club DubDeck, met Nina Ramsby, former guitarist and lead singer in the band salt. At the time, Nina was looking for design and graphic arts work to finance her musical interests. She began working at Ricky's design firm F+, and in their off-hours, the two began writing music together. That same year, Ricky bumped into Carl Herlöffson - guitar player/engineer/producer extraordinaire and head of the Indie Label Primal Music - at his club. The chance meeting resulted in Ricky signing on as partner in Carl and his brother's label. By late '96, Ricky and Carl had become a prolific production team working as Eclectic Bob, cutting instrumental club-oriented drum & bass tracks for Primal Music. One fateful day, Nina came into work at the studio and was introduced to Carl, bringing about the convergence of...