Legion Of Green Men

Infobox musical artist
Name = Legion Of Green Men


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Origin = Ontario, Canada
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Genre = Ambient, Experimental, Breakbeat, Shoegaze, Dub, Pop
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Years_active = 1994 onwards
Label = post contemporary, Plus 8, swim ~
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URL = [http://www.discogs.com/label/Post+Contemporary Post Contemporary on Discogs.com]
Current_members = Alexander Addicus (Lex) Rupert J. Lloyd (Ru)
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Legion of Green Men is the main identity of the electronic music duo of brothers Alexander Addicus and Rupert J. Lloyd from Burlington, Ontario, Canada. They have had releases on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 label, Colin Newman & Malka Spigel's swim ~ label as well as their own [http://www.discogs.com/label/Post+Contemporary Post Contemporary] label.

Biography

Legion of Green Men debuted with perhaps their best known album Spatial Specific in 1994. Initially released on Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 label it was later picked up by Virgin Records in Canada. Through the 90's the duo released a number of small edition vinyl records under a series of different aliases including - Alkahest, Zeuxis And The Painted Grapes, Empirical Sleeping Consort & Incarnate becoming specialists in the locked groove (which they refer to as "Eternal Opuscules"). They could achieve these in non-regular time signatures as well as 4/4.

The duo have remixed several other artists including Vapourspace, Malka Spigel, [http://www.posteverything.com/artists/artist.php?id=77 Pablo's Eye] & Wire

Discography

Albums

* "Spatial Specific" (1994)
* " [http://www.posteverything.com/artists/release.php?id=103 Floating In Shallow Water] " (1999)
* "Aegri Somnia Vana" (Empirical Sleeping Consort release, 1990)
* "I've Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back Catatoning Over You, Dear" (Empirical Sleeping Consort, 1991)
* "The Layers of Awakening" (Empirical Sleeping Consort, 1994)
* "Baqontraq" (Post Contemporary, 2007)

EPs

* "Time Tunnel EP" (1992)
* "Veneration EP"
* "The Borderless"
* "Mosaic Eye"

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External links

* [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Legion+Of+Green+Men LOGM on Discogs]
* [http://www.posteverything.com/artists/artist.php?id=73 LOGM on Posteverything]
* - Official MySpace