Arthur Loves Plastic or ALP is the performing name of

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based

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recording artist Bev Stanton.

Biography

Stanton was born in

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in 1966 and raised near

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. She recorded ALP's first project, '' Sperm Warfare'', in her basement, and it was released in Europe by Britain's T.E.Q. Music?. After T.E.Q. folded, Stanton has independently released most of her twenty one studio albums. Her early efforts at internet promotion prompted ''

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'' to feature her in a cover story on indie-music promotion. Stanton also plays bass in the Baltimore band The Window Shoppers and is an honorary Space Dot. ALP's part-time vocalist,

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, featured 3 ALP tracks on her latest solo CD ''

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''.

Metal Heart Records

Stanton is in charge Metal Heart Records, which is an independent record label run out

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Band name

Stanton's performing name is taken from her cat Arthur's fondness for plastic grocery bags. Arthur Loves Plastic is regularly included in internet lists of weird/funny/worst band names.

Remixer

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has referred to Stanton as a " remix master" for her work with artists such as

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, Emmet Swimming,

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, Sounds of Mass Production,

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and

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DJ

Since 2002, Stanton has performed as a

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club DJ – initially as a member of the First Ladies DJ Collective. She describes her style as "

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with original ALP tracks thrown in".

Awards

Stanton and ALP have won over twenty Wammies (Washington Area Music Awards) in the Electronica category, including the 2008 Electronica Recording Wammie for the album ''

Brief Episodes of Joy ''Brief Episodes of Joy'' is the sixteenth album from Arthur Loves Plastic and was released in 2008. Awards ''Brief Episodes of Joy'' won the 2008 Wammie for Best Recording in the Electronica Category. In the 2009 Just Plain Folks Music Awards ...

''. In addition, ALP has been awarded the Electronica Emeritus Award (2008 Wammies) and Emeritus Standing in the Electronica Performing Artist (live) category (2006 Wammies), while Stanton has been awarded Emeritus Standing in the Electronica DJ category (2006 Wammies) – an honour handed out to a select few artists which acknowledges their continuing success in these fields.

Music in other media

Advertising

"Feel the Love", "Boogie Bonnie Bell", " Ravish" and a brief biography for ALP feature in the

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campaign's virtual website Caveman's Crib. The track "I Can Dream" was featured on Pumawomen.com.

Dance

Stanton produced the

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piece "Fragile" for use in performances at The Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C.

Film

"Ooh Baby" and "If I Fell Off This Earth Tonight" feature on the soundtrack of the Canadian

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''Apartment Story'', while "Revolution (Reprise)" appears on the soundtrack of film

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''Paradise Attempted''. The track "Afterglow" is featured in its entirety in the film-poem ''To Suffer Is to Slip Unnoticed'', while "Klondyke 5" appears in the film-poem ''To Mock the Purists in Their Rabidity'' and "Falling" appears in the film-poem ''Purple Ganymede''.

Television

ALP tracks have appeared on ''

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'', ''

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'', '' America's Most Wanted'', '' Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations'', ''

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'', '' Lesbian Sex & Sexuality'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Sexy Girls Next Door'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Theatre

Eleven ALP tracks feature in the Solocat Productions

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premiere of David Hare's play The Blue Room, and are included on The Blue Room soundtrack album. In the Rogue Machine production of Diana Son's play ''

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'', the track "Yeah Baby" is featured in a scene at a lesbian club.

Personal life

Openly

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, Stanton is a regular performer at Queering Sound, an annual festival staged in

which focuses on alternative artists from the

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community.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''The Zero State'' (1995) * ''Professor Fate'' (1996) * '' Teflon Diva!'' (1997) * ''Slice'' (1998) * ''Klondyke 5'' (1999) * '' Second Avenue Detour'' (2000) * ''

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'' (2001) * '' No Nations, No Peoples'' (2002) * ''

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'' (2003) * '' Higher Fruit'' (2003) * '' Savage Bliss'' (2004) * ''

Love or Perish ''Love or Perish'' is the twelfth album from Arthur Loves Plastic and was released in 2005. Release notes "It's a jungle out there!" features remixes of The Tidbits and Michelle Swan, as well as vocals by Lisa Moscatiello and Heather Heimbuch. ...

'' (2005) * '' Pursuit of Happiness'' (2006) * ''Troubled'' (2006) * '' Beneath the Watchful Eyes'' (2007) * ''

'' (2008) * ''King Shag'' (2008) * '' Give It'' (2009) * ''Deeper'' (2010) * ''Special When Lit'' (2012) * ''Strings'' (2013)

References

External links

Official Website
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