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Black Rain were an American
electro-industrial Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the early 1980s. While EBM (electronic body music) has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial tends to have a grittier, complex and layered sound wi ...
group based out of
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. It was formed in 1992 by musicians Stuart Argabright, Chaz Cardoza, Thom Furtado and Shinichi Shimokawa. They released two studio albums on
Fifth Colvmn Records Fifth Colvmn Records was a record label based in Washington, DC. The label was founded in 1990 by Zalman Fishman, owner of the nightclub FIFTH COLVMN, located in Washington D.C. The label's first release was Chemlab's debut EP Ten Ton Pressure. ...
: '' 1.0'' (1995), ''
Nanarchy "Nanarchy" is the eighth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom '' Red Dwarf'' Series VII and the 44th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1997. The episode was written by Paul Alex ...
'' (1996). The band released their third album ''
Dark Pool In finance, a dark pool (also black pool) is a private forum (alternative trading system or ATS) for trading securities, derivatives, and other financial instruments.


History

Black Rain was formed in
New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
by musicians Stuart Argabright, Chaz Cardoza, Thom Furtado and Shinichi Shimokawa. Black Rain released their debut full-length
studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...
'' 1.0'' on
Fifth Colvmn Records Fifth Colvmn Records was a record label based in Washington, DC. The label was founded in 1990 by Zalman Fishman, owner of the nightclub FIFTH COLVMN, located in Washington D.C. The label's first release was Chemlab's debut EP Ten Ton Pressure. ...
in 1995. The following year they released their second album ''
Nanarchy "Nanarchy" is the eighth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom '' Red Dwarf'' Series VII and the 44th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1997. The episode was written by Paul Alex ...
'' on Fifth Colvmn. In 2014 the band's third album ''
Dark Pool In finance, a dark pool (also black pool) is a private forum (alternative trading system or ATS) for trading securities, derivatives, and other financial instruments.


Discography

Studio albums * '' 1.0'' (1995, Fifth Colvmn) * ''
Nanarchy "Nanarchy" is the eighth, and final, episode of science fiction sitcom '' Red Dwarf'' Series VII and the 44th in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 7 March 1997. The episode was written by Paul Alex ...
'' (1996, Fifth Colvmn) * ''
Dark Pool In finance, a dark pool (also black pool) is a private forum (alternative trading system or ATS) for trading securities, derivatives, and other financial instruments.Black Rain'' (1992, Kombinat) * '' Black Rain'' (1993, TPOS) * ''
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'' (2013, Blackest Ever Black) * '' Computer Soul'' (2019, Blackest Ever Black) Split releases * '' Apophis'' (2015, Cosmo Rhythmatic) * '' Rebellion Is Over'' (2015, Heartworm Press) Compilation albums * '' Now I'm Just a Number: Soundtracks 1994-95'' (2012, Blackest Ever Black) * '' Metal Rain 1989-93'' (2018, DKA) Compilation appearances * '' Johnny Mnemonic (Music From the Motion Picture)'' (1995, Sony) * ''Forced Cranial Removal'' (1995 Fifth Colvmn) * ''Colloquium ยน'' (1995, Dark Star/Eisenberg) * ''
Echo In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound. The delay is directly proportional to the distance of the reflecting surface from the source and the list ...
'' (1996,
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) * ''World War Underground'' (1996, Fifth Colvmn) * ''Fade to Black Volume 2'' (1999, K-Town) * ''100% Black Octavo Volumen'' (2005, Blanco Y Negro) * ''After the Affair: Selected Blackest Ever Black, 2012'' (2012, Blackest Ever Black) * ''14 Tracks: Consensual Hallucination'' (2012, Boomkat) * ''14 Tracks: Night Derive'' (2014, Boomkat) * ''Mind the Gap #117'' (2015, Gonzo Circus) * ''When You Look on the Bright Side, I Will Sit With You in the Dark'' (2018, Alvaret Tape) * ''Delicacy Spectrum'' (2020, Eyemyth)


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* * * * {{Authority control Musical groups established in 1992 1992 disestablishments in New York (state) Musical groups from New York (state) American ambient music groups American electronic music groups American industrial music groups American techno music groups Fifth Colvmn Records artists