Collider was an electroclash punk rock band formed in

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in 1997 by singer and keyboardist

Jed Davis Jed Davis (born July 7, 1975 in Farmingdale, New York) is an American musician based in New York City. He sings and plays keyboards as a solo artist and with The Hanslick Rebellion, Collider, and Skyscape. Music career Skyscape and early so ...

and guitarist Sean Gould. The duo's combination of electronic beats and synthesizers with rock guitars and pop song structure made Collider an early entrant to the

Electroclash Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It ...

movement. In fact, as the genre had not yet been named, Davis and Gould referred to their style as "electropunk". Between 1997 and 1999, Collider performed regularly across New York state but concentrated mainly on Manhattan's Lower East Side. In addition to frequent gigs at

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, the

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and the Spiral, the duo also played monthly at Coney Island High. Collider's first two albums, ''Blowing Shit Up'' (1998) and ''Physics'' (1999), were released by New York label Eschatonality, the latter in conjunction with MP3.com. In 2000, Davis and Gould added a rhythm section of Chris DeRosa on Drums and Tom Kaz on Bass and toned down the electronic elements as the band moved towards straightforward punk rock. In this form, the band came to the attention of

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, who invited Collider to open for him at what would be his final

appearance, on October 18, 2000. This version of Collider was also the support act when

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reunited at CBGB on December 21, 2000. In 2002, with a new rhythm section of Mike Keaney (bass) and Joe Abba (drums), Collider signed with

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and recorded a 6-song EP, ''WCYF'', with original Ramones drummer and producer

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producing. ''WCYF'' would be the first album produced by Tommy Ramone since The Replacements' '' Tim'' in 1985. This version of Collider served as the live backing band for

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singing duo The Deuce Project in 2003, and as a session group for a number of singers and duos in New York City and

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. Davis and Gould disbanded Collider in 2004 in order to pursue other projects.

References

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