Exhaust was a Canadian trio from

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featuring bass, drums, tape and

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, active from 1995 to 2012. The members were

Aidan Girt Aidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the names ''OSB'', ''1-Speed Bike'', and ''Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike'' and continues ...

(drums), Gordon Krieger (bass/ bass clarinet) and Mike Zabitsky (tape loops)."Art is Political"
. ''Dusted Reviews'', Sep. 5, 2002 , Andy Urban.

History

Exhaust's first release was the limited release cassette ''230596''. Their debut LP ''Exhaust'', (later reissued on CD) was one of the first releases on the then-fledgling Constellation Records label. The album was recorded at partly at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, and partly at Mom and Pop Sounds. The ten tracks consisted of 34 minutes of eclectic experimental rock music played by Girt and Krieger, augmented by Zabitsky's studio effects and audio samples."Exhaust"
. ''Almost Cool Music Reviews'', A second album, ''Enregistreur'', was released in 2002; a synthesis of low bass riffs, bass clarinet, drumming, speech and machine noise samples, it was described in the ''Austin Chronicle'' as a "clattering collage of broken wires and cold urban filth". It was meant to be their final album but, in December 2011, they (independently) released a third album (online only), titled ''Grenadilla Splinters''.Article in the ''Montreal Mirror''
2011/12/15.

Discography

;Albums *''230596'' 7" cassette (self-release; 1996) *''Exhaust'' LP (Constellation Records; 1998) *''Exhaust'' CD (Constellation Records; 2000) *''Enregistreur'' CD/LP (Constellation Records; 2002) *''Grenadilla Splinters'' (online release only, 2011) ;Compilations *"Metro Mile End" on ''Music Until Now'' (Constellation Records; 2002) *"Ice Storm" on ''Afterhours No. 18: A Child Will Imitate His Parents'' (Afterhours magazine, 2003) *"Wool Fever Dub" on '' Song of the Silent Land'', (Constellation Records, 2004)

References

External links

''Grenadilla Splinters''
at Bandcamp
Constellation Records' Exhaust website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Exhaust Canadian post-rock groups Musical groups from Montreal Constellation Records (Canada) artists Musical groups with year of establishment missing