James Charles Watts (born January 24, 1980), also known by the moniker KiloWatts, is an American electronic musician. He has toured across Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States since 2002. His 2007 release ''Ground State'' was said to lead the devoted listener to a state of total hypnosis by Side-Line Magazine. In 2006, Igloo Magazine called his album ''Routes'' "a lifetime of travel compressed into an hour of aural head-tripping." His project with Tanner Ross, entitled Voodeux, was reviewed by XLR8R Magazine and could only be described as "...if maverick producers

Ricardo Villalobos Ricardo Villalobos (born 6 August 1970) is a Chilean-born German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno s ...

and Bruno Pronsato plundered

Lustmord Brian Williams is a Welsh industrial musician, sound designer and film score composer. He is often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord. His experimental work has been described as "not tra ...

's harddrive full of tar-black ambience..." His collaboration with Bluetech, called Invisible Allies, was included in Headphone Commute's Best Of 2010 collection.

Discography

KiloWatts

* 2002 – ''Perfected Everything'' (DayLite Records) * 2003 – ''EP Phone Home'' (DayLite Records) * 2005 – ''Pasta EP'' ( Kahvi Collective) * 2005 – ''Problem/Solving'' ( Artificial Music Machine) * 2005 – ''Problems/Solved'' ( Artificial Music Machine) * 2006 – ''Routes'' ( Artificial Music Machine) * 2007 – ''Ground State'' (Native State Records) * 2007 – ''Quickfire'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2007 – ''Teknopera'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2007 – ''Uprouted'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2008 – ''Exit The Laugh'' (Harmonious Discord) * 2008 – ''Snakewinds'' ( Thoughtless Music) * 2008 – ''Luna Rd'' (Harmonious Discord) * 2009 – ''Love on Saturn'' ( Thoughtless Music) * 2009 – ''Six Silicates'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2009 – ''Undercurrent'' (Somnia) * 2010 – ''Nocturnal Sunrise'' (Harmonious Discord) * 2010 – ''Timekeeper'' ( Thoughtless Music) * 2010 – ''The Right Words'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2012 – ''Acceptitude'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2014 – ''Seven Succulents'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2019 - ''Sympathetic Vibrations'' (KiloWatts Music) * 2020 - ''Eight Experiments'' (KiloWatts Music)

Invisible Allies

Invisible Allies is KiloWatts and Bluetech. * 2010 – ''Hyperdimensional Animals'' (Native State Records) * 2014 – ''Conversations With Bees'' (Aleph Zero Records)

KiloWatts and Vanek

KiloWatts & Vanek is James Watts and Peter Van Ewijk. Together they have released albums on Diffusion Records, founded by

Andrew Sega Andrew Gregory Sega ( ; born May 20, 1975), also known as Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games. He was a member of the synthpop d ...

, and German-based industrial label

Dependent Records Dependent Records (stylized as dependent) is a German independent record label that mainly focuses on aggrotech, electro-industrial, and futurepop music. The label was founded in January 1999 after the demise of the Off Beat label by former Off ...

. * 2004 – ''RawQ'' ( Diffusion Records) * 2009 – ''Sinnerstate'' (

Motor Music Motor Music is an independent record label based in Berlin, Germany providing a wide range of music services including music publication, artists management, producing music for films and business and music advertising. Motor Music was founded in ...

) * 2009 – ''Focus & Flow'' (

) * 2022 - ''Perennials'' (End Of Time Records)

Voodeux

Voodeux is KiloWatts and Tanner Ross, who have released on

Dirtybird Records Dirtybird Records is an independent electronic music record label based in San Francisco, California. The label was founded in January 2005 by Claude VonStroke (aka Barclay Crenshaw) and specializes in a brand of house music he describes as "tec ...

and Mothership, founded by

Claude VonStroke Barclay Macbride Crenshaw (born July 7, 1971), who is known by the stage name Claude VonStroke, is an American house music, house producer based in Los Angeles. He owns Dirtybird Records based in San Francisco. In July 2006 he released his debut ...

. * 2007 – ''The Curse'' (Mothership) * 2009 – ''Bones'' (Mothership) * 2009 – ''Just A Spoonful'' (Mothership) * 2009 – ''The Paranormal'' (Mothership)

Skeetaz

Skeetaz is a collaboration between KiloWatts and Bil Bless. * 2007 – ''Ma Skeeta Bytes Vol. 1'' (Proboscis) * 2007 – ''Skeetaz EP'' (Addictech Records) * 2008 – ''Off'' (Proboscis)

Super Galactic Expansive

Super Galactic Expansive is a collaboration between KiloWatts and Amagine. They have released two albums on Sound Tribe Sector 9's label, 1320 Records. * 2010 – ''Supersensible Science'' (1320 Records) * 2012 – ''Constants + Variables'' (1320 Records) * 2022 - ''Satellites''

References

External links

Official site

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Discogs

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