Presocratics is an American

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

duo of Need Thomas Windham and Jon Philpot. Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and electronic music composer Need Windham met producer Jon Philpot in

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, Georgia in the middle 1990s. They recorded one full-length album, ''Works and Days'', in the Atlanta studios of Whoa! Films, and a follow-up EP ''Presocratics Serve Imperialism'' in Philpot's

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studio in

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. Both were released on the record label Table of the Elements. Presocratics toured Europe in March 2001 for a Table of the Elements month-long showcase tour, sharing the stage with San Agustin. Subsequent live performances by Presocratics have been rare. Windham currently resides in

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. Philpot is currently active leading the band

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and resides in

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Discography

*"If They Come In The Morning" on ''The Allegorical Power Series Volume VI'' - Antiopic MP3 compilation,

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

*''Presocratics Serve Imperialism'' - Table of the Elements CDEP,

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

*''Works And Days'' - Table of the Elements CD,

*''Pure Capitalism'' - Table of the Elements 7",

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

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