''www.pitchshifter.com'' is the fourth album by the British
industrial metal band
Pitchshifter
Pitchshifter are an English industrial rock band from Nottingham, formed in 1989. The band was started by lead guitarist and programmer Johnny A. Carter, and bassist and vocalist Mark Clayden. The band’s early material was characterized for ...
, released in 1998. The record, which was their first released through a
major label, sold just over 60,000 copies in the US alone—selling nearly twice as much as the group's proceeding album ''
Deviant'' did, which sold 33,000 copies.
The album's name comes from the band's
domain name
A domain name is a string that identifies a realm of administrative autonomy, authority or control within the Internet. Domain names are often used to identify services provided through the Internet, such as websites, email services and more. As ...
–a relative novelty at the time of the release. The domain name registration was eventually lapsed; JS Clayden said "we carried the website for such a long time that it felt like a burden being lifted to let it go".
Track listing
Personnel
;Pitchshifter
*
J.S. Clayden -
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...
,
beats,
programming
*Mark Clayden -
bass,
sampler
*
Jim Davies -
guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...
s
*Johnny Carter - guitars, programming
;Additional musicians
*
Keith York
Keith York is an English session drummer who has toured throughout the world and worked with a range of bands, including The Lightning Seeds, Pitchshifter, bivouac, Ladytron, and Esoteric, Bentley Rhythm Ace, Broadcast and Love Amongst Ruin. He w ...
- drums, percussion samples
*Pablo Yeadon - acoustic guitar on "Disposable"
;Production
*H. Forbes, Paul Williams, Nick Philip and Unknown Graphic Services - artwork
*Johnny Carter and Neil Simmons - engineering
*Jodie Zalewski - assistant engineer
*Johnny Carter and J.S. Clayden - programming
*Bob Ludwig - mastering
*Ralph Barklam and Tony Woolliscroft - photography
*
Machine - production
*Clinton Bradley - additional
analog synthesizer
An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s, such as the Trautonium, were built with a variety of ...
manipulation
*Johnny Carter and JS Clayden - writer
References
Pitchshifter albums
1998 albums
Geffen Records albums
Albums produced by Machine (producer)
{{1990s-electronic-album-stub