A previous Ed Wlson garage rock 3-piece had been called "Stuka". MiG-21 kept the airplane bandname theme. Also, there was an original intention to appropriate vanished eastern block imagery in costumes, song titles etc... This could have been taken a lot further - in the event the group ended up playing around with cross-dressing & trashy, glam tactics on stage. More Marlene Dietrich/SS decadence than USSR - but what the hell, we were only ignorant hicks living in New Zealand after all!

Only ever performed live in New Zealand (Christchurch, Lytellton, Wellington) which might as well be the south pole as far as the rest of the
world is concerned. All our gigs were special though - even the catastrophic ones!

For both better and worse. Better in that there are greater opportunities than ever before to connect with similarly interested people and for the independently minded and the marginalised to make some (probably infinitesimal) impact. No one should believe that the 9th-rate shite that dominates mainstream radio and television is, any longer, an indication of "mainstream" taste. In this diverse and fractured postmodern world there is no longer any such thing.
Worse in that, at the moment, there are almost no systems in place to ensure artists get any material reward for their hard work. Obviously for non-entities, such as ourselves (and other kRkRkRk artists) any exposure is a good thing. But how we would all like to give up our day jobs (or social
security shackles) and truly devote ourselves to our art. To achieve that means, eventually, getting some material recompense for our efforts. At the
current time the internet/mp.3 environment contains no means by which that can easily occur.
A culture is developing whereby the average listener is getting used to hearing new sounds free of charge. This is great for undermining the "robber
barons" of the music industry (those who fill our airwaves with blandness and crap) however, in the long run, it makes it difficult for artists to give their all for their art.

Hardly likely to happen for us but, sure why not? Of course we would need to be granted necessary freedoms and controls over our music. Sonic Youth have the mix fairly sorted. Keep releasing broadly appealing "alternative" rock for Geffin whilst using the proceeds to fund their far more experimental, on-the-edge releases for their own SYR label. The best of both worlds. If somebody ever offered us $$$ to record something awful, we'd have to think long and hard about whether or not to accept such an offer. After all, that dosh could be put to good use for making REAL music down the line. Music that might never have been made otherwise (in between day jobs and wrangles with dole-bureaucracy).

Featuring the talents of David Khan, Mikel Goodwin, Ed Wilson & J-mz Robinson, MiG-21 formed in June 2001 & enjoyed favourable audience reactions from the very start.

Very much a pop-rock project with some industrial noise & avant-rock underpinnings, MiG-21 combine smooth, melodic bass playing & electronic rhythms (utilising custom-made sampled sounds) with harsh, biting, free-form guitar work & multi-layered vocals riding upon a wave of distortion & delay.

Although not as deadly serious as some earlier kRkRkRk projects, there are punk-rock, political overtones in the group's music - suitably corrupted by a Generation X nihilism & disenchantment
....from http://go.to/krkrkrk/

Formed June 2001. First recording "MF" kRk118 released August 2001. First live performances about this time also. Second album "Hot To Trotsky" kRk129 to be released January 2004. Following the departure of guitarist Ed Wilson overseas in mid 2003 the group has entered hibernation (apart from finishing off recordings for the 2nd album)

All sorts of stuff. Neubauten, Kraftwerk, Swans, Birthday Party, Joy Division, Fushitsusha, Bowie, Stooges, Punk, Glam, Industrial, Noise blah blah...

Ha ha, we're NOT "techno or electronica by a long shot (just sad old f***s trying to rock, yawn...) - still there is a fair amount of technology in the music. Most of our songs are grounded by simple and repetitive rhythmic loops. These comprise totally custom-made sounds sampled, processed and sequenced using an Ensoniq ASR10 workstation. Yes, it's tragic drum-machine-based music - not electronica - but too electronic to truly rock. However, at least we make all our own sounds! The remainder of the noise consists of dual guitars (often detuned and "treated" to hell), straight forward bass guitar and vocals massively warped through distortion and delay effects. For the sound geeks out there, the vox distortion is provided by an antiquated Ibanez SM-9 super metal pedal with a signal-to-noise of about 1:100!

Other projects members in on Soundclick:
James:
http://www.soundclick.com/antibodynz
http://www.soundclick.com/brainlego
http://www.soundclick.com/notv
http://www.soundclick.com/placentacookbook
http://www.soundclick.com/theestrapons
http://www.soundclick.com/tma1
Dave:
http://www.soundclick.com/bocctahne
http://www.soundclick.com/vaccine
http://www.soundclick.com/leonardnimoy
http://www.soundclick.com/thebeautifullosers
http://www.soundclick.com/disnz
http://www.soundclick.com/drawingroom
Ed:
http://www.soundclick.com/antibodynz
http://www.soundclick.com/bocctahne
http://www.soundclick.com/edwilson
http://www.soundclick.com/sedative
Mikel:
http://www.soundclick.com/theestrapons
http://www.soundclick.com/leonardnimoy
http://www.soundclick.com/wormwoodnz
http://www.soundclick.com/placentacookbook