# Attack of the Seriously Cool Musicians

## Serious Black

The sole creation of Steve Mecca, Serious Black is designed to expand and exploit the bounds of electronic gothic-industrial music. Within the framework of this genre, Serious Black takes old-school goth-industrial and applies a sonic defibrillator to revive the jaded listener. After years of exploration and refinement of synthesizer and sampler programming, Serious Black was born.

## Jane Jensen

Your driving down a highway, let's call it Highway 90, and you find yourself hypnotized by the road, its curves and bends, its hills and valleys. Suddenly something odd grabs your attention, perhaps a tree bent askew or a dead animal on the side of the road. You momentarily react and then are lulled back into your comfort zone..until something else catches your eye. Jensen's songs range from surrealistic inner monologues to coquettish tunes of love lost and desired.

## Ataris

The Ataris were first discovered in 1997 when songwriter Kris Roe passed along his demo tape to Joe Escalante, bassist for the Vandals and owner of Kung Fu Records. Moving from Anderson, Indiana, to Santa Barbara, California, Roe assembled The Ataris' line-up and recorded the group's first full-length offering, Anywhere But Here, for Kung Fu.