Analog Pussy are Jiga and Jinno, a psychedelic trance band, now located in Germany.^[1] Jiga (real name Kim Michael Lilach)^[2] was born in Jerusalem, and learned to play bass guitar at 15. Jinno Erez ^[2] was born in Uruguay and moved to Israel at age 4. He studied music theory and played trumpet in his childhood. The two met in 1997 and formed Analog Pussy.

Career

In her teens, Jiga played bass in punk bands. She wanted more control “So I bought a cheap synthesizer and programmed all the melodies, basses and drums I had in my head"^{[citation needed]}. She heard about a synthesizers freak called Jinno, who was experimenting with noises & sounds from age 16. He built a studio in his parents’ storage room and produced music 18 hours a day. After a long phone conversation the two met and hooked their equipment together to see what cool noises they could make. Finally in 1997 they formed Analog Pussy - making up a name they felt was shocking and funny nonetheless.

From the beginning, Analog Pussy had a close relationship with the cyber world - their first tracks were available on the web as MP3’s, hours after they were finished. This helped them to build a huge following with no album release. Later on, when they headlined the charts on MP3.com, their music was downloaded over one million times. ^[3]

In 1999, coming back from their first European tour - in which they'd played to over 30,000 people - they signed with a German label and released their first album. With Melodic, High tempo tracks such as ‘Go Wacko’ and ‘Psycho Bitch’, a paraphrase on the Sex Pistols in ‘Anarchist’ and ‘Fight To Trance’ - which became a popular track to play when parties got raided by the police

The duo never hired a manager and took care of the bands business operations themselves, spending all the money they earned on building their studio. In 2000 they relocated to Germany and started their own record label ‘AP Records’ - whose first release was their second album, ‘Underground’. To the audience's surprise, this album was entirely different than the first. Precise & unfussy ambiance, dry groovy beats and soaring techno sounds. That was the first sign for their tendency to break away from rules and expectations.

In mid 2004 they released their third album "Trance 'N Roll". The album is the closest yet to a live Analog Pussy show. The songs feature live instruments, hard rock guitar riffs and vocals. ^[4] Album includes Tracks like "Psycho Punko", where Jiga returns to her punk roots, "Trance N Roll" paraphrasing on Smoke on the Water, and their dance floor hit "Future", conveying a positive message: "We are the world, we are the future."

Analog Pussy live show

Germany	United Kingdom	Chile
Mexico	Argentina	Spain
Netherlands	Israel	Switzerland
Brazil	Russia	Canada
Denmark	Sweden	Hungary
Turkey	Belgium	Austria
Japan

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Releases

• Psycho Bitch from Hell (Balloonia Records 1999)
• Underground (AP Records 2001)
• Vinyl Trax (AP Records 2002)
• Trance N Roll (AP Records 2004)
• Future The Remixes (AP Records 2006)

References

External links

• Analog Pussy Official Website
• Analog Pussy discography at MusicBrainz
• Trance and Roll Music Video
• Gach, PJ (2006) "Trance N Roll" (review), Edge Boston, 8 August 2006