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THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS began in 1994 as an extension of a collaborative effort known as THE SEX MUSICIANS, which consisted of Jeff Chenault (Central) and Andrew Izold of the influential band 10-SPEED GUILLOTINE, along with turntable terrorist Greg Fernandez. With the departure of Andrew, Mark Gunderson of THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE stepped in, and, inspired by the name of a film mentioned in a "Something Weird" trailer, THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS was born, promulgating their unique mix of sexual innuendo, cocktail-jacket lounginess, and whisky bottle mayhem, living up to the promise of their oft-quoted sample:

"They do EVERYTHING."

The Weird Lovemakers musical style ranges from electro-lounge to film soundtracks, and have performed live soundtracks for movies such as Nosferatu, Notes From Satan's Book, and most notably Maya Deren's Meshes In The Afternoon, performed at the Wexner Center For The Arts in Columbus Ohio.

JEFF CHENAULT has been involved with electronic music making since his early days in Port Huron, Michigan. As early as 1981, he explored industrial sounds with his first band (co-founded with Pat Harvey) the INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST NETWORK, recording pieces such as "Tunnel Music," made by banging and kicking on the inside walls of a huge metal tunnel while tape recorders were placed on each end. ITN also rented out the lodge at the trailer park they lived in every week and had industrial performances, which Jeff describes as "ending when the whiskey bottle was empty." In 1983 Jeff moved to Columbus, and ITN moved with him, remaining active until around 1985, after which Jeff spent several years doing collaborations and solo projects for his new founded ITN Label. In 1989 he met Andrew Izold, with whom he would record a great deal of music and become especially well respected (especially by the early ele_mental cru) as 10-SPEED GUILLOTINE. 10-Speed combined the industrial and techno strains of electronic music into a fascinating blend, which influenced the ears of many Columbus music makers. Although 10-Speed dissolved in 1993, Jeff has continued to work on ambient/noise projects under the name of CENTRAL INHABITANTS as well as being the founding member of THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS.

MARK GUNDERSON is an audio artist with extensive experience as both an experimental musician and organizer. He currently heads EVOLUTION CONTROLLED CREATIONS, a music label formalized in 1999 after a 12-year history under different names with a narrower focus. Over its full history the label has produced 15 full-length albums, a videotape, and even a wax cylinder recording. In addition, label bands have made appearances on over two dozen compilations albums. These bands have given over 300 live performances, most in the central Ohio area. EVOLUTION CONTROLLED CREATIONS musical groups include THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE, THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS, and GAGA. THE EVOLUTION CONTROL COMMITTEE (the label’s first band) has earned an international reputation as highly-skilled sound manipulation artists, and have produced many albums of collage-based audio art which have been distributed all over North America and the world. GAGA, a performing collective of up to 13 musical, visual, and performance artists, exists primarily as a live experience using percussion-heavy tribal music, scrap metal, fire, projected images, and acts of physical destruction as performance.
GREG FERNANDEZ began his exploration of electronic and experimental music around 1980, under the influence of the punk-dada band DEVO, the cut-up extrapolations of the obscure-but-vastly-influential band ORCHID SPANGIAFORA, and a fellow Ohio experimenter named DAVID LEWIS. Greg’s compositions under the name of GOOD CUE SIGN, often consisted of using cassettes and turntables in extremely non-traditional ways, similar in form to Brian Eno and David Byrne’s important 1981 collaboration, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," but whose true spiritual antecedents were older electronic musical ideas such as drop-in records, novelty electronic music, and the more serious ideals of classical electronic tape music (known as musique concrete). Greg’s live performances were no less compromising, as he developed an improvisational approach to DJing using chipped 78’s, old turntables, tape players, or whatever lo-fi equipment he could cobble together, creating on-the-spot loops and manipulating sounds from any and all sources. This resulted in an incredibly funny, no-budget, lo-fi, mistake ridden, and experimental free-for-all. An aborted attempt in the late ‘80s to compose an opera using musique concrete techniques was followed by a few years of idleness, but with the coming of THE SEX MUSICIANS in 1992, and now THE WEIRD LOVEMAKERS, Greg again has an outlet for his unique and important form of musical experimentation.