Album Notes

Straddling the fine line between technical precision and reckless abandon, social commentary and smartass revelry, Replicator endeavoured to bring something unique and worthwhile to the overall culture of this independent music thing while somehow managing to overcome the signal to noise ratio of vapid defanged post punk disco retreads and the latest astroturf “garage band” fad with the marketing dollars of the cool hunting multinational corporations.

Put out at the 4 year mark, the full length album “You Are Under Surveillance”, was released in 2004 was on Substandard Records. Recorded at Mr. Toad’s by bassist/keyboardist/recording engineer Ben Adrian, Surveillance followed up the “lost” DBBLLVVZZNN split release with the band Lower Forty-Eight , as well as the well received “” ep in 2001, and 2000’s ”Winterval”, engineered by Mr. Bob S. Weston IV. It would later be followed by "Machines Will Always Let You Down" and "Whangbar Province".

Replicator steadily played successful shows in and around the bay area, west coast and US since late 1999. They worked towards creating a solid fan base, in a supportive community of fantastic ‘outsider’ bands, in the creatively fertile bay area, based on a combination of great songs and exciting live performance.

In other words, substance over style, every time.

Released during the rise of the Oakland/bay area Noise Rock community, You Are Under Surveillance was very much a cracked mirror for current events of the time and the surroundings of the band.

Replicator played throughout the US with bands like Trans Am, Rye Coalition, Blood Brothers, Oxes, BABYLAND, Hella, Vaz, Stinking Lizaveta and many, many more.

For many, You Are Under Surveillance's bombastic paranoia was their entry to the band.

Hailing from Oakland, California, in the San Francisco bay area. the suspects were as follows:

* Conan Neutron | treble guitar, tape deck/laptop, voice
* Benjamin Adrian | bass guitar, keyboards, voice
* Christopher Bolig | drum set