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===Download=== [[Download (band)|Download]] was created by Key and Goettel as a Skinny Puppy side project in 1995. Other members included Anthony Valic, Ken Marshall, [[Phil Western]], and [[Mark Spybey]] from [[Dead Voices on Air]].<ref name="Bush">{{cite web |last1=Bush |first1=John |title=Download - Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/download-mn0000201857/biography |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> Download was named after the closing track off ''Last Rights'' and sought to create music by way of " fragments of sound and collages".<ref name="Sonic">{{cite web |title=Interview with Download, Fenix Underground, Seattle, WA 8/31/96 |url=http://www.sonic-boom.com/interview/download.interview.html |website=Sonic Boom |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> Key told ''[[Terrorizer (magazine)|Terrorizer]]'' magazine that he thought of Goettel as "an unrecognized pioneer" of electronic music and, following Goettel's death, used Download as a means of keeping his spirit alive.<ref name=Terrorizer>{{cite journal |title=Through the Keyhole: Interview with cEvin Key |journal=[[Terrorizer (magazine)|Terrorizer]] |date=December 2001 |issue=95 |url=http://litany.net/interviews/terror-key.html |access-date=January 30, 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308032744/http://www.litany.net/interviews/terror-key.html |archive-date=March 8, 2016 }}</ref> <blockquote>I heard things that I've never heard before coming out of Dwayne's end of stuff. Typically, only a small percentage of it got saved or recorded in actual pieces. I know what I learned from Dwayne. He was a brilliant teacher and he's really blown a lot of people away.<ref name=Terrorizer /></blockquote> Download released their first album, ''[[Furnace (Download album)|Furnace]]'', in 1995. The album was dedicated to Goettel's memory and featured contributions from [[Genesis P-Orridge]].<ref name="Furnace">{{cite web |last1=DiGravina |first1=Tim |title=Furnace - Download |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/furnace-mw0000645960 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> They followed up their debut with two EPs in 1996, ''[[Microscopic (EP)|Microscopic]]''<ref>{{cite web |last1=DiGravina |first1=Tim |title=Microscopic - Download |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/microscopic-mw0000181791 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> and ''[[Sidewinder (EP)|Sidewinder]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kavadias |first1=Theo |title=Sidwinder - Download |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/sidewinder-mw0000186066 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> The band released their second full length effort, ''[[The Eyes of Stanley Pain]]'', through Nettwerk Records.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hopkins |first1=Michael |title=Download |journal=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |date=August 16, 1996 |page=17}}</ref> Key would use live performances to play "Download versions" of songs from old projects like Skinny Puppy. He said, "we don't sing Ogre's lyrics. We do instrumental versions of key segments of some of the older material".<ref name="Sonic" /> ''[[Charlie's Family]]'', produced by the band as the soundtrack for [[Jim Van Bebber]]'s film of the same name, was given a limited release before the film's completion.<ref name="Sonic" /> Van Bebber, who had done video work for Skinny Puppy, approached Key to write music for the film; Key's goal in making the soundtrack was to create something that was "uneasy, unsettling, just plain old uncomfortable".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Kim |title=Skinny Puppy's Cevin Key Looks Back at 'The Manson Family,' Stream the Soundtrack Here (November 24, 2014) |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/cevin-key-looks-back-at-the-manson-family-stream-the-soundtrack-here/ |website=[[Vice (magazine)|Noisey]] |publisher=[[Vice Media]] |access-date=January 30, 2019|date=November 24, 2014 }}</ref> The album ''[[III (Download album)|III]]'' was released on October 21, 1997, and acted as a companion piece to ''The Eyes of Stanley Pain''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Devlin |first1=Mike |title=Techno Music: Download - III (Nettwerk) |journal=[[Times Colonist]] |date=October 14, 1997 |page=C10}}</ref> With ''III'', Key began to tone down the industrial aspects of his style for a more [[electronica]] sound.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Erlewine |first1=Stephen Thomas |title=III - Download |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/iii-mw0000029506 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> The band continued into the new millennium with the release of ''[[Effector (album)|Effector]]'' in 2000<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Saldman |first1=Sorelle |title=The Buzz: Ogre, Download Live |journal=[[The Province]] |date=December 5, 2000 |page=B10}}</ref> and ''[[Fixer (Download album)|Fixer]]'' in 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fixer - Download |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/fixer-mw0002190296 |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> In late 2018, Key announced that he and Western had finished work on a new album titled ''Unknown Room''<ref>{{cite web |title=Download to Release 11th Album 'Unknown Room' on Artoffact Records β Available Now (December 27, 2018) |url=http://www.side-line.com/download-to-release-11th-album-unknown-room-on-artoffact-records-available-now/ |website=Side-Line |publisher=Side-Line Music Magazine |access-date=January 30, 2019|date=December 27, 2018 }}</ref> and that it would be released March 8, 2019, through [[Artoffact Records]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Unknown Room by Download |url=https://brap.bandcamp.com/album/unknown-room |website=[[Bandcamp]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> According to a press release, the album resulted from "an intense two month studio session" following several years of on-off production.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Carlsson |first1=Johan |title=Download Enters an "Unknown Room" (December 17, 2018) |url=http://www.releasemagazine.net/download-enters-an-unknown-room/ |website=[[Release Music Magazine]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref>
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