Prior to becoming one of the most significant acts on the DFA label, John Maclean was a member of Sub Pop band
Six Finger Satellite. Initially, Six Finger Satellite fit in with the remainder of the Sub Pop roster, but after one EP, they took a sharp turn into herky-jerky
post-punk that was inspired by
Devo,
Big Black, and
Suicide instead of
Black Sabbath,
the Stooges, and
Led Zeppelin. By the time they went to record their final album, 1998's
Law of Ruins,
Krautrock began to play a major role, and so did
LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, who produced, engineered, and mixed …
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