Biography
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Born
26 September 2003 (age 21)
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Born In
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States
Jane Remover is a singer, songwriter, and producer based in Chicago, IL. They make electronic-infused pop, hip-hop, and rock music. They're also known for pioneering the genre dariacore under their side-project leroy (a.k.a. c0ncernn). Jane grew up with their parents and twin sister in northern New Jersey.
Jane Remover's interest in music production stems back as far as 2011, inspired by dubstep producers like Skrillex, Kill The Noise, and Virtual Riot. They would later go on to produce different styles of EDM in the mid-2010s, citing Porter Robinson as their biggest influence. From electronic music, Jane's production became more trap-centric in around 2018; they cited artists such as Trippie Redd, Earl Sweatshirt, and Tyler, the Creator as inspirations. Guest production then became a large part of Jane's early career, with them being a member of multiple SoundCloud collectives such as PlanetZero and graveem1nd. Their production gradually became more digicore oriented.
In early 2020, Jane began self-producing and releasing their works on SoundCloud. One of Jane's first solo releases, "what's my age again?", gained popularity after being shared on Twitter. Their first project, the extended play Teen Week, was released on February 26, 2021. The track "homeswitcher" reached 100,000 streams on SoundCloud within the first two weeks of its release.
After the release of several more one-off singles, Jane began teasing the release of their first full-length album, Frailty, and releasing singles for it in June 2021. After the release of the tracks "how to lie", "pretender", and "search party", Frailty was released via the deadAir label on November 12, 2021. The album was acclaimed by publications such as Pitchfork, who placed the album at #47 on their list of the best albums of 2021 and #33 on their list of the best albums from the early 2020s.
On June 27, 2022, Jane announced the retirement of their previous pseudonym, and transition of their gender, and introduced the name Jane Remover. On the same date, they released the single "Royal Blue Walls". In Jane's statement, they said “{{their former stage name}} has never sat right with {{them}}" and that it "reminds {{them}} of a period of {{their}} life {{they'd}} like to move past". They also announced that the Teen Week EP would be abridged, as they were uncomfortable with the project as it was originally released. This change went into effect on October 10, 2022, when four songs were removed from the project.
Jane's second single released as Jane Remover, "Contingency Song", was released on November 16, 2022. They were the opening act for brakence's Hypochondriac tour from November 26 to December 22, 2022.
Jane released their single "Lips" on August 23rd, 2023. The day the song released, Jane also announced their second full-length album, Census Designated. The album has 10 tracks, including an "Album Version" of their song "Contingency Song", and a remastered, extended version of "Cage Girl." The second single and title track to the album released on September 20th alongside their first music video as Jane Remover, directed by Quadeca. The album released on October 20th, 2023.
Jane has released music under many pseudonyms throughout their career. The most notable of these aliases is leroy (used interchangeably with c0ncernn), under which they created sample-heavy EDM mashups, spanning for three albums. These releases sampled a wide range of sounds, including pop songs of the 2010s, viral videos, and even their own music. The cover art for each song released under the leroy moniker was a screenshot from the TV series Daria, which led to the term "dariacore" being used to describe the unique production style that Jane used for these releases. Three compilation albums of the forty tracks uploaded were released on the account from December 2020 to May 2022. A fourth album titled "Grave Robbing" initially aired on NTS Radio on July 20th 2023, later being released on the leroy SoundCloud. The description of the album indicates that it will most likely be the last released under that alias. The "dariacore" series of albums have since inspired many artists to adopt a similar style of production, releasing short sample-based EDM tracks on SoundCloud themed around popular media. Venturing is a ficticious band that Jane Remover made up and released music under. Its music has a very different sound than their initial work, being a fusion of rock , slowcore, ambient, and shoegaze. The backstory for Venturing is that it was an American rock band, formed in Britton, South Dakota in 1990. The band went through a total of six members: Steve Dales on the drums, Barney Cruz on the bass, Fawn, Vonnie Fitz and Daisy Knight on the guitars, and Melanie Dizzy, who sang. The band disbanded in 2002 shortly after the untimely death of their drummer, Stephen "Steve" Dales. In a Reddit AMA on /r/indieheads, Jane said they were "totally done with side projects at this point," and in response to a user asking if there were any that people didn't know about, they said "No!! and a lot of them that ppl think ARE me, are not. Lol."
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