Biography
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Years Active
2019 – present (5 years)
There are four artists known as Jet Jaguar.
1. Jet Jaguar is downbeat producer Michael Upton. Born and raised in Wellington, New Zealand, Michael has been making music since 1991, when he was inspired by a friend's mum's MIDI set-up. Inspired by 1970s dub producers and hip-hop he sees no point in emulating them, instead borrowing aspects of the dubspace programme to pan, echo and stretch space and time.
2. Formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2001, Jet Jaguar is Charles Van de Kree, Trisha St. James, and Joey Mach. Named after a robot in a Godzilla movie, the group combines the high energy of punk and the heavy riffing of metal with the robotic, technology-laden sound of industrial and the drifting dreamscapes of ambient. Obsessed with visions of science-fiction apocalypse, the group’s songs are terminally preoccupied with aeronautics, interstellar exploration, robotics, cloning, androidology, virtual reality, biomolecular mutation and nuclear genocide.
3. As part of Monsta Island Czars, Percy Carey (AKA MF Grimm, GM Grimm, The Grimm Reaper, Grimm) has used the names Jet Jaguar and Superstar Jet Jaguar.
4. A Mexican hard rock/metal band formen in 2014 in Cancùn. In 2017 they received worldwide exposure by being the first hispanic-american band to ever win the Wacken Open Air Metal Battle in Germany.
They published an EP in 2016 titled Zero Hour followed by the debut album Endless Nights mastered and mixed by Henrikk Udd, well known for his work with major metal bands like Powerwolf, At The Gates, HammerFall and Bring Me The Horizon.
The album performed well on metal digital charts in Deezer and iTunes across Europe, reaching the 8# place in Finland,16# in Portugal, 17# in Greece and 36# in Czech Republic.
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