NEWS > New songs are in the works! Look for them to be uploaded soon. > The new CD is called Plastic and Ceramic. Go to recordings to listen to two songs. > Self Contained Unit was asked to play at a First Thursday show on July 1, 2004. Although it was hidden, small, very hot, there was another band about 50 feet away, and the local shopkeepers didn't seem to appreciate our "music". I had a great time. > The show at Gallery Lombardi on May 29, 2004, went very well. Thanks to all who were there! > The AMODA show was a great success. Lots of people looked to be having lots of fun. Crispin Glover was spotted dancing in the crowd for a few songs! How crazy is that? > There is an article about the Red Antenna label with a nice paragraph about Self Contained Unit. Read it on Disquiet.   > ARCHIVE      RECORDINGS Self Contined Unit has six recordings out: U235, UFO, Module, Three:3, Everyone Doesn't Do Anything, Not This Time and Plastic and Ceramic. To purchase a copy of any or all cdr's, email Self Contained Unit for one.      QUOTES "What people living in space would listen to." -office mate "Like raccoons mating underneath your house." -random party goer "I just wanted to say that I love "ratch." It is one of my favorite songs ever. So thick and melodic and futuristic and spacey yet there is still something 70s giorgio moroder about it..." -Candy Chang, Red Antenna "Imagine the sound of a CPU the fraction of a second before it recognizes itself - that is the sound of Self Contained Unit. Cool and precise, SCU strings together chains of ones and zeros to the tune of softsynth squiggles and a sharp 4/4 step. Blissfully unaware of the world globetrotting to the Next Sound around him, this gear-fetishist chooses to spend his days with friends Roland and Korg, building bleeping blocks of beats and drifts of subliminal melodic tones twisting inbetween. All of the Turing tests have failed - ready yourself for Self Contained Unit's agitated AI atmospheres." -Red Antenna      GEAR Self Contained Unit also has a bit of synth gear. Read a bit about the gear used and what SCU thinks about it.      HISTORY Self Contained Unit has been playing keyboards, and sequencing for a while now. SCU started out doing fast beat, distorted vocal aggressive music, but found that there wasn't much to be angry about and that it just seemed kinda fake. So, SCU just stopped doing it and started doing what SCU does now.