About us

Triangle met on a frozen tundra. They hooked up their plastical electric music boxes and it made them warmer. Call this place St. Paul, MN. It was a lot like any other place except for the severely debilitating cold and the loss of various extremities due to horrific frostbite. Those who found each other in the blinding snow were: Amanda W, a Fargoan on upright bass in the local college orchestra and who twiddled garage-sale keyboards in a yellow jumpsuit; Brian T, a townie who fled the heartland back into the great white north with a bunch of synthesizers and unloved electronics and various questionable ideas about how to make it all talk; Susan L, another Fargoan with a taste for nice bmx bikes and happening record collection. They played their hectic elektronik music out of a boombox and some guitars.

They put out two eps on their own label, smoke + mirrors, which they shared with pals Walker Kong. Not long after, Susan left the band to tune Buddy Holly's double's guitar and Amanda and Brian signed as a duo to File 13 records, in old-timey Philadelphia Pa. File 13 released Triangle's debut record, "*", in 2001. The Triangle bought a computer to replace the boombox, trekked to the east coast a few times, got some parking tickets. The crew of the ship called Triangle began to tour and play with a wide variety of bands, and managed to appear at a couple of cmj's and a SXSW. like that did anything.

In their journeys, they have played with many fine and weird practicers of contemporary music, like The Beachwood Sparks, The Shins, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, the late great Dismemberment Plan, Deerhoof, The Flying Luttenbachers, Kreamy 'Lectric Santa,The Busy Signals, Bobby Conn, The Numbers, The Mates of State,The Fruitbats, Broadcast, Marc Almond, The Coachwhips, C.R.A.C.K. We Are Rock, Mochipet, and many others you have probably never heard of.

Triangle now live in Oakland, Ca. The Triangle ship, rolling through seas of gnarled electronics, forgotten waves off the AM dial, shanties of 70s freak Germany, and scratchy transmissions from 80s Detroit, took on a few old salts, namely Jon Otto Schroeder on music box and Mark Treise on tenor bass and Elias Reitz on percussions. They all help to bail.