Bowery Electric were the New York duo of Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener. They met while working at Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, formed the band in late 1993 and debuted at Brownie's in January 1994. Their second album, Beat (Kranky, 1996), recorded at Studio .45 in Hartford and co-produced with Rich Costey, fused shoegaze guitar drones with samplers and programmed breakbeats. A bridge between post-rock and trip-hop. The Wire called it "genre-defining," it spawned the 1997 remix album Vertigo, and "Without Stopping" itself was remixed by Witchman. The band's been dormant since 2000's Lushlife. Chandler went on to study composition at Juilliard and Goldsmiths, and Schwendener became an art critic for The New York Times.
From the notes for EKHO Sonic Chill #11 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
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