Jay Stanfield: Vocals/Guitar/Synthesiser
Karl Eden: Guitar/Vocals/Electronics
Mark Tattersall: Drums/Beats/Keys
Alan Whitham: Bassoid
Transelement was teenage trouble from deepest darkest Burnley. They existed in a world that could easily have been dreamed up by Oliver Postgate, indeed their ruraltronica sounds strangely akin to composer Vernon Elliot's work (Pogles Wood, Noggin the Nog etc). Though the group regularly confuse the 4th estate, getting compared to everyone from Matching Mole to the Aphex twin, Transelement are an antedote to the malaise currently afflicting pop. Eclectic as fuck, as they say.
Unfortunately, the band went their seperate ways in 2004 and have consequently left a sad hole in the music world. They did, however, spawn Say Jansfield who is now making waves on his own.
Press
Transelement's releases thus far have been confined to Creeping Bent compilation albums Bent Boutique and Electronic Lullabies, and a Creeping Bent Singles Club split 7. that elicited the following response:
NME: .teen heads Transelement rock that oft-misunderstood Beefheart/Mouse on Mars/Neu! Axis..
DJ: .brilliant. a distinctly different approach.
John Peel: .Weird.
Transelement released an 8-track cartridge incubator mini album, Sour Blaster that received a 9/10 review in the Jan 2001 issue of DJ magazine. DJ: .they will blow you away.crossing generic lines in the way only youth can stumble..
Radio
John Peel had Transelement do 2 sessions for him in 2000; in Feb the group did a 30-minute set live from the Maida Vale studio, with another session recorded in June.
Transelement released their second album Pendletones on Soviet Union Records in Manchester in 2002 and received fantastic reviews, including NME with 9/10!
Their fourth album, (_____) is Missing!, was never released...
