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Julien-K is an electronic music group based in Long Beach, California that began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy, with the later addition of Elias Andra and Brandon Belsky. The band's name comes from the movie American Gigolo, where Richard Gere's character was named Julian Kaye. Their debut album, ''Death to Analog'', which was mixed by Tim Palmer, was released on March 10, 2009 in the U.S., and later on March 5, 2010 in Europe. The album was initially planned to be released on February 17, 2009, the date the United States switched from analog to digital television. Julien-K's second album ''We're Here With You'' was released on January 23, 2012. ==History== After the release of Orgy's third album, ''Punk Statik Paranoia'', internal conflicts within the band caused Shuck and Derakh to find themself writing songs that lead vocalist Jay Gordon had no interest in working on. The pair opted to continue writing and recording material, with Shuck stepping in on vocals, before deciding to launch their own side project with the addition of drummer Elias Andra and keyboardist Brandon Belsky. Julien-K's webpage was launched in the summer of 2003 with initial demo versions of songs "Look at You", "Kick the Bass", "Someday Soon", "Everyone Knows", and "Technical Difficulties", the latter of which was later featured both in the film and on the soundtrack from Michael Bay's 2007 ''Transformers''. Julien-K lent musical contributions to several video games, including ''Sonic Heroes'' ("This Machine"), ''Shadow the Hedgehog'' ("Waking Up"),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Soundtracks for Sonikku hiirôzu (2003) (VG) )〕 and the official musical score for the 2009 ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' video game. In June 2010, Ryan Shuck announced that Brandon Belsky had left the band, to be replaced by long-time collaborator Anthony 'Fu' Valcic. In November 2011, it was announced that, while remaining a member of the band, after their January 21 live show in Los Angeles, Andra would be taking a break from touring with the band to be with his family, including a new baby on the way. In January 2012 it was announced that Frank Zummo from Street Drum Corps would be replacing Andra. Julien-K are preparing for their third album called ''California Noir'' which will be released as a double album.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyLdk6mqJUQ#t=32〕 On November 23, the band released the EP ''California Noir'' including three tracks from their upcoming third studio record. The first chapter ''Analog Beaches & Digital Cities'' is currently in progress. Furthermore the band started an Indiegogo campaign to support the funding of the album. The goal of collecting $10,000 was already reached after one day.〔https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/julien-k-california-noir-chapter-one#activity〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Julien-K」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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