James' other music performance credits
Prior to Left Orbit Temple, James' solo music
recordings included:
Phase 1: Fifteen songs recorded in James' first home
studio. (unreleased).
Phase 2 : Seventeen songs recorded in James'
second home studio (unreleased).
Phase 3: Twenty songs recorded in the first pro
studio that James worked in (unreleased).
The Phase 3 material was performed live under the name
Flat
Earth Society. The highlight of these gigs was
opening for
Front 242.
The Ice-Nine EP : This set of recordings was the
beginning of Left Orbit Temple. Four pieces were recorded
at Chicago Trax by James, Danny McGuiness, Charles Levi, and
additional guests.
While working with Martin Atkins and Invisible Records, James
contributed keyboards to Atkins' remix of
Copper Theft
by
Monster Voodoo Machine, and was a performer and
co-writer on the
Club Dead video game
soundtrack and on
An Industrial Christmas Carol.
James has also performed as a member of industrial supergroup
Pigface
(
for about
fifty shows in the 1990s), and appears in their
Son
of a Glitch DVD release. Prior to that, James
was a founding member and songwriter for the legendary Cleveland
postpunk group
Evil Clowns, and was briefly a
member of
Pangaea.
James also provided sound design and music for a pile of
corporate logo animations, and composed about three dozen
instrumental scores for industrial and janitorial training films
(i.e. "how to apply floor wax"), but we shan't discuss those
further.
At this time, projects featuring James as a performer are on
hold, although a second Left Orbit Temple record remains
half-finished...