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It was 1994, Kurt Cobain was dead and there was no spokesperson for a lost and confused generation. Unfortunately, Jeremy Mathews, a Junior High student starting a band with the initials NSPS, had neither the talent nor timing nor mass appeal to be Cobain's predecessor. Since then, Jeremy has written, performed and produced avant-pop recordings influenced by artists from The Beach Boys to Robyn Hitchcock to Bob Dylan to XTC to Nick Drake to They Might Be Giants. He plays guitar, keyboards, cello, bass, and percussion, and sings like no one wants to. But he started as a bummed teenager with nothing to do but sit in his room and write songs. Unable to find people interested in his odd brand of music, Jeremy started programming MIDI arrangements and recording multiple parts on his four-track Tascam tape recorder (an exciting and challenging tool before the Internets went and spoiled everyone). Soon enough, however, he found musical mates like Aaron Leitko, Joe Irvin and Matthew Wallace. In addition to work with NSPS, Mathews wrote and performed with Matthew Wallace and Aaron Leitko in The Mania Lab Experiments and produced the band's improvosational cassette, Back to Banana Tree. He also produced the Blair Sterrett's Extra Credit (formerly known as "Field Trip") songs including "Don't Run on the Side of the Pool" and "Naked Ladies." He later played guitar and keyboards in a live incarnation of the band. He also briefly played guitar for The Nourishment during a reunion tour. Last but not least, he has scored music for his films "and oranges" and "Super Clean," as well as Jessica Mathews' animated-collage short "Lost."
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