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Thumbprint Collective is a living experiment in electronic music - natural selection creates order, derived from chaos.

Originally formed in Oregon in 2008 by co-founders Brigham Rockwell (Black Currant) and Christopher Haindel (Mnemonic Plague, Misanthropissed, Sicilian, Logic Be Damned), Thumbprint Collective uses hardware synthesizers, samplers, loopers and drum machines to take listeners on a beat-driven, ear-snapping MIDI controlled oddyssey through time and space.

Their first commercial release, Listening Energy (2012), was written and produced by Haindel and largely focused on MIDI control, programming and sample manipulation with software. Over time, as he continued to collaborate with Rockwell, the equipment and creative flow quickly converted to outboard hardware - very soon, personal computers were out of the picture, and anything else was fair game.

In 2016, Version Control was released, providing a snapshot of only a small fraction of many live hardware-based works that were wildly evolving - the album was born out of a need to document the dynamic nature of the music being created.

Their most release, Woop Lizard (2019), is a hybrid of software and hardware techniques of synthesis, audio engineering and sample manipulation that blends genres, moods and textures in an experimental format. In 2022, bassist Tom AD (Protozoan, Logic Be Damned, Unpolished Grief) was added to the lineup, bringing an unexpected heaviness.