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Alexis Georgopoulos
Alexis Georgopoulos is a writer, artist and musician.

He was born July 19, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio, US. Georgopoulos was raised in the US and Europe, spending a good deal of his childhood in France and Greece. After attending liberal arts school Antioch College, he moved to San Francisco, where he lived from 1998-2008. He then moved to New York, where he currently lives and works.

His music has been classified as "Cosmic Pop" "Pop Minimalism" "Balaeric" "Dream Pop".

Career
Georgopoulos first gained musical success with the group Tussle, which he co-founded in 2001 with Andy Cabic, singer/songwriter of Vetiver and collaborator with Devendra Banhart, and for which he played drums, and occasionally melodica. Cabic left after the group released three 12inch singles and the debut full-length album Kling Klang, named for the group's clangorous percussive sound and as a reference to Kraftwerk's studio. All these recordings were released on NYC label Troubleman Unlimited. A one-off single was released with the label Rong, which featured a remix by Munich-based Munk, who run the label Gomma. The group nearly dissolved before Georgopoulos decided to move from playing drums to bass guitar, the group's main melodic instrument. With this new lineup, with Georgopoulos as main songwriter, the group recorded and released the album Telescope Mind and the EP/12inch single Warning, which features remixes by Hot Chip, Optimo, and others. In Spring 2006, after acting as primary songwriter, arranger & mixer of Tussle’s Telescope Mind, Georgopoulos left the group.

Soon after, Artforum critic & White Columns curator Matthew Higgs selected Georgopoulos to take part in an exhibit he was curating at New Langton Center for the Arts. The result was Cloud, the first public Arp project, a modular room on wheels set up with a featherbed just large enough for two people to lie down on or three to sit, two speakers and a few of my musical pieces on infinite repeat. Much of which was initially presented in that exhibition in collaboration with architect Kyu Che made up the bulk of his debut album under the name Arp, In Light (Smalltown Supersound).

Using analog synthesizers, pulse machines, flute, piano, pedals and an old 4track cassette recorder, Georgopoulos continued the improvising that characterized Tussle but to different ends. If Tussle looked to late 70s New York, Jamaican Dub and German Kosmische, Arp is inspired by the psychedelic utopianism/dystopic architecture of Superstudio, Archigram, Peter Pearce and Buckminster Fuller, the films of Werner Herzog, (the track "Premonitions of the Sculptor Steiner” is a reference to the Herzog film), Tacita Dean and 70s modular analog experimentation.

Georgopoulos is also a member of The Alps, whose debut studio album III was released by Type Records in October 2008. The group, comprised of Georgopoulos, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Scott Hewicker, also released two CDRs, Jewelt Galaxies and Spirit Shambles on the Root Strata and Digitalis imprints, respectively. They were collected together and re-released by Japanese label Spekk in 2007.

Georgopoulos is also half of duo Expanding Head Band with musician/producer Quinn Luke. The first two worked together when Luke recorded and produced Tussle's Telescope Mind. Expanding Head Band released their debut remix of Shocking Pinks' Cutout for DFA in June 2008.

Georgopoulos has peformed in SFMoMA, 303 Gallery, Deitch Projects, Luggage Store Gallery, Jack Hanley Gallery, New Langton Arts, Yerba Buena Center and Frieze Art Fair. He has released work on Troubleman Unlimited, Rong, Eskimo, White Columns, & Deitch Projects and has remixed Lawrence Wiener, Lindstrom and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

As a writer, Georgopoulos has written for various Arts & Culture publications: i-D, Vice, The Fader, Sleazenation, Tokion, XLR8R and The Blow Up/theblowup.com. He was Music Director for SOMA Magazine from July 2006–July 2008. He contributed to Good Times: Bad Trips, a collection of stories curated by Cliff Hengst & Scott Hewicker.

Selected Discography
Arp The Portable Supersound (Smalltown Supersound)

Arp In Light (Smalltown Supersound)

Lindstrøm Breakfast In Heaven (Arp's Worn Cassette Remix) (Feedelity)

The Alps Jewelt Galaxies (Root Strata)

The Alps Spirit Shambles (Digitalis)

The Alps Jewelt Galaxies/Spirit Shambles (Spekk)

The Alps III (Type)

Tussle Eye Contact (Troubleman Unlimited)

Tussle Don’t Stop  (Troubleman Unlimited)

Remixes by Soft Pink Truth & Stuart Argabright

Tussle Frisco Styles (Deitch Projects)

Tussle Kling Klang (Troubleman Unlimited)

Tussle Here It Comes (Troubleman Unlimited)

Tussle Disco D’Oro  (Rong)

Remix by Munk

Tussle I’m An Indian, Too (Yesca)

Tussle Kling Klang: Smalltown Supersound Edition (Smalltown Supersound)

Tussle The Sound of White Columns (White Columns Gallery)

Tussle Telescope Mind (Smalltown Supersound)

Tussle Warning (Smalltown Supersound)

Remixes by Hot Chip, Optimo, Kango & Torkill, Dennis Young

The Glimmers Eskimo V (Eskimo)

A Tension/Coachwhips Split 7" (Kimosciotic)

A Tension Death Before Disco (Princehouse)

A Tension Cut/Out (Unreleased)