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James George Thirlwell (a.k.a. Clint Ruin) is the main man behind industrial music experiment Foetus and the official maestro of The Venture Bros Born from the underground "No Wave" era of the 1980s, Thirlwell is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist who's output has largely been ignored by the mainstream, thus earning him a cult following amongst both old school and new crew hipsters and music aficionados alike. A rock 'n' roll chimera, Thirlwell's musical influences and style runs the gamut from Punk Rock to Noise Rock to Big Band to Jazz to avant-garde symphonies, all of which is reflected in his numerous projects, side-projects, and one-off collaborations. The most persistent include:

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  • James George Thirlwell (a.k.a. Clint Ruin) is the main man behind industrial music experiment Foetus and the official maestro of The Venture Bros Born from the underground "No Wave" era of the 1980s, Thirlwell is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist who's output has largely been ignored by the mainstream, thus earning him a cult following amongst both old school and new crew hipsters and music aficionados alike. A rock 'n' roll chimera, Thirlwell's musical influences and style runs the gamut from Punk Rock to Noise Rock to Big Band to Jazz to avant-garde symphonies, all of which is reflected in his numerous projects, side-projects, and one-off collaborations. The most persistent include:
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  • James George Thirlwell (a.k.a. Clint Ruin) is the main man behind industrial music experiment Foetus and the official maestro of The Venture Bros Born from the underground "No Wave" era of the 1980s, Thirlwell is a multi-talented singer, songwriter, producer and instrumentalist who's output has largely been ignored by the mainstream, thus earning him a cult following amongst both old school and new crew hipsters and music aficionados alike. A rock 'n' roll chimera, Thirlwell's musical influences and style runs the gamut from Punk Rock to Noise Rock to Big Band to Jazz to avant-garde symphonies, all of which is reflected in his numerous projects, side-projects, and one-off collaborations. The most persistent include: * Foetus is the name of Thirlwell's traditional musical project, except when he calls it Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, or Foetus Interruptus, or Foetus In Excelsis Corruptus Deluxe, or any other variation on the British term for an unborn mammal. Probably the most accessible of all of Thirlwell's work, most tracks on a Foetus album can be broadly defined as "Industrial rock", although recent excursions have veered into the realm of cinematic instrumentals. * Steroid Maximus and Manorexia are Thirlwell's two solely instrumental projects, the former more straight-forward and the latter more minimalist and experimental. They were formed to offset the amount of instrumental tracks leaking their way onto Thirlwell's Foetus albums, and in the case of Manorexia, allow him to liberate his talents as a musician and composer outside normal boundaries. * Wiseblood is what Thirlwell called his collaboration with ex-Swans member and fellow No Waver Roli Mosimann. Just as Steroid Maximus and Manorexia attracted Thirlwell's orchestrated side, Wiseblood catered to his filthy, angry, perverse, Post-Punk sensibilities with a number of noisy, guitar-driven, Garage Rock-esque tunes. And of course, there is The Venture Bros soundtrack, which arguably infected a whole mess of new listeners to the Foetus pathogen. Aside from his personal work, J. G. Thirlwell has also worked as producer, contributor, and remixer for a number of like-minded artists, such as Nine Inch Nails, The The, Marilyn Manson, Glenn Danzig, Soft Cell, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, and the Kronos Quartet. For more on Big Jim Thirlwell, please visit his website, which includes his enormous discography.
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