GYMNASTIC DECOMPOSITION is a grindcore-micro-noise project from Newport, Wales. This happy-grindcore-haikore band embraces a number of made-up genres for ludicrously short songs. Gymnastic Decomposition uses a variety of innovative production techniques to create their bizarre and brain-blistering assault of circuit-bent compositions. Many of their recent tracks were multitracked from drum machines, bass, noise, and vocals sourced from digital pocket studio warped through digital effects. Gymnastic Decomposition have a common rule to all their tracks that they must be less than one-minute long, yet most compositions just reach a few seconds in duration.

Referential influences from their music include Fantômas, Lightning Bolt, The Melvins, Merzbow, Napalm Death, and the button-bashing pleasures of Nintendo.Gymnastic Decomposition is under the creative supervision of animator, artist, and noisician Tim Drage. He also produces stop motion animations and short surrealist films with his London-based company Spite Your Face Productions. Music videos have been made for Gymnastic Decomposition’s “Robots A Loaf”, “Too Many Broken Hearts”, and the legendary “Yaho!”, all of which are freely downloadable from their website. Highlights from their extremely miniature compositions include the pseudo-death-metal track “You Killed All My Kittens” that features caterwauling from a circuit-bent animal-piano. The track “Potato” has vocals from a homemade Grassjelly sampler mixed and mangled from a circuit board of a greeting card message recorder. Tim Drage also has an impressive collection of circuit-bent toys and devices with detailed descriptions published online. He defines his dynamic music with Gymnastic Decomposition as “stupidly short, stupidly noisy, stupidly stupid songs!”

This curious collective is a special side-project comprised of various collaborators from the bands Cementimental and Snork Maiden. Gymnastic Decomposition are SnoWee Cirkle [Guitar & Noise], Trust Tony [Vocals], Harold [Vocals & Noise], D.A.V.E [Drums], and Dr. Age [Circuit-Bending, Computronics, Electrification]. Most of the musicians are dispersed all over the U.K. and this consistantly proves to be a logistical nightmare for future live shows. Gymnastic Decomposition’s debut live performance was at the OTT in Newport on June 11, 2003, featuring special guest musicians and a special VCD release of this rare encounter will be emerging soon. Gymnastic Decomposition will also have a split release with anime-themed noisecore act Princess Army Wedding Combat. Also look out for record label No Ground-R that will be releasing Gymnastic Decomposition’s fifty-four track mini-album “The Egg Is Magnetic” on a three-inch CD during Summer 2006.