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Phillip Hertz

dr, key, US
Electronic and Reggae

Moved to Olympia WA to attend The Evergreen State College where he played in a number of local bands including Conch (prog rockers who birthed the Corporate Food track on the Let Them Eat Jellybeans! compilation with Steve Fisk), Tiny Holes (with Steve Fisk, Steve Peters, Bruce Pavitt, and Paul Tison), Jon Foster's Pop Philosophers (in a line up that was the Tiny Holes band minus Bruce Pavitt), Gary Wilson's NW touring band and others. He was on staff at Op Magazine, a turn-of-the-decade magazine focusing on indie-rock with forays into world music, reggae, and other genres. Op eventually morphed into the influential Option magazine when editor-publisher Jon Foster called it a day. He also was the technical editor of Bruce Pavitt's Sub Pop cassettezine. He then held a number of jobs with notable music indies including Rough Trade Inc in San Francisco where he played in yet more bands including Paris Working, Shigaku Trading (home of What Goes On Records) in London, where he had a brief stint in The Scientists (2), and finally to Chicago where he was the founding partner at Cargo Records America and ran the Fist Puppet label and played in yet more local bands . He currently runs Chicago-based distributor Crosstalk International Inc and quasi-label Super Bro while working on various music projects.

Instruments

• Drums
• Keyboards
• Percussion

Genres

• Electronic
• Reggae
• Dance
• Jazz
• Rock

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