Architects and Heroes Show – No. 41: Fred Giannelli/Kooky Scientist of Psychic T.V.

Architects and Heroes Show – No. 41: Fred Giannelli / Kooky Scientist of Psychic TV

For Episode 41 (not 40 as I incorrectly state in the video) we have Fred Giannelli, aka Kooky Scientist, of Psychic TV. Fred and Stephen talk about how he got started in music, his experience meeting Genesis P-Orridge and becoming a member of Psychic TV, his involvement with Richie Hawtin and Plus 8 Records, and the origin of Kooky Scientist and his starting Telepathic Recordings.

Fred Giannelli Bio:

Fred Giannelli is an American electronic musician. He began experimenting with electronics as Turning Shrines. In 1984, Giannelli met Psychic TV‘s Genesis P. Orridge while the group was in Boston for a gig. This led to Giannelli eventually traveling to London to join the band in 1988, arriving just in time for the acid house craze. He then left Psychic TV for the Plus 8 label, working with DJ and producer Richie Hawtin as Spawn. Continuing under the Plus 8 label, he formed the Telepathic label for his own industrial/techno recordings as the Acid Didj, Giannelli, Deneuve and Mazdaratti. The 1990s saw him release a number of records, including 1997’s Unpopular Science under the alias of the Kooky Scientist.

Past projects and aliases include the Kooky Scientist, Acid Didj, The Kinky Scientist, Deneuve, The Kranky Scientist, Mazdaratti, PTV, Sickmob, Splerge, Fred vom Jupiter, Fred vs. Fred, Fred Ex, Spawn (with Richie Hawtin and Daniel Bell)^[14] and Turning Shrines.