Asleep in a Box is a live electronic band from different parts of Massachusetts. Started as an experiment with drum machines and cheap keyboards, the band was very low key. Eventually the music progressed technologically and the band started to get it's live show together. The music is a mix of IDM, electronica, dance, hip-hop and various other genres.

Musically, Asleep in a Box is influenced by many different artists ranging from straight funk (The Brothers Johnson) to glitchy electronica (Autechre) which is reflected in their music. Always progressing, Asleep in a Box is constantly using different techniques and unique sounds to craft songs.

Their first album "If I were a Squirt Gun Baby, I Could Make You Wet" was recorded in 2004 in a dilapidated, grimey and run-down building in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. It's sweet. They used nothing but the bare essentials. No computers. Just good old fashioned hardware and instruments. Plus a Casio keyboard. Some of the beats were cut up with a sampler but step recorded first. But that was as tech as it got. Since then they have incorporated new toys, such as multiple effects boards, delays, and guitar pedals, as well as upgraded their old broken instruments to new, working ones, that they try hard to make sound like those old, broken ones. Their sound has evolved into an electro rock, crowd moving, face melting mashup of hiphop, electronica, hardrock, metal, reggae and synthpop that is guaranteed to make you get up off your ass and start shaking.
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