This was the first real sign of what was to come two years later! The band relentlessly played area venues, gaining fans one by one. 'We did the third one, Orph E.P., because we wanted to grow up the right way, from our roots with harmony and melody.' The 'Orph' EP was released in 1997, and contained three tracks: 'Is Not Everything', 'Orph', and 'Kayasuma'. 'Our first two recordings were written to be rhythmically aggressive' Dino says. Then in 1997, the band set out to record an EP which was released independently. The band began playing clubs while they were still in high school, playing original material with cover songs thrown in. Both of these two demos were released around 1996. It contained the tracks: 'Juggernaut', 'Ignore Me', 'Conscious', 'Nuhgm'. Dredg was all over the place musically at the beginning, starting as a 'rapcore' band, which is evident from their first two demo releases, with nothing else really being known about the 1st, but the 2nd, being titled: 'Conscious'. Their sound can never be categorized, but it has been best stated as: Audio Scenery.ĭino and Mark, began jamming together in eighth grade, and their older cohorts joined during the next few years. It is only fitting that the band members grew up in the Bay Area, where computers and the sun have their capital while providing a birthplace for the dredg sound and its many dimensions. Their musical abilities, desires, and many influences allow them to cover all ends of the musical spectrum everything from rock to jazz to ambient drum and bass.

(bass) - vividly paints a cultural picture within the music they create.

Leitmotif- by dredg