Cex

==History==

[[File:Rjyan Kidwell Cex.jpg|thumb|Rjyan Claybrook Kidwell]]

2003 was a pivotal year for Kidwell - after spending his entire life living in or around [[Baltimore]], he packed up and drove out to [[Oakland, California]]. Car malfunctions and a week stranded in the western US became the inspiration for his second album of that year, ''Maryland Mansions''. In April, he gained further exposure opening for indie darlings [[The Postal Service]]. Before this, however, he released ''Being Ridden'' in both vocal and instrumental form. The album cover paid homage to [[David Bowie]], imitating the cover for ''"Heroes"''. Also notably, the album was not released by Tigerbeat6, and it seemed to have largely abandoned both the IDM and jokey old-school hip-hop of ''Tall, Dark, and Handcuffed'' for rawer sounds and themes. ''Maryland Mansions'' pushed those motifs further and was modelled somewhat on the [[Nine Inch Nails]] EP ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]'', and was released just around the time that Kidwell returned to Baltimore. Two music videos for ''Maryland Mansions'' were released early in 2004, and Kidwell moved again, to [[Chicago]] a few months later.

In 2007 Kidwell would go on to release an EP entitled ''Exotical Privates'', which involved two different cover images for both CD and an LP.  The LP cover was in response to [[AFI (band)|AFI]]'s newly formed electronic project, [[Blaqk Audio]], whose album was named the same as Kidwell's first record, ''[[CexCells]]''.  The cover features an AFI tattoo on a scrotum.  The EP's musical material is made up of a combination of samples from Actual Fucking and Kate Bush.  It was released on [[Automation Records]].

Kidwell is said to be working on a newly formed side project by the name of [[Sandcats]] as well, described as being "a solo project for two people", his wife and himself. They moved back to Baltimore in 2005.

==Discography==

===Albums===

\* ''[[Cells (album)|Cells]]'' (1998 · [[Underscore Records]])

\* ''[[Role Model (album)|Role Model]]'' (2000 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* ''[[Oops, I Did It Again!]]'' (2001 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* ''[[Tall, Dark, & Handcuffed]]'' (2002 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* ''[[Being Ridden]]'' (2003 · [[Temporary Residence Limited|Temporary Residence]])

\* ''[[BR Instrumentals]]'' (2003 · [[Temporary Residence Limited|Temporary Residence]])

\* ''[[Maryland Mansions]]'' (2003 · [[Jade Tree Records]])

\* ''[[Actual Fucking]]'' (2006 · [[Automation Records]])

\* ''[[Sketchi]]'' (2007 · [[Temporary Residence Limited|Temporary Residence]])

\* '' Dannibal '' (2007 · [[Must Finish]]/[[Wildfirewildfire Records]])

\* '' Bataille Royale '' (2009 · [[Must Finish]]/[[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Konx Om Cex, Vol. 1 '' (2010 • [[Must Finish]])

\* '' Tiny Creature '' (2011 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Presumed Dead '' (2012 · [[Automation Records]])

\* '' Masokismi '' (2012 · [[Wtr Clr]])

\* '' Prosperity '' as Rjyan Kidwell (2013 · [[Nibbana/Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Shamaneater '' (2014 · [[Automation Records]])

===EPs/Singles/Splits===

\* ''[[Shift-Minus Vol. 1]]'' (1999 · [[Underscore Records]])

\* ''[[Get Your Badass On EP]]'' (2000 · 555 Recordings)

\* ''[[Role Playa]]'' (2000 · [[Tigerbeat6]]/555 Recordings)

\* '' Starship Galactica '' (2001 · 555 Recordings)

\* '' Oops, I Did It Again! EP '' (2001 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' $ Vol. 2 '' (2001 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' The "Connected" Series#2 '' (2001 · [[Klangkrieg]])

\* '' Bad Acne EP '' (2002 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Shotgun Wedding Vol. 3: Oh, So Now You Fuckers Wanna Dance?'' (2004 · [[Violent Turd]])

\* '' Know Doubt '' (2005 · [[Record Label]])

\* ''[[Miami Mansions]]'' (2006 · [[Must Finish]])

\* '' Exotical Privates '' (2007 · [[Automation Records]])

\* '' Baltimore Ends with an E split cassette with Mark Brown '' (2009 • [[Holy Holy Holy Records]])

\* '' Nonconsenshredemption '' (2010 • [[Wtr Clr]])

\* '' Evargreaz '' (2010 · [[Automation Records]])

\* '' Megamuse EP '' (2011 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Secret Monog EP '' (2011 · [[Tigerbeat6]])

\* '' Title King split cassette with Jason Urick '' (2011 · [[Wtr Clr]])

\* '' Cobweb & Colossus EP '' (2012 · [[Tigerbeat6]])