Appliance
Appliance may refer to:
- Storage appliances: provide storage functionality for multiple attached systems using the transparent local storage area networks paradigm
- Firewall- and Security appliances: computer appliances that are designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic
- Anti-spam appliances: for e-mail spam
- Network appliances: are general purpose routers
- Software appliance, a software application that might be combined with just enough operating system (JeOS) for it to run optimally on industry standard hardware
- Virtual appliance, a pre-configured virtual machine image, ready to run on a hypervisor
Appliance (band)
Appliance were a British experimental post-rock three piece, made up of James Brooks (guitar), David Ireland (percussion) and Michael Parker (bass). Original bass player Stuart Christie left in 1995 to form Harmony 400.
They released three 10" vinyl EPs on various independent record labels, including their own self-financed Surveillance Records, before signing with Daniel Miller's Mute Records in 1998.
On the Mute label they released Manual (1999), Six Modular Pieces (2000), Imperial Metric (2001) and Are You Earthed? (2003). Their music was inspired by Krautrock, a 1970s Germanic experimental movement involving minimalist song structures, mantra-like rhythms and drones. Championed by John Peel, the band recorded four Peel Sessions during their career, and one in 2003 for Jeff Cooper's radio2XS. They toured live in Europe and the UK with, amongst others; Add N to X, Goldfrapp, Snow Patrol, Hefner and Wire. The band have not performed or recorded since the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2003.
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