Kptmichigan

Kptmichigan is Michael Beckett and has been releasing music under this moniker since 2000.

The music he has released has gone from electronic music of the more abstract variety (Player, Player) to an album featuring experimental pop tunes played with guitars, drums and bass on one side and instrumental electronic compositions on the other (Black Wood). Everything inbetween has pretty much been covered also…pure drone compositions for stringed and plucked instruments as KMG, folk music combined with noise, drones and all sorts of sonic debris on Kptmichigan and no input isolationism on 10 Self Modulating Loops Made Whilst Fasting.

Kptmichigan also releases under the names KMG, Trip Shrubb and MBECKETT.

Kptmichigan – Discography (Summary)

• Hey Love, LP, Trim 2000
• Player, Player, LP, Aesthetics 2003
• kptmichigan, LP, Aesthetics 2004
• Black Wood, LP, Les Disques En Rotin Reunis 2013
• 10 Seld-Modulating Loops Made Whilst Fasting, download, MWM 2009
• Nacton Sur Mer, CD-R/download, Frequency Thirteen / MWM 2010

w/ Schneider TM

• Binokular , (Split-EP) 10"/CD, City Slang 2000
• The Light (3000), 7”, For Us Records 2003
• Psychedelic Queen / Uh Yeah, Baby!, 7“, Earsugar 2004
• Dr. Dreck, More Time / Rush Moon, 7“, Earsugar 2005
• Cäcilie Awestruck (w/ Ilpo Väisänen, Schneifder TM, Ronald Lippok, Tomoko Nakasato), 20 CD-Box/download, Hoerspielpark, 2012
• Damo Suzuki & Sound Carriers (feat. Schneider TM, Ilpo Väisänen, Kptmichigan, Tomoko Nakasato, Claas Großzeit), 2xLive LP/download, Konzertfilm, PlayLoud! 2017

w/ Son

• Home / Away, Tape/download, Someone Else`s Tapes / MWM 2009

w/ Jad Fair and Hifiklub

• Bird House, 7”, Les Disques En Rotin Reunis 2011
• Bird House, 12”, Joyful Noise Recordings 2012
• Don`t Give Up, LP, Joyful Noise Recordings 2016

w/ Black Stepdad

• Kptmichigan / Black Stepdad, Tape/download, The Lows and the Highs / MWM  2011

TRIP SHRUBB

• Leuder van Frohr, 3xTape, The Lows and the Highs 2013
• Trewwer, Leud und Danz, LP, Faitiche 2021
• Jukebox Classics Vol.1, download, Self Released 2024
• Jukebox Classics Vol.2, download, Self Released 2024
• Nüjje!, download, Self Released 2024
• Rave Bretonnes, download, Self Released 2024
• N24/2/7, download, Self Released 2025
• Jukebox Classics Vol.3, download, Self Released 2025

KMG

• ., download, MWM 2016
• /, download, Self Released 2019
• ///, download, Self Released 2024
• 4, download, Self Released 2024
• V : I – III, download, Self Released  2025

MBECKETT

• Auxilium (Sounds from the Melkstand), LP, Les Disques En Rotin Reunis 2023
• Ambiance Sud, download, Self Released 2023
• Sesame Everywhere, download, Self Released 2023
• Dolby C, download, Self Released 2023
• April2024, download, Self Released  2025

Other projects & bands (as Michael Beckett):

THE UPLAND BAND

• Living in Paradise, LP,  Kapitän Platte 2023

THE EIGHTFOLD MODEL

• The Eightfold Model, LP, Tonefloat 2008 

THE BEAUTIFUL NEW BORN CHILDREN

• Do The Do, 7”, Domino Rec. Co. 2005
• Hey People!, LP,  Domino Rec. Co. 2006

CASINO

• Casino, 7”, Supermodern 1997