Synthetic Flying Machine

Synthetic Flying Machine was an early project of the The Olivia Tremor Control's Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss, and Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum. The band later went on to become known as the Olivia Tremor Control, before Mangum eventually left to focus on Neutral Milk Hotel. The band had only one official release to their name, Heaven is for Kids, but there are several other tape cassettes of music distributed among friends and collaborators. Many of the songs performed by Synthetic Flying Machine later became songs by Neutral Milk Hotel ("Arms So Real") or Olivia Tremor Control ("Shaving Spiders", "Opera House"). Jeff Mangum wrote a song about the band of the same name, which became "Up and Over" and finally "The King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 3" on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

The Olivia Tremor Control
  • Bill Doss
  • Will Cullen Hart
  • Eric Harris
  • John Fernandes
  • Peter Erchick
  • Jeff Mangum
Studio albums
  • Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle
  • Explanation II: Instrumental Themes and Dream Sequences
  • Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One
  • Singles and Beyond
EPs
  • California Demise
  • The Giant Day
  • Those Sessions
Singles
  • The Opera House
  • Jumping Fences
  • Hideway
  • The Game You Play Is in Your Head, Pts. 1, 2, & 3
Splits
  • The Olivia Tremor Control/The Apples in Stereo
  • The Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network
Side projects
Black Swan Network
  • The Late Music Volume One
The Sunshine Fix
  • A Spiraling World of Pop
  • Age of the Sun
  • Green Imagination
Circulatory System
  • Circulatory System
  • Inside Views
  • Signal Morning
  • Side 3
Frosted Ambassador
  • The Frosted Ambassador
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't
  • Individualized Shirts
  • Special Fanfare for Anything
Labels
  • Elephant 6
  • Flydaddy
  • Orange Twin
  • Happy Happy Birthday to Me
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Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Jeremy Barnes
  • Julian Koster
  • Jeff Mangum
  • Scott Spillane
Studio albums
  • On Avery Island
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Jeff Mangum albums
  • Orange Twin Field Works: Volume I
  • Live at Jittery Joe's
EPs
  • Everything Is
  • Ferris Wheel on Fire
Singles
  • "Everything Is"
  • "Holland, 1945"
  • "You've Passed/Where You'll Find Me Now"
  • "Little Birds"
Demos
  • Invent Yourself a Shortcake
  • Beauty
  • Hype City Soundtrack
Labels
  • Merge
  • Elephant 6
  • Orange Twin
  • Neutral Milk Hotel Records
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  • Discography
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The Elephant 6 Recording Company
Members of the collective
  • Bill Doss
  • Jeff Mangum
  • Robert Schneider
  • Will Cullen Hart
  • Hilarie Sidney
  • Laura Carter
  • John Hill
  • Jeremy Barnes
  • Jill Carnes
  • David Barnes
  • Kevin Barnes
  • Eric Harris
  • Peter Erchick
  • Julian Koster
  • Derek Almstead
  • Scott Spillane
  • John Fernandes
  • Bryan Poole
Bands in the collective
  • The Apples in Stereo
  • Beulah
  • Black Swan Network
  • Chocolate USA
  • Circulatory System
  • Dixie Blood Moustache
  • Dressy Bessy
  • Elf Power
  • The Essex Green
  • Frosted Ambassador
  • The Gerbils
  • The High Water Marks
  • The Ladybug Transistor
  • Major Organ and the Adding Machine
  • Marbles
  • The Minders
  • The Music Tapes
  • Neutral Milk Hotel
  • Of Montreal
  • The Olivia Tremor Control
  • Orchestre Fantastique
  • Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't
  • Secret Square
  • The Sunshine Fix
  • Ulysses
  • Von Hemmling
Other notable bands
and side projects
  • Thee American Revolution
  • Bablicon
  • Casper & the Cookies
  • Echo Orbiter
  • Fablefactory
  • Great Lakes
  • A Hawk and a Hacksaw
  • Icy Demons
  • The Instruments
  • Kingsauce
  • The Late B.P. Helium
  • M Coast
  • Marta Tennae
  • Calvin, Don't Jump!
  • Midget and Hairs
  • My First Keyboard
  • Synthetic Flying Machine
  • Thimble Circus
  • Visitations
  • The Diminisher
  • Eyes and Arms of Smoke
  • Perry Weissman 3
Projects subsequent
to the E6 disbandment
  • The New Sound of Numbers
  • Guignol
  • Ham1
  • Lorkakar
  • Folklore
  • Supercluster
  • Andy From Denver
  • James Husband
  • The Observatory
  • Faster Circuits
  • Nana Grizol
  • Nesey Gallons
  • Madeline
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  • Orange Twin Records
  • HHBTM Records

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