Jonas Reinhardt is a four-piece American electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 group from San Francisco, California

California

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, signed to Kranky Records

Kranky Records

Kranky is an independent record label, located in Chicago, Illinois. It was started in 1993 by Bruce Adams and Joel Leoschke.The bands it houses are noted for combining experimental and often electronic influences with elements of more traditional rock structures, and many of the artists on Kranky...

. The band's sound is influenced by electronic music of the 1970s, particularly in the use of analog synthesizer

Analog synthesizer

An analog or analogue synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog computer techniques to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s such as the Trautonium were built with a variety of vacuum-tube and electro-mechanical technologies...

s and keyboards. A debut full-length was released in 2008, with a follow-up issued in 2010. Recently, the group has recorded a new record called 'Music for the Tactile Dome', which came out in May of 2011.

Discography

• Jonas Reinhardt (Kranky, 2008)
• Powers of Audition (Kranky, 2010)
• Music for the Tactile Dome (Not Not Fun Records, 2011)