The band they call "Babydick" voted most inappropriate band name at SXSW 2009 has been rocking the low life stages of Austin, Texas for several years. The current lineup includes Russell and Sean from The Fuck Emos, Brutal Juice's Ted Wood and Sam McCall and Cody Symington of the Cenoté Cafe.

Element Operation was created when I, Jason Element, hit a mother lode of creative inspiration.  The year was 2005, and I was recording 3 to 4 songs a day at that point.  I should have been fired from my job since company policy was termination after three unapproved absences.  I reached 39 call ins a two month span.  I wasn't even fired then, just demoted from management.  I did it for my love of lo-fi, for my art.  The concept since it's inception is that lo-fi can sound even better than studio produced music, especially if you have a psychedelic bend, drug induced or not.  Now, depending on your stereo or playback device, you might have to adjust the equalization for optimum sound, but that's just how it goes.  I have only a few major influences.  Anything Steve Albini, The Butthole Surfers, Einstruzende Neubauten, Foetus, and Jesus and Mary Chain.  I am from Houston and Austin, TX.  I mention Austin because that's where I honed my Philosophy of music.  Live I play as a one man band, or I play with various good friends.  Although I am trained in classical voice and have studied music theory (which I did to learn more about the enemy of free expression.  ha), and I do flows, I have chosen to stick to my aesthetics in all things Element Operation.  I mean having some training in music helps me in the creation of many songs, but I love to use a certain amount of atonal sounds in virtually every song.  Well, that's the basics of Element Operation.