BT and Hooverphonic have just signed on to headline the premier Jensenergy tour, an electronica outing sponsored by Jensen, the car and home audio manufacturer, slated to kick off on September 28 in Austin, Texas.

BT, the composer-producer-performer also known as Brian Transeau, will front a six-piece live band during his headlining stint for the 31-date North American tour that will continue through a November 6 show in Vancouver, British Columbia.

In July and August, Transeau took to the road to support his new album, "Movement In Still Life." The solo trek was built around BT's DJ and turntable skills, but even then, he was already looking forward to enlisting more personnel into a larger scale live production.

Transeau plans to play keyboards and sing vocals for the tour, and his backing band will include Richard Fortus of Love Spit Love on guitar, Nate Morton on drums, Nicki Tedesco on bass, Tony Stewart on the turntables, and singer-actress Toddy Walters ("Orgazmo," "South Park") providing backing vocals.

Touring aside, BT is also in the midst of scoring the film "Redline," as well as writing the music for the game sequences in the remake of "Rollerball" (see "BT To Score, Appear In 'Rollerball,' 'Redline' Films"). Transeau will also appear in the latter film, which stars rapper L.L. Cool J.

Confirmed dates for the inaugural Jensenergy tour, featuring BT and Hooverphonic:

• 9/28 - Austin, TX @ La Zona Rosa
• 9/29 - Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Live
• 9/30 - New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
• 10/2 - Jacksonville, FL @ The Edge
• 10/3 - Tampa, FL @ Janus Landing
• 10/4 - Miami Beach, FL @ Crowbar
• 10/5 - Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
• 10/6 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
• 10/7 - St. Louis, MO @ Mississippi Nights
• 10/9 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
• 10/10 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest
• 10/11 - Madison, WI @ Barrymore's
• 10/13 - Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
• 10/14 - Detroit, MI @ St. Andrews
• 10/15 - Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
• 10/16 - Cleveland, OH @ Odeon
• 10/18 - Boston, MA @ Avalon
• 10/20 - New York, NY @ Roxy (CMJ Music Festival)
• 10/21 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
• 10/22 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
• 10/23 - Buffalo, NY @ Sideshow Mix
• 10/24 - Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
• 10/27 - Denver, CO @ Fillmore
• 10/28 - Salt Lake City, UT @ DV8
• 10/29 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
• 10/31 - San Francisco, CA @ Warfield
• 11/1 - Los Angeles, CA @ Mayan Theater
• 11/2 - San Diego, CA @ 4th & B
• 11/4 - Portland, OR @ Roseland
• 11/5 - Seattle, WA @ DV8
• 11/6 - Vancouver, BC @ Commodore

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This year's CMJ Music Marathon provided a coming out of sorts for new material from the Belgian trip-hop outfit Hooverphonic and its still relatively new singer Geike Arnaert.

The group originally set out to work with a rotating cast of vocalists, but had settled on Liesje Sadonius for much of its vocal stylings. Sadonius left the group on good terms in early 1997, leaving the group to search for a new singer. They eventually settled on Geike, but the barely 18-year-old singer couldn't join up as soon as she would have liked.

"After Liesje left, they held an audition, and I was part of that," Arnaert told MTV News of her beginnings with the band.

Geike's first recordings with Hooverphonic can be found on the group's recently released album, "Blue Wonder Power Milk."

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