Extended Organ was formed in 1995 by Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Paul McCarthy and Fredrik Nilsen as an experiment in sonic interaction over a droning substate. Mike Kelley was a member of the group between 2000 and his passing in 2012. Alex Stevens has been a member since 2011.
Extended Organ takes its name from the titles of two sixties experimental music LPs, "Extended Voices" and "A Second Wind for Organ". Starting out as a description of Joe Potts’ self-engineered drone instrument, the "Chopped Optigan", it soon becomes apparent that the name describes Paul McCarthy's primal vocal utterances equally well. Just as the name suggests, the group aspires to straddle the profound and the profane.

“XOXO is creepy and wonderful. It may sound like a gross exaggeration, but we are wondering if this CD might not just be the Sgt. Pepper's of noise records.” -Soundohm

“The music moves with velocity and direction revealing surprises at every turn. The resulting sound is ominous, humorous, harmonious, chaotic and at times quietly erotic. This is abstractly powerful music.” -Boomkat