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ABOUT THE MUSIC
I have been playing music much of my life and have been making/recording my own music since 1988, not including small bands I was in years previous to that. These tracks are taken from various projects/albums, namely:- Noise Gate, S.N.T.I., Space Boy Sci-Fi, Zombie Prophets, Union Grave Diggers, and other un-named projects and a couple collaberations. Basically all I ever did was record some of my experimentational sessions. As a result, my music is very RAW (it has never been mixed, equillized, checked for sound levels and has never seen a multi track recorder or been inside a computer until just this year, 2005)
I had very limited equipment and often created my own instruments from batteries, speakers, diodes, resistors, capacitors and God knows what, (used scrap parts from broken electronics and wired, soldered, glued them all up together like a grade 4 science project) and if it made sounds and did'nt expolde, I used it, or I re-engineered (destroyed) household items such as phones, toys from garage sales, cracked open tape decks (fucked with motors and mechanisims to alter recording/ playback speeds and then recoreded it as I went along), made makeshift (frankenstiened) guitars, and things of that nature. I sampled (recorded) everything and anything using crappy old microphones from Radio Shack and a cheap tape recorder. I would then physically stretch the tape by hand, speed up, slow down (sometimes both at the same time) the sound many times and added effects when possible until I got a sound I liked. I then re-recorded this sound to a seperate tape, then would play this sound back and record it on another tape deck creating a loop of sorts, melody, etc... Then I repeated the process with different new sounds I created and then tried (key word is TRIED) to combine all the tracks into one by re-wireing two tape decks to somewhat play at the same time while a third recorded the whole mess (sometimes I had to press play/ stop while recording - you can hear this as bad timing, squeeks as the tape first comes on and off, latency {similar to bad timing}, and I almost never knew where exactly the next part was on the tape {cue-ing problems} listen carefully and you can catch it {full song version obviously} on some songs very easily). The whole process was usually done from the time I should have gone to sleep to the time when I should have been waking up for school or work (I made most music from 2am till 8am, sometimes till noon). I dont think I have ever spent more than 7 hours on any given song, not including creating the sounds as this is a seperate proccess unto itself. Once I shut everything down and went to school/ work, that was it. That's why some songs sound incomplete. I get bored easily and always want to do something new (not interested in finishing the track as the concept/ idea was more important to me). Back when I was first making this music (late 80's) it was very expensive to properly record. A decent computer cost $10,000.00 or more, a sampling keyboard was around the same price (I eventually traded a good used car for a Ensonic ASR 10, about $4,000 around 1994), CD burners were unheard of (I remember when an external computer cd burner was $2,000.00) and never mind the cost of the software as today it can still run thousands. All this was way too much money for a young teenager. I just wanted to get the ideas down and thought that maybe when prices came down, I would properly record them. Never happened. So I consider my stuff as pre-demo (out takes), concepts, ideas. The reason there are different versions of any given song is not because I went back to re-mix, it's because these versions are the individual steps used to create the track, each version is like a progression of the track, with variations at times, and experimentation along the way, all done in one night. Sometimes a variation was resampled and used to create an entirely new, unrecognizeable sound/ song, or simply kept for ideas. If I liked it or thought I might one day use the sound in the future, I would keep it. I remember friends, family, and other musicians laughing at me because of what I was making and how I was making it. I cared non the less. When I come across other musicians today (perhaps because people are so much more open minded) they like the music and think that the way I created it is freaky cool. In the last couple of years I have seen and heard of others building their own "instruments" and creativly making music their own way and I thinks thats wicked.
I create many of my own sounds (sound sculptor/ crafter) and have many more "sounds" than I do actual tracks, which will not be put up here. If you are an artist and would like to sample my work or would like a copy of the original sounds I've created, just e-mail me. I have played some of these songs at raves (speeded the tracks up and played them along side a Roland 808 Drum machine back when raves were truely underground in condemed warehouses) and have collaberated with other artists based on these tracks and others. When asked by others what type of music I make, I have always told people that, for lack of a better term to describe my sound/ my style/ my genre, that I make soundtracks for non-existant sci-fi movies, although not all of my music sounds this way, I was making these back when there was no term to describe it. Today it's considered ambience, minimalistic, no-beat, early pre-cursor to drum and bass/ break beats, EBM, dark harmony/ dark rythum, sound scapes, and the like (some of it is just plain fucked up evil shit, so I won't put the super weird stuff up. If you want to hear it, you'll just have to request it. If you can stomach it then you are a sik fucker or you're blessed).
Through the years I have bought some "real" instruments, keyboards mainly, and even cracked those bastards open in no time (I have a tendency to fuck with everything). I was out to fill a void, to make what I wished someone else made. This type of music was never my original intention, It got close to what I wanted to make as time went on and especially as I gathered up regular gear, I worked with what I had and made what I could and I love it all the same and created a new sound (sub-sub genre) almost 20 years ago in the process. I have no interest in cleaning it up or re-doing/ re-making the tracks. I have never really come across anything else quite like it. If you have, please let me know who makes it so that I can hear some. I have always wanted to create my own sound, but always wanted it closer to my version of Industrial music. I guess you could call my sound/ what I've made thus far "INDUSTRIAL AMBIENCE". Now I have a good computer (I custom built it), and when I have some time I will start work on my new sound. I will add more tracks soon, there are many I need to prepare before I can put them up. If you like any of these and would like a full copy or to hear more (some songs go on for over 30 miniutes) e-mail me at INFO@PROJECT7-16.COM