
All Saint's Day: more electrifying archive audio
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11/01/06 • -1 min
for Nov 1st... "All Saints Day"
here's a heavy-duty death-defying track...
befitting for the day after Halloween, when all spirits are redeemed...
ahh ha ha!! (OK, maybe that's a stretch)...
Electric Angel Fixion, 1995
yes, in my pre-techno days, we were Nine Inch Nails wanna-be's...
and that's EKG (me) on drums and lead screams!
for Nov 1st... "All Saints Day"
here's a heavy-duty death-defying track...
befitting for the day after Halloween, when all spirits are redeemed...
ahh ha ha!! (OK, maybe that's a stretch)...
Electric Angel Fixion, 1995
yes, in my pre-techno days, we were Nine Inch Nails wanna-be's...
and that's EKG (me) on drums and lead screams!
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Halloween: bring out your dead!
OK, searching my AV archives for something scary, I had to dig deep for this one... going back 11 years to my pre-nomadic life in the Boston warehouse studio, and the techno-industrial band I was fronting, called Fixion. Here's the B-side of our demo, and the track called Empty, and yes, you heard it right, the first lyrics are "When I am dead..." ha ha!! (and it kinda goes downhill from there)! something uplifting for you and yours on this hallowed eve...
So to put this all in context of pre-Eklektro history: Fixion kicked hard for about a year... until Eric went to NYC to try his hand at producing, and i went to Europe and discovered raving!
(more pre-millenium pre-Eklektro archive bits coming soon...)
Fixion was:
Vocals, drums and production: G. Weber (me)
Programming, synths and production: E. Lee (where are you Eric?)
Guitars and attitude: J. Carnabuci (where are you Joe?)
And so on the eve of a new Breakbeat of the Week,
wishing you a Happy Halloween!
ek>G
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CityJazz: pre-Eklektro archive audio
Something to groove to over your Monday morning coffee...
While setting up the Silver Lake Studio, I uncovered some DAT tapes dating back about 10 years to the infancy of Eklektro: born of one particular warehouse party we threw in the frosty boston winter of '97, with the "eclectic-electronic" concept further developed via our renegade (and often car battery powered!) street jams that followed that next spring. There was never any set "band", rather just a fluctuating half dozen of us room mates and friends with synths and drums, all experimenting and seeing what we could cook up. Definitely a time of transition, as within the next year the whole crew would scatter in several directions when the warehouse was suddenly sold out from under us. That's when i weighed my options, bought the RV, minimized (and solarized) my studio... and hit the road to the west coast!
This particular jam was a one-on-one real-time recording with my friend Ryan on synths and loops, and me on live drums. I picked this rather simple and unfinished track not so much for its musical content as much as HOW it was collaboratively jammed, "written" in real-time... following in the footsteps of jazz. Yes, the next 10 years would bring incredible leaps in computer music technology... and unprecedented techno-travelin' adventures for the RV and me. So as one of the last recordings i ever made in a non-mobile studio, well the rest is Eklektro history. Stay tuned for more retro releases over the coming weeks... and a return to the VIDEO side of this blog!
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