Kill The Messenger

Last night, J. Rivet, keyboard player of MyParasites, past keyboard player in viktim, and founding member of The Harvest, passed away.

J, was a great guy, and talented musician. He was probably one of the nicest people I ever met, and I really feel lucky to have played in bands with him, and to have called him my friend.

He is gone now, he was working on a solo album, which will hopefully see the light of day in the future, and he was going to college, with plans to be a Politician. J was going to change the world, and even though he didn’t get the opportunity to change the world he still changed my life and all of us that were blessed enough to have played in a band with him.

I just needed to take a moment, and make sure everyone knew that the world is going to be a little darker now, because this one candle carried so much light.

Services will be coming up soon, details as they made known to me will be relayed here.

Going to miss you man.

-eddie

Viktim’s debut cd on Dark Asylum Music “As Love Turns Grey EP” is now available!

There are only 100 copies made of this CD EP and it WILL SELL OUT.

the cd is available online currently available online via ISOTANK. or you can buy it in Philadelphia at Digital Ferret Discs.

Digital Ferret Discs
www.ISOTANK.com
732 S 4th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19147
(215) 925-9259

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So i am back. whoppiee!

i have a regular gig now for Rebel Thursdays in Gloucester City, NJ running sound there.  Everybody seems to be happy so far with the production, so good, that makes me happy

I am looking for work, if you need  a sound system for an event, including a ‘regular weekly’ event contact me.  If you need just an engineer, contact me   If you need a dj, wtf why not, contact me

Right now the mobile rig is like this:

Mackie DFX 12 Mixer

Behringer Eurorack Line Mixer

DBX Project 1 Compressor/Limiter

Lexicon MX200 Effects processor

Boss Se-50 Effects processor

PCDJ-1 Dual Flash Card Player

QSC RMX2450 Amplifier

3 – JBL JRX 115 15″ Speakers

2 Shure SM-58 Mics

1 Shure SH-55 Mic ( the elvis mic)

2 Whirlwind IMP-2 Direct Box

“sometimes” the rack contains additional items:

Custom Laptop running Ableton Live, Cubase, Reason, Battery, Soundforge

Access Virus TI Polar

M Audio Oxygen 8 Controller

Korg Padkontrol

ADAT XT 20 - want your bands set recorded? no sweat, we can talk about that, and about getting that recording mixed by Mike at Dark Asylum as well.

Ensoniq ASR-X Sampler

Rocktron Chameleon online  GUitar Processor

Korg Toneworks Tuner

Digitech Vocopro 300 - ie THE terrorebm effects unit

EMU XL-7 drum machine  Groove Box

Roland TD7 Electronic Drum Kit

I also have Ultimate Collumn Keyboard stands

Session Work

yes, i am a whore, you can hire me as a mercenary keyboard player for live gigs, or to play e-drums.  Contact me in advance of a possible show, and we can talk about it.  If  you think this might be something you want to do in the near future let me know, and get me the live material, so when im practicing my chops i can learn your material.

Select Short List of Artists i’ve worked with, sort of like a resume, i guess

LIVE SOUND, ENGINEER

EBM/INDUSTRIAL:

Android Lust

Nachtmahr

The Wired

MyParasites

Xentrifuge

Vicious Alliance

The Harvest

Jazz/Blues

Gil Scott Heron

The Mingus Big Band

Kevin Eubanks

The Isley Bros

Regina Carter

Jimmy Scott

more to write in

punk/hardcore/emo

dysphoria

american waste

oddnormal

hot rod circuit

the casualties

anti-trust

dead city psychos

sasquatch

Lighting/Stagehand/Rigging

Kiss

Sting

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Iron Maiden

Halford

Santanna

The Warped Tour

Recently i stumbled upon an old, very old tape, labeled “stillbourne” in a drawer, in my old room at my grandparents house. I thought i knew exactly what it was, once i found it, and i was right.

This was a tape i recorded in about 1995, or 1996. I used a couple reel to reel machines, a very large Roland keyboard, a regular tape machine, and i believe a pair of headphones for a microphone.

It was mostly tape loops, but some of it was very early sequencing work i did, and it was really great to listen to. It did start off rather bland, but by half way through there was this noisey segment probably around a half hour long that just struck me in a way my music hasn’t in a long time.

When i had so very little equipment, i took very large risks, and experimented, and really went all out for the music. Compared to now, where i have a seemingly endless supply of kick drum samples, let along racks of gear.

So from a discussion i had with mike912, i developed the hint of an idea. Old school project, working with old material, circa the mid to late 90’s. Which is really when much of the industrial i like came out, anyway.

So with this as my foundation, i will move outward from here. I have gathered so far for this project.

Alesis ADAT xt24
Panasonic DAT SV-3900
E-MU XL7 Command Station
Roland TD-7 Drum set
Alesis D4 Drum brain
Boss SE-50 Vocal Processor

NO keyboards you say? well, i have the MS200r, and the Polar Virus, buyt yeah, i gotta pick up something old. I have an SK-1 i could circuit bend, but though the basis of the SK1 is “old” circuit bending has too much a modern taste for this project.

I guess ill use the ASR-10, and i think sascha has an old Yamaha keyboard.