| How is this for short notice? This Sunday night Greg Gory and myself will be bringing a night of raw Industrial to New City. The night is called Sick. Old Skool/New Skool Industrial for those who just can't get enough. Tell everyone you know cause' there is no time to waste.
See you there!
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| Just dropping a note to say Das OOntz is on for Rememberance Day, Sunday Nov 11th!
Joining the resident DJs Dervish and the Groovinator (Seb of Icon of Coil and Zombie Girl) is special guest DJ Pandemonium of Vancouver's Sin City and Sanctuary events.
Sure to be a hell of a night! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I'll start by saying that Das OOntz is happening this Sunday!!!!
Onto other things.
School at Powersound is totally out of control. I'm doing quite well in the Recording Arts program though it is munching up a lot of my time as of late. I have a number of projects to finish.
Among them:
A lecture about Room Acoustics
A Business Plan for future work in the audio recording industry
A Radio Play school project
Finish Das OOntz preperations
I have to finish that stuff by the weekend. Other things on the go right now include...
Writting at least 6 more songs over the next 6-8 weeks.
Work out playing drums with a band who I shall not mention just yet.
Do some labour upgrading the girl's store.
Incorporate new elements into the music (I'll get more into that another time)
Speaking of music- that is going quite well. Seb has heard a number of my tracks and agrees that I'm making good progress. All in all, my stuff is actually starting to sound really good. I'll have to start a myspace for that at some point. I do have a name for my music project but I'll share that a little down the road, too. I just have to dot some 'i's and cross some 't's.
Next week in the studio involves recording a band (that includes two of the members of Chunk) followed by solo mixing of the material the week after. Good times! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Off to Calgary once more to help lay waste to everything on the dancefloor. All the djs from the Schlactoff (can't remember the spelling) events are hooking up again to rock out. I'd love to take as many Edmonton folks as I can down with me to check this monsta out. Any takers? I'll put up the poster shortly.
Automatik Manifesto
Automatik stands apart as a completely distinctive and unparalleled Industrial event; unapologetically stark and relentlessly calculated. A night synthesized by true believers in dark electronic music and the aesthetic of the machine, Automatik strives for thematically based events charged with utilitarian angst and driven by a combination of idealistic purity and constrained madness.
Automatik challenges individuals to transcend and discard traditional beliefs about what is ‘acceptable’ or ‘reasonable’ for a nightclub event, encouraging, rather, fanaticism and absolutist intensity. Automatik seeks to construct a contained dystopia, a synthetic, machine-ordered alternative reality fraught with polarities: the elation of victory fused with an undercurrent of despair. Automatik realizes dark futurist visions; twisted metal fused with stinging raw meat, smoke and black clad bodies in a no-man’s land of a dance floor all witnessed from behind the filthy lenses of a gas mask. Automatik aspires to singularity of vision: to disciplined elegance and rapacious ferocity combined with divergent thought and integral acuteness. Automatik celebrates the awkward beauty of machine music, angular German dance and precise, electronically enhanced consciousness.
As the name intimates, Aufstehen is a call to awake and stand up, a challenge to shake off the lethargy and apathy of Calgary. Occurring in the aftermath of Stampede, Automatik seeks to scorch away the painted on cowboy façade from Calgary’s bleeding, putrefied flesh. Aufstehen is also a beckon call to every believer in the scene, a challenge to unify and build a cohesive foundation from the fragmented shards of counterculture. Aufstehen is a politically neutral event encouraging all sects of dark culture to converge and harmonize; it is a congregation of unified will and hammering, aggressive power. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Next Das OOntz..... Canada Day! (Sunday, July 1, for those who are not quite sure;)
DJ Derivsh, The Groovinator (Seb of IOC, Zombie Girl) and Greg Gory
It's almost like I forgot I had a livejournal.
man... | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Here it is. It has been a while but The Groovinator (Seb of Icon of Coil/Zombie Girl) and I will be laying it down for you again this Sunday, Feb 18th @ New City. Since Monday is a holiday and you don't have to get up, come on out.
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| Yep... It's been friggin' forever but now I'm back online. A lot has happened over the months. I'm not going to try to explain it all here and now. I think it would be better to just pick up where I left off...
....porn. | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Here is the word!
Das OOntz will now be held on every Sunday night of the long weekends. The next OOntz is to happen on February 18th with the usual line up of Sebastian of Icon of Coil as well as myself.
Why is OOntz moved to Long weekend Sundays?
This is to make room for a new night at New City called BITCH BITCH BITCH!!! The night will be hosted by DJ Greg Gorry, Brad Habit and myself. This will be happening every Friday. You will hear industrial, electro, trance, pop, indie and whatever else we feel like throwing at you. Come on down and have your ass kicked.
See you then. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Thanks to all for the support in the shit that was last week. I'm looking forward to putting it behind me and focusing on things to come.
Things of note...
Das OOntz was a blast. I'm in love with stompy music. That will never change. There are good things around the corner with the OOntz. I'll keep you posted.
Music writing is going really well. I've been able to sneak a few of my own tracks into Das OOntz nights, in fact. If you recall a stompy tune with the sick sounds of a crying baby....yep... that's mine. I'm learning new stuff every day. Good times.
I'll be in Calgary on the 26th of December to spin THE DAY AFTER with my bruddah dj dAndroid. There are two dance floors and two djs. It'll be the shitstorm of the x-mas season. You should come. If you're not doing anything on THE DAY AFTER... you should come down.
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| | My mother died this week. I had to fly down to Ontario to take arrange the funeral and her estate. It has been a long and stressful week. I'll be back in Edmonton Friday afternoon. | | comments: 41 comments or Leave a comment |
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Seb and I spoke a bit about the music at Das OOntz. You can expect furure OOntz night to be a little darker/stompier. Should be fun:) | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| There will be a Das OOntz on November 24th. This one is happening on short notice so pass das word:)
I promise to do a real update at some point when I get the intraweb back in my home.
Till then.... I suffer:( | | comments: 5 comments or Leave a comment |
| Due to Electric Six playing on Nov 10, Das OOntz is gonna be grinding bodies on Nov 3rd!
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| Holy shit. Last night's Das OOntz was just out of control!
Thank you everyone for making Das OOntz a monster.
You all rock. | | comments: 9 comments or Leave a comment |
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