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Podcaster Johnny Surreal's mixes of the underground industrial and experimental music scene.
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Music is my life, eclectic, better than yours, or at least I like to think this anyway, but really, there's nothing better than someone playing me something new that I haven't heard before and for me to love it. Discovering new bands with real talent is always exciting, so recommend me something.
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This is a podcast focused on independant short films and the underground-experimental music scene(s). We've been an active project since 2005. CONTACT INFO: Email: SpookyDean@Hotmail.com MySpace: www.MySpace.com/TheSurrealcast
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Fulber left Front Line Assembly and thereby all other Leeb-associated projects in early 1997, in pursuit of a solo career. Soon after, a debut album was announced, though Fulber's work as a producer and remixer eventually pushed its release to September 2002.
The self-titled album was a fusion of the electronic characteristics of Fulber's previous work -- keyboard-based, with rhythmic dance beats -- and the influences of Middle Eastern music, which inspired ambient melodies more reminiscent of Delerium.
A number of songs were more pop-oriented and featured guest vocalists, primarily Poe and Chemda, the latter singing entirely in Arabic. Sinéad O'Connor and Jeff Martin of The Tea Party were also featured.
After a hiatus since February (our apologies) The Surrealcast is back and posting.
So plug in the phones and crank up the bass baby!
The band was founded in 2002 by bassist and keyboardist Jeremy Dawson and vocalist and guitarist Chad Petree. Both had known each other for years growing up in Shawnee, Oklahoma and worked together on previous music projects such as Cloud2Ground and Slyder. After these projects, they went underground for a couple of years but continued making music together until enlisting both vocalist Carah Faye Charnow and drummer Mikey Martin in 2004.
The band quickly gained popularity locally in California as well as through their MySpace page. In January 2005, they released their first album We Are Pilots through record company Stormwest International. They began touring across America that summer in support of their album. They re-recorded and re-released We Are Pilots through record company Sidecho in November 2005, with a revised track list. They continued to tour extensively, and in June 2006, after extensive negotiations that had begun in November of 2005, they signed with Universal Records and released a finalized copy of We Are Pilots on October 17, 2006.
Shiny Toy Guns' 2005/2006/2007 song "You Are the One" has its roots in Jeremy Dawson's trance song "Neo", put out under his "Slyder" moniker. This song was licensed and approved for usage by the band in the video games Grand Theft Auto III, Burnout Dominator and FIFA 07.
On December 6, 2007, We Are Pilots received a Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Electronic/Dance Album, but lost to the Chemical Brothers.
Cleen began as a side project of Haujobb’s Daniel Myer, who teamed up with vocalist Thorsten Meier for the first few releases, beginning with 1997’s Designed Memories. After the release of their second album, Thorsten Meier left to pursue other interests, and Daniel Myer assumed all musical and vocal duties. For the third release, Solaris, Myer changed the name of Cleen to Cleaner. Cleen, Cleaner, and Clear Vision have often been described as more synthpop oriented than Haujobb.
At this time, all of the Cleen and Cleaner releases are out of print. Daniel Myer continues to record with Haujobb and his numerous other projects, including the recently formed Clear Vision, which appears to be another linguistic twist in the Cleen / Cleaner family.
Suicide Commando is the name of a Belgian musical act combining aggrotech with elements of electro-industrial.
Johan Van Roy, Suicide Commando's only member, began experimenting with music in 1986. Three years later, he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and made an appearance on the vinyl compilation, Electric. As Van Roy continued self-releasing tapes, he landed more compilation appearances on Rotation II and Induktion, Varianz und Deren Folgen, both released by Kugelblitz records.
1994 finally saw Suicide Commando's first CD, Critical Stage, released on the German label Off-Beat. Shortly after in 1995, Suicide Commando released Stored Images, which contains to date one of van Roy's most popular songs, See You in Hell.
1996 was the ten-year anniversary of Suicide Commando, and with it came the release Contamination, as well as the limited boxed version, which contained a bonus 3" compact disc. Contamination was released a year later in North America by the now defunct Electronic Death Trip records.
In 1998, Suicide Commando released the album Construct-Destruct and its sister release, Reconstruction including new clubhits like desire and better off dead, the former of which was picked up by Possessive Blindfold Records for distribution in North America with bonus tracks.
Van Roy was one of the founders of the Dependent Records label in 1999. It was on this new label that Suicide Commando's next releases, two singles and one EP: Hellraiser, Comatose Delusion, and Love Breeds Suicide, accompanied Suicide Commando's 2000 release, Mindstrip, reached the number one spot on the Deutsche Alternative Charts. It was at this time that Metropolis Records began releasing Suicide Commando in North America.
For Suicide Commando's next release, Axis of Evil, a special edition double single called Face of Death was released beforehand, selling out in two days. The regular edition of the single continues to sell, and Axis of Evil was voted album of the year (2003) by the Deutsche Alternative Charts.
This would be an example of the latter variety.
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Rumor has it that this track was an MTV Mash-Up featured on the show by the same name. While MTV still sucks, this is definately a stroke of pure genius.
A cup of poison will always join us, for a while
and we'll laugh for a while
and we'll die, for a while
and then we'll blame us self for a wild routine
Ground zero, we're back to one..
We can't combine
Happy with the life they gave us, from day one
What disappears without a trace, reappears and we just approve
What we need, is a waist, solutions dissolves in our hands
We won't except that we understand
Destruction completes the man
No matter what time will give us
No matter if it slips away
You should have burned me blind
now I'm shining through
We can't combine this city's laws
Regret with time, this splintered doors
Even if fear remains tomorrow or if everything goes away
We can't combine...
shadows merging
people laughing
the sun shines threatening
concrete tasting
steel avoiding
love exploiting
hate awakening
missing, can't hide
We can't combine this city's laws
Regret with time, this splintered doors
Even if fear remains tomorrow or if everything goes away
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In October of 1996, they received a record contract from Worm Records and released their first CD, "The Divine Suffering", in April of 1997. Shawn left the band in early 1998 to pursue an alternate musical direction. Their second CD, "Where Broken Angels Lie," was released in May of 1998 with Nilaihah Records, which was started by Kristy to promote talented, original electronic bands. "Forward," The Azoic's third CD, was released on Nilaihah Records in 2001. In 2003, The Azoic signed a record deal throughout Europe with Infacted Recordings of Germany. In 2004, Infacted Recordings released "Forward+Conflict," which earned The Azoic the no. 4 spot on the DAC [German Alternative Chart] and the no. 2 spot on the DUC [Dutch Alternative Chart].
The Azoic's 4th CD, "Illuminate," was released in 2004. In early 2008, "Re:Illumination [the mixes]" is available via Nilaihah Records. The album holds remixed version of "Illuminate" material by DJ Delobbo, GASR, Null Device, Hungry Lucy, and more. In addition to "Re: Illumination," look for new material and live shows from The Azoic in 2008.
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The SuRRealcast is back!
New music, new artists, new material all the way around!
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Enjoy and let me know what you think m'dears...
I needed some "down time" as of late that has kept me from posting as often as I'd like to on this podcast. I apologize to my listeners that have been so devoted to keeping up to date on every post - but now that, on both sides, we've had our breaks...I now have new material to post.
Thank you for your kind comments and enjoy the track on today's show.
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Haujobb was formed in 1993 by Daniel Myer, Dejan Samardzic, and Björn Junemann, pulling the name from the the Blade Runner translation of "skin job". They were soon signed to Off-beat Records, and began distributing their music in North America via Pendragon Records. 1995 saw the departure of band mate Björn, and the lineup has consisted of Daniel and Dejan ever since. After Metropolis Records acquired Pendragon, the two musicians have been able to spread their music to a larger fanbase in North America, and have remained continuously popular in the Europe electronic body music scene.
Today, both Daniel Myer and Dejan Samardzic record music under the name Haujobb, and Myer has several other projects of his own, including Architect, Clear Vision and Newt. Myer, along with Claire Voyant's Victoria Lloyd, form HMB.
