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Low-Key

Any idealism is a proper subject for art.

About Me

This isn't really a "band" page so I'm going to make this a bit more informal. I've been an avid lover of music since I was a young child. I learned how to work a turntable to listen to records before I even have any memory of doing that and, unfortunately for my parents, their records bare the scars. In my early teens, I picked up guitar and, subsequently, bass. Having played on numerous bands, I became more interested in electronic production after purchasing a drum machine to record solo experiments in 1995. In addition to playing on a range of bands doing everything from clasic rock, speed metal, coffee house style folk stuff and hip-hop, I also became interested in DJing. Due to a lack of DJs playing the sounds I enjoyed in my upstate NY location, I began collecting vinyl to make mixes to listen to in my car. Along the way, I've been booked around North America and was listed in Raygun Magazine's "International Who's Who of DJs List" for mixes blending acid breaks, acid techno and hardcore techno. I have written hardcore techno music with the Tocsin and Dead Sector projects which have various releases and tracks appearing on on Black Monolith Records, Ketacore, Industrial Strength/Bastard Loud, Mode of Proof Records and Smerk along with an upcoming chill-out track as "Children of Eris" on Mutant Music. I am currently living in Jersey City, NJ. I am always open to working on new music projects with new people so, if interested, feel free to drop me a line.
Tocsin - "Bring the War Home" [Download]I will periodically change up the songs on here with new stuff and old stuff just for fun. I will do blog entries every time I change up the tracks that are available on the page. If you like any of the tracks, please check out the blog entries. If I have put higher quality version of the tracks online, there will be links to download the higher quality versions, along with videos if they exist, in the blog entries which you are more than free to take, spread around, and play out if you so choose.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/31/2006
Band Website: acidgrave.com
Band Members: Bands of which I'm a member: DeTocs Previous bands of which I was a member: Dead Sector , Tocsin Crews: Koncepshun , Hard Life Ent.
Influences: I'm generally inspired by the constructive chaos in our environment [which is plentiful in my current Jersey City location], with heavy influences from hip-hop/trip-hop, techno, noise and rock. Notable artists that have inspired me along the way are Disciples of Annihilation (D.O.A.), Hellfish and Producer, Delta-9, Bazooka, Speedfreak, Suicidal Tendencies, Anthrax, Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The Violent Femmes, Public Enemy, Run-DMC, Uberzone, DJ Hardware, Omar Santana (for his breaks), The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Aphex Twin, The Orb and Coldcut.
Record Label: BMR, Industrial Strength, Ketacore, M.O.P., Smerk
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sets from Dance Parade NYC, 5/19/07

This is a recording of all the sets on the Septik Nexus/Blackkat soundrig in theparade. It's raw as hell since we had turntables on a flatbed truck. The guysdid the best they could to rig it but, ev...
Posted by Low-Key on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:21:00 PST

DJ Choke Remix & Newark Sunset

-DJ Choke - The Fall of Man [DeTocs' Future of War Remix]-So I added a couple new tracks to the page over the past couple weeks. The first is a remix of a track called "The Fall of Man" by DJ Choke. ...
Posted by Low-Key on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:50:00 PST

Tracks as of 9/1/06

Whenever I add new tracks, I'll do a short rundown of them in a blog post. If all goes well, I'll be switching them up periodicially every week or so. So here goes.-Bring the War Home-This is the fi...
Posted by Low-Key on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:17:00 PST