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I am Sam Atakra. Buy my obscure synthpunk recordings. I make other people money and fame for a living. I'm an acomplished photographer in the music industry and try to follow my instincts, albiet unsellable, when it comes to my craft. I also run the Atakra Productions record label with bands on my roster such as the Phantom Limbs, Black Ice, Red Voice Choir, and (by proxy) Mighty Sphincter. I am available to DJ events that are Industrial Music, Punk rock, Metal, and Indyrock friendly and have a massive collection of obscure music in those genres.
I run punk and synth-related mailing lists and know people around the world in the music industry including thousands of bands. I used to be a shitworker for MRR Magazine and Industrial Nation magazine, my photos and writing has been published too many times for me to keep track anymore.
I worked for CBS a decade ago and was one of the first 150 people on the International Punk List back when the internet was new and exciting. I helped recreate the late-nineties resurgence and interest in "No-Wave" and "synthpunk" as musical genres.
I'm also part of a art family of high profile based out of the southwest with a Native American background.
My "day job" is as an office manager for the local Scottish Rite Temple, run by the Masons, a secret society the pre-dates the founding of America. For side-work I archive images and documents in electronic form for a niche cliental with a focus on the historical outcome.
I also am a consultant for businesses regarding search engine optimization, information architecture, viral marketing, and internet sales due to my knowledge of the high-end of the internet marketplace. If you have a product and it isn't selling on the internet, you are doing something wrong.
I also offer my professional services to comic book collectors. I offer grading, collection management, online sales, and speculative market services for high-grade comic books.
For fun I use my spare time as a wikipedia editor, making sure that my broad knowledge of underground culture is correctly documented for future interest. I also try to see as many underground bands as possible and take photographs and document "scenes" as much as possible, time willing.
I've seen what seems like millions of band performances in my lifetime. Feel free to check out the pictures I've taken at http://www.atakra.com/ and http://atakra.livejournal.com/ which I find as a better forum for .. communication... Sorry to all of you MySpace devotees.
Calico, DJ Ginger, Werewulf Micah
http://sonicliving.com/event/1077672/s/tgc4b18s

posting this in retrospect.