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MAD

About Me

Hello World, Goodbye Privacy.
I am an artist, musician, and all around web-technologista. I run and bike. I keep myself as busy as possible and keep my nose clean.
:: Music ::
Instruments - Guitar, drums, laptop, and many others
My Music Portfolio - http://mark.decheser.org
Mr. King - http://www.myspace.com/soulking
NPX - Northeast Power Exchange http://www.npxmusic.com
NPX Forum - http://forum.npxmusic.com
Broketronica - http://www.broketronica.com
Broketronica Live - http://live.broketronica.com
Leafblower - http://www.leafblower.us
The Sidecar Allstars - http://www.myspace.com/thesidecarallstars
Link me elsewhere:
Resident Advisor - MAD Artist Profile
Facebook - MAD on Facebook
Reverb Nation - MAD Reverb Nation Profile
:: Web ::
Proficiencies - Web/UI Design, Multimedia Development, Sound Design, Systems Administration
DeCheser Studios - http://www.decheser.org
Intarnets Niche Web Hosting - http://www.intarnets.com
:: Purchase My Music ::
DigStation has sponsored my music as part of a compilation for NPX .
:: Upcoming Performances ::

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/15/2006
Band Website: http://mark.decheser.org
Band Members: Mark DeCheser and all my various musical efforts.
Influences: IN NO ORDER OF PRIORITY:

Jazz: John Zorn, Masada, Naked City, Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Cachao, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Rahsa'an Roland Kirk, Byard Lancaster, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Al Di Meola, Return to Forever, Vince Guaraldi, Herbie Hancock, Viktor Krauss, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Art Blakey, David Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Grant Green, Groove Collective, Billie Holiday, Freddie Hubbard, Abdullah Ibrahim, Ahmad Jamal, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Jackie McLean, Thelonious Monk, Wes Montgomery, Tzadik, Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Lee Morgan

Electronic: Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Steve Roach, Art of Noise, Add N to (X), Boards of Canada, DJ Cam, DJ Spooky, Jimmy Edgar, Amon Tobin, Fischerspooner, Future Sound of London, Infected Mushroom, Massive Attack, Material, MC 900ft Jesus, Bjork, Ministry, Negativland, Plaid, Prefuse 73, Prodigy, Steve Reich, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Air, Coil, Portishead, Godflesh, Raymond Scott, DJ Krush, Einsturzende Neubauten, Brian Eno, Telafon Tel Aviv, TV on the Radio, Jamie Lidell, and all my friends in Philly & the surrounding area including Jason Carr, Starkey, Mose Giganticus, Porktamer, Vytear, Velapene Screen, Knife_jams, Pandemix, Menoir, I Eat 0's & 1's, Jam'elle, Control Alt Deceit, The Megadrives, Eustachian, Fulcrum, Bubblyfish, Glomag, At Work

Classical: Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy, Richard Wagner, Charles Ives, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, Hector Berlioz, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, J.S. Bach, Gyorgy Ligeti, Alban Berg, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Andrea Segovia, Erik Satie

OTHER: Rush, King Crimson, The Police, Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Tony Levin, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Living Colour, Primus, Mr. Bungle, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, Booker T. & The MG's, Butthole Surfers, Johnny Cash, Dick Dale, Fields of the Nephilim, Fugazi, Lungfish, Mazzy Star, Skinny Puppy, Sly & Robbie, Steel Pulse, The Cure, The Meters, Beastie Boys, Black Sabbath, Frank Black, The Pixies, David Bowie, Faith No More, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Guru & Jazzmatazz, Jane's Addiction, KRS-ONE, Bob Marley, NWA, Praxis, Rage Against The Machine, Urban Dance Squad, X-Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, Aesop Rock, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Paul Simon, The Misfits, Black Flag, The Dead Milkmen, Circle Jerks, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Dexter Wansel, Peter Tosh, Bill Withers

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And at least 1000 other bands, composers, et al.
Record Label: Independent
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NPX, Laptop Battles, and 2009

I suppose posting to this blog is long overdue. Consider this to be a grand effort to rekindle the MySpace blogging thing.To start, I have been keeping somewhat of a blogging effort on and off since ...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:36:00 GMT

The next few months

One thing that sucks about being an "adult" is having to constantly micromanage my time so that I can accomplish my goals.  I have few complaints about my life, but one of them is the fact that I...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:09:00 GMT

My trip to Italy on Flickr and YouTube

I've been working on gathering a presentable set of photos and videos from my recent trip to Italy for the past 2 weeks.  I decided to use YouTube to post the videos and Flickr to post the photos...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:48:00 GMT