<Portland Chainsaw Massacre>

About Me

.................................).......................... .......................................).................... ............. I am Derrick. I am here. You clicked on me. I am a Producer, Audio Engineer, Booker, Manager, Guitarist, Drummer, jack of all trades really. I tend to have a pension for the noisier side of things although I have a huge spot in my heart for sweet pop from Belle & Sebastian to Wilco. I might be the biggest Sonic Youth fan you'll ever meet. I'm working on starting an in house label where we do everything start to finish an end of project type of thing for ourselves and bands we really believe in.

My Interests

effects design, Miro, Ecsher, Warhol, Soutine, O`Hea, Mondrian, Rothko....., absinthe, RAYOGRAMS, photographs, electronics, 8track,midi,apple,reason,cubase,electroharmonix,mixing,tweek ing beats,bloody guitar strings,drums,synths,ringing ears, noise rock, jaming old school style rocking out to muddhoney covers.. .clearpaint

I'd like to meet:

someone with two heads.

Music:

to start with:pavement, malkmus, sonic youth, brian eno, jesus and mary chain, neu!, television, jim o'rourke, silver jews, baboon, slint, shellac,calla, Ulrich Schnauss,Ernest Tubb,violent femmes,yo la tengo, papa m, a minor forest,kraftwerk, trans am, hum, Dakota Smith, Peel, halo benders, elliot smith, dj shadow, Dinosaur jr, Cornelius, Clinic, camera obscura,blonde redhead, boards of canada, beta band, aphex twin, beat happening, nwa, waylon jennings, portishead, roy orbison, SP, smiths, DM, The vasalines, The sleepy jackson, experimental aircraft, Q, Hank williams sr., elvis,buck owens, charlie feathers, octant, Royal Trux, sergie gainsbourg, Syd Barrett,Wilco, joy division, MBV, bauhaus, Pixies,Grandaddy, radiohead, add N to X, stereolab, RJD2, Canibal ox, The animals, velvet underground, explosions in the sky,Bowie, The cure, new order, talking heads, QOTSA, mogwai, 90 Day Men, the lovemakers,steven reich, zepplin, beatles, cream, The doors, scott walker, good oldies etc... the point is i like alot of music...

Movies:

Good ones. Yes please.

Television:

Is an alien.

Books:

technical manuals, keyboard manuals, circuit thereoy, curcuit design, (I'm not as nerdy as I sound)

Heroes:

Eno, Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Lou Reed, and Bowie.