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Skin Electric

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The Skin Electric is the newly formed musical project of, Ray (AKA: VJ Welkin ) and Randy (AKA: - The Nothing Man ) have been making music together for 11 years. They both have recently moved to Portland from Asheville NC where they had much success in the local scene there. Within that time they have made all sorts of electronic music, ranging from experimental drum and bass to down tempo electronica. The music they make today is heavily influenced by the time period where punk was merging into an electronic set, where Joy Division became New Order. They achieve that sound and relate it to the current sound of todays electronic music by combining hardware/analog synths and samplers such as the SP 808, the Jupiter 6, Juno 106.they also use software including Reaktor, Absynth and Abelton live for sequencing, recording, music production and performance .Their songs are comprised of varying beats and bps, but include plenty of 4 on the floor, drum and bass, and a hybid of elctro groove teamed up with pop vocals to keep you moving. Don't expect them to hide behind their laptops. They promise to give a full on multimedia interactive electro pop experience.
for booking contact: [email protected]

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Member Since: 09/05/2007
Band Website: for booking contact: [email protected]
Band Members: Randolph is now The Nothing Playing on and with: Synth, Bass Program-ing, Beats prodo Galore, Sound Effects,Lyrics, Vocals, Vocoder, Tin Can, Stuff..

Raymond is the Welkin Ring Playing on and with: Synth, Beats, Final production (the puzzle goes together man) ,Vocals, Visuals, Effects, tea pot u knowit.

Influences: the cure, the glove, siouxsie and the banshees, kate bush, electronic, japan, gene clark, afrika bambaata, new order, dali's car, kraftwerk, the creatures, lilys, the ladybug transistor, brian eno, hall and oates, broadcast, eurythmics, the police, falco, gary numan, bill nelson, the chameleons, arcade fire, shins, tears for fears, the faint, essex green, joy division, the soundtrack to fantastic planet, bauhaus, van halen, dokken, trans-era neil young, the smiths, the clientele, pale saints, high llamas, stone roses, clan of xymox, depeche mode, pink floyd, tricky, chemical brothers, the dust brothers, vangelis, david bowie, talk talk, morphine, joy division and more more more more more more.
Sounds Like: the cure, the glove, the creatures, brian eno, japan, morphine, bauhaus, cut copy, death from above 1979, depeche mode, tears for fears, the faint, fischerspooner, goldfrapp, hot chip, i love you but i've chosen darkness, i am spoonbender, vangelis, joy division, vitalic, afx, digitalism, justin timberlake, the knife, ladytron, lcd soundsystem, m.i.a, new order, the notwist, peaches, peter bjorn and john, pinback, portishead, radiohead, royksopp, scissor sisters, she wants revenge, shiny toy guns, spleen united, talk talk, tiga, timo mass, trentemoller, tricky, vale and timo, blake baxter, basement jaxx, bosdan and huntman, cassius, enon, soulwax, the juan maclean, justice vs. simian, feral code, mark mendes, cicada, interpol, dj shadow, felix da housecat, blonde redhead, mstrkrft, the postal service, and most likely the rest of the world of good shit i can sink my ears into.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

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Pictures from Rotture show in Portland by Minh Tran

Photos now posted hereThanks to the superior photography skills of Minh Tran!!!
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debut show in portland

NEON presents...an electro, disco house, techno dance party with a live electro performance by The Skin Electric www. myspace. com/theskinelectricThe next NEON [url]www. myspace. com/neonknites[/url] ...
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The Skin Electric

We are in the process of finishing our first album. It should be done by summer 2008 hopefully. We will then begin performing/touring in the North West. Some links on the myspace page are not functio...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:52:00 GMT