Listen... I'll live the life so you don't have too, but share my thoughts so you can feel like you do.
All Jokes aside:
I love all sorts of music and have been involved in music in one way or another for my entire life. I've worked on various projects, with varying degrees of success.
Below are a few:
Mighty Soul Trekkers:
(1994-1996) I formed this band in order to devestate the "Battle of the Bands" at my High School. I then Disbanded and reformed the band numerous times over the next few years.
This was a very exciting time for me time for me, as it was in many ways my first dabbling in fully unrestricted creative expression. I still listen to some of the music I made during this period, but I doubt you would ever want to. Put nicely most of what I was making at that time was really experimental.
My later work of this period was pretty good though and is actually listenable. I guess I was growing as and artist and performer. Getting over stage frieght and all that.
Sunenda:
(1996-1998) I recreated myself under the "name" Sunenda in the Summer of 1996. My closer friends still call me SUNe , which is short for Sunenda. I was still performing and recording as the Mighty Soul Trekkers, until 1997 when I began a DnB DJing crew with Steve Liesgang-DJ Rezen (R.I.P.) and Marcie "Prime" called Audio Athetitics.
We started getting bookings at parties and club events in Baltimore, D.C. and mainly College Park. Most notably: Love and Devotion, which was thrown by Joe Capones and Steve Furio . In 1998, Steve Liesgang moved to Georgia to go be with his baby mama Autumn . Shortly after that I began collaborating with some kids Steve had hooked me up with.
The Step Syndicate (and my days as M.C. Escher)
(1998-2003) The kids Steve Liesgang introduced me to were calling themselves The Step Syndicate, and they were making a serious impact on the D.C. DnB scene. At times considered the rivals fof DC's premier DnB Crew 2tuff , The Step Syndicate was all about laying down sick hard beats and precision mixing. In fact, my tune selection and style of mixing prevented me from DJing for the crew, a fact I was never completely comfortable with.
But the beats were so fucking ill that I couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with these kids. When I joined up the crew consisted of: DJ Wreck , Freefall, and BenKo . We later picked upHarry "Ransom" , and Books. Freefall left to form CatalystDC with Mr. Rogers.
THe Step Sytdicate was fierce and thus far I've prolly been most commercially successful under the nom de guerre M.C. Escher, but then again I've never really sought commercial success. I did play a shit ton of shows as M.C. Escher though so I guess that means something.
--Resident MC Sunday Night Sessions Washington D.C. (Easily the Dark City's most popular Drum and Bass Weekly at the time)
--Resident MC for NYC United/NYC (I had to ride the greyhounds to pull that shit off)
--Resident MC Epedemic (Also on the roster CatalystDC... very, very hardcore, very, very underground Tuesday night party in D.C.)
--(Pseudo) Resident MC Buzz. (At the time "America's biggest weekly party"... Buz was like fucking Friday night)
--The Sound Factory (I love New York!)
--The Edge (The Step Syndicate even threw a successful massive there called Proper Atmosphere)
--Deep
--Starscape (one of my first really big parties... caused the whole area to rush the DJ booth to get a glimpse of the emcee)
--Fever
And a bunch of less memorable one offs.
As M.C. Escher, I also worked on a myriad of side projects including MCing for the D.C.'s first live Drum and Bass act Harry "Hypermix Sound System" for a number of bookings:
During this time I sat in with tons of people who I imagine you've heard of if you're into Drum and Bass... including and in no particular order: Dara, Dom and Roland, Calyx, ODI, DJ Lee, Ink, Christian Bruna, Oni, Jumpin' Jake Frost, Dieselboy (he kicked me off :P), Datcyde, Audio Troopa, Action Jackson, John Tab, Bryce... I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
New Standard:
(2001-2003) I again joined forces with Steve Liesgang to create New Standard Recordings. This was mainly a studio project that ran concurrently with my latter days with The Step Syndicate. We did play a few shows including the last ever Fever party at the Paradox in 2001.
Ultrabad:
(2003-2008) I moved to Philly in 2003 and began a new solo project called Ultrabad. Then life stepped in and daddy Sune had to put the music thing on hold. Ultrabad became another studio project.
I've also worked on a number of multimedia projects:
Negative Space:
I helped to found a Video Art collective called Negative Space, while attending the University of Maryland. We threw a few events off campus and did video presentations on campus. We were best known for breaking into campus facilities to hijack video production equipment during all night editing orgies.
I'm inclined to think someone out there may want to see. I'll have to upload some shit... check back soon.
Darkling Aspiration:
So, did I mention that I majored in Digital Narrative while at the UMCP. I was way into it and figured I'd go to grad school for it, until I got all successful and shit in the summer of 2002. My big project up until then was a nonlinear piece called Darkling Aspiration. I created, wrote, directed, created all 3D models, animated and did I say I did all involved work on the project. For a period I lived to the beat of the renderings on my G4.
Serious dystopian sci-fi. The basic premise for the project was that certain elite families, namely the Bushes and Kennedies were using America's tech sector and Industrial Military Complex to wage literal wars in the "Third World" while dominating the hearts and minds of American citizens and the EU. The main body of work was created in 2000 and the project seems strangly prophetic at present.
Again stay tuned for video uploads.
