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About Me


Full Name: Matthew B. Vucenovic aka "Skaggs"
Born in: Seattle, Washington
Grew up in: Boulder, Colorado
Currently residing in: Chicago, Illinois
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Same Birthday as: David Geffen, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Ethnicity: German/Swiss
Religion: Buddhist
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Craft: Music Producer, Song Writer, Synthesist
Currently working with: Kill Hannah, Boombox United, The Belgrade Stars
Influenced by: 808 State, Brian Eno, Coil, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, Lee Perry, New Order, Primal Scream, Shriekback, Sisters of Mercy, Suicide, Velvet Underground
Gear:
Access Virus TI Polar
Avalon U5 Direct Box
Big Muff Pi
Doepfer A-100 Modular Synthesizer
Kingston Bass Amplifier
Monome 40h
MOTU Traveler w/ Black Lion Audio Mods
Oberheim Xpander
Roland Juno-106, SH-101, TR-606, TB-303
Trident MTA Series 80 Dual EQ
Computer: Mac Pro Quad 2gHz Xeon, 23 Inch Apple Cinema Display
Software: Emagic Logic 8, Digidesign Protools 7, NI Reaktor 5, Ableton Live 6
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First Car: '79 Toyota Landcruiser
First Kiss: At the flag pole, elementary school, Amber
First Girlfriend: Tiffany Timmreck
First Concert: Oingo Boingo
First Vinyl: Disney's Disco Duck
First Tape: Tangerine Dream - Thief Soundtrack
First CD: Skinny Puppy - Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
First Musical Instrument: Moog Prodigy
First Drink: Wild Turkey
First Encounter with Police: Ticket, Skateboarding, Pearl Street Banks
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Favorite Places: Munich, Luzern, Toronto, Maui
Least Favorite Places: Jail
Favorite Season: Fall
Favorite Food: Indian, Moroccan, Lebanese
Favorite Ice Cream: Pistachio
Favorite Drinks: Stoli Tonic w/ Lime, Long Island Ice Tea, Tequila
Favorite Starbuck's Menu Item: Venti Chai Creme Frappuccino
Favorite Movies: Apocolypse Now, Blade Runner, The Godfather, La Femme Nitika, Cat People
Favorite Actors: Robert De Niro, Gary Oldman, Jean Reno, Christopher Walken
Favorite Actresses: Ashley Judd (hot), Milla Jovovich, Julia Ormond, Isabella Rossellini, Jennifer Tilly, Gillian Anderson
Favorite Model: Kate Moss.... Period.
Favorite Book: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Catcher in the Rye, Che, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, Where the Wild Things Are
Favorite Poem: Darkness - Lord Byron
Favorite New Bands: Stanton Warriors
Favorite Record of All Time: Impossible to pick - however The Wall by Pink Floyd and Closer by Joy Division get heavy play on my iPod.
Favorite Concert Attended: Toss up between Underworld's farewell tour and Skinny Puppy's Last Rights tour.
Favorite Concert DVD: NIN - And All That Could Have Been
Favorite Sport: Soccer
Favorite Sporting Team: FC Bayern, FC Luzern

My Interests

Stoli Tonics, Turntables, Soccer, Horror Movies, Mila Jovovich, European History, Eastern Philosophy, The Balkans, Germany, Goth Chicks, 60's LSD Cults, Rogue States, Mikhail (AK-47) Kalashnikov, Apple Computers, Firearms

I'd like to meet:

Stargazers, Dreamers, Creators, Children of the Moon, Grooveriders.

Also, anyone with a lazy eye, chololate milk conissours, voodoo priestesses, and anyone who hates bacon as much as I do.

AOL IM: subreact

Music:

Breaks, Noise, Glitch, Drones, Organica, anything slow and brooding, anything from the Chicago scene, Eno, Tangerine Dream, Node, Pole, Kraftwerk, Coil, TG, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, FSOL, Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Primal Scream, The Dandy Warhols, Verve, Oasis, Pink Floyd (with or without Syd Barrett), Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Rasputina (guilty pleasure), Tricky (old and new), Bjork, The Orb, The Beatles, Ian Brown, Happy Mondays, 808 State, anything Kingston or Manchester, and my boys (you should be buying their records right now):

Datacult
The Lab
Kill Hannah
Not Breathing
DVOA
Mark Verbos
Tommie Sunshine
Felix Miklik
8mm

Here is what I do not like. Bands that do not innovate, flash fads (electro is over, get over it), people who say they are producers and cannot find bFlat to save their life, artists who isolate themselves to a single genre, Myspace bands who add me without sending me a message, name droppers, agents, managers and other music industry asslicks.

If you were at all offended by this, by all means, feel free not to message or add me.
Click here to take my online music listening survey!

Movies:

Blade Runner, Apocolypse Now, 2001, The Seven Samuri, The Exorcist, The Omen, Savior, Texas Chainsaw 1-2, Basquiat, The Godfather, Clockwork Orange, Manhunter, Fearless Vampire Killers, City of Lost Children, La Femme Nikita, Heat, Collateral, Thief, Deer Hunter

Television:

Twenty-Four, Six Feet Under, Animal Planet, Venom ER, The Cooking Channel

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, 2001, any electronics or computer manuals, Anarchists Cookbook, Barely Legal, Spin, Religious texts, war propaganda

Heroes:

My dad.

My Blog

New Videos of Luke on Youtube!

I have created a playlist that will hold all new video diaries of Luke.Bookmark it and check back often as I am constantly editing and uploading new footage.http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B89...
Posted by matt on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:58:00 PST

Baby Name Poll - Round 1

As promised - Valerie and I are launching a poll to get feedback on the baby names we are kicking around. Some of the names Valerie picked, some of the names I picked - and in typical Matt and Valerie...
Posted by matt on Thu, 31 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

Stroller Pictures & Our Flickr Site

Incase you missed the message about our new Flickr site, here is the link. We have some photos of our new stroller posted.http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattandvalerie/
Posted by matt on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:30:00 PST

It... is coming on June 24th 2007.

Dear friends,The rumors are in fact true. Valerie is pregnant with our first little blobby looking polywog, which we have lovingly named "It" for the time being. We had our first ultrasound and doctor...
Posted by matt on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:35:00 PST

Depeche Mode - Interview with Kerry Hopwood

I recently had the chance to interview Kerry Hopwood (Bomb the Bass, Depeche Mode) for my job at Access. Kerry worked on Depeche Mode's Ultra, among other things, and is touring with them as Musical D...
Posted by matt on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:31:00 PST

Europe - Part Three

On my MiniPod: Evil Nine - Kickschool 79Reading: BBC NewsEating: HallsThinking of: SnowAfter a few days and nights in Paris and Brussels, Val and I were due for a little down time. The train ride to L...
Posted by matt on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:20:00 PST

Europe - Part Two

Europe - Part TwoOn my MiniPod: M83Reading: CNNEating: ChocolateThinking of: Cold medicine.Paris:The next morning we packed up and made our way to the train station for our journey to Paris. My mother...
Posted by matt on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:19:00 PST

Europe - Part One

On my MiniPod: Mylo - Paris 400 (again)Reading: The Magazine of the Greater Zurich AreaEating: ChocolateThinking of: AustriaValerie and I have now been on our trek through Europe for a solid week now....
Posted by matt on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:47:00 PST

Europe Calling

On my MiniPod: Kasabian - EmpireReading: BBCDrinking: RootbeerThinking of: Quad Mac ProA lot has happened since my last blog entry. I have been a busy little beaver, and have not had time to write muc...
Posted by matt on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 12:11:00 PST

UNTIL THERE'S NOTHING LEFT OF US

Ok, check this out. As most of you know, I have worked with Kill Hannah as their synthesizer programming, beat dropping overlord since Mat Devine and I lived in the shitty Seminary St. apartment with ...
Posted by matt on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:51:00 PST