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Diabolik Switches

About Me

At the age of 17 I founded diabolik switches in 1999. The philosophy, or meaning behind the name came from two different ideas I had at the time: 1; Is the name can be used as referring to the switches, knobs, buttons, and such on electronic musical equipment. Or 2; My efforts to create music that can switch any negative energy, thought pattern, or whatever, into positive energy or what have you, using a premeditated and intentionally schemed out plan. The equipment I was using at the time was; BOSS DR 550, BOSS DR.GROOVE 202, Yamaha DJX and the PS420. The first recordings were made using the method of bouncing tracks with 2 cassette tapes on a CHEAP karaoke machine, and a Tascam portastudio 4Track. I dropped the name 'diabolik switches' in 2000 and tried using different names such as OPTIC, elysium, and zealfix. I later found that those names were already being used. So in 2003, after I recruited Oskre Ramirez, he really liked the name 'diabolik switches', so we decided to use it for eternity. We exist somewhere between time and space. Oskre and I made a very good noise/break-beat/industrial album called "mentalshitregurgitation" using my BOSS 550 thru a Crate guitar amp's distortion (and without dist.), a Roland JUNO-1('83), manipulating realtime effects on my Peavy P.A. system, and our fucked-up stories of our existence. This all happened in Desert Hot Springs, CA. In Nov. 2004 I moved to the Northwest, leaving Oskre out of the current recordings, not because I don't like his music, but I just had to leave Cali, and he couldn't come with me for certain reasons. We plan on making stuff together in the future. But right now the new live set is myself using software, my Roland alpha JUNO 1, some guitar here and there, vocals. In Oktober, 2005 I added Michael Stennick on guitar and together we played around the Portland area and had recording sessions until September 2006 when Michael and I decided to part ways. Now it is I, Gene with The methodist .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 27/07/2005
Band Website: is under construction. will announce when finished
Band Members: Gene Smith: vocals, programming, guitar, synths. the methodist: programming, synths, bass guitar and other electronics. People who have been in this band in the past are: Oskre Ramirez:programming, vocals, synths(check out his solo project, he is in my top friends). Michael Stennick:guitar. Jennifer Robins:vocals. Rob: synths.
Influences: suicide, Current 93, The Legendary Pink Dots, brian eno, velvet underground, Aduck, skinny puppy, download, ohGr, cEvin key, tear garden, punish yourself, ministry, the knife, sex pistols, the damned, frontline assembly, Christian death, shadow project, daucus karota, Rozz Williams, Premature Ejaculation, KMFDM, excessive force, pigface, converter, synapscape, imminent starvation, revolting cocks, the doors, throbbing gristle, Chris & Cozy coil, fields of the nephilim, PIL, specimen, david bowie, klaus nomi, klaus schultz, sonic youth, brighter death now, aphex twin, sqaurepusher, ryze n fall, godspeed you black emperor, joy division, infected mushroom, orbital, the orb, Christopher Lawrence, Slayer, Death, Obituary, (early) Cannibal Corpse Burzum, Chrome, Souxie and the Banshees, The Cure, etc......
Sounds Like: PUNISHMENT!!!
Record Label: 2birdKILL ltd. in association w/ 82 degrees below
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

tracks available for free download!

http://soundcloud.com/diabolikswitches/give-instru... give (instrumental demo 01/10)  by  diabolikswitches I will be releasing tracks one at a time onto soundcloud.com so you ...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:55:00 GMT

Our plans for this year regarding new recordings n' shit

In the Studio:So 2009 ended with the recordings of a new Space Machine album(which is a reunion of Michael and I), my first solo album ( www.myspace.com/williameugenesmith ), a Culture Creep DVD bootl...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:43:00 GMT

diabolik switches hoodies!!! (w/ t-shirts to follow)

So to start off, Nate is ordering 2 hoodies to be made for us(one for him and one for me) via the internet for around 55 bucks each, I know that sounds a little steep so if you know of a better price ...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 10:13:00 GMT

New CD/DVD soon this year. featuring a lot of very cool stuff...

Hello, we are in the works of putting together a special CD/DVD to be released soon this year(2008).The audio CD (a 2birdKILL ltd. production) will feature live recordings of a few songs from the 2005...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:02:00 GMT

diabolik switches wants you to check out a photo on MySpace in the at the fez may 2008 album

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...%3Cimg+ src%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fa66.ac-images.myspacecdn.com%2Fimages0 1%2F25%2Fm_49c43245be35806bb4af59b14d9831f1.jpg%22+alt%3D%22 +%22+%2F%3E This is ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:00:00 GMT

A thanks, too...

Don A.K.A. TSR! For thinking highly of are music!Charles Lazaruz! For your outstanding artwork that you have put out with/for us!Shadow! For your outstanding pictures and wanting to do more work with ...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 23:56:00 GMT

Diabolik Switches next show!

Thursday, May 15th @ The Fez Ballroom316 S.W. 11th Ave.Portland, Or. 97205Show starts at 9pm4$, 21+ w/ full bar.www. myspace. com/diabolikswitcheswww. myspace. com/mortalclay also: www. mortalclay. co...
Posted by on Sat, 10 May 2008 23:55:00 GMT

New songs

    hey everyone,we uploaded two new tracks, check em out!
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:49:00 GMT

New collaborations with Nate and a show in August '07.

Me and Nate are now in the process of making a new set for the show we are playing in August with Metasylum and the Redroom, at the Rotture in Portland, Or. I will post all the details as soon as I re...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 01:31:00 GMT