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About Me

I am a DJ and musician in Massachusetts, and write and record music under the names Future Bible Heroes and The Hidden Variable . I have done website sound design for Volkswagon and Comcast, among others, and have scored short films for Neil Gaiman ("A Short Film about John Bolton"), 99th Mind, and Motorola.
The Hidden Variable
is my newest music project, and is a collection of songs written and arranged by me with lyrics by an amazing cast of renowned dark fiction authors, including Poppy Z. Brite, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, Harvey Jacobs, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Gregory Maguire, China MiÃ©ville, Lemony Snicket, Martha Soukup, Peter Straub and Gahan Wilson. Vocalists include Malena Teves and The Magnetic Fields' Claudia Gonson. Our MySpace page is here . Please stop by, listen to our music, and add us as a friend. We are currently shopping for a record label.
Future Bible Heroes
is my electropop collaboration with Stephin Merritt and Claudia Gonson of The Magnetic Fields. We have released several albums and E.P.'s, and have been described thusly: "Future Bible Heroes are the Electro-Pop-Hula-Goth saviours. Open your hearts and let the blood flow."
You can visit our MySpace page here.
Our website is here.
DJ
I was head resident DJ at the legendary ManRay nightclub in Cambridge, and until it rises again from the ashes, I am keeping some of the nights alive in various clubs in Boston and Cambridge, with my partner in crime, ManRay bartender Terri.
Saturdays: "HEROES", my New Wave/Electro/Punk & Retro night has returned as a twice a month event at T.T. The Bear's in Central Square, Cambridge.
Upcoming "HEROES" nights are:
Saturday June 14 (George Michael Concert Ticket & CD Giveaway!),
Saturday June 21,
Saturday July 5 and
Saturday July 26
Second Friday of each month: XMORTIS, at TT The Bears, in Central Square, Cambridge. The amazing Goth/Industrial monthly event hosted by Latex Lilly.
XMORTIS returns Friday June 13
Fourth Friday of each month: NIGHT OF THE DOLLS at TT The Bear's in Central Square, Cambridge. A latex/fetish night with industrial/electro music.
CHROME - a new Industrial, Electro & Goth night that happens sporadically at T.T. The Bear's in Central Square, Cambridge. Check back here for more details on the next CHROME.
All of our nights at TT's are 18 plus, and doors open at 9pm.
And a Sunday monthly event: DEAD POOL, at Flattop Johnny's in Kendall Square, Cambridge. Play pool, hear goth, industrial, electro & new wave music. It's a relaxed and fun night with good music, usually on the 3rd or fourth Sunday.DEAD POOL returns on Sunday June 29th
More information on my club nights, as well as a more detailed bio are available in my blog, just above. You can subscribe to my blog for updates on where I'm spinning and news on both of my bands.

My Interests

Electronic music and sound generators, composing and recording in my studio, music, my chihuahuas Edison & Tesla, gothly and industrial things, a good book (several, actually), Macintosh computers, vari-vue & lenticular items, everything R. Buckminster Fuller, the Bauhaus school, yesterday's visions of the future, Route 66, Scandinavian design, Exotica & all things Tiki, cooking with an international flair, indeterminacy...

I'd like to meet:

You, or someone like you.

Music:

The Hidden Variable, Future Bible Heroes, The Magnetic Fields, Eno, Throbbing Gristle, Kraftwerk, Chris+Cosey, Der Plan, John Foxx, The Cure, Siouxsie/Creatures, Marc Almond, Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, YMO, Martin Denny, Yma Sumac, Andreas Dorau, Snatch, Philip Glass, Rose McDowall, everything Wire, 2raumwohnung, The Associates, Sisters Of Mercy, New Order, Giorbino, Propaganda & Act, Bauhaus/Peter Murphy, Harry Partch, Faith & The Muse, David Sylvian, Depeche Mode, VNV Nation, Tonto's Expanding Headband, Gang Of Four, Pal Judy, Dead Can Dance, Joe Meek, Goldfrapp, Perrey & Kingsley, Ladytron, Nick Cave, Erik Satie, ABBA, Can, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Steve Reich, Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Bill Nelson, Silver Apples, Front 242, Etienne Daho, Enoch Light, Cocteau Twins, The Silicon Teens, Les Rita Mitsouko, Human League, Covenant, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joy Division, John Cage, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Haig, Laurie Anderson, Nancy Sinatra, Stereolab, Les Baxter, Yello, Astrud Gilberto, Client, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Joseph Byrd, Alien Sex Fiend, Vince Clarke, Danielle Dax, Claude Debussy, Psychic TV...and more.

Movies:

The Eyes Without A Face, The Kingdom (1&2), Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Theatre Of Blood, Carnival Of Souls, Near Dark, Haxan, the Quatermass movies, The Black Lizard, La Dolce Vita, Black Sunday, the original Manchurian Candidate, Providence (the Renais movie), 8 Women, LOTR, anything by Almodovar, Bunuel, Melies, Lang, Corman, Hitchcock, selected Tim Burton...well, that's what comes to mind at this moment.

Television:

Besides The Daily Show & the Newshour w/Jim Lehrer, almost everything I've liked on TV is either older and British (The Day Today, Alan Partridge, Murder Most Horrid, French & Saunders, The Avengers) or American and cancelled (Carnivale). TV is usually a useless diversion I can't find the time for these days.

Books:

Bulgakov's "Master & Margarita", Gaiman's "American Gods", Dunn's "Geek Love", Mackay's "Extraordinary Popular Delusions & The Madness Of Crowds"... Authors: D. Adams, Bradbury, Brite, Burroughs, Cocteau, Clarke, Dahl, deLint, Dick, Didion, A.C. Doyle, Ellison, Gaiman, Gibson, Kiernan, Kelly Link, Mishima, Pynchon, Straub, Tolkien, Twain, Vonnegut, R.A. Wilson, Zelazny... and that's just the tip of the iceberg. A very large iceberg.

Heroes:

The "Future Bible" variety, of course!

My Blog

"HEROES" - New Wave, Electro & Punk

"HEROES"ManRay's weekly Saturday Retro, Electro, Punk & New Wave Party has returned to Central Square, Cambridge...Please join us at TT The Bear's Place, 10 Brookline Street, Cambridge. The next "HERO...
Posted by chris ewen on Wed, 23 May 2007 07:21:00 PST

Its a bio...more than you need to know, and its all here!

I'm originally from Detroit, where I spun records at several underground clubs and was a member of the groundbreaking (if now somewhat obscure) electronic rock band Figures On A Beach, with whom I rel...
Posted by chris ewen on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:34:00 PST

The Boston Herald on 10/18/07 - Thanks, Michael!

Michael Marotta at the Boston Herald wrote an update on my club nights yesterday...Here it is!"Let's party with the Lights Out"By Michael Marotta / HotlineThursday, October 18, 2007DJ Ewen on the move...
Posted by chris ewen on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:13:00 PST

Night Falls: Industrial Makes A Comeback - THE BOSTON PHOENIX 5/15/07

The PhoenixNight fallsIndustrial makes a comebackBy: DAVID DAY5/15/2007Boston clubland is starting to get a bit dark. From Axis to Phoenix Landing to Flattop Johnny's, industrial music and its offspri...
Posted by chris ewen on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:48:00 PST

Hotline: ManRays Ewen Plotting New Parties - THE BOSTON HERALD 5/7/2007

Hotline: ManRay's Ewen plotting new partiesBy Michael MarottaMonday, May 7, 2007 After more than 20 years as Boston's premier goth and industrial DJ, Chris Ewen is still undead. Despite the closin...
Posted by chris ewen on Wed, 16 May 2007 09:43:00 PST