Backwards Records HQ & NW Presents::
Page 27 vs. Nova-Sak :: Syphilis Sauna :: Biaxial Creep :: In Ether (one time only reunion show) -don't miss this legendary act perform live one last time!!! +Special Guests VJ LowRez vs. VJ JdaP
@ Club 2101 2101 Champa St. Denver, CO 802059:PM | FREE Before 10:PM :: $3.00 After | 21+ Full Bar :: $2 PBR's $3 Well Drinks $3 Jim Beam $1 Draft Pints
Biaxial Creep
Industrial / Electronica / IDM
Biaxial Creep weaves together pelvis-shaking, glitch-core percussion, somber soaring melodies and other-worldly effected trumpet, and traditional instruments including bass, tabla, and guitars. The end result is somewhere between an opium dream and deep black space; between Tricky and Gridlock, between Meat Beat Manifesto and Coil. The Creep's music has both a heady appeal and a visceral, body shaking vibe, conjuring up a visual track to movies screened only in your mind paired with a beat that compels you to move...
syphilis sauna
Industrial / Experimental / IDM
Syphilis Sauna is the solo project of Patrick Urn and recently has dubbed the kinds of sounds he make as "trashtronica" which basically means using traditional sequencing techniques (step sequencing, drum machines and recently newer software) but using them to make noise beats instead of lets say your typical IDM or Drum & Bass drum beats.
AND DON'T MISS THIS "FREE" NIGHT OF LIVE ELECTRONIC ACTION...::
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In Ether is the collaboration of Lucio Duran, Patrick Urn and Ezra Nye. Utilizing scores of drum machines, synths, sequencers, analog synths, samplers, circuit bent and hand made instruments. In Ether is in general a composition of the obscure... As the name implies the process in which In Ether falls victim to is the "plucking of sound out of the Ether" partly live improvisational noise and partly hard ware based sequenced electronic song structure w/ a bit-o circuit bent glitch...
In Ether was officially
born spring 1999 with its first show being that summer at 7 South (now the hi-dive) in Denver CO.
Lucio Duran has been playing music in various projects including Xenophile and
Atonal Patterns, (now currently in blackcell ). Ezra Nye and Patrick Urn played their first
shows together in Denver 1998 as Zaghurim Theorem (previous to that Nye was in
several bands including My Friend Maggot and Wither Stench) = (now currently in
Page 27 and Firecracker ) at Chernobyl Tone Gallery with
such acts as Kismet, Slow Color Orgasm and J. Frede among others. In late 1998 Patrick Urn
(now currently in Syphilis
Sauna and ZDEFEKT ). Lucio Duran and
formed Asphyxia which when later on joined by Ezra Nye became In
Ether. In Ether has since played shows all over Colorado with groups
including blackcell, George & Caplin, Sporadik , and Page 27 to name a few... at many different venues all over CO. including
Galleries bars, clubs, houses and parties including The Gothic Theatre, Bluebird , Ogden Theatre (to name a few)
in Denver and the Artificial Limb company in
Seattle. There was the one unutterable principle of which was born mud, which was to become Earth and Water. From these was born Cronos. From Cronos was born Aether; the bright shining air, and Erebus (son of Chaos and husband of Nyx - meaning night. Their children were Aether, the upper air, and Hemera, day.) a yawning black bottomless abyss. In the Aether Cronos fashioned a silver egg. From the egg comes Phanes who has many names such as Eros, Nefis or Dionysius. Phanes is the shining one, the first creation deity. He brings fourth darkness and light. "A Whole Animal"
In Ether's first release was in the Spring of 2000 entitled "Orphism" ::
Recorded live to a Tascam 85-16 1" 16-Track Analog Recorder; dumped to DAT at Noise Tent 6 Studios by Mike Jourgensen of D.U. Records . Mixed and Mastered by the brilliant musician, producer, engineer: Bob Ferbrache of Studio Absinthe in Westminster, CO.
Within Orphism, earthly life was seen only as a merciless round of pain and trouble (product of evil). Though we humans belong to the heavens, to the stars (as semi-gods), we are also bound to life by a cycle of death and rebirth. The goal of life: escape from earthly existence and release to eternal life.
Thus Orphism held much concern about the after-life. It included instructions on how to enter the after-world. Likewise, it sought to reform Bacchic or Dionysian worship in order to increase one's spiritual nature--and diminish the portion of one's physical being so as to become one with Bacchus (or Dionysus). As with Aryan Hinduism (or its offspring Buddhism), Orphism was designed to attain release of the devotee from the cycle of rebirths.
Orphism, as a worship or religious form also had various kinds of purity rituals designed to help the devotee avoid certain types of contaminating influences. Thus the most rigorous practitioner avoided animal food (as with the Hindus) except for sacrificial rituals. Further, despite its connection with wild Dionysianism, the Orphic devotee took wine only as a sacra.
Was Orpheus an actual historical figure? Was he possibly an ancient philosopher or religious reformer? Was he possibly a king or from a line of kings from Thrace who were viewed as Dionysian incarnations--perhaps ritualistically killed by Dionysian worshippers? Or was he only a mythological personage (from Cretan or Egyptian mythology?) We don't know--though there is good possibility that Orphism did indeed have its beginnings with some important religious reformer, perhaps the name "Orpheus" (the name itself is derived from the Greek orphnei meaning "darkness" and may be a derivative name from his association with the underworld.)
"But the fate for most folks was really not escape--but rather a period of death (and torment) and then rebirth--according to the merit of one's earthly deeds." "there is a time for listening to the vibrations that things produce in detaching themselves from the nothing-being to which our blindness relegates them, there is a time for letting things struggling with indifference give themselves to be heard.... It is not impossible in the unrestrained conversing that among disjunct, remote, disproportionate ensembles, at moments, harmonies of incalculable resonance occur."
---excerpts from "To Live the Orange" by Helene Cixous
