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About Me

Government is a conspiracy against the people maintained by the illusion of a permanent crisis and perpetrated for the most part as a media event.
-- Philip K. Dick
YES, the heinously butchered country version of the Nine Inch Nails song Only is still in the player. Love it or hate it, I care not. Some things just demand to be done. Vote your conscience at the NIN Remix site !
Brief Jamography:
My latest gig: Blood For Soil
Bass/synths/vox for Out There Somewhere with Paul Hartzog (drums) and Tad Berlin (guitar, relation)
Bass/synths/Chapman Stick/backing vox for 23rd Hour with Trent Levesque (vox), Paul Hartzog (drums), and Alf Seegert (guitars)
Founded Cydonia Records in mid-90s
Bass/synths/programming/vox for the dark backward
Multi-instrumentalist/vox for Kallisti
Studio work with Tesseract, Sarah Johnstone, Dying on the Vine, My Wicked Ways, Polydactyly
Producer for Orla Johannes, Bandersnatch, and Djinn.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/5/2005
Band Website: cydoniarecords.com/
Band Members: Me: instruments
Myself: vocals
I: Production
Influences: kyran, peter gabriel, massive attack, david bowie, bill laswell, ministry, a perfect circle, tool, rush, tony levin, william s burroughs, william gibson, bruce sterling, douglas trumbull, ridley scott, kathy acker, bob flannagan (r.i.p.), trent reznor, mickey hart, stevie wonder, tad, johnny cash, o sensei, the buddha, the spanish inquisition (which nobody expects), salvador dali, jean cocteau, compte de st. germaine, maynard james keenan, velvet underground, 23rd hour, graeme revelle, rudy rucker, bruce campbell, youssou n'dour, gary numan, rhys fulber, tori amos, portishead, tricky, devo, depeche mode, mr. mister, king crimson, genesis, frank zappa, jeff berlin, popsmear magazine (r.i.p.), nine inch nails, re:search magazine, michel foucault, jean baudrillard, flood, electric light orchestra, cap'n crunch, belly button lint, doug wimbish, jacques de molay, j.r.r. tolkien, ursula leguin, gamalon, robert anton wilson, james joyce, oscar wilde, shudder to think, billy sheehan, survival research laboratories, victor wooten, tabla beat science, joi, asian dub foundation, philip k. dick, william orbit, mos def, aphex twin, michael manring, pope joan, manly p. hall, u2, dream theater, tribal tech, greg bear, isaac asimov, paolo soleri, arthur kroker, lou reed, marc bolan, lemon curry, john myung, spiny norman, the dark backward, william shakespeare, seneca, alejandro jodorowsky, brontis jodorowsky, earthworks, david lynch, stanley kubrick, david fincher, chris cunningham, maybe a few other people, places & things but that's about it
Sounds Like: a party in your ears-- and everyone's invited!
Record Label: Cydonia Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Derek and Uzzums Control Space and Time

Mad props to my friend Derek, who got selected to demo one of his hacked instruments at the HOPE Hacker Conference in New York on July 17th. Here's the story: http://createdigitalmusic.com/ Check...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:19:00 PST

Why the Right Wing is wrong about Wright, who is right...

DISCLOSURE: I am not a Christian, nor do I subscribe to organized religion in general.However....IF you fancy yourself a person of faith, watch this 2001 video all the way through. Someone at Fox News...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

Vocals on ’This Dream’

Just making sure I don't forget to give credit where credit is due...The vocals on 'This Dream' (in my player) are by the very talented Stephen Duffy, former frontman for The Counting Crows and curren...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:35:00 PST

White Men CAN Jump... They Just Can’t Land Very Well

I play basketball in a Grumpy Old Man league at my alma mater, the University of New Mexico. During a recent game, I attempted to defend a cross-court pass by leaping gracefully into the air to pick o...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:14:00 PST

Quechup Spam

The other day I got an invite from a buddy of mine to join a site called Quechup. What the hell-- I'm already a member of other lame social networking sites (ahem) and my buddy is a well-known fa...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:49:00 PST

What is that thing?

I've received a few inquisitive emails regarding the instrument I'm playing in my new profile pic. It's the Chapman NS Stick, and so far I'm very happy with it. It's got eight strings (split stereo-- ...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:09:00 PST

Super Warning From Ear Professor Owing to Revered MP3 Player

I recently acquired the Centon 2GB MP3 player (I refuse to bow down to the iPod) and am now perusing the manual, which I think was written by some guy in China whilst cutting and pasting machine-trans...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:50:00 PST

The Homewrecker Bass!!

A few people have asked, and yes, the bass pictured here (formerly used as my site's background image) is MINE, ALL MINE! I purchased the bass from the New York-based (heh) Bunny Bass w...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:12:00 PST

Domo Arigato Mr. Robotophobia

Don't know about you, but recent advances in Artificial Intelligence coupled with meat-power and an evolving selection of bipedal, self-regulating, networked droidware (see also here) all make me a li...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:02:00 PST

Aiding and Abetting Interplanetary Terrorism

Today the world's leading atronomers gathered in the Czech Republic announced that Pluto had officially lost its status as a planet. Recently, however, they were on the brink of expanding our solar s...
Posted by Matt Berlin on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:28:00 PST