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Paul Birken

We are the music makers.

About Me

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Paul+Birken

Lots of music available over at www.fun-in-the-murky.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/28/2005
Band Website: tonewrecker.com
Band Members: Worldwide booking handled by the good people @
http://www.delirium-booking.net

However, if you are here in the United States/Canada/Mexico please contact me directly for arranging to bring me to your event.

Current Lineup: Genoqs Octopus Sequencer www.genoqs.com
Acid Labs Bassline V2
Flower Electronics LBB Double synth www.flowerelectronics.com
Elektron Machinedrum UserWave
Akai MPC1000 - JJ Bootleg OS
Casio Sk-1/Roland TR-626 combo midimod/circuitbent by Highly Liquid www.highlyliquid.com
DSI Evolver
Roland MC-202
Yamaha RX-5
TSP Softcore
TSP Contusion Synth
TSP Sloshbox dual filter
Nord 2 rack
Alesis DM-Pro
Frostwave Analog Sequencer
Yamaha O1v Digital Mixer
MOTU 828 MK2
Technics SL-1200
Zoom Streetboxx
Zvex Wooley Mammorth
Eventide Time Factor delay
Electro Harmonix HOG

and all those crazy fuzz pedals...

Devi Ever, founder of Effector 13, and creator of the Truly Beautiful Disaster, Synth Mangler, Soda Meiser, and Torn's Peaker, is still building pedals which can now be found at www.deviever.com!DE AR-Electric Brown pedal

Rode mic
The computer..the computer.. Edit..chop..delete..redo..rewind.
Influences: It's all good..well 90% of the music has some sort of influence whether good or bad.
Sounds Like: broken equipment
Record Label: Tonewrecker Recordings/Rokken Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

BugBrand and TheSquareWaveParade = Hellz yeah!

Seems that a lot of the smaller companies are really pushing out some cool products.  Forget the Rolands/Yamahas/etc who've continued to rehash the same workstation stuff...it's just so uninspiri...
Posted by Paul Birken on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:21:00 PST

New Surgeon mix on Warp - Birken/Rohr track included.

Looks like just a run of 1000 cds done. Available on Warp. Tracklisting:This Is For You Shits (1:01) 1.1 Unknown Artist (Intro) From Tape Archive 1.2 Scorn - Doors 1.3 Kero Vs DBit - Prof Railer 1.4 A...
Posted by Paul Birken on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:41:00 PST

FS: Moving some gear - paypal accepted.

**NOTE THESE ARE GONE**  Thanks for checking in.Hey All,I've got a few pieces of kit up for grabs.  Great condition and shipping is covered here in the US.  If you are overseas, we'll h...
Posted by Paul Birken on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:41:00 PST

The day after the bridge dropped..

Quite a bit of insanity around the city..as to be expected with the I-35 bridge dropping into the Mississippi River last night at rush hour.While the destruction/casualties is on such a tiny scale com...
Posted by Paul Birken on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:05:00 PST

The Alphabet

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Fascinating string of text when you get to revisit it as something so new by teaching a child to learn them.  Makes me smile today. ...
Posted by Paul Birken on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:56:00 PST

Octopus OS 1.02 Boom!

Ahhh..The Genoqs crew drops a whole new website overhaul.  Decides to sneak in a OS update as well for the midi beast.  Good stuff in it too. Release 1.02 Developed in relative silence and ...
Posted by Paul Birken on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

Genoqs Octopus Sequencer Version 1.0 is here finally!

No..I'm not an employee of Genoqs, but damn if I'm not the biggest fan this insane musical tool.Version 1.0 was just officially released after a few of us had been beta testing it so I can list the fu...
Posted by Paul Birken on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

New release - Memories of Paul Birken - Back to the Future 2007

Double pack on Czech Republic label Back To The Future. Available through LXRecords and other distributors. One record is 4 previously released tracks from the pre-2000 studio days. The other 4 tracks...
Posted by Paul Birken on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:45:00 PST

Upcoming Tonewrecker 13 "In Da Pocket" ep

Music is in..Art is underway by the graphics maniac FiST..It'll be out soon for you to play. 4 tracker - various artist - only requirments were to use the following lyrics in whatever voice/style the ...
Posted by Paul Birken on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:56:00 PST

TW 12 coming soon! Junk Profanity EP

Our good friend in Glasgow and everyone's favorite design fiend FiST dropping the artwork into place on this one.  Analog machines..digital control..it's all good. Available in late decemb...
Posted by Paul Birken on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:47:00 PST