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ZEN_SOLO

The Best Thing You've Never Heard

About Me


. . . in the name of ZEN . . . -aka- The Fundamental Hum

. . . in the name of ZEN . . . is an ever-evolving PC-based studio project with long, gnarly roots boring deeply into the core of what it means to be a modern solo hybrid artist . . . Weaving seamlesly through what his whim affords him, . . . in the name of ZEN . . . emits from the soothing multi-genre resonance of HSf Studios' rising audio engineer-in-residence, ZEN_SOLO . . .
After a short stint as the drumkit ninja for short-lived projects in small Saskatchewan towns, focus was turned to efforts that best express his generally mis-recieved and disregarded musical directions. . . . .
Having allready dabbled in the emerging Digital Audio Workstation environment since 1999, it only seemed too logical to begin the multi-role task of founding the shoestring-budgeted "HSf Studios" in an effort to create the overdue opprotunities to work on his own personal creative processes in an un-homogeonized, pure, and free-flowing manner. . . .
In recent years, the guitar and keyboard have also become semi-fluent languages on the palatte. In fact, many amazing, nearly-complete guitar works lay frozen in dormancy, waiting to strike the next prey that fails to recognize the metals beneath the surface . . . . . . Oooooo spooky, eh?
Some of these efforts have broken the tides of creation only to be warehoused on digits for distribution and consumed whilst decorating eccentric tree forts and building funny hats. . . . . . . . . .
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/18/2006
Band Website: acidplanet.com/ZEN_SOLO
Band Members: ZEN_SOLO of HSf Studios: Sound Design, Programming, Drumtrack Ninja, 3-Stringed Guitars, Keyboard Medium, Audio Experimentalist,
Re-Mixer, Nu-Skool Funky Breakbeat Dj

Influences:
Primary Musical Influences:

Propellerheads / Elite Force / Flexitones / Rennie Pilgrem / Crystal Method / Esthero / Buck 65 / Fatboy Slim / Cypress Hill / Underworld / Glueleg / Hi-Fi Companions / Mekon / Herbaliser / NIN / Les Rhythmes Digitales / Gorillaz / Barenaked Ladies / Mr. Scruff / Jungle Brothers / Prodigy / Orbital / Sublime / Cake / Tool / Pearl Jam / Stone Temple Pilots / Moist / The Cult / Paul Oakenfold / Deftones / Mike Oldfield / Nonpoint / The Cars /
White Zombie

Other Influences:

Futurama / Family Guy / South Park / Clone High / Invader Zim / Mission Hill / Spongebob Squarepants / Oblongs / Simpsons / Fairly Odd Parrents / The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy / Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends / Kids In The Hall / Mad TV / and the various Monty Python productions / . . . . .

This vast, moulten-ooze mass of twisted viewpoints and tangents has offered enormous influence and inspiration for the audio arts and sound design that almost obsessively consumes all available time . . . .

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In recent years, invaluably-
enlightening volunteer time
has been contributed to
Live Theatre productions
as a lighting assistant and
sound designer in addition
to operating audio and
lighting for many regular-
season performances in the
'03-'04 production season at
GPLT as well as contributing
to CKXU 88.3 FM in Lethbridge
as an audio/technical . . . erm
. . . resourse . . for the current
'06/07 fiscal year.

Type of Label: None

My Blog

ZEN_SOLO's Beastie Boys Mixes at ACIDplanet.com

ZEN_SOLO's Beastie Boys Mixes Have Began To Surface These projects have been hidden more than a year and I've finally decided to share a small portion of the beats that I priv...
Posted by ZEN_SOLO on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:46:00 PST

ZEN_SOLO -vs- ELITE FORCE

ONE -vs- Reclaim The Airwaves (7-Inch Grip Mix)This is a slick, phenomenal mix that manifested itself, within hours. . . . Once the backbone was solid, I summoned the powers of ELITE FORCE and added t...
Posted by ZEN_SOLO on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:24:00 PST

REMIX -- DAWNI - "Feels So Good" at ACIDplanet.com

DAWNI - "FEELS SO GOOD (Empath House Mix)" _____________________________________________ZEN_SOLO ______________________________________________ _____________________________________________________...
Posted by ZEN_SOLO on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 04:14:00 PST

** FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE **

ZEN_SOLO is seeking artistic colaborations in the Lethbridge, Alberta area within the realms of Music Production, Live Theatre, Community Radio, Video & Film Production, Multimedia & Webs...
Posted by ZEN_SOLO on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 04:56:00 PST

REMIX -- KARSH KALE -

KARSH KALE-MANIFEST(The Short "Circus Carpet" MIX) 'Pressed for time this month as there are SO MANY great contests at AcidPlanet.com to work on this month and HSf Studios is slated for yet ano...
Posted by ZEN_SOLO on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 02:20:00 PST