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Magnum PA

if you are quick, you will pick it up

About Me

ive been making electronic music in the studio since i got my first drum machine around 1991 and the sound of the TB-303 made my guitar sound boring. before going all electronic, i was playing guitar, bass, drums, and keys in various post-punk/industrial bands around chicago. ive been doing live PA as Magnum PA in Portland since i moved here in 2001, in the midwest as Chris Leighty since 1995, along with production work for a few bands along the way. Magnum PA is currently dance friendly techno/electro but i also experiment with drumnbass, dub, downtempo, breakbeat, hiphop, acid house, industrial, ambient, mashups, remixes and more, including a few movie soundtracks, and even audio production/post for community radio WFHB, back in the midwest. in addition, i'm the key masher/drum basher/button pusher/knob twister in People Generate Energy aka Portland General Electro (myspace.com/wearepge).if you want more info, im moving the way-too-long bio to the blog...

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Member Since: 2/6/2006
Band Members: resistors, chips, metal, plastic, rubber, neurons, electricity, sweat, coffee, batteries, beans.
Influences: king tubby, wax trax records, the ventures, FSOL, big black, fela kuti, coil, whodini, joy division, plug, early metallica, motown, pre 90s punk rock, pre 80s classic rock, pre indietronica electronic music, old breakdance tapes ive had since 1984, free records...
Sounds Like: bassbins going up in smoke
Type of Label: None

My Blog

a new beginning?

so after almost 15 years of being a hardware purist, i finally got ableton live a few weeks ago. i think i like it, but im not sure how well the built in drum machine (impulse) stands up vs. the MPC....
Posted by Magnum PA on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:10:00 PST

Acid 2007 series

every so often i decide im sick of pushing a mouse and hearing a computer whine when i make music, so i hook up just a few old drum machines and analog bass synths and make nasty raw acid tracks, usua...
Posted by Magnum PA on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:33:00 PST

way-too-long bio

hey, this seemed like way too much info on the main page so i moved it hereMagnum P.A. (aka Chris Leighty) first made sweet love to a drum machine back in 1990 when there was no drummer to play in his...
Posted by Magnum PA on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:54:00 PST

more music at...

www.mp3.com/magnumpa slowly adding other tracks there, new ones as well as a few taken from older live recordings back thru 98 maybe???  we'll see what i can dig up that isnt too embarrassing.  slowly...
Posted by Magnum PA on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:37:00 PST