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Hi folks my name is Karl & I hail from Dublin in Ireland,Apollo 18 productions is the umbrella really for all the pies i've got my fingers in!!Djing producing remixing,Mashups& mayhem are my thing but i also play guitar & bass. Heres the story so far, Ive pretty much been involved with music since I was in school. Ive played Guitar, bass, keyboards & Sung in various bands with varying degrees of success. Mostly piss taking punk bands though & a few stoner affairs that never made it beyond the rehearsal room but had a damn good time rehearsing. At some stage in all this, my brother & I bought a Fostex 4 track recorder & I was constantly goofing around & experimenting with sounds drum machines & any equipment I could find. In 1996 I completed a sound engineering course, (because I wanted to know more about it rather than wanted a job)& this convinced me to do my own thing in some way, however collecting the equipment to do it was slowing me down. I made a few chilled out tunes on equipment belonging to a friend of mine & was hooked!!. Between 1997 & 2001 I was involved in several local/pirate radio programs on the north side of Dublin, which gave me my first real taste of Djing (well my first time actually touching a technics 1210!!) & gave me a chance to play some of my ever expanding music collection to anyone listening. I was also working in a record shop at the time not to mention the fact that I was constantly digging through crates of cheesy vinyl in charity shops & market stalls all over town & anywhere else I went. Somewhere between 2001 & 2002 I started playing the odd DJ set around town & Ive been playing regularly since. My Dj sets are an eclectic mix of funk, soul, hip hop reggae, rock & psychedelic madness & have evolved over time. (Currently Im enjoying the crop of decent danceable indie stuff doing the rounds as well as some cool electronica & clever remixes). I started making music on my own computer around the same time & have been working away ever since. I currently have several projects in the pipeline including an immanent laptop DJ Stint. Im a big fan of bootlegs & mash-ups, so long as they work!! & I have a few of my own done under the guise of Muttcuts Productions. Check them & other stuff out on my website www.soundklash.com
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Member Since: 2/9/2006
Band Website: soundklash.com
Band Members: http://www.soundklash.com/bootlegs.htmlCheck out my Bootlegs here!!
Influences: Influences Musical or Otherwise are too numerous to mention but i'll stick a probe in my lobe & take a small sample here goes.... The Clash,The Sex Pistols,Star Wars,Public Enemy,KLF,Coronation St,Beatles,Stones,De la soul,Monkees,Aretha Franklin,Elvis,Ramones,John Barry,Run Dmc,Xray spex,Ulysses 31,Tricky,Ennio morricone,Led zeppelin,Dead Kennedys,Coleco Vision,The Specials,Whizzer&Chips,Johnny Cash,Futurama,Bob Marley,NWA,Chemical Brothers,Buzzcocks,ICE CUBE,Withnail & I,James Brown,Horace Andy,The Pogues,Bomb the bass,Black Flag,Dusty Springfield,Lee Scratch Perry,Betamax,Kraftwerk,PULP,Bad Brains,Roger whittaker,Prince,Dexy's,Beastie Boys,Monty Python,Eugene McDaniels,Massive attack,The Coral,Thor,B.A.D(1&2),Beach Boys,Dolly Parton,Bowie,Jungle brothers,The Kinks,Seinfeld,Billy Cobham,Gang of Four,Crass,Booker T & the MGS,The fantastic 4,Underworld,Slade,George Formby,Basement Jaxx,Sesame st,Frank Zappa,Relaxed Muscle,Goldfrapp,Wizard of Oz,Harold budd,IGGY POP,The Office,Prince Buster,Ninja Tune,LLCOOLJ,Roadblasters,New Order,The Dubliners,Marc Bolan,Dr Bob MOOG,FGTH,Silver Apples,The Two Ronnies,Triskaidophobia,Grandmaster Flash,Small Faces,Beat st,Boomtown Rats,Selecter,Robert Anton Wilson,Mistura,Smash Hits,Max Rebo Band,Galaxians,Super Furry Animals,Howard The Duck,Funkadelic,Jean Jacques Perry,PAC-MAN,Vampyros Lesbos,Bloody Jellies,MISSY ELLIOT,Oliver!There's a lot of good stuff doing the round at the moment like Kaiser Chiefs,Sons & daughters,Mylo,Franz Ferdinand,Audio Bullys,The Knife,Arcade fire,Hot Chip,Tiga,Fiery furnaces,GLC,The Rakes. Sadly I find the Irish Music scene in general is a bit Stale & seems to be Still in a hangover period from bands trying to be the next U2 ,(twenty years after the fact).Too many bands here just sound the same...bleh! Bland Jangly bangwagon hoppers seem to still rule the roost. Fortunately in recent times there have been some decent bands emerging,such as Noise control,The Chalets,Republic of Loose,The Yokes,Messiah J as well as some great singer songwriters like Niall James Holohan,Emma Cunningham,Chris Morrin,Hayley reid,Ken Burke not nescessarily on the same shelf as me but good to hear all the same. Theres really not much musically that i wouldn't listen to ,basically I hate contrived Corprate SH_T.
Sounds Like:Depends on what mood i'm in because making music for me is like cooking & i dont always cook the same dish every time & even if I do it doesn't always taste the same. Although I would be honoured to be Compared to some of the people mentioned above, i'd like to think that I sound like me!
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My Blog

Long Time GONE..............

Well folks how long has it been since I stuck a blog up here or even showed remote signs of life?All Summer & Then some i'll wager , But Nevermind , Life as somebody once said is what happens whil...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:28:00 PST

5 things that have made me Smile recently.

5: Lulu, Cilla black , Geri halliwell, ... Following the great British tradition of old Kebab dessed as mutton POP SLAPPERS who last far beyond their talents & appear on TV talking shite to anyone...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:07:00 PST

its a wonderful life

Wow what a day,its still bright at ten in the evening, the weather has been fookin great and i'm standing on my balcony with the Ibook watching some party bastards across the way have a barbeque in th...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 02:17:00 PST

why Im Not watching BB8

Theres lots of shit I coulda blogged about but I've been mulling this shit over & My Tofu in blackbean sauce has barely digested so here goes...Big brother 8 started last night & Ive decide I wont Be ...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:05:00 PST

St Patricks Day Aftermath Dublin 2007

St Patricks Day was 2 weekends ago & I'm Still recovering.Okay i'm being a drama queen but for all you folks who don't know what it's like heres my tale.Its not a typical Irish St Patricks day apart f...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:46:00 PST

Tiny Cock

Well I have been writing an extensive blog thingy about music and politics & shit.well not really just about music & my relationship with it.But It's turning into a monster project so Funk tha...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:46:00 PST

St Patrick was a Gentleman

but i'm a grumpy C*nt!Nah Only joking.No harm in taking part in the national pastime every once in a while.Those Weaker braincells need to be purged anyway, theyre only slowing the rest of 'em down.St...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:26:00 PST

Its not you it's me.

Yis are all me mates seriously it's not just the drink talkin'fuck it how much internet storage space is taken up by people's blog entriesgoin on about how they really should be posting more but don't...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 04:28:00 PST

Muttcutts January Mashup Giveaway!!!

Howdy folks , Greetings & salutations & a happy new year to y'all.Just for a bit of holiday fun & in the style of all those wankers on TV tryingto push cheap sofas on people who don't need 'em, I've d...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:32:00 PST

Jogging to Damascus with a full ipod & an empty battery.

I'll try & make this clear, somebody once told me that being cynical is a cop out, they were right but of course it never stopped me being "wary" & casting aspersions where i seen fit.I Like to think ...
Posted by Apollo 18 on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:29:00 PST