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Jihad

Change the way to perceive and change all memory..

About Me

Jihad is Rich and James Mendez. They provide us with a new inviting dark, gothic, industrial sound, in some ways, similar to the project known as Benestrophe.
Benestrophe is the group involving Dwayne & Gary Dassing, along with Rich Mendez. Dwayne & Gary Dassing are the two brothers who bring us the revolutionary sound of Mentallo & the Fixer.
James Mendez composes and produces the tracks for Jihad. He was influenced with the electronics & seeing all the work done with the Dassing brothers & his brother's Benestrophe project since it began around 1987-1988. Rich Mendez does lyrics and vocals on Benestophe and Jihad.
James and Rich get into electronic music, as well as accoustic related material at times. Skinny Puppy and all related side projects excite the Mendez brothers very much.
Recently Jihad became known for their song titled, "Hands That Hide", featured on the quadruple CD collection from RAS DVA called, "There Is No Time".
Reviews Wrapped In Wire Review
Electronic Warfare Review (German)
Virtual Night Angel Review
Interviews Jihad Interview by Virtual Night Angel
DownloadsA Prayer In The Night [Full Album]
    01 People Of The Land
    02 Guardian Angel
    03 Killobyte
    04 Grains Of Sand
    05 Hands That Hide
    06 Lucid Living
    07 Killobyte (Taipei Mix)
    08 Looking Glass
    09 Spectre
Dora Blue [Jihad Tracks]
    01 Flying Dutchman
    02 Hands That Hide (Dume Mix - Extended)
    03 Shades of Grey
    04 Rich Mendez Interview
    05 James Mendez Interview
New & Misc Jihad Tracks [These tracks are posted on my blogs, but aren't obvious for download]
    New Track 01
    New Track 02
    New Track 03
    New Track 04 This Ends Time
    Through My Eyes
    Slowdive - Alison Cover
Online Preview - Streaming Preview Discography (with lyrics)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/22/2006
Band Members: James Mendez - Keyboards/Mixing
Rich Mendez - Vocals/Lyrics
Influences: a-ha
ABC
Benestrophe
Cause And Effect
David Sylvian
Depeche Mode
Doubting Thomas
Duran Duran
Enya
Front Line Assembly
KMFDM
Legendary Pink Dots
Ministry
Numb
Pig
Red House Painters
Skinny Puppy
Slowdive
Talk Talk
Tears For Fears
Tear Garden
The Autumns
Record Label: Formerly Ras Dva
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Song: I Am

It's been a little over 6 months since I've written anything new. I've finally finished up a new song and am pretty excited about it. I'm hoping to work on more material and have it posted soon. I'd l...
Posted by Jihad on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:58:00 PST

Finally! Slowdive - Alison Cover

I am so glad and happy to have finally put something out that I am very excited about, for it's been quite a while since I've worked on any new music. This is the start of more music to come. This son...
Posted by Jihad on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:44:00 PST

Commodore 64 -- D Day :)

Well.. I've finally made the decision and executed on it. After 20 years of working with my good old faithful Commodore 64, I have finally decided to replace it with a Dell XPS 410. Though I am a bit ...
Posted by Jihad on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 08:47:00 PST

Scar Chemik - New CD: Ambassador in Chains

I just wanted to post and inform you music listeners out there that there is a new CD out by a really talented band called Scar Chemik. You can preview their new album titled "Ambassador in Chain...
Posted by Jihad on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:11:00 PST

Legendary Pink Dots Show - Austin @ Stubbs [06.29.06]

Some pix taken at the LPD show in Austin @ Stubbs. The show was phenomenal!! It's been nearly 5 years since I've seen them play... edward ka-spel 01 edward ka-spel 02 edward ka-spel 03 edwar...
Posted by Jihad on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:10:00 PST

Another track from the archives...

I found another track from the archives and wanted to posted it for ya... Spent a little time mastering and cleaning it up, for it came off of cassette. I think I may have to find this song on my comm...
Posted by Jihad on Tue, 16 May 2006 01:34:00 PST

Numb Show ('96) & Misc Pix

Here are some pix from the Numb show in San Antonio back in '96 if my memory serves me correctly. I also posted a few misc. ones too... numb group photo (1) numb group photo (2) what the f*@...
Posted by Jihad on Wed, 10 May 2006 09:09:00 PST

Benestrophe Pix

I was digging through some boxes of CDs and stumbled across these very old scans of some Benestrophe pix. These date back 20 years +! Enjoy!! dwayne on keys gary on the moog gary with a spik...
Posted by Jihad on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:17:00 PST

Dallas Comicon

Some pix taken at the Dallas Comicon this past weekend. It was a real treat visiting with the ultimate Steve Niles as well as Thomas Jane (Punisher, The Sweetest Thing, Deep Blue Sea, etc.) and many o...
Posted by Jihad on Mon, 01 May 2006 02:39:00 PST

Reign of Roses/M&TF Dallas Show

Here are more pix taken at the second Reign of Roses / Mentallo & the Fixer show in Dallas at the Darkside Lounge. This show was excellent! The sound system was much better and they put on a great...
Posted by Jihad on Mon, 01 May 2006 12:48:00 PST