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The Electric Era

About Me


WARNING! IMPLICIT CONTENT! WARNING!
I wrote this music specifically for no one to listen to. Please DO NOT listen to it. In fact, this music is dangerous to listen to. Here are five reasons why you should under no circumstances ever listen to this music:
1. If you listened to it, you may recognize the classified content. Secrets of a very personal, and yet universal nature have been encoded in the lyrics. You may break the code and I might die a mysterious death at the hands of The Lodge.
2. If you listened to it, you might take a liking to it and might want to see me in a concert. Then I would have to put a band together, people with egos. You know where I am going with this, Ziggy!
3. If you listened to it, your life might suddenly change forever. And who would want to risk that, especially when everything's just dandy...
4. If you listened to it, you might want to buy it. Then I would make money, and people would say I sold out.
5. If you listened to it, you might not like it ... nah, just kidding...
So consider yourself warned, there really is no reason whatsoever to listen to these tracks.
Don't visit The Electric Era website
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"The Ground Below" available from CD Baby
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"A Little Less Gravity" available from CD Baby
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Buy songs from iTunes

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/20/2006
Band Website: www.theelectricera.com
Band Members:

Karsten Schwardt - Vocals, instruments, arrangements, programming
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Guests:

Brignal Wood - Drums, backing vocals, additional guitars

Aroha Harawira - Backing vocals

Matthias Postel - Bass guitar

Influences: Joy Division - The Cure - Talkingheads - The Chills - The Clean - The Chameleons UK - Wire
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Top musical heroes:
1. Ian Curtis
2. John Lennon
3. David Bowie
4. Iggy Pop
5. Jim Morrison
6. Robert Smith
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New Zealand Music Heroes:
1. Chris Matthews (Children's Hour, Headless Chickens)
2. David Kilgour (The Clean)
3. Graeme Downes (The Verlaines)
4. Julia Deans (Fur Patrol)
5. Kirsten Morelle (Goldenhorse)

Sounds Like: Early 80's Bagless Vacuum Cleaners from Japan
Record Label: Tunnel Audio
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Beslan three years ago from 1 to 3 September 2004

I have never been much of a protest singer/songwriter but recently I had to give way to a song that was forcing its way up my creative windpipe. It deals with the Beslan School Massacre between 1 and...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:36:00 GMT

The Sad Fuck Syndrome

If you are over forty and still publicly making music, there are usually two possible explanations. 1. You had an illustrious career in your twenties. People still come to see and hear you because you...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:09:00 GMT

Top Twelve Perfect Pop Moments Of All Time

Okay, due to popular demand (who's reading this anyway?) here are twelve pop songs I cannot get sick of no matter how sickeningly 'easy listening' they are. - Yes, that's a compliment.- No, there's no...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:07:00 GMT

Lyrics

Since the lyric buttons havent worked for a while, here is a new lyrics blog. I got this idea from Salvadore Poe at http://www.myspace.com/salvadorepoemusic Check him out too. He's something else.GUAR...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:12:00 GMT

Top 25 Albums Of All Time

The album is dead. Long live iTunes (and MySpace, of course). In some ways, it is a sad sad thing, considering how important albums were in my musical upbringing. So, on a nostalgic note, here are my ...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:14:00 GMT