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Speak Onion interviewed on the Solipsistic Nation podcast

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

The brilliant Solipsistic Nation podcast has featured Speak Onion in their recent show about people who use iphones/ipads/ipods to make electronic music. I am a fan of this podcast, so it’s pretty awesome to be included in this.  The last 10 minutes or so of the show are devoted are an interview with me and my live set from last January, Speak Onion at Brecht Forum, January 19, 2009. Listen to Solipsistic Nation No. 193 right here.

I talk on the show about my love/not-so-much-love relationship with the app I use on the iphone, Intua’s Beatmaker. In my live setup, I use that app to run beats and loops and anything that comes from my recorded tracks, and then I mix those with synth noises from the Nord G2 and process them with the G2 and with pedals. Beatmaker has a lot of great features, but also some limitations that can drive me up a wall from time to time. I’m eagerly (EAGERLY) awaiting Version 2 of Beatmaker. I am hoping for a lot of new features and capabilities. I know they’ve implemented choke groups on it, and that alone will be really helpful to me. I have no idea when it will be available, though. . .

So go grab the new episode of Solipsistic Nation, and subscribe to their podcast while you’re there, because there’s plenty of new and awesome electronic music coming out of there every week. And stay tuned for future Speak Onion shows and new music. I’m hard at work in the laboratory over here. . .

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Metabolor reviewed by Heathen Harvest

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Heathen Harvest has just posted up a review of my 2009 release, Metabolor. Read it here.  Here’s a bit of it. . .

“. . .a raucous form of extreme soundwork that is equal parts hardcore techno, drum’n'bass and noise. This is the sound of the U.S. underground Breakcore scene, a quickly evolving genre, and Speak Onion is one of it’s masters.”

and. . .

“It is that aspect of ‘Metabolor’, the small touches that flux under and through the rhythms, that adds a complexity and makes the listening experience all the richer. The idea, of course, is that this is not really dancefloor music at all, but ‘mind-music’. . .”

Woo! If you’d like to check out Metabolor for yourself, download it from Immigrant Breast Nest. Onward and upward!

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Speak Onion featured in the Village Voice!

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Woohoo! Check it out: http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-02-09/music/speak-onion-s-wii-teenage-riot/

This article is out. I have to shout out Ray Cummings, who did a great job on the article, and who was a blast to chat with via telephone. You may remember Ray writing a blurb about me previously in his Friday Night Noise column. This article devotes more time to the background of SO, and also reviews the “Trigger Pusher” release. Overall, I’m really pumped, as this is pretty much the best press I’m likely to get. Unless there’s a magazine called Breakcore Illustrated out there somewhere that I just haven’t seen yet. . .  Anyway, I’m hoping this leads to some people checking out the record and coming out to shows. I have so much noise to give!

That leads me to my other big announcement today. . .

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Regen Magazine Loves Metabolor, and So Can You. . .

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Regen magazine recently posted a review of my record from April of last year, Metabolor (IBN002). Check out the review here. Regen says of Metabolor,

“For these brave few that seek out breakcore for their listening enjoyment, Speak Onion is the man for the job. Blending the intricacies of breakcore with the sheer power of noise, Metabolor is perfect for the breakcore fanatic,”

and

“Speak Onion brings forth gunfire drums and imminent doom with his music,”

and

“…but those well-versed in the genre [breakcore] will find Speak Onion a strong player in the field.”

among other fantastically positive things.

What can I say? It’s all true. Find out for yourself by downloading Metabolor from Immigrant Breast Nest. Click Here.

Also, don’t forget about the free show coming up on February 6 at Coco66! And don’t miss out on all the pithy shit I’m tweeting on twitter. And did you get Trigger Pusher yet? Oh, and I was interviewed for an article about Speak Onion in the Village Voice, which should be published on February 2, so look out for that. Ok, that’s basically everything, I think.

Drum’n'Noise 4 Lyfe.

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New Speak Onion Website

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Hey everybody!

The ol’ speakonion.com needed a tuneup, and you’re looking at it. I think this website is a little easier to deal with, and the blog format is working well for me. So have a look around, and go ahead and subscribe to blog.speakonion.com in your RSS reader. Boom.

In other Speak Onion news, I’m taking a little break from shows after an extremely busy summer and fall performance schedule. I’m using the time to work on some new material and make the live stuff that much more deadly. Expect a new release (EP length, I think) before the end of the year, and don’t worry I’ll be back up on stages making it rain with breakbeats and stuff before you know it. Keep an eye here and also at Immigrant Breast Nest for the haps.

Here’s a photo, just because.

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