Posts Tagged ‘industrial’

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. . .

This past Saturday’s set videos!

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Saturday night at Coco66 was amazing. What an awesome show. Everyone really nailed it, and dang that Coco66 PA is no joke. Thanks to everyone who came out. My first show on the new set-up went really great. I was nervous without my familiar Numark DJ mixer and Echo Park delay, but the Nord G2 really killed it. My favorite quote form the night was when some girl came up to David B. Applegate during my set asking, “WTF is that stuff he’s playing it looks like he’s got nothing up there!!!” That’s right. Just an IKEA Gorm shelf packed with synth-y goodness.

Anyway, here’s videos. The first one is based on “Many Fewer Branches” from Metabolor, and the second one is from an as-yet unreleased remix. More about that soon. Don’t miss my awesome post-set dance moves in part 2. I hope the sound is halfway decent on these, but the PA was sooooo loud and soooo bassy, and my darling WIFE, while videotaping, was sitting on one of the sub-woofers, so the camera’s microphone really couldn’t hang. It sounded awesome in the room. Trust me.

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.

Speak Onion blowing up Brooklyn, Sat. 2/6/10!

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

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I’m returning to my favorite venue in NYC, Coco66, next month for my first show of 2010. And it’s 100% free so you might as well come accept the gift of loud music from me and everyone at Immigrant Breast Nest. I’m really excited about playing with some of NYC’s finest electronic music scientists, Joy Through Noise, Insect Deli, and Naetron. This will be a really epic night of music. I mean, you were going to be out drinking that night anyway, so you might as well do it at this FREE show. I’ll bring the beats, you bring the party.

Trigger Pusher released on I.B.N. today!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

The time is here. Trigger Pusher is now available for you to download from Immigrant Breast Nest. This record grew out of the live performance style I developed throughout 2009 by playing all the shows I could. These 2 tracks are very long and, like my live sets, full of drastic shifts and changes, beats and loops working their way in and out of noise, and just non-stop intensity right from me to you. I’m as proud of this music as anything I’ve ever made, and it represents exactly what Speak Onion is about. This form of electronic music is the purest way I can think of to communicate what I think is good and exciting. There’s no needless DSP wankery, no long DJ-friendly intros and outros, no ironic samples, no  pretentious art-house rambling, no bullshit. Just as much awesome sound as I could come up with and shove into 2 tracks. I hope you like it. I can’t wait to drop these beats in my upcoming live sets.

Trigger Pusher is, as everything else I do, available as a free download. Click the cover to get it. The label’s promo text is after the cover.

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Just in time to ruin New Year’s Eve parties from coast to coast, Speak Onion’s latest release, “Trigger Pusher,” aims to capture the style of his live sets, overflowing with energy and unpredictability.  These two very-long-form tracks roller-coaster into and out of of chaos; stomping, clawing and weirding out, unfurling into your ears and brain.  While it may have the soul of a fire-breathing basement party, “Trigger Pusher” has more than enough acrobatic beats, king-sized basslines, and warped hooks to make it a potential headphone favorite.  And it’s all done with Speak Onion’s patented intensity.  Warn your ear drums and go for it.

–Dan