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If
I can sum up my life in two words to this point, it's computers and music.
As far as I remember, I've always been into the two of them, and now I'm
addicted to both (caffeine as well...) - Back in the day, little did I know they
were to play such a prevalent role in my life.
When
I was 5,  we got
our first computer, the Texas Instruments ZX81 (as well as
owning an Atari 2600, damn they were cool) - it was fate that at that point,
music videos and music video channels were just starting, and I remember staring
at these pop stars with awe, like comic book characters. Computers and
music were just sooo cool. The next years I spent with a Commodore VIC20,
then C64 and had every pirated game out there handy, as well as a tape
deck/radio to listen to all that latest bubblegum happyhappy 80's pop music that
was such a part of my youngest years, I had my favorite Top 10 radio stations
and everything. My parents wanted me to go outside and socialize more, and
I wanted to play video games and call up BBS' and listen to Tiffany and the
Beatles. About the time I got into PCs later, I was just starting Junior
High and had an axe to grind, and in hand, Metallica and Guns N Roses and other
cassettes of more pissed off music of the heavy metal kind to help me vent out
that youth aggression... Those years solidified it and I went on to high
school majoring in Computers in my studies, and wishing I could be James
Hetfield or Axl Rose, still pirating games, still spending all my paper route
money on any used 80's thrash tapes I could get. I even played in a
few bands near the end of high school and realized how much I liked to rock out
and scream my face off to hardcore tunes...
Fast
forward to a few years later; all of my favorite bands had sold out and
went commercial, and things sucked a lot more. I was bored, had no band to
play in and was stuck in college taking a Computer Programmer/Analyst course,
and then I discovered this type of music. I had been into
"industrial" flavours of the heavy metal genre, before, but not really
this particular type of music. I was even more of a recluse, with the internet now around for me to set up web pages for local bands on, and I liked
what I heard... Sort of a combination of the elements of punk and the
aggression of heavy metal, but with the cool sounds and odd mechanized madness
of electronic music, of video game music. I had been waiting so long
unconsciously to hear this. Best of all, these new bands were addressing
the political concerns I was teaching myself about and discovering - I had been
lied to all my life by everyone who was supposed to be an authority figure - not
something too surprising... but the addition of an interest in politics made the
computers and music combo wayyy more different and productive.
 I
started SCHIZOID in Spring 1998 after checking out this shitty sequencer program
and spending hours upon hours messing around with sounds. At this point I was
pissed off with so much that I saw in life. I was reading
psychology-textbooks and found this book "Love and WIll" by Rollo May
- he described the way schizoid personality types are - isolated, artistic, to
themselves, in their own world, in their own reality, indifferent to society as
a whole and forging their own creative bridges to figuring themselves and what
they want out. I could relate to this definitely, and took the SCHIZOID
moniker. The vocals for it all started with a line I wrote out on my
binder in school "What to believe... What to believe?!? The
'truths' so many in number - We don't have to take this shit anymore!
Enough is enough!" - I screamed that over a better sounding-experiment
in Multique, and it rocked...
I
met up with the guys from DTRASH through the internet, and they dug what they
heard, and I was brought aboard. I liked what I heard... this was exactly the
type of music that my mind was designed to enjoy. Hearing this satisfied
so much of my early childhood videogameconditioning, while satisfying my current
cravings for music that was not only aggressive, attitude-filled, feisty and
rebellious, but also chock full of the politics that at this point, I couldn't
look in the mirror if I didn't acknowledge anymore. I made a lot of mental
re-evaluations about shit (including amongst other things becoming a veggie)
from there my involvement in with DTRASH grew more and more, from releasing my
debut album, to starting to do promotional work through the internet for my band
and DTRASH and it all snowballed from there.
After
2-3 years of constant, stubborn, persistent work on the net and in the
disgusting real world, I can say that my vision of where I want to help take
DTRASH isn't even 0.01% complete - though people tell me we're doing pretty good
for ourselves, but fuck it, it's never enough. Every band
should release an album every half-year and as well, every record
label should be as cool to their fans as much as we all wish as fans, that they
could/should be. Too many of my favorite bands have sold out, and gotten
stale, forgot what they were about, and what made me so interested in their
plight and their art... I've been more broken-hearted and disappointed in
my musical heroes, than by any one girlfriend. Like everything else in
life, you have to do it yourself, if you want anything. I'm sick of
pouting about sellouts, I'll make my own music, the tools are there to do so, so
easily. Anyone can do this (I like what Radiohead said, "Anyone
can play guitar"), this is as open to taking part in as the cool early 90's
3-chord grunge band scene, or for that matter, the punk scene/DIY scene all
across the world for the past two decades, music can't be a spectator
sport anymore, we all can have something to contribute to the scene.
In my newest CD, I say "FUCK THE GOVERNMENT, RELIGIONS, MULTINATIONAL
CORPORATIONS", and I mean it, I am bitter about the way humanity has turned
out and the choices it makes, and I want everyone to know about it! I'm no
protester. I'm no people/politician type. I'm a computer addict who
can scream louder than anyone, this is how I express myself, with songs and
lyrics I make on my PC in my home studio.
DTRASH
is the perfect vehicle to release this music through. Whether online
releases, cd-r releases, or pressed releases that have distrobution all over the
world, I can be so much more efficient in terms of the work I have to do, to do
the normal band things that you have to do, if you want more for your band and
your message, than just to appear in some cyberpunk's photocopied black and
white zine.. We don't have to operate on those levels anymore, now our
audience is much more reachable and in contact. Without the internet,
things wouldn't be the same. The whole MP3 card has made DTRASH and
SCHIZOID's jobs that much easier. I love working with DTRASH and seeing
how this exciting and new type of music develops... maybe I'm ambitious, but I
want us who work so hard now, to be a part of the future history of this genre
and referenced like a Black Sabbath-figure-in-the-heavy-metal-scene or
something. We have releases 25 releases to this point of some of the best
artists and CDs that I've ever heard. We can do this, now is the perfect
time... The conditions right now are just like in the 50's before rock n'
roll music started. Simmering under the surface is a whole armada of youth
who dig computers and music just as much as I do, and are making their tracks,
their art, as well to oppose and expose the system that gives them nothing but
government-controlled music about the reality that lies to and oppresses us so
much. I love what I see developing before me... the seeds are definitely
in place and have sprouted, now its only a matter of time, we've got them
running scared...
-SCHIZOID!
SCHIZOID
Discography : (*Coming Soon)
Aug. 2005: Trashed (2001-2005 Remixes) DTRASH
March 2005: w/ DEAD OF WINTER
: At The Helm Of The Abyss PROFOUND
LORE
Aug. 2003: Covered in Metal DTRASH
Nov. 2002: All Things Are Connected : Re-release
DIGITAL HARDCORE
Nov. 2000: Grim Prospects Remixes EP
DTRASH
Aug. 2000: All Things Are
Connected LP DTECH
Spring 2000: 2000 Promoganda
LP DTRASH
August 1999: Enough IS
ENOUGH!!! LP DTRASH/GENERATION
FUCK YOU
SCHIZOID
Compilation Appearances : (*Coming Soon)
2008: "Generation Fuck
You" D-Trash Records Music Videos DVD
DTRASH
"Thorn" - $nooty / Ravers Are Really Intelligent DJ Mix EAR
RAID
"Generation Fuck You", "No Scene", "Is It Me?" -
Eric Millenium / Millenium Selection Vol. 1 MILLENIUM
"Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue" - Gabber Gabber Hey
INVISIBLE
RECORDS
"Nihillusion
(2002)" - R U Ready For The Hellicopter 2 SLUT
FACTORY RECORDS
"Nihillusion
(2002)" - Noizzze - Just Do It
INVASION
WRECKCHORDS
"Spit Ak (Politicogrindcore
Remix)" - Shizit "Remixed For The Revolution" Remix CD D-TRASH
"Generation Fuck
You" & "At What Point?" - Rising Tide Compilation DTECH
"You're
Old, Fuck You!" - Spitbass Tribute to Anal Cunt 1.44MB
"Reset
(Need To Reboot Remix)" - Psychological Bomb Factory "Reset"
Remix CD SEVERED DIGIT
"Elitist Musings"
& "iCare Remix" - Revolution - NOW!!! INVASION
WRECK CHORDS
"En Ring Til Aa Herske"
- Visions; A Tribute to Burzum! UNHOLY
"In Crisis" -
Generation Rx NO ROOM FOR
TALENT
Multiple
tracks from "All Things..." appear on "Don't Fuck With
Us!" Compilation DIGITAL
HARDCORE
"Grim Prospects" -
Space Ju I Wear Your Heart On My Sleeve DARKSIDE
FOR LIFE
"In
Crisis" - I Wear Your Heart On My Sleeve DARKSIDE
FOR LIFE
"Amputate" -
Innovationswerk SUIZID
"Braindead (Terror-Shrooms Remix) - Tonal Destruction DISTORTED
TRANSMISSION ALLIANCE
"We Are The Gods" & "Trashed" - Double Threat Version
One DOUBLE THREAT
"Running Scared" - r.i.p. the system
RIP
THE SYSTEM
"The Grimmest
Prospect" - Digital As Fuck DIGICORE
FAR EAST
"My World" - Riot
Soundz Compilation RIOT
SOUNDZ
"Amputate (Instrumental)"
& "Confusion " - B57 : DTRASH In Tha Mix DTRASH
"Dementia" - Choice Of A New Generation - An Underground Tribute To
Brutal Truth TRENDKILLER
"Avoiding Eye Contact"
& " At War With ALL!!!!!" - B57 : B57 Presents... DTRASH
"Food For Thought (early)"
- Broken Guitarz (Cassette) BEERGUT
"Amputate (early)"
- Sex Beats Volume I 7" DTRASH
"Avoiding Eye Contact"
- The Canadian Independent Box Set (10CDs) MEATHEAD
"Extinct and Obsolete
& Amputate" - Sex Beats Volume II DTRASH
"Illusion Of Comfort?!?
& At War With ALL!!!!!" - White Noise Underground Volume I HARDCORE
ELITE
Other
non-SCHIZOID Releases :
2004: Emergency
Instructions : Safety First!
D-TRASH/DOUBLE
THREAT
2004: Permanent
Frost : (Project with CONTRA)
D-TRASH
2003:
J.Schizoid
: Divided And Conquered GOD
REKIDZ
2003: J.Schizoid
: Static Dynamics
GOD REKIDZ
2003: J.Schizoid
: That Is the Price of Immortality EP
N/A
2001:
Exist : The Tension And the Darkness
D-TRASH
2001:
Exist : Exist D-TRASH
1997: Spun : The Napkin Sessions
ANARCHY
1997: Spun : Caffeine Flashbacks
ANARCHY
1997: Spun : The Caffeine
Experience
ANARCHY
1996: Spun : Assault on Taxandria/Destroying
the Braincell
ANARCHY
1996: Molotov Children/Terpic Stick
: Beware Of The Molotov Children
ANARCHY
1996: Molotov Chidlren : Failure To
Cope With Reality
ANARCHY
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