“Yeah I guess you could say it’s a side project. I kind of riffed on the name LZR MTN my friend came up with. The idea would be dance music based on Star Trek. Boogie on the Battlebridge is based on the thing they command the enterprise from when they separate the main dish from the rest of the ship. Glam’hadar is a riff on the scary guys from Deep Space 9 the Jem’Hadar. The Prophets are gods from DS9 and the Fire Caves are where the demons live, so when I named the song Fire Caves I decided it should have “fuck da prophets” in there somewhere.

The inspiration is I’m studying to be an electronic engineer, so I spend a fuckton of time sitting in front of my computer doing math homework. While I’m doing that I watch 10+ episodes of star trek a day. So, it kind of came together.

I’m mostly using an old analog Yamaha synth and free music editing software to make it.”

http://www.myspace.com/foundcatatron

DJ Phantom

Disco Droppings is very happy to team up with LIFT, a bomb diggity promotional company…keep your eyes out for upcoming (often unreleased) songs from electronic artists!

AutoKratz, keepin’ it tough with the single “Always More”-wonderful producers jump on board for remixes (Yuksek is fantastik!)

www.myspace.com/autokratz

Artist: Autokratz | Song: Always More (Yuksek Vocal) by Disco Droppings

Artist: Autokratz | Song: Always More (Shadow Dancer Vocal) by Disco Droppings

Artist: Autokratz | Song: Always More (GoshiGoshiVocal) by Disco Droppings

Booka Shade- electric!!! + Cassius remix!!

www.myspace.com/bookashade

Artist: Bookashade, Song: Bad love (Kaiser disco Vocal) by Disco Droppings

Artist: Booka Shade | Song: Bad Love (Kaiser disco Radio Edit) by Disco Droppings

Artist: Booka Shade, Song: Bad love (Kaiser disco Dub) by Disco Droppings

Artist: Booka Shade, Song: Bad love (Cassius Vocal) by Disco Droppings

P-P-P-PROMO, peepin’ nu musik for all ya’ll

DJ Phantom

Artist: Syphilis Sauna | Song: Teelophone by Disco Droppings

http://www.myspace.com/syphilissauna8

INTERVIEW

1. How were you introduced to electronic music?

Initially thru gangster rap . I loved that they talked about murder and blow jobs . the beats were always hard to me as well . later on of course i got more into earlier industrial noise and IDM . .. that pretty much started me into making it .. and now some 11 years later I find myself full circle .. I spend more time making rap beats then anything else ..

2. How has your music creation process developed over time?

At first it was all made with hardware .. complex midi chains and simplistic patterns with heavy consideration to melody ( I think this is something that most producers do at first .. they want everything to sound like Philip Glass or LPD or something) I used to play piano for hours and hours .. at one point even cutting my finger tips so that I could play faster .. fast forward and I started getting into Circuit bending (because I couldn’t afford to buy new gear) . After I moved to Seattle I started getting into creating music with a laptop .. which of course has its strengths and weaknesses . .. these days I’d say I work on a much more conceptual basis (I’ll do a song about a book or dream or whatever) with special attention being made towards the live set .. nothing worse then a jerk with a laptop not moving or anything ..

3. Have you always been handling so many sounds in your music?

No . my first few Syphilis Sauna albums were rather simple .. though definitely still related (by which I mean they still are pleasantly annoying). I think that as you listen to more and more complex music the ability to understand and thus create it your self increases ..

4. Currently, who are some of your favorite artists?

Well I haven’t had much time lately to really dig in .. so mainly have been listening to old staples : Goblin , Coil , Crystal Castles , NWA , DR Octagon , Necro etc.. though recently was turned on to Die Antwoord and Jack Parow .. really like what’s going on in South Africa currently .. I feel like modern American hip hop is total garbage (the beats are progressive but the raps are drivel) .. it’s like the golden era over there or something ..

5. What is the electronic scene like in your part of Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh has a long history of being electro-centric . and Ive had the chance , since moving here about 7 months ago , to meet some people that are definitely very dedicated to underground electronic music of all different sorts . I’ve heard it’s in a bit of a lull and indeed its hard to get big numbers of people at shows versus club nights .. though I have heard some amazing live sets here and also think that this summer will be one of joining forces to make shit happen .. Pittsburgh is a PRIME location . so would really like to create something similar to what we’ve done in Seattle and Denver .. a place where producers and musicians of all sorts of underground electronic music can play to a decent crowd that loves weird shit .. I have a good feeling.

Till next time-

DJ Phantom

H2USE.mp3

INTERVIEW.

1. How were you introduced to electronic music?

I suppose my first time enjoying electronic music was listening to my Jock Jam CD’s when I was in 4th grade. Then it turned into Daft Punk, Prodigy, yeah, not a really impressive entrance. My introduction to this niche genre of electronic music was stumbling across Paul Slocum and his synthcart for the Atari 2600 (http://www.qotile.net/synth.html), Animal Style (http://filefreakout.com/animalstyle/), and x|k (http://www.wayfar.net/).

2. How has your music creation process developed over time?

Going way back I just played guitar for an arty punk band, which consisted of me thrashing on a couple of chords and making pterodactyl sounds with my collection of effect pedals. This unethical approach to music just kind of evolved into me discovering music made on trackers. Started with Famitracker, wrote a couple of CD’s of material for the NES. Picked up LSDJ for the Gameboy, and have been doing that ever since. Something about writing/performing music on real hardware spoke to me and my old knob twisting days.

3. Currently, who are some of your favorite artists?

An artist that I respect the most out of my library has to Justin Broadrick, especially Jesu. I tend to listen to long, strung out music more than “dancey” music, though it still can inspiring within it’s own rights. To give you an idea: Eluvium, Nero’s Day at Disneyland, Mogwai, M83, Flying Lotus, Alex Mauer, GOTO80, Xiu Xiu, New Order, Hella, Eat Rabbit, Stay Ali, Cerror, Cheap Dinosaurs, and so many
more.

4. What is the electronic scene like in your part of Olympia?

I don’t live in Olympia anymore (Tacoma), but I wasn’t really a part of a scene, unless an handful of friends throwing shows in a basement counts. Seattle seems to be dying at a slow rate, though I hope Infradead, McFiredrill, and I will jumpstart the lo-fi electronics with our upcoming Shiftwave. The Portland electronic scene is alive and kicking, and keeps me coming back every time I’m booked for a Reactionary event.

Drop by one of his upcoming shows!

5/5 Cinco De Mayo @ Denny’s (Lakewood, Wa)
5/7 Reactionary (Portland, Or)
5/29 R.O.S.S.FEST @ The Fort (Olympia, Wa)
6/26 Shiftwave as Boys Club (Seattle, Wa)
8/25 Milestone Club W/ Wet Mango (Charlotte, NC)

www.superbutton.net/chumba.php

www.myspace.com/ovenrake

I really dig this guys musik…hella dig.

INTERVIEW.

1. How were you first introduced to electronic music?

I guess all of us ’80’s-born-children have never not been surrounded by electronic music. Whether it be the games we played or the god awful commercials aired on the Television. But for me, I didn’t really begin to “see” all that noise as stimulating music until I was in the 7th grade (13/14 years old) when a friend of mine’s older sister traded me a Nine Inch Nails disc for Aphex Twin’s RDJ album. I believe for whatever reason, the Universe wanted me to listen to this music and learn from it. And that I did. For the next 10 years I would listen to music alike in awe, imagining how one could put such intricate designs together. It wasn’t until summer 2005 when I first began creating my own productions. Stumbling over techniques I had only thought of, I found a German program called Ableton would allow me to make most of my “messy ideas” and turn them into something real I and others could listen to, and heck maybe even enjoy. So, after spending about two years making dogshit, I finally began to make songs that sounded almost like unique pieces of work.

2. Your sound has an interesting fusion of blissed out hip-hop and, r&b and electronic sounds-who are some of your big influences?

As a young boy growing up with two older brothers when hip-hop was at it’s boom boom stage, inevitably i was going to hear a lot of both hip-hop AND r&b. sayin? Now, it’s like I can’t help it. Sometimes (most of the time) I just like to make a nice hip-hop beat to toss around.

3. What the electronic music scene like in your area?

I am currently attending a school in the U.S. /WA. However, if your referring to where I stay in tokyo…. thats a whole ‘nuther lonnng story (^-^)/

4. Big plans for the rest of 2010?

2010 holds a lot in store for both Pressure Suit as well as my rock band (One Carper Green) we have shows booked throughout Japan for September-Oct that we are super excited for. Also too, I plan to release an actual Pressure Suit disc. Maybe full length maybe only a few songs…. I’ll let my buddies decide what songs they like and go from there.

http://www.myspace.com/pressuresuit

Dazed & Confused,

DJ Phantom