Oddly enough, I got the idea from a DDR forum.

Before I ever considered doing arranged music, I came across a topic on DDR:Uk that asked: "If you could be a famous DJ, what would your name be?"

I replied and said I'd use either "Dj Demon" or "Dj Chaos", but figured that "Dj Chaos" was probably already used by someone.

Then about 8 months later I was working on my first arranged track, "W47cH 17 13u12N", and decided I should use a new stage name to keep my arranged work separate from my other music.

By then I had decided I liked "Dj Chaos" better, and since I was already using leetspeak in my song titles, I decided to write the Dj name in leet too, to make it a little more original...

...and to avoid having to beat down someone's lawyers.

My first major gig was at Dance Church Dec. 18th 2005--and it was beyond all of my expectations.

To take a room full of Yogi's, swimming high in the ether to escape the cruel beauty of life...

...and bring them crashing back to earth, ripping away the conscious mind and letting the civilized veneer fall to the floor in a pool of sweat...

...yes, it kicked that much ass and more.

It's still a blur--bodies moving, bass so thick you could swim through it, the dancefloor so slick with sweat people were slipping and crashing into the sound sytem...

...and the indescribable feeling of power...

...to fill a room with your sound, and watch people move until their bodies collapse...

...it was better than starting a riot.

I have longed to watch civilization crumble, and that night--in the swirling mass of howling, candlelit forms--I saw it.

Something that powerful, that potent--it's addicting. There's so much raw, primal energy filling up the room--it could take over the world--and you just can't give it up.

Watch out--'cause I'll be bringing the Chaos to your town next!

Well, it lets me reach an audience for one.

Now days you can't get your songs played on the radio without a big name record label backing you up, so the net is pretty much the only way for independent artists to get their work out there.

Sure, people complain about filesharing--but the only bands that really get hit by that are the popular ones who already have millions to spare. You're not going to hear about some unknown, struggling artist going bankrupt because 20 million people who've never even heard of him downloaded his album instead of buying it.

Besides, it's a great way to check out an album before you decide whether to buy it or not. Metallica may complain about lost sales, but that's only because their last album sucked so bad nobody wanted to buy it after they listened to it and realized how awful it was. In my experience, most people who download music do buy the album if it's something they like.


Metallica shouldn't be suing their fans for copyright violation--the fans who got conned into buying "St. Anger" should be suing Metallica for false advertising.

Not a chance in hell.

Major record labels are what's wrong with music today. They've made it all about marketing, when music is supposed to be about self expression.

If I ever need money from a major record label, I'll rob their house.

I started making arranged music in January 2005, and I put together about five tracks in the first week after buying my techno program.

I intended to release my first album, "Hilariously Over The Top" in February, but after this came out in the papers and this happened, I ended up spending the weekend in another town to avoid getting harassed by the riot police.

(I hadn't been added to the lease on my friend's apartment yet, so technically I was one of the "Out of Town Visitors" they were threatening.)

While I hid out in Pismo Beach, I wrote this and put together the lyrics for a remix of the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right (To Party)"

At some time during the whole mess, a student at the local California Polytechnic College wrote a editorial suggesting everybody have a party the weekend after Mardi Gras--when all the storm troopers had left town--and call it "Poly Gras".

Although I was going to be attending a charity concert that weekend, I wanted to do something--so I threw together four instrumental mixes of the songs I was planning to put on my album and banged out a quick studio version of "Fight For Your Right (Mardi Gras IVI1X)" and released it as "Poly Gras Riot Mix".

I only had time to burn a few discs, so I made it a limited edition of 10 and signed each one...

...last time I checked, only a few of them sold--so if you're ever in SLO, stop by Cheap Thrills and pick up a copy--they're only 5 bucks and I need the money.

Right now the main influences for my arranged work are Cab Calloway, KMFDM, The Beastie Boys, and Paradise Lost--but I've been getting back into my Hip-Hop and 20's Swing roots lately, so a lot of good oldschool sound will probably start coming into my work pretty soon.

I listen to just about any kind of music, as long as it's good and intense--and I'm a sucker for a good baseline...

...you know--the low, heavy, subsonic kind that grabs you by the ribcage and chucks you across the room.

My lyrics are more inspired by Swing, Punk, and Death Metal than anything else: Antisocial, intelligent, and sung like you're possessed by a demon.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those wannabe death metal idiots who get up there and sound like they're coughing up a lung--when I do a low, growling vocal there's still tone to it and you can understand what I'm saying.

Other times I'll cut in with a more traditional vocal style, maybe some swing or blues, or throw in some rapping--whatever gets the point across.

As far as I'm concerned, there's really only two kinds of music: Good and Bad

I make the Good kind.

Don't really have one, since the Dwelling got shut down.

Officially it was because their liquor license didn't allow them to play live music, but really the city just wanted to get the punks away from the new Banana Republic they built across the street.

Sometimes I f***ing hate this town.

>A beat up Playstation 2 running Ejay Clubworld and MTV Music Generator 1, 2 and 3

>Whatever computer/laptop happens to be not broken at the moment--usually a laptop with a CD burner

(I have made albums in a coffee shop--and it is good.)

>FL Studio 5, Techno E-Jay, and generally any kind of audio playing/recording/manipulating software I can get my hands on.

>A $400 dollar MIDI keyboard that I got at Radio Shack for $160 because it was a discontinued model

(and because I threw up in the store and they just wanted me out of there so they could call the carpet cleaner.)

>A $50 microphone

>And a whole lot of audio cables...

...now you now why I call it "Jerry Riggs Studios".

"The following tracks are a window into the mind of an insane musician, and may leave you asking:

'What the f*** was that shit?'"