Provocative lyrics and hard driving beat. DJX analog controls manipulated on the fly to
create some interesting variances. Pounding industrial sounding rhythms. Great chorus/bridge.
Almost on the verge of becoming metalish in sound. Distinct blend of the DJX intermixed
with a plethora of trashy sounding voices. Excellent use of the DJX overall. This is a good mix.
I enjoyed the overall drive and rhythm. The vocals made it sound a little along the lines of
something you might find in an action intensive movie. I think the vocals could have been a little
more intense and would have liked to have heard a little more intensity on the clashing and
trashing sounding voices. I could imagine this being used for a Nightmare On Elm Street Movie.
Nice grooving bass.

This thing is crazy! I couldn't understand the lyrics, but this thing is intense, intense, and almost
evil sounding. Sounds like Freddy Kruggar is singing it! It's got some really crazy, driving,
tripped out, funky sound mix in the beginning that is a good sort of weird. Nice guitar. Love the
rhythm and use of clashing that almost sounds like a stalled car trying to startup. Simple bass
and very digital sounding drums. There was really nothing very distinctly DJX in the overall
composition so that helped lower the score. It's a really creative and hip mix.

The electronic heavy-aural delight Digital Buddha actually harkens back to the melodic synth rock of the 1980's than the crank driven techno dance music of today. (It now makes me realize how much I miss the cold war.) Started as a collaboration between multi-insturmentalist Richard Reifenstein and spoken-word artist David Rullo, Digital Buddha delivers well-crafted songs and wonderful wll though out arrangements rather than just a bunch of frenetic beats augmented with beeps, burps and scratches. This is electronic music with hear and soul. The Buddha will smile. --Phil Harris

Richard Reifenstein and David Rullo, the duo behind Digital Buddha, are taking full advantage of the information superhighway as a means of transporting their music into the ears of the masses. The electronic art rock band touts its unconventional sound as one that is equally suited for a dance club or an art gallery.
Borrowing from William Burroughs the twosome use a cut up poetry process to make their lyrics.
Fans of industrial music will appreciate Digital buddha and their Nine Inch Nails inspired sound. "Message Redemption" has somewhat of a Middle Eastern feel, overlapped by samples of "amplified loss, telivised reality, broadcast dreams..."
Because Pittsburgh's electronica following is sizably smaller than cities like NY or DC the group has used the web to get their music exposure. Their single "Time" is a hit on the internet and receives airtime on NOW-a combined TV channel and website. Digital Buddha are well on their way to establishing a world wide fan base without straying far from their home

The Pittsburgh electronic band Digital Buddha saw an opportunity and ran with it when they uploaded some of their tracks onto Soundclick.com, an internet site featuring both signed and unsigned bands. A few months later they got a call from another website, NOW.com. Turns out the band's single, "Time" was popular enough to earn a spot on Soundclick's Internet chart. A quick upload onto NOW later the song was being broadcast to 150 million viewers all across Europe and Asia. "It's pretty cool to have a woman with a British accent talking about us and knowing we're from the other side of the world," says Digital Buddha computer man David Rullo. The band-which likens itself to "a combo of Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie and King Crimson" currently has about a dozen pieces on the net and just cut a CD, "The Revolution Will Be Digitized" which will be available on MP3.com. Rullo, however views the disc more as a promotional tool than a big seller, "we get about 20 to 30 listens a day on each of the individual sites" but who can say for sure? Eight months ago they were just two guys with a computer and guitar. So check out NOW.com's online show MP3TV at 10:30 September 11 for a broadcast of "Time."

With additional members and new recordings, Digital Buddha emerges from their binary meditation to release their new CD. The group will host a CD release party on Saturday June 23rd at the Roman Room on the South Side. This will also be one of their first public performances of the group with newest member Greg Damjanovic.