Zen Weasel: Enhydra Lutris is the zoological name of the sea otter.
blitz: we went with lootah to give more of a "flow" to the name

Zen Weasel: Yes, wherever we can get a gig, yes. Special moment #1: equipment failure, when Blitz's guitar effects processor ran out of batteries and our former computer decided not to play half of the beat, this threw Zen Weasel off on tempo on vocals, so the whole thing was a disgrace. Luckily, the audience was so clueless that they just thought we were bad.
blitz: It was comical, to say the least, everyone thought it was intended. Zen and I were disgraced by the whole affair. I now have a plug in for my effects pedal (batteries won't be running out anytime soon). We play tech a lot. We're both student at New Mexico tech and enjoy performing with full control over stage atmosphere, vid-screen, etc.
cHriSiS: I like playing live, it's about the only exercise I ever get...

Blitz is big, just ask his girlfriend.

Zen Weasel: Yes, mp3 and the internet are good for changing standard views on music ownership and distribution. What the capitalist is trying to say is that the consumer does not own the rights to distribute or, depending on the player, sometimes even LISTEN to the music he buys. This is cast in stark light by DVD/CCA problems and mp3 issues. The inevitable end of this is a populist uprising against the current ludicrous anti-consumer attitudes of the
music industry as a whole.

blitz: I'm more of a technology nut, with all this new music-technology, an artist is now able to complete a project from recording and mastering to distribution all by his/her self. This, along with the distribution of mp3's is turning the music industry upside down. I am 100% for the radical unrising of the indie-artist. This is where innovations in music come from.

cHriSIs: For the better, I hope. However, care must be taken that the technologies (Napster, et al.) that have democratized the distribution of music don't become the instruments of even greater control by the Soulless Minions of Capitalistic Musical Orthodoxy. Sweeping Napster under the rug is just Plan A for the Industry. Plan B is embracing it, then using it to wring even more of your hard earned dollars out of you for their bland soundalike mass-produced junk. Bad as the situation is now, you don't have to pay to hear a song every time you want to play it... yet. There, that's my soapboxing for today. Tomorrow: Why the energy industry will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Zen Weasel: Not unless the label was willing to go non-exclusive distribution, in other words we would like to allow the consumer to privately distribute our music at no profit if s/he so desired.
blitz: Depends on the label... Nothing, RAS, shadow, invisible, yes. Any label more corporate than those, no.
cHriSiS: The only major labels I anticipate dealing with are the ones they don't let you tear off your mattress.

blitz: I guess Zen Weasel doesn't believe in history, so I'll give a little background of us. We met at Peninsula College in Port Angeles Wa, and formed this band on the joke of creating an industrial cover of a spice girls song. Zen moved to new mexico to persue a greater knowledge of mathematics. I moved to Seattle to persue a greater knowledge of audio engineering. After completing a year of audio engineering/MIDI production at Shoreline, I came to the conclusion that the music industry was not the direction I wanted to head into. I wasn't about to spend years being coffee boy at a studio to land an assistant engineer position. So I packed up my synths and moved to New Mexico to go to learn how to build synthesizers at New Mexico tech. Zen and I hooked up on music after we finalized the solo project I had been working on... blitzcraig "first wave"
We experimented around doing "live electronic" and now we're settling into the dark realm of soundscapes and industrial/reggae

cHriSiS: Then one day, I went to a school-sponsored dance. Some lame, boring, techno junk with songs that could not be distinguished from one another. To pass the time, I started banging on a lamppost with a pair of glowsticks. Zen Weasel and Blitz noticed me doing this, and the rest is history.

Zen Weasel: Cat Rapes Dog, Consolidated, Buju Banton, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Hilt, Diana Ross and the Supremes, the Jazz Butcher, Luxuria, the Police, John Brown's Body, Israel Vibration, Mad Professor, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Magazine, the Buzzcocks, Howard DeVoto, Steel Pulse, Macka B, Eddy Grant
blitz: cEvin kEy, Einstruzende Neu Bauten, richard d. james, consolidated, project pitchfork, moby, gridlock, kruder&dorfmeister, front 242, bjork, mad professor, autechre.
cHriSiS: Skinny Puppy, Neubauten (but that's a given, isn't it?), Foetus, The Cure, Killing Joke, Dillinger Escape Plan, any number of new-school hardcore bands, random stuff I happen to hear on the radio or somewhere.

Zen Weasel: Tashkent
blitz: Berlin

Zen Weasel: Bass, Didgiridoo, PVC and ABS Tubes, "found sound", sheet metal, metal pipes
blitz: computer with event gina multitrack, yamaha CS1x synthesizer, red darkstar synthesizer, phatboy midi controller, boss sp-202 sampler, yamaha su10 sampler, guitar, korg ax1g effects pedal, sovtek amp, votec vocalizer, behringer eurorack mixer, snare drum and various other "soundscape" instruments.
cHriSiS: Things I find on the ground.

New addition to Zen Weasel's instruments list: 20 oz plastic soda bottle (with soda).