dead circuit

Netherlands

November 20, 2005

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Started around 2000, using mainly ACID to make songs. Later I got more software and became more professional. Around 2003 I came up with a name for my project. This project is an outlet for my emotions, but also for music I like to listen to at the time.

Band/artist history

Started around 2000, using mainly ACID to make songs. Later I got more software and became more professional. Around 2003 I came up with a name for my project. This project is an outlet for my emotions, but also for music I like to listen to at the time.
I also make music for theatre, installations and movies (mainly still productions from my art school).

Have you performed in front of an audience?

No. Not yet. I'd like to when I have the right equipment.

Your musical influences

This is a lot, just a few names; Skinny Puppy, FLA, Converter, Hypnoskull, Imminent Starvation, Winterkalte, VNV Nation, :wumpscut:, Suicide Commando, Hocico, Dulce Liquido, P.A.L., Raison d'Etre, Brighter Death Now, Manufactura, Iszoloscope, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Atrium Carceri,  Download, Velvet Acid Christ, Lustmord, Haujobb, Haus Arafna, Merzbow, Ah Cama-Sotz, Panacea, M2, Venetian Snares, This Morn' Omina, Stratvm Terror, Muted Logic, Megaptera, MZ 412, Hellfish, Feindflug, Covenant, Typhoid, Jean Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode, Tears For Fears, R.E.M., and so much more...
Also important are movies as my influence; the works by David Lynch, Dario Argento, Takashi Miike, Darren Aranofsky, Quentin Tarantino, Gaspar Noe, Alex Proyas, Vincenzo Natali, The Coen Brothers, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg. Some of my all time favorite movies; Eraserhead, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Alien Saga, Blade Runner, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Profondo Rosso, Phenomena, Saw, Evil Dead 2, Braindead, Fight Club, Se7en, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Ringu, Dark Water, Dead or Alive trilogy, Audition, Ichi The Killer, The Crow, Dark City, Cube, Cypher, Seul Contre Tous, Irreversible, Tesis, Los Sin Nombre, American Psycho, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Blade II, The Devil's Backbone, Videodrome, The Fly, eXistenZ, Crash, Halloween, The Thing, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jacky Brown, One Hour Photo, Happiness, Chasing Sleep, Glengarry Glen Ross, Tape, Swimming with Sharks, among many others.

What equipment do you use?

I use a laptop with a lot of software and vst plug-ins. I also use a mic (mostly for soundexperiments. I also use UMX25 from Beringer.
Software I mainly use:
Reason 2.5, ReCycle 2.0, FL Studio 6, Cubase SX3, ACID Pro 4.0, T-Racks 24, Soundforge 5.0 and 7.0

Anything else?

There is a free cd-ep available @ http://pong.hku.nl/fabian/freep-ep.htm

#deadcircuit #fabianVanDerMeer

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