Enhydra Lootah
industrial reggae darkwave with an island sound
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blitz: Industrial/reggae... I think it's electro-hardcore with an island sound.
Zen Weasel: I like to think of us as Controlled Bleeding with the hardcore edge of Bunny Wailer.Band/artist history
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.Have you performed in front of an audience?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...
Your musical influences
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.What equipment do you use?
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.Anything else?
New addition to Zen Weasel's instruments list: 20 oz plastic soda bottle (with soda).
Socorro, NM
USA
ID
3764
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Comments (3)
We just finish this great song I think you should really check this one out! It's called 'Roll it up by 7thSign Music.
Here's where you can find it:
Band page: http://www.soundclick.com/7thsignmusic
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