It's A Scam
Hailing from the city of Toronto, It's A Scam is about blending electro with rock
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Started making electronic based music in 2001 with Oatmeal Jockstrap... It was very primative and not very coherant, but such is the way of experimentation sometimes. Shortly thereafter started a new electro-rock project, Starot., with Teddy Tazer.. played one show, but bombed due to various circumstances (mostly lack of practice!). Went back to solo stuff as It's A Scam shortly thereafter
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Haven't played live with this project yet.. I'm still trying to find vocalists!
Your musical influences
Some of my influences are early industrial such as Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and the like, branching out into newer, heavier industrial such as Strapping Young Lad, Unit: 187, Ladytron, Felix Da Housecat, Adult., etc.
What equipment do you use?
Hardware:
Macintosh G5 dual-core 2GHz, iBook G3 700MHz, iMac G3 233MHz
M-Audio MobilePre (1st Gen), M-Audio Oxygen8 MIDI controller, Fender 15G amp, Ampeg fliptop Tube Bass Amp, Paul Bass amp, Gibson SG Menace, Epiphone V, Fender Jazz Bass, Noname Acoustic guitar, Yamaha dirty ass old keyboard, various microphones, vocoded megaphones, recorders, flute, harmonicas etc etc etc
Software:
Ableton Live, Cubase, Reason, Apple Logic, GarageBand, Sound Studio, SpongeFork, various plugins
