Underscore (US)
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Scott Baker and Mark Warren formed Underscore in 2003 as a second attempt at releasing music under a proper name.
Scott began recording in 1998 under the name Digital Halo. He wrote two songs as he began to learn the various components of writing electronic music. There is no evidence that he chose the name Digital Halo based on his experien...ce from playing Jesus in a school play.
In 1999, Mark began recording music as well. Received as a birthday gift from a growing interest in music, Mark finished his first album, The Dainja Zone, under the name Dainja that same year. A more-techno inspired album, he distributed it to friends around the web and sold a few copies through the then mighty mp3.com; but a new interesting in industrial music would soon lead to abandoning the project. Japanese Death Machine was Mark's next project and the album The Japanimated Series was finished in 2000.
Upon hearing it on the Internet, Scott contacted Mark. It was then that they shared a spaghetii lunch. Songs were traded and they each immediately saw what they could produce by combining with their newfound partner.
Armed with a Quasimidi Sirius, Safe/Mode was formed almost instantly and a large batch of songs were written. Things then began to slow due to life happening. By 2001, an album still had not been finished. The band's last output came around the beginning of 2002. Mark then met his wife, had a daughter, and the band more or less disbanded due to lack of activity. Although an official album was never released, a collection of all the work over the course of two years is available from the band itself.
However, this was a beast that could not lay dead forever. Mark and Scott each did their own things for awhile and they ultimately always wound up as projects that filled the void of not writing music like they did in those glorious two years.
In the summer of 2003, they reformed. Not only did Scott and Mark find that the spark was still there but that it was also much more powerful. With life still playing a factor, but no longer cutting off the flow of music, Underscore recorded enough material for two albums over the next year and a half.
Now, it is time to let this work out.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
No.
Your musical influences
Pretty much any sound we hear turns out to be an influence. Musically- probably the biggest influence would be Nine Inch Nails.
What equipment do you use?
Alot of VSTi .. Acid .. Orion .. sometimes the Quasimidi Sirius is brought in for reinforcement.
