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DJ Kantrip is a deejay in the Seattle, WA area and focuses his work primarily in the genres of Goth, Industrial, and EBM. He plays new, local and regional acts along side crowd faves.

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The Synthetic Dream Foundation "Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory"



06/28/08

Never judge a book by its cover, or title for that matter. Yes I am talking about a CD here, but the same principle applies. At first look, the latest release from Brett Branning's The Synthetic Dream Foundation "Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory" looks and sounds like something full of neo-renaissance music akin to Qntal, Corvus Corax, or maybe even Inkubus Sukkubus (or are they spelling it with C's again). However the digipak's art and title are misleading. What you get is about 60 minutes of hard, dark, and fast industrial that sounds like it belongs in a sci-fi movie's soundtrack.

Big thundering beats and deep synth loops make up the backbone of most of the tracks, but the meat of the songs range from something sinister and apocalyptic or fast and hopeful. Tracks like "They Who Breathe Darkness" or "Formless Beasts" embrace the dancier "hopeful stuff" while songs like "They Who Breathe Darkness" and "Among the Angels Debri" angle along the former moods. A big sell for me on any album that is largely instrumental is how it all flows together. Too many slow tracks grouped together and then jumping to fast make the album boring but if you keep jumping from fast to slow then you make the album distracting and the listener has a hard time losing themselves in it. "Behind..." has a nice balance to it overall. Tracks that start out hard and fast usually end on a fading slow note, and then a "slow" track will take over. All of the tracks are completely club friendly. They all have a nice beat that make them fit right in with some songs from E Nomine, Juno Reactor, Haujobb, or This Morn Omina. It just depends if you want "4 on the floor" or something a bit more disjointed.
Now 90% of the album is instrumental but there are some tracks with vocals to them. The vocals consist of a raspy voice reminiscent of Suicide Commando or Hocico. With the way that Brett Branning creates these very heavy soundscapes the raspy lyrics sound almost like some other loop or sequence that has been added to the mix. Normally vocals like this will cause me to click to the next track, but I enjoy them as part of the experience, in this case.

Since receiving this album in the mail it’s hardly been out of my CD decks. I highly recommend giving it a listen, and if you're a fan of what I am calling "Epic Industrial Music" (as in instrumental electro stuff that seems to tell a story), then I HIGHLY recommend giving this album a listen.

You can learn more about TSDF at: http://www.tsdf.net/

Updates and absences



06/28/08

I get really tired of how work saps me of my will and desire to update and keep abreast of events and things. Oh well. What can one do.

So if you go to the Events page you will notice that the lastest batch of flyers aren't resized to fit the screen. Sorry. I am reworking the page so that its IE friendly and also the flyers can be clicked on so that you can view the images fullsize but that's taking up more time than I have right now.

I also have a review of The Synthetic Dream Foundation "Behind the Gates of Horn and Ivory" which will be posted later today coming soon as well. Aside from that its just a lot of catch up right now for me on all fronts. My work schedule has me switched up from early mornings to nights again so hopefully with my body back on its natural nocturnal schedule I can be more active here. Thanks to everyone that's been making sure I'm alive and well.

Eccentrik Festival Street Team: Flyers and Banners



05/10/2008

Hello Eccentrik Festival Street Team!!!

Okay time for another update.

First off another band has been added to our line up: The Brides

"I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met THE BRIDES when they took the stage after what seemed like fifty years of earlier acts.

All very good, all making time, because no one had come for anything other than THE BRIDES...

Then the theatre went wild! First aid men and police-men in the stalls, women mainly in the balcony-taut and anxious, patrolled the aisles, one every three rows.

Many fainted. Thirty were gently carried out, soiled pants, protesting in their hysteria, forlorn and wretched in an unrequited love for three boys and a girl who might have lived next door.

The stalls were like a nightmare March Fair. No one could remain seated. Clutching each other, hurling jelly babies at the stage, beating their brows, the youth of the world surrendered themselves totally to THE BRIDES."

- Marianna Trench (from her book Fifty Years Adrift)

For more information, check out: http://www.myspace.com/thebrides

Also we have a webflyer and banner for you to start putting up on your sites, blogs and bits of the internet.


Here's the links:



Link: http://www.darkbohemia.net/img/flyers/eccentrikwebflyer.jpg

and



Link: http://www.darkbohemia.net/img/flyers/Eccentrikbanner.gif

Feel free to download and spread around the web.

We are still in the process of finalizing the venue location so as soon as more info is gleaned on that front we'll be posting that and updating the flyers accordingly.

Thank you all again for your support and we hope to see you in October for Eccentrik 2008



DJ Kantrip

NEW MUSIC REVIEWS!!!

04/22/2008

Brand new Music reviews for Lunascape, Individual Totem, Voltaire, Abney Park and Iris on the Reviews page.

Go give them a read!!!

DJ Kantrip

Eccentrik 2008: Bands Announced!!!

04/22/2008

Greetings Eccentrik Street Teamers!!!

Well its been a quiet few months but we've got lots of news for you about this year's batch of bands. We're excited to announce the following acts for 2008's Eccentrik Festival:

Nicki Jaine, Unextraordinary Gentlemen, Vernian Process, Jill Tracy, and The Ghosts Process.

To learn more about each of these acts:
Nicki Jaine: http://www.nickijaine.com/
Unextraordinary Gentlemen: http://www.unextraordinarygentlemen.com/
Vernian Process: http://movementproductions.net/vernianprocess.html
Jill Tracy: http://www.jilltracy.com/
The Ghosts Project: http://www.myspace.com/theghostsproject

And with this being the 5th year of Eccentrik, I've been told that there's more to come. Remember thought that if you're in a band, there is still time to submit for the event. Just email us @ bands AT eccentrikfestival DOT com for more information or visit our website http://www.eccentrikfestival.com/bands

Also DJ submissions are being accepted until July 1st 2008. For submission criteria please see http://www.eccentrikfestival.com/djs Note: that we are needing a Demo CD for consideration of your submission.

With the first acts of Eccentrik 2008 announced, hopefully we'll have webflyers, and some banners soon. So until then if you've been helping to build up excitment for this year's festival then please spread the word about our amazing line up. Also get those DJ submissions in. Last year we had an amazing diverse line up of talent and it would be damn cool if we could have that again.

Thanks for all your support and see you in October.

DJ Kantrip
Eccentrik Street Team Coordinator

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