James Squeaky + Hando
@Westside Welding Shack (photo by Brizbomb)
Influences
Argumentix Boss of Goth
CD 60 min
This is the first album I wish to be remembered by. Recorded through a bleak year of my life, 2006, Boss of Goth is an album of power-mourning, demon-fighting and vengeance-fucking. Trapped inside despair over the death of true love, childhood, and joy, I have always clung voraciously to a promise of a better tomorrow. I finished this album in March of 2007 and held on to it until now to make sure I would still love it enough to make 500 of them.
Boss of Goth includes industrial punk and pop style songs with occasional fleeting dance beats and bursts of harsh noise. Vocals are the central focus, creating sweet pop ballads and lurking creep-stalker punk melt-downs. A variety of microphone processing accompanying sequencers, drum machines, and tons and tons of manipulated cassette tapes. Twisted collage journeys and quick punches to the throat. A fitting comparison perhaps half joking: To Live and Shave in LA meets Nine Inch Nails, with the spirits of Edward Ka-Spel, Suckdog, and bedroom four track. Includes 6 songs that have appeared regularly in live performances. Oh yeah, and I play piano on the last track.
Album includes two hidden bonus tracks. The first a live performance caught at the end of my "temper tantrum approach" to harsh noise performance. The second is Dragging an Ox Through Water (aka Brian Mumford) singing a cover of my song "Save Life's Golden Receipt in Case Refund Needed." Both were recorded at Someday Lounge by Ryan Olson.
CD comes with a 12 page booklet with lyrics. Cover art by Brian Mumford
$7 postpaid in US, add $3 for other places, paypal to james@belowpdx.com
Sounds Like
at a house party in Val Verde - A huge mosh pit while Argumentix sang about his dead mother in the center of the crowd. No lights on except a single flashlight being pointed at Argumentix's head. Like being in a dream. Extreme aggresion and sorrow at the same time, in a Lynch like setting. Shit. (Brian Miller)
"At the most basic level, Argumentix's music is about two things: tapes and voices. Collecting discarded and damaged tapes of music and field recordings, James Squeaky - the man behind Argumentix - layers drum machine beats and queasy, processed vocals and finds sounds to create something that sounds not unlike Ariel Pink doing musique concrète."
Hi! So, I get asked a lot to help set up shows for people in Portland. I appreciate the responsibility and I'm usually open to help. However, lately I have been a bit overwhelmed and to be honest, setting up Noise shows (specifically) in Portland is not that easy these days. I'm afraid I just don't have the time/resources right now to set up shows. I also help run a myspace calendar of Noise shows, so my suggestion is to check that out myspace.com/pdxnoise and follow the links to find resources for booking a show.
And... I am currently working on a Hardcore band (also featuring: Dan Rizer, Mikey Zorman and Mason Crumley called The Cysts. First show, Halloween 2008.
What up all you kickass people. Ha, We've gotten some complaints about the swearing. Fuck that hahhaa. Ok, now to the point. Vote for our song Show me the way for the toyota rock the space contest by Pushing the Grab this button and putting this mixtape on your myspace
YOU ROCK!!! The song moved to #4 on the Toyota Rock the Space Contest! Halfway 2 Neptune is in the Top!!! Play it today to keep it there and move it up! They will be choosing only 4! TELL EVERYONE!!!! XOXOXX
WHAAAAAAAAAAT UP!!! Just sayin what up to our favorite mother fuckers. We are in the middle of recording for the myspace toyata music mix tape contest. First place gets a record deal with myspace and alot of fender gear. You decide who wins. We will keep you posted. ~ Lead, lead your life, lead it twice, but live it your own way~ Your biggest fan, Reeper Valentine
Hey whats goin on. Just stoppen by to tell ya that we re did the site. Now theres a bitchen game at the bottom of the page where you try to stop pot smoking aliens. Enjoy along with the tunes. peace ~Reeper Valentine~
Hey there Argumentix Bridgetown Comedy Festival is finally here!!! Starts this Thursday so get your tickets by visiting www.bridgetowncomedyfestival.com
Watch this interview and tell Andy that you support Portland Comedy!
12 yr old version of the Closet Man, book he’s readin has major significance toward the mystery of who he grows up to become…
THE CLOSET MAN, WRITTEN AND CREATED FOR FILM BY MIKE DECKER.........TO BE FILMED AND DIRECTED BY DAMON PARSON.........
Born without a chance to a prostitute mother and a bedroom in the closet this young individual will rise to become much more then whatever you think he is…
In the beginning you think of him as dumb, slow, screwed up from childhood, haunted from his mother’s murder, and homeless other then, well, your closet… You’re scared of him because you never know which closet he may come out of and no idea what he’ll look like when he does, as his disguise changes with each closet he visits, and stalking you from the inside of your own home for up to weeks before he strikes!
Later you mystically begin to realize there is more to this Closet Man killer then ever imagined and eventually chilled as you digest just how much more to him there really is, a story, a goal, and even an end game that is revealed in twist after twist up until the final twisted moment revealing the truth and making sense of all the previous twist and turns that baffle you right till the very end, leaving you breathless…
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