For booking inquiries contact Kelly at Black Crown Entertainment 720-560-9595.
Chris Marburger: performance, production, arranging
Occasional collaboration with others...
Influences
Haujobb, Dark Illumination, Birmingham 6, Bigod 20, Razed in Black, Apop, VNV, 242, Covenant, Joy Division, The Fall, Omni Trio, Combichrist, IOC, Cabaret V, Richard H. Kirk, Early Juno Reactor. Eon, LFO (the early 90s techno band, not the cheesy-ass little boy band) . Frontline A. Visage, Kraftwerk, Psychic TV (Just the remixes), Leather Strip... plus whatever weird, catchy shit I hear on 1190 or KNGU... The weirder the better. I hate watered-down, radio-friendly bullshit. It makes me want to manufacture human lampshades...
Sounds Like
Beats, breaks and boops. Gothic self-pity, clubby narcissism, and a dash of paprika. And salt.
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For booking inquiries contact Kelly at Black Crown Entertainment 720-560-9595. History:
Been making music forever. More versed in musical composition/technique than knob-twisting. Learned to play b4 I learned to play engineer.
Equipment: Akai MPC 2k and a lot of coffee.
From the age of six I was possessed of a nihilistic, subversive bent. This sounds outrageous, but I distinctly remember watching commercials back then where fake statistics were spouted with a sense of authoritative legitimacy--how "95%" of dentists recommended brand x of a toothpaste over the "leading brand", or of how "most housewives" preferred a particular detergent. I remember seeing this and making an unconscious, inarticulate decision to never fit in to any cliche predetermined by somebody else. It's strange, but at that young age I began rejecting societal and social patterns where I felt they abused my intelligence.
This was around the same time that punk of the 70's became "post punk of the late 70's and early 80's, and further followed by new wave acts like Gary Numan, Duran Duran, and A Flock of Seagulls. I remember hearing Gary Numan's "Cars" on a friend's clock radio in his parents' bedroom for the first time and was completely transfixed. My friend wanted to leave to go and play but I wouldn't budge until the song was over. I was extremely musically sensitive from the age of four and hated the standard rock band formula of two guitars, a bass, and drums, with the ever-predictable verse-chorus-bridge. But here, in these strange synthesizers and unconventional chord patterns, was something new. My tastes were forever carved in stone. Electronic music from Europe became a permanent influence on how I viewed the world at large.
I'd also favored full-blown orchestral arrangements--particularly in a minor key--from the age of 4 "Nights in White Satin" was (and is) one of my favorite songs. The theme from 2001 also captured me. These songs are pop culture cliches by now but to my innocent ears at the time they moved me intensely and, like new wave, left a permanent impact on how I viewed music. No wonder I hated hair bands---they were musical bottom-feeders.
I am one of those who is a true savant and should have been put in special schools for talented kids but my life took various turns toward strangeness, isolation, and tragedy. I had a self-centered, unresponsive father who truly didn't know what to do with a kid like me. He was an alcoholic and exhibited the myopic narcissism that addiction fosters. My mother yelled at me and physically abused me much of the time because I was restless and troublesome. I exhibited some of my father's impulsive tendencies and would steal things or go places I shouldn't--she couldn't cope with the pressures brought by an unruly child.
My father began hitting my mother and my parents divorced when I was ten. She took me and my sister to Colorado and we lived there for a year and a half until she had a stroke and was in a coma for about six months. We then lived with my father in California where I marked my adolescence with arrests, juvenile hall, a two year bout of homelessness, and the destruction of our already fragile, isolated family. Through my behavior and my father's new addiction to crack cocaine, he had a breakown and moved home to Wyoming. I couldn't survive in Cali so I moved to Wyoming with my father at the age of 20.
At the age of 23 I found my father hanging in our garage. He took his own life at the age of 47.
These events and many others served to reinforce my central core of anger, subversion, and nihilism whose perfect outlet I find in the disciplined yet chaotic arrangements of industrial music. Throughout these strange times (and despite them) I taught myself how to play piano and record music, buying new equipment as I went, and teaching myself how to make music from scratch.
I am humble because I've been destroyed so many times. And I present the edginess of the proverbial isolated genius. This scares people or makes them reject me because I appear crazier than I am. Welcome to fucking life.....
Pseudokiss Masochist is a personal attack on the phoniness and stupidity I see in our culture. It's an expression of bitterness at the fickle club scene and how much of a tease it is. Despite my hatred of pretty dancers and the social exclusion I suffer I feel compelled to be a part of the scene for the sake of my music. Pseudokiss=fake kiss=tease. Masochist=someone who appears to get off on pain. I must be a pseudokiss masochist if I perpetually expose myself to this bullshit club scene. And Pseudokis Masochist sounds like the title of any other pretentions eurotrash band, no? Through exclusion I fit in and through subversion I create a tiny following. Pseudokiss Masochist is a two-word poem hat expresses irony and sarcasm in the flesh fair of the music biz.
And NOW-----------------------
I'm beginning to achieve recognition and will be interested to see what 2008 presents my project.
I was recently played by Vin K-Otic on realindustrialradio.com, an internet station based in Los Angeles. I've also been on KCSU twice and KGNU once thanks to DJ's Asbestos and Mudwulf, respectively. I've played many gigs in the Denver underground scene and have made many friends and supporters for which I am very grateful.
Ever fucking onward, bitches. I'm after you.................
pseudochris of Pseudokiss Masochist
I am getting ready for my FIRST LIVE performance 7/31 at the Hi-Dive in Denver, and I will be playing NEW music I made this week for my 4th ALBUM - Killing Me Slowy.........
I posted a NEW track UP at my player that I WILL PLAY LIVE called: "Neo-Evil JZBlackGothik"
GOTH - DARK - LOUD - And Sci-Fi-Darkwave mix................
Peace! Jay
JZBlackGothik
------------------ 07/31/2008 06:30-10:30 PM - Hi-Dive - 16+ BAR - W/ID 7 S. Broadway Denver, Colorado 80209 US Cost: $8 - $10 at door ------------------
I am getting ready for my FIRST LIVE performance 7/31 at the Hi-Dive in Denver, and I will be playing NEW music I made this week for my 4th ALBUM - Killing Me Slowy.........
I posted a NEW track UP at my player that I WILL PLAY LIVE called: "Neo-Evil JZBlackGothik"
GOTH - DARK - LOUD - And Sci-Fi-Darkwave mix................
Peace! Jay
JZBlackGothik
------------------ 07/31/2008 06:30-10:30 PM - Hi-Dive - 16+ BAR - W/ID 7 S. Broadway Denver, Colorado 80209 US Cost: $8 - $10 at door ------------------
Thanks for inviting me to see you at Kazmos........that WAS GREAT........sorry for buggin' you before you started playing.......I want TO LEARN how to play LIVE badly, and I WILL JUST fuckin' GO DO IT...........! Yessss........
You and Silver Cord were awesome. I will post pics of this up this WEEK when I can.......... was relaxing and cool
Aside from YOU and KEN being all SWEATY.......yikes.....fuck damn, I will look 4ward to chatting or working with you when you have FREE TIME.........
Sorry I missed you guys tonight, I have something I am in the middle of tonight.........See you NEXT time........Peace!
Take a listen to my latest VENTING: "Fuckgetaboutit" UP at my page - FREE DOWNLOAD
give me a call today sometime i have to close my store tonight however i will have my phone on. i also wanted to ask if you were interesed in a few things. we just got a show on fri short notice as well, so if you were interesed in playing drums that night too, we would have to get together. that and i need to know what you have that i send you so i can send u the rest. hope all is well, ken
WOW!!!! That preview clip of To Hell And Never Back iz BLISS man...........you took my clips and made an ELEVATED form of coolness.........You are so fuckin' skilled man........ I am humbled....
LOL - That's KICK ASS!!! Wow - Would love to hear the full or finished version.........impressive! ;-D
Thanks again for takin' time outta your LIFE to do that man.........that's COOL of you. Im still a beginner, in the DARK/GOTH/Industrial field, but I'm inpsired by YA..........
Hey!!! Who you calling a filthy bastard you filthy rotten bitch!!!! ;) hehehehe... I'll be there BUT ONLY if you promise to wear my mask... hehehe. Peace Brother.
