Shayne (Shammie) Rogers
Pspiralife is Shayne Rogers, born and raised in old Hobart town in Van Deimens land. His life started around nine months or so before the 24th of January 1984.
In his early years Shayne was exposed to a great deal of music, mostly country music. Shayne’s first musical instrument at 7 years old was a second hand “Ludwig” drum-kit with no Hi hat. Also around this age Shayne was introduced to rock and blues and moved on to learn the guitar from his grandfather.
Shayne’s grandfather Bruce taught Shayne rhythm guitar in the style of country music. Before long Shayne was playing guitar along side Bruce in a country music band around Hobart and by the age of 10 had began playing drums in the band again also.
By the age of 12 Shayne was becoming heavily inspired by bands in the rock ‘n’roll genre and also was beginning to discover the heavier sides of rock, nu metal and heavy metal bands such as Nirvana, Silverchair, Pantera , Slipknot & Korn. Hours were spent in a shed on his drum kit wearing headphones and playing along to these bands.
Soon after entering high school Shayne met some likeminded people and began jamming, writing and recording songs in original and cover bands. This went on throughout his high school and college years.
Shayne’s enthusiasm the recording process was quite substantial and when studying an audio design course in college he discovered his real attention to detail and passion for audio and sound. Shayne experimented with programs such as “Acid Pro”, remixing songs, creating radio ads and beats for audio design projects.
At the completion of an extended stay at college, Shayne went on to start music degree focusing on contemporary drum kit at the Conservatorium Of Music Hobart. This is where Shayne first had any drum lessons and studied Jazz, Latin and funk.
Drumming started to become a source of income for Shayne while playing regular gigs with various bands around Hobart and continuing to record and perform with the original band “Dean Stevenson” and cover band “Four Letter Fish” which was a 60’s n 70’s psychedelic rock band covering B sides from Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin ect.
Around early 2006 Shayne was introduced to Infected Mushroom by a friend and fell in love with the psychedelic trance sound immediately.
Soon after he attended a Psychedelic Trance outdoor party in Hobart with some friends for the first time and was converted to electronic music overnight.
From here Shayne was roped into finding better and better sounding psychedelic trance to fine-tune exactly what it was that fulfilled him musically more than ever before. This has since evolved into performing dj sets as “Shammie”, show casing his favorite tracks from the full on – melodic and deep psy-gressive styles within the genre.
Electronic music production is now something that has become a new passion for Shayne through experimenting with the Genre. The complete control and intricate detail that can be achieved full-fills him musically more than past musical projects.
Producing under the name “Pspiralife”, Shayne hopes to inspire the people listening to his music the same way he has been inspired.
Influences
In this order...
Slim Dusty, Johnny Cash, Barry Thornton, The Highwaymen, Garth Brooks, Eurythmics, Roxette, Creedence Clearwater Revival, AC/DC, Silverchair, Pantera, Metallica, Nirvana, Grinspoon, The Offspring, Korn, Slipknot, Snot, Sevendust, Incubus, Dream Theatre, 36 Crazy Fists, Sunk Loto, Karnivool, David Garibaldi, Thomas Lang, Dean Stevenson, Lots of Funk, Jazz and Latin, Infected mushroom, Pendulum, Logan Wade, Legohead, Dark records, Krumelur, Neil Young, Sensient, Sirius Isness, Timelock, Eskimo, Tetrameth, Shadow Fx, Hydraphonic, Tom Cosm, Heaps of Trance I don't know the name of, Decoy, Sqaurepusher, Lakoda, Lotsa Minimal Tech, Ace Ventura, Autonomech, Electrypnose,
Good to be connected - Welcome to Furthur Progressions!
Our first compilation 'VA London Landscapes' is being released on CD on 24th April. Featuring a hand-picked selection of the genreʼs finest talents, legends and new-comers, it is the perfect way for Furthur Progressions Records to land safely (but not quietly) in your music collection for the first time!
Tracklist:
1. Insane Creation & DJ Shybe : Deep Mac
2. Shadow FX : Exhale
3. Dick Trevor : Zuffle Shuffle
4. Earsugar : Mindprint
5. Ace Ventura : Genesis
6. Etic v Orgapulse : Daylight Hookers (Cimi rmx)
7. Liquid Soul : Perfect Day
8. Sentrafuge : No Words (Original mix)
9. Dog Soldiers : Denmark
