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spectre, The Ill Saint
Dub / Hip Hop / Electronica

"Only in the darkness...Will you see the light"



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   spectre, The Ill Saint: General Info
Member Since9/1/2007
Band Websitewww.wordsound.com
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InfluencesThe Almighty Unseen Force That Makes All Things Possible
Sounds LikeDub-Hop, Broken Beat, Illtronica, Dance Noir, Bass Terror, Global Beatdown


ACID & BASS is coming...

Record Labelwordsound/black hoodz
Type of LabelIndie


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   About spectre, The Ill Saint
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The shadowy figure at the center of the WordSound multiverse who masquerades as Spectre, The Ill Saint, (among other aliases) is none other than Skiz Fernando, a singular figure in the media/arts community. After graduating from Harvard and the Columbia University School of Journalism, he began his career as a music journalist for The Source magazine. He parlayed his knowledge and expertise in the field of hip-hop into the critically-acclaimed book, The New Beats: Exploring the Music, Culture & Attitudes of Hip-Hop (Anchor/Doubleday, 1994), which has become an important document of the culture behind rap music. The New Beats has since been published in England, France, and Japan.

Not content to just write about the music he loved, Skiz, a long-time deejay and producer, borrowed $1000 from legendary bassist/producer Bill Laswell, and started WordSound Recordings in December 1994--a self-described “guerilla think tank” dedicated to continual creation and constant elevation. WordSound’s no-compromise, D.I.Y. approach and unique, artist-first agenda is responsible for 64 full-length releases over the last 15 years (10 produced by Skiz himself), including a handful of seminal singles on WordSound's vinyl-only, sub-division Black Hoodz. Running the gamut from dub and hip-hop to drum 'n bass and electronica to world and just plain weird, WordSound boasts an eclectic catalog, known worldwide for innovation, experimentation and creativity.

WordSound has created a very close-knit, creative community worldwide collaborating with such artists as Bill Laswell, Prince Paul, Sensational, DJ Vadim, Kevin Martin, Mick Harris (Scorn), Style Scott (Dub Syndicate), Scott Harding (New Kingdom), Umar Bin Hassan (Last Poets), DJ Rob Swift (X-ecutioners), and the Jungle Brothers, to name a few.

Skiz has run the label single-handedly from his home in Brooklyn and more recently Baltimore, all the while creating music and writing for such publications as The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Spin, and Vibe. His most recent endeavor has been making films. In 2001, he wrote, produced and directed the feature film Crooked. In 2004, as part of the label’s 10th anniversary, he created the dubumentary, The Greatest Thing You Never Heard. Both films are available on DVD.

As Spectre, Skiz is responsible for conducting a campaign of “Bass Terror” on the mainstream music industry for well over a decade. It all started with the Crooklyn Dub Consortium: Certified Dope, Vol. 1 (WSCD003) in 1995, a critically-acclaimed compilation that heralded the birth of the iLLbient scene in New York. Spectre founded the Consortium to unleash sonic unrest on the populace and to bring certified dope from “The Other Side” into the country. After 4 volumes, the power and influence of this dub syndicate has spread to include numerous sleeper cells around the globe, who are ready to bomb your mindstate at a moment’s notice.

Before the dust even settled. Spectre released The Illness (WSCD006) on mankind—part of the Trilogy of Terror that includes The Second Coming (WSCD024) and The End (WSCD035). In addition to being a veritable primer on Bass Terror, these releases also cemented his reputation as being one of the deadliest drum programmers around, garnering fans and imitators alike.

After bombing Europe with Parts Unknown, and Retrospectre (both on Belgium’s Quatermass label), which increased the bounty on his head, The Ill Saint returned to WordSound to drop his magnum opus, Psychic Wars (WSCD045) in 2004.

Spectre is also responsible for the Subterranean Hitz series (Volumes 1-3), which did for hip-hop what Crooklyn did for dub—unleashing revolutionary sounds into the atmosphere and spreading the ILLness throughout the planet. Of course the Rap Nazis at Fat Beats tried to proclaim these releases as “degenerate art,” but many copies remain, secretly circulating through the underground and studied like lost scrolls. The same goes with the compilation Weapons of Mass Destruction (Black Hoodz), a vinyl tour-de-force featuring killa instrumentals from Sensational, Mentol Nomad, DJ Klos, and the Ill Saint himself. In 2006, Spectre dropped the long-awaited mix tape Tunes From The Crypt following it with his seventh full-length, Transcendent, in 2007. Both releases are only available as a dowload through WordSound Digital.

In 2008, he dropped Internal Dynasty, available as well as a limited edition vinyl on Toolbox Records, France. In 2009, he collaborated with long-time partner in rhyme Sensational for the magnum opus, Acid & Bass , which took the dynamic duo touring in Europe and Japan, and saw Sensational snag the cover of England's prestigious Wire magazine. Currently, the Ill Saint is back in the lab, working on his next masterpiece, Death Before Dying, to be released sometime in 2010.

He and Sensational are also producing the debut album by Brooklyn's own Black Chameleon.


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Nov 26 2009 7:47 PM

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Sensational

Sensational



Nov 26 2009 4:13 AM


IN THE MIX WITH THE ACID AND BASS LIVE!!!
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Nov 24 2009 4:59 PM

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MAKAC

MAKAC



Nov 22 2009 5:28 PM


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ESPERANZA SOUNDSYSTEM



Nov 19 2009 2:47 PM

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nochexxx

nochexxx



Nov 16 2009 12:34 PM

so good to see you and your food on bourdain's show. your cookbook is must reach! 
Sensational

Sensational



Nov 14 2009 6:08 AM


 

Sensational

Sensational



Nov 13 2009 11:55 PM


 

D a ä R i

D a ä R i



Nov 13 2009 4:31 PM


Ted Parsons

Ted Parsons



Nov 13 2009 11:00 AM

So wicked! Sensational on the cover of WIRE!Who would of thought.
love and light Ted
Sensational

Sensational



Nov 12 2009 8:15 PM


SPAZ
Some Bizarre

Some Bizarre



Nov 12 2009 1:59 PM

some bizzare
Arktor

Arktor



Nov 10 2009 9:45 PM

hey spectre, i have a question. Why most of your covers so unadorable?

element012

element012



Nov 9 2009 12:11 AM

STUBENMUSICSTUDIO presents:

>> FOR [by FOR] ..lfd0910 smsvr13..


"the morning sun - which comes through my dusty window to break my thoughts; the lone
liness & daily soul torture; the truth - hidden in each human; the life and the endless pursuit;
the computer - starting point for many new romances; the nature of what you now – and
what you will be - forced into the abyss; the system is structured - takes you and for
themselves; the lapse between – nothing…"


arche by point


all songs arranged & composed by FOR summer 2009; all vocals by FOR;
exept ** vocals by horst im wald produced by element012 for the stubenmusic
studio; mastered in the lofi-deathstar; (c) FOR & stubenmusicstudio; * (c) by
element012 & BMA; (p) element012 & BMA; FOR with courtesy of BMA.


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Prins Bernhard



Nov 4 2009 3:49 PM

YES,.I WILL;D
THE C0VERZ 0F THE TRANSCENDANT/I.DYNASTY ALBUMZ R FANTASTIC,
ITS AB0UT TIME T0 UPDATE MY ILL SAINT C0LLECTI0N AS WELL,..TH@NX 4 THE ADD
AND THE MAIL!@*

RESPECT T0 Y0U!*# (S7iGM@74) #♦ P34(3
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Nov 1 2009 4:35 PM

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stubenmusicstudio

stubenmusicstudio



Oct 30 2009 1:12 PM


ARCHE by point - after years of waiting - a crazy spacy mix by point with
point - a cross section of his work...the point ! now for free to download - exclusive
at stubenmusicstudio.com...say yes / as always, there are of course physical
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kenkunn

kenkunn



Oct 24 2009 9:51 AM

THANK YOU FOR THE ADD AND FRIENDSHIP!
>ARIGATO<
emerge

emerge



Oct 23 2009 2:47 PM

dark rumbling greetings !
Mawuli

Mawuli



Oct 21 2009 1:51 PM

Hi,

Ich habe meine schlechten Erfahrungen und Erlebnisse mit meinem Stiefvater, als PsychoSong zum Ausdruck gebracht. (hätte man nen Film drauß machen können hehe)

Wollt dich fragen wie du den Song findest.

Er ist frei zum Downoload und im Player auf meiner Myspace.

Ein HintergrundVideo zum Song is auch auf meiner Space.

Danke schonma für dein Feedback

Gruß

Mawuli


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Oct 20 2009 12:49 PM

Sensational

Sensational



Oct 20 2009 3:47 AM


SPAZ
Sensational

Sensational



Oct 20 2009 3:34 AM


my birthday live at the show in japan
Miki Miki

Miki Miki



Oct 20 2009 12:38 AM

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a shoot image at Zing.
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