Christophe - All Processing, Coding, Manipulation, Recontextualization, Mutation and Liquification
Influences
Allen Ravenstine, Anthony Braxton, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Bill Laswell, Brian Eno, Can, Charlie Clouser, Coil, COUM Transmissions, David Bowie, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Detroit Techno, DJ Spooky, French Philosophy, Fugazi, Georges Bataille, H.R. Giger, Iannis Xenakis, Jah Wobble, John Coltrane, Joy Division, Justin Broadrick, Kodwo Eshun, Lester Bangs, Melvins, Miles Davis, Neurosis, Ornette Coleman, Philip Glass, Philip K. Dick, Public Enemy and The Bomb Squad, Rick Rubin, Richie Hawtin, Samuel R. Delany, Skinny Puppy, Sunn O))), Sun Ra, Swans, The A.A.C.M., The Cure, and Trent Reznor
Sounds Like
"A combination of machine debris and machinic percussion". "... the consensual masochism of repetition and intensity".
subduxtion is the solo project of Christophe G. aka The Post-Human Cyborg - afrofuturist, anarchist, composer, deviant, multi-instrumentalist, sound-artist and vegan. I am originally from Los Angeles (Leimert Park), Ca., now living and working in Chicago, Illinois. Formerly the keyboardist/bassist for Impulse, D.O.D., Wardrobe Cathedral, Immaculate Corrosion and Drug Of Choice. I also contributed synths and programming to Los Angeles based industrial/goth rock group Die My Darling. Appearing on their debut CD 'Virulent' (Trisol 2002).. I first discovered music through the clarinet, playing the instrument from the age of six years old. I began studying the piano at age ten, studying both classical and jazz musics and later learned the tenor sax, flute and oboe. I also spent two years studying orchestration in college. I think of myself as an "abstract sound sculptor". Sound sculpting is more about creating a mood. It's about creating music that provokes the imagination. I released my first record with Impulse, a four-song EP of electro-funk. 2000 saw the release of the industrial/acid-house/rap collision titled 'Warhol Machine'12" followed that same year by 'The Dream Is the Drug' 12" featuring Tequila Mockingbird. Since that time I have continued to release a large amount of music both as a solo artist (Re: dux tion, subduxtion and FluiD) and collaborator (with Black Saturn, Selbst-Morder and John 3:16) on various independent labels around the world. Encompassing a multitude of styles and influences - techno, jazz, noise, classical avant-garde, hip-hop, psychedelia, metal, dub, early industrial and ambient. As a remixer I have manipulated and re-constructed songs for Ganymede, Fr/action, Heat From A Deadstar, Blood Into Water, One Dead Fuck, Worms of the Earth and DisinVectant.
MUSICBOX™ Experimental/Dubstep/Electronica/Folk & Beyond, this week a exclusive mix from - Miki Kizh + Black Saturn vs Subduxtion - A Million Miles Away tracks from - Sex Pistols - Moderat - Nouvelle Vague: MUSICBOX™ 16-07-09 with a exclusive mix from - Miki Kizh
Please check out the new Dubblestandart Album feat.
Ari Up & Lee Scratch Perry!!
"Return from Planet DUB" is available as two-CD deluxe digipak set and
comes also with the surprisingly and rare appearance by film director David
Lynch, plus remixes by G-Corp, Rob Smith (both UK), and the US Subatomic
Sound, and others on the second disc.
OUT NOW! Buy it on any mp3-portal, mailorder or your local record shop!
DJ Mark Cunliffe (http://www. myspace. com/moark) has included our song 'Third World' from 'Ancient Kingdom' as part of his monthly show on Dandelion Radio....
The show broadcasts on the 1st and then for the whole of November as part of a schedule of DJ shows....
www. dandelionradio. com - The online radio station inspired by John Peel
At the same web site vote for your top three tracks released this year in what we call the Festive 50! Everyone's votes get totalled and a chart of the top 50 tracks of 2008 is run through from 25th December and all the way through to the end of January. Get voting!
"Ancient Kingdom" is a metaphorical place where innovation collide's with golden era hip-hop. As Black Saturn vs. subduxtion embark on a journey with their first full length project; creating their own dimension in space and time. With the wordsound of Black Saturn's thoughts in meditation evolving over subduxtion's sound pulsations of advancing cerebral enlightenment, a metaphysical undercurrent flows thru out "Ancient Kingdom". Black Saturn's vocals take on the characteristic's of a scribe from a lost civilization. Prophetic and forewarning moments abound. The past, the present and the future become one's life experience. The archaeology of subduxtion's sonic vision unearths a timeless sound. Like the royal lineage of an African kingdom ignored by history, "Ancient Kingdom" is the phoenix rising from the ashes that demands to be heard.