Doug Sudia [dOGulas] | main vocals, electronics, & drums
John Monette [nVIR] | electronics, drums, & vocals
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AOL IM screennames:
John = cell xe
Doug = r3coil66
Influences
Chemlab
Underworld
Skinny Puppy/Download
Alice in Chains
NIN
FLA/Delerium
Haujobb
Gridlock
PIG
Razed in Black
Genesis (we're not kidding)
Terminal Sect
Billy Joel (still not kidding)
UCNX is an audio assault project based out of NJ/Philly from Doug Sudia and John Monette focusing mainly on the industrial/electronic scene. Theirs is a fusion of various styles ranging from classic Electro-Industrial, IDM, Coldwave, Ambient, and Noise into a collection of storming club and experimental tracks with strong vocals, an overall rock sensibility, and strong respect to the past acts of the Wax Trax and Re-Constriction days, without being stuck in them.
Doug & John have known each other since the 2nd grade, and although they are a breakthrough new act they have been conspiring on music together for the past decade. What started as a fun hobby evolved into a serious beast: Dedication to their craft, to actual songwriting that can still fill the floor to maximum capacity. Fueled by influence without imitation, accesability without comprimise.
But don't just take their word for it...
UCNX is an audio assault project based out of NJ/Philly from Doug Sudia and John Monette focusing mainly on the industrial/electronic scene. Theirs is a fusion of various styles ranging from classic Electro-Industrial, IDM, Coldwave, Ambient, and Noise into a collection of storming club and experimental tracks with strong vocals, an overall rock sensibility, and strong respect to the past acts of the Wax Trax and Re-Constriction days, without being stuck in them.
Doug & John have known each other since the 2nd grade, and although they are a breakthrough new act they have been conspiring on music together for the past decade. What started as a fun hobby evolved into a serious beast: Dedication to their craft, to actual songwriting that can still fill the floor to maximum capacity. Fueled by influence without imitation, accesability without comprimise.
But don't just take their word for it...
"It's so nice to hear a band, in these days of computer-made-easy-crap-industrial...that actually sounds like it gives a shit about it's music, the genre and the ear drums of it's populace in general. And if it makes me a pussy to say that I like melodies with my hardcore beatz, then so be it...in which case UCNX puts the bow on my little girl dress." -Blayne, Idiot Stare/Insight 23
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[Discography]-----
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[Full Length Albums/EPs]-----
UCNX : "Run Your Body" CDS | Release Date : 12.08.08 (digital)/CD release in early '09 from MoMT Records
1. Run Your Body
2. Burning Slowly Down
3. Run Your Body (The Number of the Remix by K-Nitrate)
4. BabyLAon (g.OD Remix for Idiot Stare)
What happens when you cross-breed an EBM floor filler with one of the classic heavy metal tracks of the 1980s? Iron Ebb or Nitzer Maiden? UCNX’s 'Run Your Body' is what happens. A cover of Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” set to Nitzer Ebb’s “Let Your Body Learn.”
UCNX prove that sometimes the most outlandish of ideas can strike gold! (<---And it's all YOUR FAULT Side-Liners!)
“Run Your Body”, alongside the B-side “Burning Slowly Down" prove that UCNX can deliver the old school EBM goods with other new tricks and turns to keep the most jaded of rivet head happy and show the old school metallers that not all electronic covers are sacrilegious.
The single also features a remix from UK techno-act K-Nitrate and a UCNX remix of US industrial rock act Idiot Stare.
This is a single created for the dance floor and if it doesn’t get your arse moving and your legs a stomping then we can only recommend that you check that you still have a pulse.
"It was an idea so simple in its conception, and yet so seemingly absurd to even think about: crossing the shouted chants and EBM dance floor rhythms of Nitzer Ebb's "Let Your Body Learn" with the grandeur and fury of Iron Maiden's classic heavy metal track "Run to the Hills." Well, up-and-coming industrial dance act UCNX thought of it, resulting in their latest single, Run Your Body. As the song kicks in, one might mistake it simply for a straightforward cover of Nitzer Ebb's song with Iron Maiden's lyrics simply thrown in, and while this is certainly a prominent facet of the song, this would discount some of the other musical cues that UCNX cleverly instill, such as the classic introductory guitar riff and even that recognizable drum loop that begins the song. It may not contain Dave Murray's incendiary solo or Bruce Dickinson's banshee wails, but as the overall composition owes much to Nitzer Ebb, the song actually works well as one can imagine Douglas McCarthy stomping away and bellowing out those anthemic chants. Of course, UCNX also give us a new song, "Burning Slowly Down," which runs more in their own style with a melody and bass line reminiscent of mid '90s coldwave, complete with scratchy guitars in the tail end. The fourth track is the band's remix of Idiot Stare's "BabyLAon," infusing the original's industrial cock rock with more squelching synths and danceable rhythms...with so outlandish an idea as combining Nitzer Ebb with Iron Maiden being put on display here, one must give credit to UCNX for being one of the more daring acts to emerge in the current industrial underground." -Re:Gen Magazine 3/5
"UCNX probably realized one of the most unimaginable tracks ever made in the electro scene. Just imagine a cover version of 2 songs in 1. Just imagine a copulation between Nitzer Ebb’s “Let Your Body Learn” and Iron Maiden’s “Run To The Hills”. I don’t know in which circumstances this American duo came to this idea, but even Salvador Dali would have been jealous with such a surrealistic project. The result has been entitled “Run Your Body”. It sounds definitely EBM-like and the Nitzer Ebb style is (luckily enough) very present. The vocals could have been a bit harsher and powerful, but you don’t hear me complain. “Run Your Body” isn’t exactly what I would call a masterpiece, but it’s definitely funny and entertaining. “Burning Slowly Down” coming next sounds harder and more convincing while holding on the EBM-style. I personally prefer the instrumental mix [of RYB] entitled “The Number Of The Remix”, which sounds a bit in the vein of Cubanate. This is a real cool mix. UCNX is definitely an unusual formation with a high level of creativity! 6/7" -Side-Line.com
"...The artistic operation is very smart, because UCNX used – remix and tortured to the GODS of EBM classic havy metal tracks of the 1980s. For sure this is an EBM old school work, but is so nice to hear this kind of brutal approach that I cannot say nothing bad about it; EBM is in the same time violent but even simply and straight like rock and roll/punk I love to hear this music, it transmits non stop action and great strength...The voice, the effects and the classic EBM distortion over the voice are well recorded and MOMT, we gotta say, is making a very good job selecting very different artists... -Chain DLK
"There are good ideas. There are bad ideas. And then there are ideas that are so bad they can't possibly fail. This is without doubt an instance of the latter. I mean, just think about it. A cover of Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills" to the tune of Nitzer Ebb's "Let Your Body Learn". How could it NOT be one of the most amazing things you ever heard?" -Moving Hands
UCNX : "Absolute Zero" | Release Date : 3.10.08 from MoMT Records (www.momt.co.uk)
1. Absolute Zero
2. Presence
3. Black Index
4. Desperation
5. Sea of Sorrow (Alice in Chains Cover)
6. Absolute Zero (0.0 Remix by Cyanoitc)
7. Desperation (Remix by Deadliner)
8. Absolute Zero (Old School Mix)
9. Absence
"4 out of 5 ++++" - Fabryka/www.industrial-rock.net
"One of the most exciting releases of the past year...There's just too much to like about this disc, and hasn't got a thing going against it." - www.brianbacklash.com
"A blast...mixes electronic industrial power with melody and freshness. A valid alternative to the most known names of the scene." - Chain D.L.K.
"...As caustic synthesizers squelch and sear above throbbing beats and Doug Sudia's aggressive yet emotive vocals, there is much to be said for this band's sound. With all the energy and attitude of late '90s coldwave, yet replacing guitars with the club-stomping electronic approach of the modern age, UCNX are steadily carving out a niche of their own...Sudia's vocals are delivered in a primarily clean tone, avoiding the terror EBM clichés of too much distortion and incoherent lyrics, while his actual voice at times bears a resemblance to Dan Levler of LVL or Chemlab's Jared Louche...Put simply, the band accomplishes its mission to add some fuel to the industrial music fire, offering hope for a scene in decline." - ReGen Magazine
"A refreshing sound in this current era of extremely derivative, blah, blah music...UCNX will get in your mind and under your skin, leaving you hopping up and down, rolling your head around, or at the very least, tapping your toes involuntarily." - Heathen Harvest
"Industrial? Yes, but the enjoyable accessible type with influences from cold wave, ambient, electro etc turned into an enjoyable claustrophobic listening trip." - Dark Entries
"Absolute Zero" is the debut release by US band UCNX and it's hotter than a man who has just set his trousers on fire. Taking their cue from the sounds of prime Wax Trax and Re-Constriction records and bands such as the rock influence Chemlab, the intricate electro Front Line Assembly, and even the intelligent sounds of Haujobb, UCNX push these influences into the 21st century kicking and screaming all the way with clear, emotional vocals & a nod to the past
The release also comes with a bonus download EP called "Eckstrahschitt", available exclusively from the MoMT webstore HERE. This bonus package includes:
1. Black Snake Voodoo (Tape Hiss by UCNX) (Unreleased Remix for CHEMLAB)
2. Absolute Zero (Old School V2.0)
3. Black Index (Demon Behind the Smile Mix)
4. Vynil (Live Jam 06.14.04)
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[Compilations]-----
Songs From the Hydrogen Bar: A Tribute to Chemlab | Release Date : 3.26.07 on MoMT Records
3. UCNX - 21st Century (Head Like a Whore Mix) &
10. Typozorg - Neurozone
Available at www.momt.co.uk
"Tributes are so often tired, thought-to-sexlessness, over-produced and then mercilessly stuffed deep into the gaping, pustule-festooned maw of the marketplace these days (thank you, Cleopatra) that to build a tribute record that has anything authentic to deliver is a journey embarked on only by the insane or the desperate. Fortunately, “Songs From The H-Bar” is created by the desperately insane, utterly marginalised and ferociously independent. Capricious too. The selection is varied and sprawls across the dial with great success, leaping with alacrity from beat-shuddered extremes, through 22nd century guitar slash to dub-drenched ambience, all of it bathed in the sickly light of fractured grooves and poisonous experimentation. Tributes are neutered when they reek of respect and conventionality, and “Songs” succeeds by refusing to treat itself or its subject like some sacred cow. I could dissect each track, but that would delay you from buying it. Suffice it to say that it makes Chemlab listenable for me again." -Jared Louche (Chemlab)
Various Artists - Modern Destruction (Digipak) | BUY IT HERE
Cyanotic - Sensory Deprivation (Remix by UCNX) appeared there.
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Wet-Works Sampler Vol.5 | OUT OF STOCK
The track Presence (Silent Demo) appeared on there.
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[Collaborations/Splits]-----
Audio War : No Devices Found : Release Date TBA | - Guest Vocals by dOGulas
"On the new material we've currently had some vocals done by a vocalist called Doug Sudia from a band called "UCNX". I got to know Doug through the upcoming Chemlab Tribute where I've done a K-Nitrate cover version of "Codeine Glue & You". He's got a great voice and he's been coming up with some great vocal ideas for us." -Christian from Audio War, Side-Line interview.
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[Remixes]-----
Dean - In Your Eyes
Dean - In Your Eyes (UCNX Remix) $.99 | BUY
Dean - In Your Eyes (UCNX Instrumental) $.99 | BUY
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2009
Nemesis21 - Beacon (Light.wav Remix by UCNX)
2008
Portion Control - Defend (UCNX Remix)
NIN - Letting You (UCNX Remix)
"Scarecrow" & "Apathy" - 2 Ministry covers for the upcoming tribute on Deadknife Records
2007
UCNX on the Preston & Steve Show II (8.01.07), 93.3 WWMR Philadelphia l DOWNLOAD
UCNX on the Preston & Steve Show (5.10.07), 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia | DOWNLOAD
Wumpscut : Adonai, My Lord (remix by UCNX) | DOWNLOAD
K-Nitrate : Laser Guided (The War on Audio Remix by UCNX)
Avail: K-Nitrate - Mutagen (Active Cell Bonus Download Pack)
Autoclav1.1 : By My Own Admission (Forgiven Forgotten Remix by UCNX)
Autoclav1.1 : This is Untitled (UCNX Remix)
Avail: TBA
2006
Combichrist : This is my rifle [UCNX mix] | DOWNLOAD
Wumpscut : Just a Tenderness [UCNX mix] |
DOWNLOAD
Unter Null : Sick Fuck [ Defecation of Character Remix by UCNX]
DOWNLOAD
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[Sideprojects]-----
Skeleton Tracks (www.myspace.com/skeletontracks)
Members : Megan MC2 Collier, Kurt Samuels, John Monette and Dogulas Sudia along with members from Amorphite, Deadliner, and more. You even.
Typozorg
Members : Doug Sudia, William Swearingen, Jeff Tryon, plus John Monette and various guest spots
nVIR
Members : John Monette
--- our pimpin' section of some material you need to check out ::
- Best Morning Radio Show - Preston and Steve Show on 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia
HOCICO LIVE in Chicago at the Abbey, afterparty at Neo, vendors and more WEDNESDAY! Tickets are at ticketweb.com. An EIGHT HOUR/TWO VENUE Ride into the best of industrial and ebm music being produced today.
Do not miss an audio interview I gave to Radio GodMode which will be aired 2 times a week at evening hours during August 2009 on Radio GodMode, hosted by Silvermyth!
The first Sunday broadcast turned out great and we were listening to it with the loved one and my great friends including Adam from Skrew (note the interview with him is almost done for publishing at the magazine!) :)
I'll tell you about the REAL industrial rock vibe, remixes fashion, influences, bands recommendations, Fabryka magazine and some other stories ;) Plus, as usually great music!
"If you look at it technology is always moving towards making everything easier now as opposed to true innovation. Industrial rose because people started to utilize these new machines that started to become more readily available, capable of making new sounds and doing new things that previous instruments couldn't. Now it seems to be just "how can I download this faster, how can I get more people to view my favorite movies and see how funny I am. " [read more]
hehe - yes you beat. But not by many months ;-) We hope the remix can wait a bit. At the moment we are really working hard on the album - and it will be out in '08
Hehehe...Good old Zietgeist =) Thanks for the heads up on the album, looking forward to it. I'm actually relocating to Brooklyn in July or August and I take trips to Philly sometimes when visit via the Chinatown buses...Perhaps a formal meeting sometime in the future? Take care!
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