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ASK THE ARTIST: @IOSTRAKON
@iOSTRAKON explains his history this way:
My music “career” begins and ends with Skinny Puppy. Fate and Sp shirts assisted in meeting people who I would instantly start working on projects with. These projects created contacts to explore working with labels, Shinto Records & later audiotrauma. As the contacts grew, I saw an opportunity to do some positive things with the community. The benefit compilation series, In Praise of the Fallen (for 9/11 First Resonders), was the beginning. That series later combined with Digital Recovery which is still active today. I’m about to release the Australian benefit compilation, however, this pandemic definitely got in the way and hindered the process completely. Over the years, I’ve provided vox/noiZe to the projects: Pulled Nerve / Dead Frail Honesty / Tears of Nature / Verin / Krate / iOSTRAKON & remixed/collaborated with many artists.
@iOSTRAKON has consented to read your questions. So, make them worth answering.
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First of all, I've listened to Skinny Puppy years ago when I was a music major at uni. So mad respect.
Second of all, when did you start getting into iOS? What attracted you to the platform?
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spit it out.
@McD Oh cool! Another forum member profile spotlight and AMA. Enjoying this idea! 👍👍
@iOSTRAKON Must admit I hadn’t heard of Skinny Puppy until this thread. Watched the vid posted here by @McD Loved it. Sort of reminded me a bit of some stuff from Coil’s “Horse Rotorvator” album. Quite nicely dark.
My question is: Do you have a Soundcloud account where I can follow and check out your work? Cheers!
I heard of Skinny Puppy. Then I heard Skinny Puppy. Then I heard silence. It seemed to take a while but it finally arrived.
Thanks! I want to say I discovered iOS noise making in 2014 or 2015. Got an iPad for Xmas and started to explore it. Picked up animoog / cubasis / korg gadget. Was tired of my current setup and dealing with computers. It opened up a world of convenience, inspiration and of course mobility.
Translation: send me more noise 💀
Very similar to Coil in texture and status. I’m trying to remember if they’ve collaborated on something. If you liked that video, make sure to sift through Sp’s discography. They’ve covered a lot of ground.
Here’s a link to my latest: iOSTRAKON
Krate [no SoundCloud profile]
https://krate.bandcamp.com/track/feed-me-featuring-noire-antidote-apocryphal-throne-and-corlyx
Verin
[my remix for 3teeth]
You don’t hear Skinny Puppy / Skinny Puppy hears you
More details about how you became involved with the projects you’ve been in?
Has your interest in iOS music making influenced any of the people you’ve been working with?
So not a question per se?
"Tired of dealing with computers." Shit, I feel ya on that one mate. I haven't used a PC as my main music creation tool since 2014. One of the things I hated about PCs was how they eventually slowed down to a crawl within the space of a year (took at least 3 years before my iPad 2 slowed to a crawl through forced obsolescence).
Always had to have some sort of virus protection running in the background at all times which hogged resources (Webroot being the lightest on said resources). My biggest source of frustration was seeing expensive software I really wanted to purchase, only for the copy protection to end up being a shitty USB dongle sticking out of my laptop like a bloody sore thumb. Not exactly the best incentive to convince the end user not to download the cracked versions, is it?
(Then again, with the plethora of free VSTs I found through KVR, I somehow managed just fine without resorting to cracking.)
"Well Jim you roguishly eloquent ladies man" I hear you say, "Why not just buy a Mac?" Back then, FL Studio didn't run on a Mac, did it now? Took Imageline forever to get FL Studio to where it is now mate. (Not to be confused with the walled garden known as FL Studio Mobile 3, which still can't host AUs to save its bloody life and doesn't offer the plethora of options one can find in Gadget.)
Oops, forgot to add, my next question to you is....what is the method to your madness mate? In other words, how do you go about designing the sounds you use in your productions? Got any favourite distortion plugins?
Translation: You are the god of noise @iOSTRAKON , and I worship you.
Is Chuck Norris in Skinny Puppy?
Thanks for the inquiry! I’ll break it down in chronologically in parts.
Part 1
Pulled Nerve • Met Ben Bordelon who is a extremely talented musician at the apartments I lived at. He worked in the office and I walked in wearing a Skinny Puppy shirt. I believe this was 2000. He has shared the stage with many legendary acts such as Ministry and Korn and played in the bands, ErasetheVirus, The Hunger and many solo projects. We had similar interests within the metal/industrial hybrid genre. He taught me a lot of about using daws and composing in general. Dude could play it all. We’re still good friends but life and distance has ceased any collaborations. Here’s some of his noise:
Pulled Nerve
Erasethevirus
Dead Frail Honesty • Went to Pigface show wearing (you guessed it) a Skinny Puppy shirt and ran into a very eccentric dude named Cramer. We instantly clicked on a vision for a new project and DFH was born pretty quickly after. Cramer and his good friend Lukasz (super talented painter) already had a project named Serum Fantis so in a sense we merged that style with an electro-industrial sound. I later met Kevin Novak on litany.net (a forum about Skinny Puppy) and he lived pretty close to where Cramer lived and eventually joined the project. Kevin is the man behind a very well known noise project named T.E.F. so his knowledge and experience another layer to the project. After two releases, DFH later broke up since Cramer and myself had a personal fallout.
Dead Frail Honesty
Serum Fantis
https://digitalrecovery.bandcamp.com/track/sirius-remembered
T.E.F.
https://dadadrumming.bandcamp.com/track/symptom-1
art by Lukasz Grochocki
Chuck Norris is powered by Skinny Puppy
@Ailerom said:
And thus your age has been revealed to be...old. Oh shit! That means I'm old too. 😱 NO! The naughts were 20 years ago?! When did that happen?
@iOSTRAKON Tell us some gear stories... stuff you sold and regretted. Hardware stolen?
Stolen hardware you kept? The transition from hardware to flatware?
Musical heroes growing up?
@jwmmakerofmusic ~ I never had a strong enough computer to achieve the level of production I wanted. Always relied on my bandmates on computers / daws / equipment. [enter segue for @McD question] As a vocalist, we are spoiled and get to abuse our bandmates gear. I get to show up with a mic and some outdated vox fx gear [digitech vocal 300]. Didn’t need that since Cramer had a Sp-555 and Sp-404. These were great for manipulating voices.
Methods of madness derive from my influences and the friends/artists I’ve worked with. Main musical influences: Skinny Puppy / Godflesh / Ministry / NIN / Decree and shit load more. I start with presets and edit to my liking or experiment with many layers of fx to achieve madness.
Never had any gear stolen or sold. Still have an Alesis Micron, Roland Sp-404, Digitech 300, Chaos Pad and some others I’ve forgotten about. I haven’t looked at them in probably 5 or 6 years.
It could be, most likely it translates to “are you going to send me some noise mofo?”
Oh no, far from a god of noise. Just passing the torch with many brothers of noise.
Really enjoying this series of back stories, some great stuff in each... i actually got my first decent break as an animator from the guy who did a lot of skinny puppy album covers so ended up listening to them a lot during that late nineties/early century period.
As a fan of both Coil and SP, I don’t think so... but only by a degree of separation.
There was an (in)famous collaboration of SP with Genesis P Orridge to create Puppy Gristle and vocals from this session also appear on early Download releases.
Sleazy of Coil was a member of Throbbing Gristle with GPO, Jhonn joined them in Psychic TV pre-Coil.
I'm old enough to know there is no point trying to hide how old I am. But thanks for pointing it out.
yes
@iOSTRAKON what has been you favorite piece of gear in your career?
Either the iPad [life changer] or the microphone. My former bandmate had this condenser mic [took a half hour or so to warm up] that transformed the power of my vox. Can’t remember the name of it but I’ve always wanted to get one that matched the connection I felt. Thanks for the question!
Yes, puppy gristle was an epic journey. Still listen to the version that’s one track. I know Coil worked with Trent a lot but never Sp. Would’ve made for an interesting explosion of sonic wizardry.
@iOSTRAKON Have you finally admitted that Koala Sampler is a superior app?
Joking. Seriously, it's great to learn about my rival. Hope all is going well with you. Thanks again for the help.