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1) Shadow Wars comes out Thursday, July 15! Available exclusively at sinsect.bandcamp.com.

2) We are having a release party at Industry/The Church on Thursday night in Dallas! We’ll be playing the new release, and some of Darker Days Ahead. There will be give-aways of CDs, downloads, t-shirts & stickers! It’s an early event, from 8:15-9:45, since Voltaire is also playing that night at 10.

3) The Sinsect store is open! If you order the t-shirt/CD combo package today or tomorrow, you’ll get an instant download of Darker Days Ahead, and your download code for Shadow Wars will be sent a day early!

4) From now until midnight Sunday night, use the promo code “SHADOW” to get HALF-OFF of the download version of Darker Days Ahead!

The Sinsect store is now open! T-shirts, stickers, and a combo pack for new fans! CLICK HERE, or the “Shop” link on the left menu.

The Shadow Wars maxi-single will be available on Thursday, July 15 as a digital-only release here for $3.00. Three brand new tracks, plus free bonus remixes from Void Prototype, Valvegod, Lucidstatic, Chaos And Terror, Exael23, Mangadrive, Notify 9×9, Polluted Axis and Human Error.

The track order is subject to change, but I think this is pretty close to final.

Shadow Wars
Frankie Says
Assumptions
Frankie Says (Void Prototype Remix)
Assumptions (Valvegod Remix)
Frankie Says (Lucidstatic Remix)
Assumptions (Chaos And Terror Remix)
Shadow Wars (Exael23 Remix)
Frankie Says (Mangadrive Remix)
Assumptions (Notify 9×9 Remix)
Frankie Says (Polluted Axis Remix)
Shadow Wars (Human Error Remix)

All of the remixes I got were outstanding! There is some serious talent represented here.

Now to master it, and it’ll be released on July 15. 12 tracks for only $5!

Remixes for the Shadow Wars EP are coming in, and I am seriously grateful & humbled by the contributions of Polluted Axis, Valvegod, Lucid Static, Mangadrive, Void Prototype, and Exael23. There are just a few more that I’m waiting on: Notify 9×9 (Solemn Assembly side project), Abuse Tactics, Psykkle and possibly Chaos And Terror & a couple others. If everything goes as planned, Shadow Wars will be available on July 15, through sinsect.bandcamp.com. Club, podcast and streaming radio Dj’s will be getting their copies as soon as it’s mastered. Drop me a line if you want to be included in the promo.

I’m currently working on finishing my own remixes of Lucid Static & Polluted Axis, and Mangadrive’s was sent off last week. Also have a Caustic remix coming out soon as well. After these last two, I’m probably going to hold off on any more remixes until October. A) I need to finish writing a couple more songs (yes, SONGS) and work on the live backing tracks and try to book some shows and practice with Brandon from Solemn Assembly, who will be playing drums and helping with keys. Plus we’ll hopefully have some more Solemn Assembly stuff coming up as well. and B) my day job workload is about to get insane. 2 major client presentations this month, a tradeshow in Vegas in August, and possibly going to China for a week or so in September.

And finally, we have new stickers and the t-shirts should be on their way soon, so the store will be updated as soon as I get those.

BUG LIFE!

the Shadow Wars EP is finished on my end. Just waiting on remixes. already have a couple, and they are fucking sick! as soon as all of the rest are in by the end of june, then it’ll be mastered and up on sinsect.bandcamp.com

already working on mixing the 3rd track for Bug Life…one more to finish writing (the title track, of course), do the final mixes for the other 2 tracks, and then re-record all the vocals. yes, all 4 tracks will have vocals. also going to finish up 2 or 3 unreleased tracks from the Darker Days sessions for an end-of-year release, possibly on CD. and i have to squeeze a mangadrive remix in this week. and finally, i’ll be re-releasing all of my pre-Darker Days albums under the new names Traumamatik & Buglien, as free downloads. might even find the time to take some promo photos.

T-shirts & new stickers should be here in a week or so, and as soon as they are, they’ll be up on the “Shop” page. Tentatively, shirts will be $16 postage paid in the US, or $19 international. I’ll have combos available as well, with the CD or digital downloads.

And finally, there may be some live show news coming very soon!
Watch this space!

In the player on your right…

Projects in the works…

Sinsect: I’m finalizing the mixes for the Shadow Wars EP. This is EP is much more heavily drum n bass influenced, but it’s still pretty damn heavy and distorted. 3 new tracks, and maybe some remixes if I can beg borrow and steal for them. I’ll have remix packs together in a few weeks, and probably shoot for a June/July release.
After Shadow Wars, it’s back to writing and mixing Bug Life. Stylistically, this is much more like Darker Days Ahead, heavy, stompy powernoise, and this time with vocals! We’ll see how that goes. Looking to be 4-5 new tracks, and maybe some remixes.

Traumamatik: The harsher end of the spectrum. Mostly noise and rhythmic noise. a lot of material has already been recorded, just needs to be mixed. EP will probably be out in July/August.

Buglien: The not so harsh…Droney, dubby, trip-hop-y, ambient. With only a couple of pieces written, I don’t have a release date yet.

Solemn Assembly: I’m now the live electro drummer/live synth for the Dallas EBM band fronted by DJ Joe Virus. First show with them is April 29th @ the Lizard Lounge.

Lots of projects going on, so dates are subject to change. I’ll also be announcing my label/brand for all of this very soon, so keep watching!

Starting soon, I’ll be experimenting with a new release schedule/business model. I’ll be releasing digital 2 or 3 song singles or EPs a lot more frequently, probably using the “pay-what-you-want” option using Bandcamp. At the end of the year, there will be a “Best of/Unreleased/Remix” full album that will be released through all of the major digital outlets, with a possible limited CD run.

This will allow a lot more stylistic freedom, as well as economical freedom. I’m tired of sitting for months on what I think are good tracks while I try to get a full album to come together, only to realize that it really sounds like 2 or 3 different projects. With this new model, I can release a powernoise single one month, and a more drum n bass influenced single next month, and they can all stand on their own, without falling into the trap of creating “filler” material.

Economically, there are a ton of benefits. Most people seem to have an easier time rationalizing spending $2-$5 every month or two, instead of a one-time $10 (or more for CD+shipping). Throughout the year, this adds the possibility of funding the end of year release as a special edition.

And along with this, I will soon be announcing the new label that I’ll be forming to handle these Sinsect releases, along with my side projects Traumamatik & Buglien. More news coming soon on those as well.

I’m currently shooting for the first of these Sinsect EPs to be ready in May or June, and the output will be fairly steady from that point on, with new material every 6-8 weeks.

As always, I’m definitely open to any advise, input and help from masses.

1HRXRECORDS artist Pill Brigade has contributed a kickass stompin’ remix of Burn, available now for free on the remix page!