I've been making music since 2000, but always made short sound compositions using things from cheap PC recorders, Mario Paint for the SNES to double tape decks (looping things off the radio with great precision until the record button broke from excessive use).
I started the homegrown record label XV Empire (previously known as XV Records) and releasing full length albums. Everything is independently operated and it will be like that for quite some time.
My music is available at iTunes, CD Baby and many other digital retailers (you can special order the CDs in select stores). You can listen to all the music listed here at Last.FM.
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Hyper Anesthetic (XVCD01)
Release Date: October 23, 2003
Recorded in 2003 and released when I was in high school. Heavily influenced by Atari Teenage Riot and the digital hardcore scene at the time, I set out to take this hobby of making random songs into something a bit more serious (for example, longer tracks, album artwork, etc). [Mouse over image to view original album cover].
Technical problems with my computer limited the track listing to six tracks. It kept freezing and I lost who knows how many songs. A couple of songs were meant to have vocals but I could never get around writing lyrics, let alone singing AND recording it with no pop filter. That was below my already lo-fi intended standards.
Trivia: The album title "Hyper Anesthetic" contains 15 letters.
Tracklisting
1. Oxygen Mask
2. Surgical Strike
3. Spy vs. Spy
4. Medical Trance
5. Industrial Sized Whips
6. Requiem de Mozart
Le Funeral Lounge (XVCD02)
Release Date: May 15, 2004
My second album which I also created during my time in high school (also recorded simultaneously with my third album, although released after it). Inspired by the ever changing musical styles of Alec Empire and his futuristic space jazz album "Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5". Here I decided to drop the drum 'n' bass sound in favor of a more hip-hop, jazz and even down-tempo feel yet retaining the experimental side of electronic music.
Trivia: The album title "Le Funeral Lounge" contains 15 letters.
You can hear my voice at the end of "A Decomposition of Myself".
The song "The Lone Gunman" was 4th place in the Techno music category in the JPF Music Awards.
Tracklisting
1. Blue Cellophane
2. The Lone Gunman
3. A Decomposition of Myself
4. At the Carnival
5. Coldhearted Metal
6. Dark City
7. Gold and Red
8. Rain on Glass
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Noise Reduction (XVCD03)
Release Date: April 7, 2004
My third and most sonically abrasive album to date (also the first time using my voice more prominently, especially in the introduction). I had very limited knowledge in Noise music when I started recording this. I downloaded a freeware soft synth that had a feature to create static, white noise which I discovered by accident. [Mouse over image to view original album cover].
Trivia: The track "Nothing Matters" was the first time recording using noise, it is unedited.
Tracklisting
1. Hello, I'm DavidR
2. Made in Japan
3. Health Code Violation
4. Music is Dead
5. Nothing Matters
6. Future Insomnia
7. Biomechanical Autopsy
8. White Noise Whiplash
9. Silly Girl, TRIPS are for Kids
The Never Ending Emergency (XVCD04)
Release Date: August 24, 2007
With high school and shoddy computers in the past, I wanted a bigger sound this time around. This is my favorite album so far. I created every sound that isn't a percussion with a microKorg synthesizer. I'm fairly proud of anything that sounds like a "solo" because I'm not exactly the dedicated musician type.
The vision I had when I started this project was to have a double concept album. One half was futuristic, cyberpunk dystopian themed neurofunk and the other was to be sleep deprived, ambient sound textures along with epic artwork inspired by Mega Man 3. Unfortunately that is impossible at the moment, for now I just condensed it all into The Never Ending Emergency.
Trivia: The album title was suggested by AsH XV
The album's released date is on my birthday while the digital release date is on my brother's birthday.
Tracklisting
1. To Practice Introspection
2. Escape from Lastday
3. External Memories
4. Twenty Eighty-Four
5. Lost in Metropolis
6. Floating Above Myself
7. Sleep Cycles May Vary
8. Free Running
9. Memory Lapse
10. Double Depression
11. The Sun Gets Cold from Here
Of Scorched Earth (XVEP01)
Release Date: May 15, 2008
The fifth release and the first to be designated as an EP since it does not have a common theme throughout the album. This is a collection of B-sides, remixes and previously unreleased tracks.
Trivia: I have yet to release a song or album with a one word title.
Tracklisting
1. Permanently Frustrated
2. I Don't Read Minds (I Just Erase Them)
3. Split Second Nightmare
4. Never Escape from Lastday
5. External Memories (Mind Encryption Remix)
6. Counter Revolution
7. Decaying Satellites
8. Sun Crux
9. Faint Signs of Hope
10. Strange Pastures
All music, artwork and logos copyright DavidR and XV Empire 2010.