Artist description Electronic oriented New Wave style music, with great lyrics and hooks. HIDEOUS INPUT is attempting to revolutionize modern music. Check it out!

Music Style Intense keyboard oriented alternative music.

Musical Influences Alien Sex Fiend, the Cure, Beck, The Pixies, Depeche Mode

Similar Artists Depeche Mode, the Cure, Fact 22, Red Flag, Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Artist History Alway's a little "outside the box" when it came to mainstream music, HIDEOUS INPUT was raised on bands like Depeche Mode, Nitzer Ebb, and Alien sex fiend. The extremely dissappointing and rhetorical direction of today's "popular" music has driven HIDEOUS INPUT to create a sound that is fresh and origional, yet still identifiable with the mass audience. Formed in 1998, HIDEOUS is still customizing their unique sound, while continuing to produce music in many genres. From Alternative, to electronic, to industrial, and New Wave... HIDEOUS INPUT might just have something you like!

Group Members Den Hideous

Instruments Roland Keyboards and drum machines, some alesis effects, tweakers and gizmos, various software synths and sequencers, and Cakewalk Pro Audio9

Albums LIFE-SEX-DEATH, E-SIDES

Press Reviews This release is way cool! 15 tracks of deeply layered themes and styles. The songs have been layed out to pull you in and keep you listening. Each track evokes new thoughts and at times are asking you to dance, trance, rip off your clothes, dream, and die. The vocals and lyrics are sung with emotional melancholy which cut deep into you like a living, breathing razor. Pretty cool shake up of 80's meets the new millenium in a bizarre twist of synth and crack lyrics. I listened to a few of the tracks in multiple replays.I started to hear things in the songs which empashized how this series of tunes is a real piece of ear candy. Hideous Input has managed to breath life into a sometimes cliche world of electronic music. Usually electronic artists write songs to emulate a cool beat or neat idea gone remix happy to stay within the mainstream of dancefloor USA. Hideous Input has taken this a step forward. There has not been a chance such as this revolution of electronic bands to really change the face of music since the original RockNRoll and maybe not even since the birth of classical music.There is no end to the possibilites with electronic music and it can be completely different from anything you've ever heard before.Hideous Input is new and fresh without going off into a modern art tangent which usually throws me for a loop.If I were to leave you with some last thoughts about Life-Sex-Death:L-S-D(heh heh, coincidence? hmm doubt it) is a dark techno/new wave rebirth reminiscent of Ziggy Stardust, at times Perry Farrell, with a multitude of influences such as the Pixies and many more if you listen close enough. I'd say Hideously Cool! A happenin' share for everybody.WORTH A MAJOR LISTEN! Pick this up and throw a few bills at an up and comer.-Stygian (http://www.homestead.com/stygianstar/reviews.html)one A&R team said THIs CraP!!!!!....In listening to Hideous Input, I was quickly tempted to say, "Ah they sound just like…" but had trouble finishing the sentence. They sound just like that late 80’s early 90’s new wave band that you hear all the time but just can’t put your finger on; but then again, not really.Probably the closest comparison would be Depeche Mode, except that Den Hideous's voice is much more interesting to listen to than David Gahan’s. It’s the new new wave. It’s electronic, sequential and hypnotic, but darker than it’s predecessor. Elements of trance, alternative and electronica wrap themselves around these moody songs. Turn on the black lights and spin.All the same, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to hear Hideous Input on the next John Hughes film soundtrack. Is Molly Ringwald ready for her big comeback? REVIEW: Hideous Input - "E Sides" By Mike Ventarola As usual, the Legend's editor sent me a stack of music slated for review. One in particular stood out as a CD-R with a typewritten press kit with some handwriting on it. Inwardly I was cringing because past experience simply reminds me that anything this homemade will most likely sound just as amateurish.. However, a pang of conscience encroached, helping to remind me that many underground bands are doing what they can with the best that they can afford. Sympathy won out and I hesitatingly put this CD into the player, almost wincing at what was about to assault my senses. Let it be known that looks are certainly very deceiving. This CD of outtakes sounds nothing short of a full studio recording with all the perks. Not having heard this band before, there wasn't anything to evaluate the work against. If this is unreleased material, one can only imagine what the actual releases sound like. Little Wings oddly starts with retro stylization, backward samples and gentle noise effects that simply make you wonder where this is all going. Moodier tones take over as the tenor vocals and choruses are delivered in a sotto voce style. This experimental electronic piece simply recreated a ballad to sound like a drug induced excursion. Heimlich turns up the heat with electronic pulses that is as up to date for the industrial/synthpop crowd as anything you can imagine. The song captures the "formula" for this and other genres, adds a few other touches and loops it through a repetitive sample for the chorus. Lie To Me is reminiscent of the ballads from early 80's without sounding like they stole anything from these musical forbearers. Live Backwards opens with odd chanting, drum and bass effects, and a steady dance beat. The vocals enter with a strong David Bowie influence that isn't an actual "rip-off" as much as an homage to that creative genius. It is easy to contend that Bowie would sell his eyeteeth for this track if he knew about it. The New Romantic delves into a systematic high BPM and adds the vocals through compressors and filters, giving yet again another Bowie inspired piece that also seems to reflect some of the best innovation during the height of the New Wave era. A Girl For Mother makes excellent use of bass lines throughout the synthpop stylization in a medium beat track. The lyrics are rather quirky and tongue in cheek while also keeping a bit of seriousness about it. Dead And Buried is a cover of Alien Sex Fiend's early hit. Whatever you know about the former hit, put it out of your mind. Hideous Input made this track completely their own as if they were meant to have it from the outset. There are far more electro-industrial elements with this track which are given full range to flex their muscles. The band is applauded for taking a track that has been heard a million times and infusing such a new life into it to recreate it for yet another up and coming generation. Hideous Input Sucks demonstrates far more originality than the latest Apoptygma Berzerk release. There are the pre-requisite dance elements, however there are enough additions and tweaks of interesting sounds and samples that the track will captivate the listener. The most amazing thing with this track is how it was all recorded with a "modest" budget. The only thing that detracted from the track was the "rap" at the end of the song, but this could easily be remixed out if a DJ was so inclined to do so. Considering the fact that it was with great trepidation that I selected this disc first for my review assignment, it is emphatically stated now that it was also a very good choice. Den Hideous states that he is a "one man project in a modest studio utilizing modest equipment in an attempt to make a new type of music." New Wave and Bowie comparisons aside, had this been released back in the early 80's it would have been too ahead of it's time. Quite frankly, Hideous did more with "modest" equipment than half a dozen industrial/synthpop bands who have had their creativity pampered right out of them. The music is stylized, moody and with a great deal of flowing elements that demonstrate the ability to take chaos and create order. Hideous also demonstrated that within the confines of his "modest" studio, New Wave was allowed to grow up through the ages of time, with a new style and sound fitting for the new generation.

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