Artist description Experimental.

Music Style Industrialized yet experiments with all electronica and post-rock.

Musical Influences KMFDM, Moby, NIN, New Order...too many to list

Similar Artists NIN

Artist History Grabbed a microphone, a guitar, a keyboard, and a computer...

Group Members Erik Revolt & anyone else who wants to jam along...

Instruments everything but the kitchen sink

Albums AOHELL, Raindance For Acid, The Art of Dreaming, Cats Kill Curiosity

Press Reviews RollingStone.com reviewed: "Millenium Bug" & "AOHELL" 10/20/99:"Thomas Dolby meets Japan, Listening to this particular track took me back to MY early 20's. (1980 ish) A very interesting track which seems to have the musical influences of Japan (an 80's English new romantics group) and Thomas Dolby (also an 80's English artist who's music was very electronic) Millenium Bug has a "nice sound" and comands you to listen to the end of the track (unlike AOHELL). More like this and we will see lot more of this group. (liked it lots)." -Chris Leach----++++----- Listen.com reviews 10/99:"Piercing guitars, distorted vocals, nasty beat explosions, and varied synth textures combine in unpredictable ways and become amorphous musical puzzles." Kalamazoo Express Weekly 3/23/00 "Revolt On The Internet" Local high-tech musician Erik Revolt's stage exists in the nebulous realm of cyberspace by Lem Montero The internet has changed the business forever. If done right, musicians could market their art across the world with a click of a mouse. A track produced in Kalamazoo could wind up on a dance floor in Scotland. In fact that has happened. Erik Revolt has launched his music into cyberspaceand it's landing on all four corners. Working in his basement studio, Erik speaks into a microphone attached to his Macintosh. He glides the mouse around and his recorded voice shows on the screen as a graph. Erik quickly selects the portion of the graph he knows he doesn't want and deletes it. What remains he plans on using as a sample for his music. He dips the graph through a battery of other programs where he applies filters, adjusts wavelengths and tweaks out the sound until he's happy with it. The sample becomes another layer in his music. The results of his digital handiwork can be heard on mp3.com/murderbymodem. It's a hard-hitting Nine Inch Nail's sound with metallic vocals, popping drums, and a swirls of sounds that grips the listeners by the throat. Editing and producing sound on computers isn't a shocking new revelation. Much of the high end software can cost tens of thousands of dollars and require a computer brimming with memory. Erik enters on the other end of the spectrum. With a comparatively dated computer and software that's easily avilable to most budgets, he put together a full length CD. While the quality of sound produced by using more economical software obviously differs from the sound and control of higher end programs. But Erik manages to produce tracks good enough to have been downloaded by several dance clubs and incorporated into their mixes. From Detroit to Dublin, his high-tech music rattles dancers in a very primitive manner. Erik records his music directly into his computer. Ben Knowlton occasionally helps out by adding synth drums and rhythms. The rest is done by Erik and his digital imagination. "I'm trying to make something happen where I do whatever it takes to see what was up in my head and make it real," Erik's nearly whispered voice says rhythmically. Turning a recording piece of music into a mp3 isn't as complicated as one might expect. The computer to be used requires sound input jacks. Many computers come with simple software that allow recordings to be made through these jacks. Once the track is recorded into the computer as an audio file, turning the file into an mp3 requires very little time. "I usually use a program called Audio Catalyst," Erik casually looks at his computer screen. "it's free off the internet, you just have to pay a license fee. Then you just open the audio file," his eyes scan a list of names in a digital folder. "Let's take Earth Dies Screaming, a band I produced. The program takes a big audio sound file, which is about 10 MB per minute and makes it only about a tenth of the size. Say you have a 5 minute song, which is about 50 MB stereo file. As an mp3, it'll keep the quality,but only make it 5 MB." At a total of 5 MB, the song becomes easy to upload and download from the web making it accessible to millions across the world. One major advantage, Erik points out, of distributing one's own music, whether through a personal label or on the web, is that the artists keep a bigger share of the profits. National labels only grant most of their artists an average of 6% sales. On mp3.com, by comparison, an artist recieves 50% of total sales. Erik plans on producing a live music of his show. While some live instruments would be used, nearly everything else would be preset on a computer. He hopes to introduce heavy theatrics to make the show visually exciting as the music. "till then, Erik Revolt will continue to make his music from his studio. Where the music winds up is determined only by how much someone around the world wants to dance.

Location Kalamazoo, MI - USA

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