Artist description melodywhore is a loop-based project incorporating old and new technologies.

Music Style dark loop-based music with industrial and electronic origins

Musical Influences too many to list - top influences are Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode

Similar Artists NIN, dM, Aphex Twin

Artist History melodywhore is the music project that i could never get right until i got into wav editing... which was a few years ago when i was introduced to Acid Pro 1.0. i started playing keyboard when i was 17... taught myself basic music theory and fingering and all that. i later purchased pro gear (Korg M1) and started writing music using an Atari 1040ST computer. in 1994, i started playing rhythm guitar and incorporating that into my music. around that time, i was performing the 'corpsegrinder' project live in monterey, ca - an industrial electronic type project. when i started dabbling with Acid, the first compositions were completely experimental and a lot of them were mostly pasting Acid loop library noise together (you'd be suprised at how many electronic artists at mp3.com use these loops but don't admit it). Then came the synthdog project which were some of my first efforts at editing wavs using Acid. After synthdog and remixing other loop-based artists, i started the melodywhore project, which had a rather slow start... i knew what direction i wanted to go in, but it was still hard even after the synthdog project to incorporate old and new methods of song writing.

Group Members melodywhore is j. reyna

Instruments Yamaha 12-string guitar strung with only 6 strings, Peavey Nitro II electric guitar, AMD K6 III 400MHz PC with SoundBlaster Live sound card, Digitech DSP256XL effects processor, Shure SM57, Roland ED MIDI controller

Albums a brief moment remixed

Press Reviews First Word: On the few occasions that experimental music moves into realms of ambience, I have always known it to succeed. Whether this is because it takes a certain type of skilled person to do so, or for some other unknown factor, I do not know. But J. Reyna’s NIN-Instrumental reminiscent track ‘Morphene’ combines the experimental with the established to make a soft vibe that you couldn’t be offended by in the slightest. Here’s the low-down: Good Points: This track works heavily on layers, and no matter how much focus is put on the sounds in the foreground, you can always feel something moving just beneath the surface, like a subtext of sorts, continually contributing to the music as a whole but not otherwise intruding upon your natural consciousness. This gives the piece a ‘dream-like’ quality and it is only as the track weaves and spins to a guitar-fuelled groove nearer the end that the dream is broken and you begin to take some real notice. This transition between the two is brilliantly executed and is almost expected by the pattern of the distorted and processed drums and FX that lead up to this moment where there’s nowhere else for the tune to go apart from down that path. I loved that moment as the guitar hit and everything just fell into place, as random elements suddenly had seeming sense. It’s good. Bad Points: I would however have to make a few reservations clear. Although as we have stated it is a combination of the forms of experimental and ambient music, I felt that this line became blurred, so that when obviously ‘experimental’ grooves hit the flowing synth backlay, it felt destructive and distracting. Hell, maybe that’s what the tune is supposed to do – but I don’t have that context, and I can only know what I hear. It feels roughly of the right length to these ears, but some people might like a little less – or a little more. It’s one of those tunes that’ll either get people really going, or just fly totally over their heads. Final Word: I pretty much put good faith in Melodywhore’s artistic vision, based on what I have seen of the Mp3.com page. There’s definitely something going on there, even if it’s not totally clear what it is when you play it for the first time. I actually recommend you don’t resist this music… just let it happen, and I’m sure wonderful things will occur. Good music, not mind-blowing, but certainly enough of a head-trip to satisfy the most ardent and odd tastes in music – that I share myself. - Anton Wulfen, GodsOfMusic.com

Location Newport News, Virginia - USA

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