Artist description Epic Trance / Progressive HouseZero Gauge Records Recording Artist

Music Style Trance

Musical Influences Breeder, BT, Sasha & Digweed, Josh Ryan, Deepsky, Cass/Slide, Hybrid, L.S.G., DeathBoy U.K., Orbital, Solar Stone, Transa, , Everything on Fluid Records UK, Mike Koglin, Tilt (not the punk rock band), Whoop! Records, The Digital Blonde, Yves de Ruyter, Rodd-Y-Ler, Everything on Steel Fish Records, Quivver, Frame, Public Enemy, LUXT, The Mission UK, Hate Dept, Madonna, Fiction 8, Big Black, Bauhaus, the Cure, Front Line Assembly, Curve, Information Society, XYMOX, Kraftwerk, Love and Rockets, Rozz's Christian Death, and about a million other things you probably haven't heard of...yet. 8)

Similar Artists Arrakis, Atlantis, DeathBoy U.K., Leftfield, YLEM, and a few other miscellaneous bands

Artist History where do I begin? at the beginning, of course! 8) I was a member of an electronic goth/deathrock(NOT DEATH METAL!!!)-influenced darkwave band called FILMSTRIP. I performed in the band for three years, playing guitar and bass guitar. I shared songwriting duties with the two other members of the band, as well as did production work in the studio with said two other members (Brendan K. Russell and "Green" Ruthie Saringer) of the band on our various demos and first album entitled "Jesus Satan Buddha Voodoo", which is now out of print (but available if anyone wants it). Also wrote two songs with Brendan that ended up on the second full-length FILMSTRIP cd entitled "Hashfuel", which is due to be released any time now. I left the band in August of 1997, originally to go to College and pursue my own interests in writing Trance techno. The band's name was changed to "The FILMSTRIP" after I left the band. College later became something I could not attend due to my ever-awful financial situation, and so I began to write and record music again while being unemployed.I sequenced and recorded an industrialish breakbeat-style version of Information Society's 1987 classic top-10 hit "Walking Away", originally for submission to 21st Circuitry Records for their compilation entitled "Newer Wave II", a compilation of goth/industrial/darkwave bands doing covers of 80's tracks. They had solicited outside sources for material and I figured it would be to my benefit to record and submit the track to them. I recorded it at Lee "Frame" Damschröder's NöiseFloor Studios (at that time, located in Grand Junction, CO) while he worked on his version of the Laurie Anderson classic, "O SUPERMAN". Needless to say, 21st Circuitry rejected my submission (Don gave no reason, either, which bummed me out), but I carried on and started to write more trancier stuff. A few months later, during the first week in april before I was due to return to Minneapolis for a visit with my friend Cindee and a much-needed 3-week stint from Colorado, I wrote a track called "Anthem One v0.0005", which was never released other than to dear friends, family, colleagues, and anyone who would listen. New Years Eve/Day 1999, I returned to the familiar comfort-zone (and couch!!! thanks lee!!) of Lee Damschröder's NöiseFloor Studios to spend another New Years Eve/Day and to hang out, and ended up staying a couple of weeks, and writing "Millennium Paranoia", an epic, crazy, progressive, 140BPM 4-on-the-Floor trancer with one of the coolest hooks ever, during that time. I returned to Denver, got dubplates cut, got the track played in a club, and hooked up with Zero Gauge Records president and founder DJ Basil, who loved the track. If not for him and his encouragement + fervor for the track, I probably would never have gotten the record pressed and out. Props and MadLove™ to Basil for EVERYTHING !!! So that's pretty much it. I'm influenced by a wide range of things, mostly electronic music. I abhore guitars and basses now, and adore all things keyboard, analog, and electronic. My advice to musicians: planks of wood with cables stretched across them are boring. Go for something electronic instead !!! You'll love the freedom. db2k. Zero Gauge Records Recording Artist

Group Members Darien Waldhoff *is* DeathBoy 2000

Instruments various keyboards varying in various sizes being filtered through various effects, filters, LFO's and processors, and then recorded with various types of equipment, some analog in nature but mostly digital, generally of varying types. (hint: my favorite synth is the Roland Juno106)

Albums Millennium Paranoia (12" single)

Location Denver, CO - USA

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