Artist description Atomic Shock Culture Industrial Fusion

Music Style Electronica

Similar Artists Skinny Puppy, Non, Godflesh, Neurosis,Nine Inch Nails,

Artist History Substate Reactor formed in the spring of 1993 consisting of members Kreg Brow and Edwin Lange. "STERILIZE", their first independent release, marked a cornerstone for future sonic endevores.Currently it is no longer available in its original form, but a remastered year 2000 version is now available @ Mp3.com. Richard Miller joined Substate after a chance encounter with Kreg who was performing wth the "Deprogrammers" on the same bill as his band " To Live In Fear" and the trinity was formed. The current members residing withinthe State are Kreg Brow, Edwin Lange and Richard Miller. Substate Reactor has become a collective thought process exploring the dissemination of raw truth through hard music. The gestalt mind set, constituting each member, strives to create a stronger bond between people, music and machines. "ISOLATE", their second independent release was completed in March 1997, and touches upon points from the State's past, present and future, expanding their sonic universe while experimenting with new ideas. "ISOLATE" apearing on Mp3.com is a year 2000 remaster / remix of the original release. "ATOMIC", Substate Reactor's latest sonic attack has been released as of June 2000. This is their best work to date and well worth the wait.

Group Members K. Brow - Vocals, Programming, Sampling, Arranging, Engineering, Recording, plus various noises with various instruments. E.H. Lange - Vocals, Programming, Sampling, Propaganda. R. Miller - Guitars,Synths, Sampling, Programming, Percussion, Arranging, Propaganda.

Instruments Macintosh running Logic Audio and various other programs, Alesis Adat recorders (2), Outboard / Inboard MACKIE 1604 VLZ +Synth, Sampler and Drum submixer MACKIE 1604, Akai S01 sampler, Yamaha Su10 Sampler,Roland D110 synth module, Alesis D4 drum bank, Korg Poly800 synthesizer + EX 800 (rackmount), Boss Dr 550 drum machine, Yamaha DX 100 synth, Roland XP-50 Synth, Kawai K1 Synth, Boss Se 50 effects, Boss digital pitch shifter delay, various pedals compressors/ noise gates, Guitars - Fender Tele -Plus (2), Gibson Flying V, Gibson Custom Les Paul(1973), Ibanez 5 string bass, Amps for guitars - Seymor Duncan / Gallien Kruger / Marshall / Peavy,

Albums STERILIZE / ISOLATE / ATOMIC

Press Reviews ********REVIEWS OF THE STATE******** "What would happen if you took Neurosis' melding of ambience with heaviness, and then pushed it in an industrial direction? It's a question that I have asked myselfbefore, particularly when I read reviews describing Neurosis as industrial - a categorization that I have trouble understanding. I think that Substate Reactor would be the logical outcome of that unholy union between tribal atmospheres and electronic precision. This Vancouver band creates multilayered industrial soundscapes that constantly shift and fill in any gaps with sampled sounds or voices. SR allows itself to stretch into ambient passages that effectively build the tension, set the mood, and act as a prelude to the smashing aggro industrial stompage. The rhythms, with their tribal complexity and mechanical precision, are the highlight, laying the groundwork for a dense mashing of distorted vocals, samples, and a variety of other sounds. Substate Reactor's rhythmic industrial will please those fans that like their industrial invested with heavy doses of experimentation."     Chaotic Critiques ezine on 'Isolate'     October 1998 *....................* "Out of Vancouver BC, Substate Reactor's, Isolate is a dark electronica oriented, excellent piece of work. It begins with a minimal sound on track #1 Non-Element. A quiet unsettling backdrop of noise, and sampled vocals (I think...), and develops into a looped drumming that fades off slowly, then buzzes its way into Inferior, with knocking synth drums, the clang of a bell to herald the onset of a barrage of noise, samples and fast beats, a bit reminescent of a melding between Leatherstrip, FLA and Puppy but noisier...Good track, great mastery of synths, and unrelentless energy abounding throughout the track. Newstate continues on with a pounding of noise, guitar-ish sounding wall layered over with drums blasting, treated vocals, of which are quite threatening and omnipresent, very hard driven. Infected is a chaotic noisey powerspeeding collage which sounds like some mid-80s Puppy put on fastforeward.. ..nonetheless, an excellent track. Isolate and Purify has a rather slower *mood* to it, with heavily treated garbled vocal sample smoothed into a power synth drum loop in the forefront, and sonic waves in the background. Treated dark and quite eerie vocals in the background step in to bring a sense of wholism to the track, which is quite minimal in essence -- it slows down at the end (as if the knob for speed was tweeked), then speeds up again, a long pulsating structure of speeding up, then slowing down a number oftimes, and ending with a way slowed down version of the drum loop fading off... Overall this is an excellent release by Substate Reactor if you enjoy the more noisier electro- industrial genres. Make another one soon! I didn't get quite enough this time around."     Last Sigh Webzine on 'Isolate'     April 1998

Additional Info LIVE SHOWS SEPT. 13 2001 Ms Ts Cabaret /OCT. 19 Anza Club with Landscape Body Machine plus more dates TBA

Location Vancouver, British Columbia - Canada

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