Digital By Birth a profile I’ve been fucking around with this as long as I can remember, first blinding light and crying and then the Playstation. In all fairness there’s been a lot in between but it’s all been horrible. I use a crude bedroom set up customized by my tech genius father, a PS2 connected up to a tv with inbuilt dvd and video cassette player for direct film sampling, in turn hooked up to my old stereo via the Vid Aux function, then that 2 my 32 virtual track, Boss BR 532 portable digital studio which I use as a 4 track, 2 channels beatz, one vox and the last for the " iLL One's "guitar, usually played in one live A to B take. The set up is low- fi, all tracks first recorded to ol’ fashioned audio cassette – so that’s the hiss you’re hearing – before Trent converts it to computer and disk in his room. My bedroom studio which I lovingly refer to as The Machine, is low fi both out of necessity and chance but also a political statement. In a time when 6 conglomerates got it all sown up and mass media brain washes it’s denizens with shiny, pop tart music by continuous rotation play on MTV and mainstream radio, crass soulless music about fucking and material wealth, while real Artists who have a voice, musical integrity and talent and don’t just rely on million dollar production to make gimmicky music best suited to ring tones, well they remain hidden and un heard. Instead we are sold the poison of club hedonism, don’t get me wrong there may be a time for dancing but this isn’t it, the world’s going under and this live for today, do what you want and fuck tomorrow attitude that’s being sold is unhealthy. Yeah party hard but give some back and don’t wait for some revolution which ain’t going to come and would only mess things up anyhow, INSTEAD do something positive today and pay it forward. Well, I choose to do something different, a more punk D.I.Y attitude inspired most directly by Atari Teenage Riot’s get some equipment , any equipment and make some fucking noise!!!! Musically I grew up on rock, Aerosmith, Kiss but my dad would throw in Kate Bush, En vogue, Pink Floyd, the Stranglers, The Beatles and much in between. My own taste started with the whole 9o’s indie scene with bands such as Blur, Space, Radiohead and from America Beck but all the time I was looking for something heavier. Limp Bizkit lead to hip hop and ended in El-p. NIN lead to Ministry and industrial and that to Apex Twin and then DHR. Over time I’ve come to assemble it all into DBB, everything from Reznor’s arrangements, El-p’s walls of tech noise – is it music, I’m not sure? – Mugg’s from Cypress Hill’s deep and atmospheric production, in particular on Temples of Boom, has been a major influence. Sex Pistols to Bad Religion to Hatebreed lead me to lyrics which I hope covey deep meanings and concepts simply but with out being tripe. Refused and Pink Floyd showed me how to put albums together. 90’s Drum and Bass showed me how to structure tunes and use samples to give voice to music. J5 and Public Enemy showed me how to rap with power without spitting poison. . . and so on. . . The second man in the DBB team is Trent Water and it would be no overstatement to say none of this would be possible without him. We’ve been best mates since school and he’s been in Emo bands off and on but we first collaborated almost by chance on a song. I made a beat one night based around nothing, Trent showed me a tune he’d made up some nights previous and by chance it fitted the timing and duration and sounded ace. I found some pretty bleak song I’d wrote in stream on consciousness at some point the whole thing worked and then my friends Dave and Paul did some backing vocals. Frustratingly the song we fluked in half an hour is still the one people seem to like the most! We’ve had a few very good demo reviews in Rock Magazines such as RockSound and a fair bit of radio play off and on – including play on Total Rock by Malcolm Dome, Kooba and CRMK and even on the Jonathan Ross show . Well that pretty much brings you up to speed consider you ass digitized! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Digital-By-Birth/118345198237151