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| Location: | CHICAGO, Illinois |
| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | Apr 23, 2008 (167 days back) |
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Please enter your email address: Rx was a one-off side project by Skinny Puppy band member Nivek Ogre, in collaboration with Invisible Records founder Martin Atkins. The project was originally called Ritalin, but the name was changed for legal reasons. The resulting album was named, "Bedside Toxicology." "This collaboration between Skinny Puppy frontman Ogre and dervish drummer Martin Atkins is the industrial-rock album for people bored with the genre. Toxicology harbors interesting textured--rhythmic bombast; short, sharp tape scratches; hydraulic found sound; slasher-movie music; pastoral English countryside settings-- and now tired power chords or samples cadged from movies rented at Blockbuster. Ogre uses very little vocal processing...concentrating on vocal melodies instead of falling back on the angry-parrot-with-distortion tricks he ultilized over a decade ago. At most lyrical, his delivery is reminiscent of Robyn Hitchcock's-- and to think that for all the years we thought Ogre was a machine. The songs seem deceptively skeletal, yet they unfold into tense atmospheres. A cover of 60's pop icon Petula Clark's "Downtown" is reduced to an ugly trawl, yet the version of Syd Barrett's "Scarecrow" is whimsically straight. "Crackhead Waltz" is disturbed merry-go-round music last heard in John Wayne Gacy's crawlspace. "For Dusts and Mists" closes the album, giving time for the stalker sitting behind you to finish the job. There are no dancefloor-firiendly tracks on the this album; don't you have enough of that stuff anyway? The industrial genre needs more stylistic inversions like this in order for the music to rise above hollow counterculture gestures. Bedside Toxicology is the result of two been-there, done-that artists who know how to use a calendar." -Jason Pettigrew Alternative Press "This was recorded in-between my move to the UK. I think I have the beat to "Exfoliate" as "Nuneaton 3," Nuneaton being the city I was living in, in the UK. I think that Christmas I packed up as much of my digital equipment as I could and spent part of Christmas Eve and most of New Years Eve working on beats in a cold room. I also conceived, during this period, the "tinklings" of Crackhead Waltz, which is an instrument I created using sped-up and slowed-down 1/4" tape loops, sampled into a program called Samplecell and then played on a traditional keyboard. I don't think either Ogre or I had very much confidence in how the album would turn out. (What a bunch of insecure wankers we are.) And, at one point, we had created some scenario where the album would be more like a live-recorded "radio performance", the idea for which was that as soon as we met Ogre at the Chicago airport, we would put him in a flightcase and record the next few hours! At some point Lee Fraser (of Sheep On Drugs/Damage Manual) was involved. - Martin Atkins Discography: |
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Music:Member Since: 1/15/2007Band Website: undergroundinc.com Band Members: Martin Atkins ( Pigface , PiL, Killing Joke, Ministry, NIN, The Damage Manual ) Nivek Ogre (Skinny Puppy, ohGr) Record Label: Invisible Type of Label: Indie |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Industrial / Electro) |
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Martin Atkins @ SXSW! |
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| Martin spent the last few days at SXSW, lecturing, DJing, seeing a bunch of great bands, meeting a bunch of great people- there’s a youtube video up now documenting part of his trip
... Posted by Rx on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST |
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Martin Atkins Tour:Smart and Gallery Show in Chicago |
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| Tour:Smart, is the new book on the business of touring by Martin Atkins. With contributions from over 120 lunatics and luminaries providing an incredible amount of insight on everything from booking... Posted by Rx on Thu, 03 May 2007 10:15:00 PST |
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| We have a spot for one more song on our Myspace player. What song would you like added? It can be a dub, your favorite track off of Bedside Toxicology, or even one of the crazy rare things... Posted by Rx on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:28:00 PST |
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Ritalin on Hiatus |
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| This page is run by Martin Atkins and Invisible Records / Underground Inc. Rx/Ritalin is on haitus. Bedside Toxicology will likely be the only offical album release. Martin Atkins ... Posted by Rx on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:58:00 PST |
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Notes from Martin on Bedside Toxicology |
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| Scarecrow is the result of delicate, hidden reverb trails, building chorusing and digital vocal multitracking, while maintaining an innocence and honesty by closing the tune with a single guitar track... Posted by Rx on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:24:00 PST |
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