Name: Jeff Shoemaker
Age: 25
Occupation: IT, but only until that rockstar things pans out
Education: UT Austin, Radio-Television-Film (hence the IT work)
Musical History: First, i really liked the UK synthpop that i'd hear on
the radio as a child (Human League, Animotion, that kind of thing). got
into hiphop in 5th grade (Fat Boys, Whodini, UTFO, Run-DMC) at this tiem i
also discovered Art of Noise, which is still my God-Band. merged with
hesher period in 7-8th grade (metallica, anthrax, slayer, etc.). went
wholehog into EBM after seeing Front 242 in Las Vegas (Front by Front) on
family vacation! got bit by the techno bug after seeing the +8 tour in
Dallas in 10th or 11th grade. got into ambient/idm in summer of 92 with
purchase of UFOrb and Artificial Intelligence the same day as getting my
first CD player.
Uwe history: it acutally all started in a small record store in Madrid in
summer '94. i had gotten into FAX the previous year, but didn't really
take note of Uwe (Synthadelic didn't really distinguish itself). found a
shitload of FAX at this store, and the proprietor insisted that i check out
Render. me and my travelling buddies were goofing on the fact that someone
had finally made a good EBM record after all our heroes like NIN, Nitzer
Ebb and F242 had turned to shit. anyhow, i was so jazzed by what i heard
that i also got two +N CDs ("ex.s and "Plane"). around this time a friend
scored "Morphogenetic Fields" and that was that. i gobbled up what i could
find on FAX like live at SEL I.S.C., Softcore. . .then RI happened, and
i've managed to get most of those minus the comps and b2.
and that's that. subbed to mother for about a year, after chris hipped me
to it after seeing my numerous posts on ambient and IDM. so here i am,
happy to see that there are people who are way more infatuated with Uwe
than i :) having said that, i think that hs is probably the most musically
talented guy that i listen to, up there with MoM, luke vibert, plaid, etc.
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