Do you love electronic music? Wanted to announce that the first show since the release of my album will be at the experimental music festival, Feathers Music Conference, on Saturday, March 27th at The Laboratory. This is looking to be a smash event and if you can attend the Thursday and Friday night shows as well, they will be lots of fun. I will have copies of Synergy Latte on CD. Looking forward to performing some heavy transhuman IDM and sardonic bitpop for familiar faces at this event. Hope to see you all there!

Welcome to 2010. This is a time of major shifting in the geospasmic energies all around us. That is why I wanted to make an announcement as to my musical status. You see, for many years I have made music relying on microprocessors and high speed RAM. Regardless, much of the sounds I create were inspired by my earliest days tinkering with electronic stimuli, the classic video game system.

I’d probably never have finished high school if it weren’t for the game Tetris on that I played incessantly on a Gameboy when the Great Nothing became too much to bear. Even ended up sampling the sound effects from it and sequencing bizarre experimental arcade melodies for a track from the 2001 Mister Harsh Guy album (track 2, “Fear of Death”). This inspired me greatly because I’d never made something that had a combination of sounds so familiar put together in a new exciting way.

In a recent interview with electronic music podcast Solipsistic Nation’s host Bazooka Joe, he defines Bitpop as using “chiptunes as an influence but isn’t locked into Chiptunes conceptual framework. It wouldn’t be incongruous in a Bitpop tune to hear a Gameboy melody being played along with a guitar line, a cocktail drum kit and an accordion.” As a highly eclectic and individualized artist, I’ve struggled to define myself under a specific genre, but in this case it seems to fit quite well.

It used to be that I felt guilty for not making Chiptune on a genuine Gameboy with all the appropriate mods. But I’ve been using chip sounds for years in my music and don’t feel less valid for having generated it with my computer or combining those sounds with others for an interesting blend of whatever insanity I feel like making. That is why I hereby approve and fully condone usage of the Bitpop categorization, for it effectively reconfigures the paradigm of what electronic music should be here and now. For me, at least.

I have made four remix kits available from songs on my latest goth electro record Synergy Latte!

Included in each zip file are the individual tracks, rendered from the master song project. They will all align with 0:00 in the time clock of your Digital Audio Workstation, other than the included source and drum samples. To save space, some audio files include more than one track or type of sound. Edit Accordingly.

For your convenience, the BPM of each song has been included, as well as an Acid 6.0 project file as a reference point. You may notice that these electronic music sounds have been DE-mixed a bit, which is to offer you more options in your RE-mix! Vocals especially have had all their processing removed. If you require more specific source files, please let me know and I will try my best to accomodate you.

• Turn Off – 133 BPM – Bouncy dance pop for mutants.
• Young Life – 137 BPM w/ change (begins/ends @ 101 BPM) – Hypnotic ultra mind rave.
• Financial Assassins – 198 BPM – Industrial breakcore from a bad fiscal nightmare.
• Teh 8-Bit Standard – 180 BPM – Sardonic bitpop freestyle foolery.

You can email MP3’s to

To send the final wav file, upload to my dropbox

Hoping to get enough material for a release. At the very least, I will make the best ones available for listening.

Happy Remixing!

by Taylor Shechet

The cybernetic nightmare alchemist from the ultra cosmic sadness land of glitchy vortex beats is back with his newest masterpiece of politically relevant sonic trickery. Within the first few seconds of pulsating notes of synth bass and industrial sound effects you will be infected with Johan’s mutant manifesto. Digital growls, wicked limericks, and faux rapping in a voice like a cartoon villain attack with urgent calls to action and witty social satire.

The first track “Turn OFF”, is reminiscent of a modernized DEVO. Lyrics like “TURN OFF this iMorphine” poke fun at our branded and socially-networked existence and encourage the listener to “filter out the programming” and “interact with real people”. One of my personal favorite tracks is “Financial Assassins”, a gleeful jig across the corpse of the economy. Fans of Venetian Snares or Otto Von Schirach will love intense breakcore assaults like “Bloodtrocution (Sanguifried)” or Johan’s tribute to the dirty south gangsta lifestyle, “Real Gib”. One of the last tracks, the epic “Three Postulates of Worship”, features guest vocals by Rachel Haywire of MachineKUNT records.

The catchier, more vocal-centric style of Synergy Latte will open new audiences to Johan’s more psychedelic early work. However fans of his previous albums such as Govern Yourself Accordingly (2007) or Esshatology (2005) will not be disappointed, as there is plenty of weirdness to go around. Currently, Synergy Latte is available for free download or digital purchase from the website and will soon be available as a physical release featuring stunning album art by yours truly.

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