Jeremy Dawson (born in

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, but raised in

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, USA) is best known as the keyboardist of the

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new wave/

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band

Shiny Toy Guns Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2002. The band is composed of guitarist/vocalist Chad Petree, vocalist Carah Faye Charnow, keyboardist Jeremy Dawson, and drummer Mikey Martin. Their first studio alb ...

Bands

Jeremy was the driving force behind the act

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. He is also the co-founder of

Cloud2Ground (1996-2000)

Bandmate, Chad Petree participated in

with Jeremy.

Slyder

The

song " You Are the One" has its roots in Slyder's trance song "Neo", put out under Chad and Jeremy's moniker. "Neo" and "Score" was used in the video game

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Shiny Toy Guns (2002-present)

Jeremy created Shiny Toy Guns with bandmate Chad Petree in 2002. He is the keyboardist and bassist.

Hybridigital (2009-2010)

Hybridigital is Jeremy and Chad's side project, and subsection of Shiny Toy Guns, where they put on live shows of remixes of their Shiny Toy Guns songs. They feature live guitars, keyboards, and (male) vocals.

Mirror Machines (2010)

The record production name of Jeremy Dawson and Chad Petree of Shiny Toy Guns

MXMS (Me and My Shadow) (2013-present)

MXMS is a multimedia art and music project. The name MXMS stands for "Me and My Shadow". Dawson formed this project with vocalist

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, calling their music "funeral pop."

Equipment

Dawson has been seen using an M-Audio 88key Midi Controller with a V-Synth Module; Fender Jazz Bass with Ampeg SVT Head, and an Alesis Micron that is also played by the lead singer,

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. Jeremy tends to cover the brand name on most of his gear with black tape. His current live synthesizers are the Roland V-Synth XT,

Roland JV-1080 The Roland JV-1080 ( Super JV, Super JV-1080, or simply 1080) is a sample-based synthesizer/sound module in the form of a 2U rack. The JV-1080's synthesizer engine was also used in Roland's XP-50 workstation (1995). Due to its stellar library ...

, and

Roland Juno-G Roland Juno-G is a music workstation/synth introduced in 2006 by Roland Corporation. It is based on the Roland Fantom-X, Fantom-X series, having a vintage design that resembles the first Juno synthesizers, such as the Roland Juno-106, Juno-106. ...

, and the

Korg Triton The Korg Triton is a music workstation synthesizer, featuring digital sampling and sequencing, released in 1999. It uses Korg's HI Synthesis tone generator and was eventually available in several model variants with numerous upgrade options. The ...

. All of his programming is done in Logic.

References

1978 births Living people Musicians from Oklahoma Musicians from Texas People from Shawnee, Oklahoma Shiny Toy Guns members 21st-century American keyboardists {{US-keyboardist-stub