James Euringer (born September 7, 1969), known professionally as Jimmy Urine, is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. He is best known as the lead singer and programmer of

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band

Mindless Self Indulgence Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and breakb ...

Early life

James Euringer was born in

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on September 7, 1969. He has a brother named Markus. He graduated from a

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and later attended an art school, but dropped out.

Career

Mindless Self Indulgence

Before starting

, Euringer took on the

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Jimmy Urine and worked with his brother, releasing an album titled ''Mindless Self-Indulgence''. The brothers became the founding members of Mindless Self Indulgence and soon found guitarist Steve Montano (Steve, Righ?) and drummer Jennifer Dunn (Kitty). The brothers released a second album, ''Crappy Little Demo'', before Markus left the group and was replaced by bassist Vanessa Y.T., who was in turn replaced by Lindsey Way (Lyn-Z).

Other work

Urine has remixed songs by

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, and

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. He has been known to completely restructure the songs he remixes as well as add his own vocal parts. He also produced the original version of "Revolution" by

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. Urine and his MSI bandmate Steve, Righ? have a side project called

The Left Rights Mindless Self Indulgence (often referred to as MSI) is an American electropunk band formed in New York City in 1997. Their music has a mixed style which includes punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno, industrial, hip hop, and breakb ...

. They have released a self-titled album and a second album titled ''Bad Choices Made Easy''. Urine worked as a composer for the 2012 video game ''

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'', in which he also voiced the character Zed. He provided the voice for The Body in M Dot Strange's 2012 animated film ''

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''. He also appeared in

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's 2015 musical horror film ''

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''. Urine played a Ravager named Half-Nut in the 2017 film ''

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'' He also wrote a song for the film called "Un Deye Gon Hayd (The Unloved Song)", which is heard during the scene on the planet Contraxia. The song does not appear on the soundtrack album. In 2017, the song was uploaded to

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. Urine released a self-titled album under the name Euringer in October 2018. The album features appearances from Tankian, Grimes,

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, and

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. In 2020, Urine voiced Kid K Beatz in two episodes of the cyberpunk musical web series ''X-RL7''. That same year, Urine and Tankian released the collaborative album ''Fuktronic''.

Personal life

Euringer married singer and musician

on January 18, 2008. The couple relocated to New Zealand in 2018, settling in

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. Their identical twin daughters were born in 2019.

Legal issues

While performing with Mindless Self Indulgence in

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in 1999, Euringer was arrested for indecent exposure and spent a night in jail after he exposed his penis onstage. On August 9, 2021, a lawsuit was filed against Euringer in

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with the charge of sexual battery of a minor. The accuser, whose identity was left anonymous because she was a minor at the time, claims that she had a sexual relationship with Euringer from January 1997 to June 1999 which started when she was 15 years old and Euringer was 27. The suit alleges that Euringer "groomed and manipulated erinto believing that his sexually assaultive behavior was not criminal and that by engaging in sexual activity with him hewas actually helping to protect younger girls from sexual assaults". Euringer also allegedly wrote her a letter wishing her a happy fifteenth birthday. The suit added, "During this time, Euringer acted as and treated eras though she was his girlfriend and the two were in a consensual relationship." It is alleged that Euringer took pictures of the plaintiff naked throughout the relationship and requested that she "act like a small child, suck her thumb, drool, and pee in her pants" during sexual acts. Euringer also allegedly bought her a fake ID so she could go to concerts with him and drink alcohol. After the girl was convinced they were in a relationship, Euringer allegedly tried to hide their relationship by telling her not to act affectionately with him while in public. The lawsuit claims that the woman has suffered emotional distress since the relationship started.

Discography

With Mindless Self Indulgence

With The Left Rights

*''The Left Rights'' (2002) *''Bad Choices Made Easy'' (2010)

As Jimmy Urine

*''The Secret Cinematic Sounds of Jimmy Urine'' (2017)

As Euringer

*''Euringer'' (2018)

Jimmy Urine & Serj Tankian

*''Fuktronic'' (2020)

References

External links

Mindless Self Indulgence Official Website

Mindless Self Indulgence on MySpace
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