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Jared Slingerland
Jared Slingerland is a Canadian guitarist and electronic musician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known as a member of the electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly (FLA). History Early life Slingerland's father (Glen Slingerland) was a local radio announcer on CKIQ in Kelowna, British Columbia. The family relocated to Calgary, Alberta, when his father secured an on-air position at CHR radio station (AM106). During his childhood in Calgary, Slingerland attended his first music concert, featuring Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. Music career After eleven years in Calgary, the family relocated to Abbotsford, British Columbia. Slingerland began playing various instruments in his early teen years, ultimately excelling with the guitar. In his late teenage years, Slingerland formed a goth nu metal project, called Ms. Anne Thropy. Producer Jeremy Inkel later joined the project and the two worked together in his home studio. Shortly thereafter, Ms. Anne Thropy disban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or Plucked string instrument, plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A guitar pick may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either Acoustics, acoustically, by means of a resonant hollow chamber on the guitar, or Amplified music, amplified by an electronic Pickup (music technology), pickup and an guitar amplifier, amplifier. The guitar is classified as a chordophone, meaning the sound is produced by a vibrating string stretched between two fixed points. Historically, a guitar was constructed from wood, with its strings made of catgut. Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AirMech (soundtrack)
''AirMech'' is a video game soundtrack album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly. The album was released by Carbon Games in 2012 as the soundtrack for free-to-play real-time strategy game '' AirMech''. Release ''AirMech'' was released as a limited edition CD album and digital download. Each item of the CD version contained a code which granted access to exclusive game content and design. Canadian label Artoffact Records re-released ''AirMech'' in 2014 as a double vinyl in different variations. Background The album was announced in September 2012. Carbon Games' Game Director James Green said, "The first thing I thought of was trying to get music that sounded like Front Line Assembly". The band agreed, on the condition that members could be included in the game with "crazy sonic weapons". During the production process the band wrote "a wide range of tracks that would be suitable for AirMech, from menus to ingame music." Critical reception ''AirMech'' received mainly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Box Opera
''Music Box Opera'' is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian new age/electronic music group Delerium Delerium is a Canadian new-age ambient electronic musical duo that formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band's history, their musical style has encompassed a ..., released in 2012. Release The single "Chrysalis Heart" was released on July 30, 2013. It was remixed by Sterojackers vs. Mark Loverush, Ido and Sleepthief. "Monarch", "Days Turn into Nights", and "Chrysalis Heart" have accompanying music videos. A music video for "Chrysalis Heart" was directed by Jose Ho-Guanipa. with cinematography by Brad Rushing and editing by David Blackburn. In the video, a love triangle is seen through split-screens, where the two girls plan to kill the guy. Track listing References {{Authority control 2012 albums Delerium albums Nettwerk Records albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fighting For Voltage
''Fighting for Voltage'' is the debut full-length album by Canadian Cyberpunk/Industrial metal Industrial metal is the fusion of Heavy metal music, heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating Heavy metal guitar, metal guitar riffs, sampling (music), sampling, synthesizer or music sequencer, sequencer lines, and Distor ... band Left Spine Down. The album was released on April 22, 2008 via Synthetic Sounds in Canada and on September 23, 2008 in the USA via Bit Riot Records. Track listing References External linksLeft Spine Down Official Site [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fallout (Front Line Assembly Album)
''Fallout'' is a remix album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2007. Initially announced as an EP, it is a collection of nine remixes by both the band themselves and other artists as well as three previously unreleased tracks. Release According to Jeremy Inkel, "Electric Dreams" and "Unconscious" are songs that were originally meant for the '' Artificial Soldier'' album, but left unfinished until after. Band leader Bill Leeb later expressed his dissatisfaction with the release, saying, "We weren't that happy with ''Fallout'' even though it was more of a friendship remix CD." In 2016, Canadian label Artoffact reissued the album on vinyl. Touring After having postponed the tour because of the later than planned release of the album the band toured North America and Europe in support of ''Fallout''. The North American leg comprised dates in April and May 2007. The band were accompanied by American industrial rock band Acumen Nation as supporting act u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Echogenetic
''Echogenetic'' is the fifteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released on July 9, 2013. It was well received both by critics and fans and charted in German and US charts. Critics commented on the band's return to a purely electronic approach and on the dubstep influence on the album. Front Line Assembly toured extensively in Europe and North America in support of this album and remix follow-up Echoes, which included a tour with vocalist and band leader Bill Leeb's former band Skinny Puppy. This was the last studio album to feature Jeremy Inkel before his death in 2018. Writing and production Bill Leeb called predecessor album ''AirMech'' a "really cool warm-up" for the production of ''Echogenetic'' and added: "We just thought we should just continue on and evolve and keep that going for the new Front Line record." Leeb also commented on the fact that the writing process in the band changed with the growing number of writers. "In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AirMech
''AirMech'' is a free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Carbon Games for Windows, with Android and VR version in the works. Originally released onto Steam's early access program in November 2012 as the game was fully released in March 2018 under the name ''AirMech Strike'', and additionally released a version on the Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 under the name ''AirMech Arena''. Gameplay Inspired by Technosoft's popular ''Herzog Zwei'' for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, ''AirMech'' puts the player in similar perspective of a big transforming humanoid combat vehicle that can fly above the battle as well as land on the ground to aid units during battle. The game revolves around the player controlling their AirMech directly and then building units to assist in achieving whatever the goal of the game mode is. The player can build units and pick them up and can place them down on the battlefield to take part in the battle. The main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Improvised Electronic Device
''Improvised Electronic Device'' is the fourteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2010. Writing and production According to band leader Bill Leeb there was no theme from which the album took form. "Everyone just started doing stuff", he said in an interview with Auxiliary Magazine, emphasizing how the band was influenced by their surroundings, "I don't know if it's just the times we live in or the stuff going on around us. Whether you read the internet or watch the news or whether you just talk to people. It just seems like it ended up being a theme of predominance, world issues." Leeb cited travelling with the band as important inspiration, mentioning trips to Russia as example: "Front Line has always liked iconic symbolism and going to countries like that really inspired me lyrically." "It seemed like wherever we looked there was something for us to get into. We didn't have to make up any stories or create anything that wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Soldier
''Artificial Soldier'' is the thirteenth full-length studio album by Vancouver industrial band Front Line Assembly, released in 2006. This is the first Front Line Assembly album to feature new member Jeremy Inkel. Release In 2016, Canadian label Artoffact reissued the album on vinyl. Touring The tour in North America in support of ''Artificial Soldier'' started before the album was released. The North American leg was originally scheduled for June and July 2006. However, due to difficulties with the company that supplied the tour bus the band was forced to cancel parts of the tour. They could only play about half of their planned shows in the United States, dates in New York and Canada were cancelled. At the show in Philadelphia the band announced that this would be their last show of the tour. Tour drummer Adrian White made a statement on the Side-Line forum: "Digger international who handled the bus rental has fucked us. We were lied to since we were told we had a bus until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trip Hop
Trip hop is a musical genre that has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound. The style emerged as a more experimental music, experimental variant of breakbeat from the Bristol underground scene, Bristol sound scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, incorporating influences from jazz, soul music, soul, funk, dub reggae, rap music, rap, as well as sampling (music), sampling from movie soundtracks and other eclectic sources. Pioneering trip hop acts include Massive Attack, Unkle, UNKLE, Tricky (musician), Tricky, and Portishead (band), Portishead. The term was first coined in a 1994 ''Mixmag'' piece about American producer DJ Shadow. Trip hop achieved commercial success in the 1990s, and has been described as "Europe's alternative choice in the second half of the '90s". Characteristics Common musical aesthetics include a bass-heavy drumbeat, often providing the slowed down brea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Inkel
Jeremy Michel Neville Inkel (8 February 1983 – 11 January 2018) was a Canadian electronic musician based in Vancouver. He was best known as a keyboard player and programmer for Left Spine Down and electro-industrial band Front Line Assembly as well as producing tracks for various well known musicians worldwide. He began his work with Left spine Down in 2003 when he replaced original member Frank Valoczy. He was invited into Front Line Assembly in 2005 and made his first contributions to their 2006 album '' Artificial Soldier''. He also made contributions to Front Line Assembly side-projects Noise Unit and Delerium. Inkel died from complications with asthma at the age of 34 on January 11, 2018. Career By 2003, Inkel co-founded Left Spine Down with kAINE D3L4Y and Matt Girvan. Their like-mindedness for punk rock and electronic music brought them together, performing as headliners as well as openers for touring acts in Vancouver. After beginning work on LSD's first album, ''Fighti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
