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I don't really have a mission statement prepared, but I thought this quote I read yesterday summed up some nice things about music and life. I mean, I'm not sure there's much point in differentiating between life and music or art at this point. Certain truths come to the surface in all whatever you do. We just try and keep it constructive and positive and keep moving forward. "Smallness can bring forth great things ...Free from the pressure of legitimation and achievment, sometimes they even succeed in making the impossible even more impossible. Only machines that are not involved in the excercise of power can afford to develop insatabilities, to step out of line, to disappoint some expectations and satsify others that have not yet been articulated... Ultimately, art does not need to be useful to the whole. It is useful to the one or other individual and remains at the vibrating boundry between the tow. Thus, it will always have to do with small machines." -Siegfried Zielinski
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2003: AUDIO DREGS? Audio Dregs is our record label. We just want to make
cool things. It is run by me (E*Rock) and my brother (E*Vax). Audio Dregs is more than just our record label though. It is the art of our collected artists, graphics, publishing endeavors, fashion, events and sounds. We put a lof of effort into the web site as more than just an informational site for the label and treat the web as it's own medium. I think a large percentage of people that visit this site come just for the variety of content, to watch the animations, see the art and design and get some visual stimulus. This is perfectly fine with us. Web sites are the zine of the new millennium, only can reach more people more immediatly with a greater output. We also publish a print magazine called Thumb, some of which is available as raw interviews on this site. Hopefully that's all
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| special thanks to all of you that have helped out and supported us and Audio Dregs over all these years. Having people around that are supportive of creativity and inspiring to be around make all the difference: Our parents, Ian Lynam (Deaf leopard), Emily Mast, Kinya Hanada (Mumbleboy), Colleen French (01), Chad Crouch (Hush), Rob Jones (Jealous Butcher), James & Chandra (Darla) , Tom Steinle (Tomlab), Ben Barnett (KOLS), E*Mox, Anthony & Kate, Kerry, The Sensualists, Josh Blanchard, Brian Foote (Nudge), Paul Dickow (Strategy), Honey Owens (Valet), The Dunes, The Blackbird, Chantelle, Ken (Aesthetics), Casper & Lauren, Benj, Robin, Klein, Ashley, Todd (Carpark), Trevr Holland, Sean (Grooves), Laris Kreslins (Sound Collector), Anna at Insound, Robin & Toe (ISAN), Chris Ott, Eric Diaz, Peter Pluut, Howard Von Supersprite, Jeremy Ballard (Inkblot), Harald "Sack" Ziegler, Todd Simmons, Patrick Mullins, Shawn James Seymour (Lullatone), Brian Alfred, JD Davis, Richard Jones, B. Fleischmann, Thomas Morr (Morr Music) Nobukazu Takemura, Múm, David Rafn, D Yellow Swans, PaperRad, MAP magazine, After Hours magazine, Tsunami Addiction, Ozone Records, and all the people that have been stoked on what we're doing and supported us in some way. |
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having e*vax on board of directors here at ADR certainly has helped kick things up a notch or two. but a new year arrives and a new objective is born so e*vax has again relocated. following the release of his first full length album on AUDIO DREGS e*vax returns east to brooklyn, new york to spearhead the eastcoast branch of ADR. "putting out music that we love is great, as well as all the fine art, animation, graphics and things that AUDIO DREGS site encompases, but isn't our true love money?" "yes, money, i love money!" "let us use adr as a vehicle to produce lots of money then. we will increase our presence through a new global advertising campaign." "...and then we will buy solid gold cowboy hats as an outward sign of our finanial success!" "very well then, i will travel east and setup HQ#2 to gain a new vantage point." "lightspeed!"
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| ADR HQ :: 5:31 PM having recently moved to portland, e*vax has joined the ranks of adr. many board meetings have begun. plans are being implemented. it seemed natural for e*vax to join; we work together well, we get along well, we share similar tastes and aesthetics in producing music and art--oh yes, we're also brothers, so we've known each other since way back! adr is still a vehicle for experimenting, producing, and releasing music as well as a vehicle for animation and visuals--and now it is run by two... best
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ADR HQ :: 5:31 PM I figured it was about time to update the this here mission statement, although not much has changed. ADR is still basicly me doing my thing, releasing music that I find interesting, not really fitting in with any particular scene--which is half the fun. There's more room to explore when you draw your own boundaries, and there's still always a lot to learn. sincerely, |
ADR HQ :: 6.17.99 2:46 AM Life's pretty funny. People change, move away then stay the same. Someone you were close to will be across town and not talk to you anymore--loss of communication, and yet one person in Spain, Germany, the opposite coast or across town is listening. Music is a funny way to communicate often abstract ideas to people you don't know, and that may never meet, but you never know--just might get something worth while out of a simple song. A record label is basicly someone who replicates--sound and information. Nothing to it really, but hopefully more than that. I've tried to experience music from as many different angles as possible: from passive listener, music creation, recording, producing, manufacturing, record label, retail sales clerk, back to consumer, collector, rock critic, DJ, sample bandit... passing on pieces of audio information as well as absorbing them. It's one way to learn. Tiny bits of audio information, that would often never again make it to audible sound source, can regenerate into something concrete. Even if you don't get anything out of it, hopefully you enjoyed yourself. Even in the off chance that you didn't enjoy the passing sound: I'm not afraid to admit that I did ADR for myself, which is quite enough really. Let's kick some art then. This isn't really a history, as I'm sure you've noticed by now, but hey... *E |