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Abduction (album)
''Abduction'' is the debut studio album of Alien Faktor, released in 1994 by Decibel. Reception John Bush of Allmusic awarded ''Abduction'' three out of five possible stars, saying " Thomas Muschitz blends soundtrack-inspired music with electronic dance on this Decibel release." ''Sonic Boom'' praised the use of musical cacophony and diversity of the album. Track listing Personnel Adapted from the ''Abduction'' liner notes. Alien Faktor * Tom Muschitz – vocals, programming, arrangements, engineering, mixing Additional musicians * Tom Crawford – arrangements * Kevin Gayton – vocals (6) * Mike Hunsberger – guitar (2, 8, 11, 14), programming (14), sampler (14) * Terry Reed (as Warlock) – vocals and engineering (3) * Jordan Trais – Roland TB-303 (11) Production and design * Guy Aitchison – cover art, painting * Matt Hawley – design Release history References External links ''Abduction''at Discogs Disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alien Faktor
Alien Faktor were an American electro-industrial group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Created as a solo musical project by multi-instrumentalist Tom Muschitz, Alien Faktor was influenced by EDM, soundtrack and industrial music. The band released four studio albums for Decibel: '' Abduction'' (1994), '' Desolate'' (1995), '' Listen!'' (1996) and '' Arterial Spray & Cattle Mutilations'' (1997). History Alien Faktor began in 1991 as a solo musical project for Tom Muschitz out of Milwaukee. In 1994 Muschitz created the record label Decibel which the made its debut with Alien Faktor's '' Abduction'' album. Its compositions were informed by soundtrack and electronic dance music. They followed up with a second album in 1995 titled '' Desolate'' that received praise for its stylistic variety. Alien Faktor's third and fourth albums were released in 1996 and titled '' Final Expenses'' and '' Listen!'' respectively by Decibel. ''Final Expenses'' contains remixes and se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Hunsberger
Alien Faktor were an American electro-industrial group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Created as a solo musical project by multi-instrumentalist Tom Muschitz, Alien Faktor was influenced by EDM, soundtrack and industrial music. The band released four studio albums for Decibel: '' Abduction'' (1994), '' Desolate'' (1995), '' Listen!'' (1996) and '' Arterial Spray & Cattle Mutilations'' (1997). History Alien Faktor began in 1991 as a solo musical project for Tom Muschitz out of Milwaukee. In 1994 Muschitz created the record label Decibel which the made its debut with Alien Faktor's '' Abduction'' album. Its compositions were informed by soundtrack and electronic dance music. They followed up with a second album in 1995 titled '' Desolate'' that received praise for its stylistic variety. Alien Faktor's third and fourth albums were released in 1996 and titled '' Final Expenses'' and '' Listen!'' respectively by Decibel. ''Final Expenses'' contains remixes and seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Debut Albums
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as '' Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage ( CD-R), rewritable media ( CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; they are sometimes used for CD singles, storing up to 24 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design
A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan (such as in craftwork, some engineering, coding, and graphic design) may also be considered to be a design activity. The design usually has to satisfy certain goals and constraints; may take into account aesthetic, functional, economic, or socio-political considerations; and is expected to interact with a certain environment. Typical examples of designs include architectural and engineering drawings, circuit diagrams, sewing patterns and less tangible artefacts such as business process models. Designing People who produce designs are called ''designers''. The term 'designer' generally refers to someone who works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, Composition (visual arts), composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narrative, narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape art, lands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cover Art
Cover art is a type of artwork presented as an illustration or photograph on the outside of a published product such as a book (often on a dust jacket), magazine, newspaper (tabloid), comic book, video game ( box art), music album ( album art), CD, videotape, DVD, or podcast. The art has a primarily commercial function, for instance to promote the product it is displayed on, but can also have an aesthetic function, and may be artistically connected to the product, such as with art by the creator of the product. Album cover art Album cover art is artwork created for a music album. Notable album cover art includes Pink Floyd's '' The Dark Side of the Moon, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King,'' the Beatles' ''Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'', '' Abbey Road'' and their self-titled "White Album" among others. Albums can have cover art created by the musician, as with Joni Mitchell's ''Clouds'', or by an associated musician, such as Bob Dylan's art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Aitchison
Guy Aitchison (born 1968) is an American tattoo artist and painter. He was featured on the tattoo reality television shows '' LA Ink'' and ''Tattoo Wars''. Biography Guy Aitchison was born in Michigan. He began painting album covers in 1985 and began tattooing in 1988. He has also released several books. He owns a studio called Hyperspace Studios with his wife, Michele Wortman, who is also a tattoo artist and painter. They were both on TLC's ''Tattoo Wars'' in 2007. He is the brother of tattoo artist and television personality, Hannah Aitchison. He was also a guest artist on ''LA Ink''. He gave Rob Zombie his first tattoo in 1989 when he was 21. Guy Aitchison was already in an apprenticeship at the Jacklich Corporation in the art department by age 17. After completing his apprenticeship, he began painting record covers for Vinnie Moore, David Chastain, Apocrypha, Hex, Skatenigs, and mostly for California-based Shrapnel Records Shrapnel Records is an American record labe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland TB-303
The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981. Designed to simulate bass guitars, it was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984. However, cheap second-hand units were adopted by electronic musicians, and its "squelching" or "chirping" sound became a foundation of electronic dance music genres such as acid house, Chicago house and techno. It has inspired numerous clones. Design and features The TB-303 was designed by Tadao Kikumoto who also designed the Roland TR-909 drum machine. It was marketed as a "computerised bass machine" to replace the bass guitar. However, according to ''Forbes,'' it instead produces a "squelchy tone more reminiscent of a psychedelic mouth harp than a stringed instrument". The TB-303 has a single oscillator, which produces either a "buzzy" sawtooth wave or a "hollow-sounding" square wave. This is fed into a 24 dB/octave low-pass filter, which is manipulated by an envelop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampler (musical Instrument)
A sampler is an electronic or digital musical instrument which uses sound recordings (or " samples") of real instrument sounds (e.g., a piano, violin, trumpet, or other synthesizer), excerpts from recorded songs (e.g., a five-second bass guitar riff from a funk song) or found sounds (e.g., sirens and ocean waves). The samples are loaded or recorded by the user or by a manufacturer. These sounds are then played back by means of the sampler program itself, a MIDI keyboard, sequencer or another triggering device (e.g., electronic drums) to perform or compose music. Because these samples are usually stored in digital memory, the information can be quickly accessed. A single sample may often be pitch-shifted to different pitches to produce musical scales and chords. Often samplers offer filters, effects units, modulation via low frequency oscillation and other synthesizer-like processes that allow the original sound to be modified in many different ways. Most samplers have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strings against frets with the fingers of the opposite hand. A plectrum or individual finger picks may also be used to strike the strings. The sound of the guitar is projected either acoustically, by means of a resonant chamber on the instrument, or amplified by an electronic pickup and an 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 nineteenth century in the United States; nylon strings came in the 1940s. The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
