Jeremy Dawson (born in

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, but raised in

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, USA) is best known as the keyboardist of the American new wave/

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band

Shiny Toy Guns Shiny Toy Guns is an American rock music, rock band formed in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, in 2002. The band comprises guitarist/vocalist Chad Petree, vocalist/bassist/keyboardist Carah Faye Charnow, keyboardist/bassist Jeremy Dawson, ...

Bands

Jeremy was the driving force behind the act Cloud2Ground. He is also the co-founder of

Cloud2Ground (1996-2000)

Bandmate, Chad Petree participated in Cloud2Ground 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 Ariel Levitan, 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,

Chad Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North Africa, North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to Chad–Libya border, the north, Sudan to Chad–Sudan border, the east, the Central Afric ...

. 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 synthesis, sample-based synthesizer/sound module in the form of a 2U rack. The JV-1080's synthesizer engine was also used in Roland's Roland XP-50, XP-50 Music wo ...

, and Roland Juno-G, and the Korg Triton. All of his programming is done in Logic.

References

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