While I have been playing bass in other bands, I have also been working on electronic music of my own. I have performed live with some of this material under the name Generation Excuse (as a singer/guitarist), sometimes accompanied by a drummer or other instrumentalist. However, I always felt that the music was unsupported and a little dull when performed live; consider it the inherent weakness in electronic music. With a few exceptions, all the instruments were played or programmed by me; that includes guitars, basses, keyboards, sitars (in a few cases), violas and dombek. I'm not going to lie to you, these MP3s take forever to load.
These are songs that I have remixed for other artists, which frees me of having to pull them off live:
This is the first demo I ever recorded of my electronic material:
These are the rough cuts of my speculative solo album. Ideally, I'd like to bring real musicians into the process to replace and supplement a lot of the synthetic sounds. There are also vocals for each of these, but alas I haven't recorded any of them. I must stress again, these are rough drafts.
Shadow Puppet Theatre
For the sake of posterity, here are a few tracks from previous bands I've been in as well.
I also worked with Ms. America's Trash (with guitarist Matt Terich, singer Brendan Chase and drummer Chuck Randall) for almost a year and a half. I will point out that I didn't write any of these songs (and none of the ones I did co-write were ever recorded), but I performed them all live. I will also point out that the drums on the album were synthetic, having been recorded between drummers, and that all the tracks were produced and recorded by Matt Terich on a macintosh in his apartment.
Tranceformation for Alpha Star.
Blue Sky, Green Fields also for Alpha Star.
Opium Tuesday for Diao (which I was also a member of).
Throw Me a Line also for Diao (remix of a live recording).
Another Dose
Shame
The Great Escape
Everything
Narcissus
Ruins (of our lives)
Denial
Bloodmoney
First off, very little recorded material exists from my time with Diao, but here is one of two songs we cut as a demo (the other being Opium Tuesday, of which the remix is listed above).
Sometimes
Hang-ups
Angel Spy
Plain
Always Wrong
Let it Go
Panic
Make Believe
Judgement Day
Absent
Ms. America's Trash
Proof