Biaxial Creep
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Friday, Oct 20 › 8pm–2am › $5
ST. VITUS DANCE CLUB: Leaning a touch more into the dark-and-crunchy side of things this week at St. Vitus Dance Club, the Mad Movement Machine for Portland's Postmodern Pumps. Visiting Seattle noise scene terrorists Biaxial Creep and Syphilis Sauna square off against Portland's cut-up sample-slingers Free Death and !Go-Yo! And, true to our promise to change up the balance of dance clubs and dance troupes, we have invited Conduit and PWNW regular Kathleen Keogh to perform both alone and with her newly-minted trio Woolly Mammoth Comes To Dinner.
About the artist
Biaxial Creep weaves together pelvis shaking, glitch-core percussion, somber soaring melodies, otherworldly multi-processed trumpet, and traditional instruments including bass, tabla, and guitars. The end result is somewhere between an opium dream and deep black space, between Tricky and Gridlock, between Meat Beat Manifesto and Coil. The Creep's music has both a heady appeal and a visceral, body-shaking vibe. It conjurs visual landscapes to movies screened only in your mind, paired with a beat that compels you to move. Technically Biaxial Creep is classified as electronic, but beat-driven textural manipulation with nods to industrial and IDM will serve if brevity is not your thing. "It's like sound-tracks? I love it!" enthuses J.Scott G. of DeepSky.
The Creep was conceived by Swante J. in Seattle, WA. several months prior to the first release, Theoretical Silence, issued in 2003. Since then, producer Wesley Davis has joined the line up. With Wonder Twin Powers activated, they have released a three song E.P. entitled 5Mg Less, and played a multitude of live shows to establish a solid local reputation in the Seattle electronic music community. At live shows, collaborator VJ LowRez adds her signature visual stylings, including her own homemade fractal generator, to give Biaxial Creep shows syncopated eye candy.
Biaxial Creep has headlined two shows at The Fenix, as well as opened for heavy weights Not Breathing, preformed at The Capitol Hill Art Center, played at the raucous Living Room, and shook the house at The Baltic Room's No Tomorrow, to name a few gigs.
Biaxial Creep's core members are Wesley Davis, a.k.a. bios+a+ic, recently of Entropic Advance, and Swante J, formerly of Novemdecillion. bios+a+ic, a producer and performer, soundtracks the modern world via construction and deconstruction of multi-layered digital and analog textures. He feels music cannot be separated from the environment; therefore he embraces both the organic elements of sound and the digital counterparts. "For the music to be alive, it cannot be contained within preconceived ideas like notation, time, or genre," says bios+a+ic. Swante J. began his passion for music in his early teens studying guitar and bass in school and drumming out beats on the dashboard of his mom's car (much to her dismay). He progressed from dashboard beats to computer systems, samplers, and keyboards, enabling him to manifest the complex rhythms and dark atmospheres he hears in his head. Currently, he crafts beats, plays bass, composes and remixes in addition to tracking, mixing, and mastering in his studio, Mothlight.
The amalgamation of the two producer/performers results in "very atmospheric, very slick and well executed music, more people should know about this, sounds excellent!" according to artist and fan, SpiderFlux.
Upcoming noteworthy events include a video for .5Mg Less and a West Coast/South West tour in support of a new 5-track ep.
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