 BIO + PRESS ASSETS
The Demix is the dark, explosive electronic project of experimental musician Paul Fuhr from Milwaukee, WI, USA. Recently he self-released the digital single "Lights Out", described by The Onion AV Club as "an eerily cinematic three and a half-minute blast of unsettling, apocalyptic screeching and slippery, reptilian beats." Influenced by film soundtracks, experimental rock, avant-garde electronica and DJ culture, The Demix is a sonic assassin creating a uniquely tense, nervous musical world layered with brutal noise, psychedelic ambience, sci-fi sound effects, destroyed samples and distorded beats. PRESS KIT + MP3s | PRESS PHOTOS | PHOTO ALBUM | PRESS QUOTES | CONTACT: thedemix@gmail.com |
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PLAYED WHERE:Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis, Detroit, Ohio, The Mojave Desert, The Cactus Club, The Pabst Theater, Turner Hall Ballroom, The Ring, Stonefly/Onopa Brewery, The Globe, The Knitting Factory LA, Star Shoes, Hangar 1018, Basements, Living Rooms, Warehouses, Art Shows, Outer Space, Highbury Pub, The Bottom Lounge, Macs Bar, High Five Cafe, 400 Bar, The Klinic, Mad Planet, Red Room, The King Club, Yield, Club Anything INFLUENCES: EQUIPMENT:
"The Demix is Milwaukee’s self-described “dark knight of electronic experimentalism,” and he whips up a disturbing cacophony of atmospheric noise, film score samples, and spoken word. In February, The Demix released the song "Lights Out," an eerily cinematic three and a half-minute blast of unsettling, apocalyptic screeching and slippery, reptilian beats. Also worth seeking out is 2009's heady Escape From Jones Island mix, which was supposedly inspired by a death-defying late-night bike ride." - The Onion AV Club
"An excursion into the darkest corners of electronic-noir" - fan-belt.com
"The Demix sound is something hard to describe. It's dark and layered with an insane sauce of horrible weirdness. Some might say it has a touch of darkest possible DnB. Whatever: It's very high impact!" - www.laptoprockers.eu
"THE purveyor of electro-psyche in Milwaukee" - 91.7 WMSE
"Sinister, scary and toxic" - fan-belt.com
"Like watching an old horror film as an unusually productive construction team tears apart the street outside."
"His craft might be best described as a series of sonic seizures spilling unpredictable intensity across a sea of samples.... When he's performing, you're listening."
"Trippy descent into dementia" - The Onion
"Relentless Electronic Mash-Core”
"The Demix whips up inventively creepy electronic soundscapes on his recent debut, Storm, especially the 12-minute opener "Trapper.Keeper.Stalker.Dead.Silent.", which interlaces a sampled Meddle-era Pink Floyd jam into a Skinny Puppy-like nightmare. The rest of Storm is marked by the sheer aggression of his pulsating wall of sound, which is the aural equivalent of being hit with a large hammer."
"Brainy Mixologist"
"It’s very controlled chaos; this will make you think of every sound you hear in your everyday life and how it fits, and/or clashes with every other sound. It just proves that there is music everywhere, all the time." - gimpradio.com
"Exploratory, ambient and punk rock, The Demix unveils the latest explorations in psychedelic ambience and electro outburst."
"A dip in the melting pot of manipulated sounds. Rarely heeding to conventional boundaries, The Demix smears musical genres all over to create an environment all his own. . . an eerie experiment in obscurity, one minute lulling the room with ambience and the next harassing it with aggressive distortion.”
"A diabolical nightmare created through distorted rhythm, twisted samples and ambient soundscapes." |
