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  • Genre: Electro / Industrial / Punk

    Location AUSTIN, Please select your region, Un

    Profile Views: 41337

    Last Login: 4/27/2011

    Member Since 2/6/2005

    Website none

    Record Label ..B3..

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .... .."RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"- AUSTIN CHRONICLE- April 18, 2007... Fronted and founded by art-school dropout ralF23, Destroyed For Comfort utilizes both found sound and real-time synthesis to create stompy, noisy, sample-heavy 8-bit hacker-punk that never sounds quite the same way twice, or ever. Disorienting sonic textures set the tone for songs about mind control, the transhuman drive, and time travel. Live performances incorporate projected animation, guest musicians, and backup dancers. They'll play in your backyard if you ask nicely enough. Destroyed For Comfort has been honored to share the stage with a veritable who's who of independent and experimental electronic music, including national and touring acts like The Emotron, Femme Fatality, I Cactus, Juiceboxxx, Krista Muir, Peelander Z, Realicide, Scissors For Lefty, The Subliminator, Xrin Arms, Yip Yip and Zen Debris as well as Texas legends and upcomings such as Aliens, Assacre, Aunt's Analog, Chant, Crack In The Wall, Crapulence, Cry Blood Apache, Douglas Ferguson, Dromez, Eric Archer, Furby Youth Choir, Hipnautica, Horse + Donkey, Hug, Low Red Center, Skullcaster, Spagirus, Static Storm System, Subnatural, Toof, Venison Whirled, Xathax, and Yatagarasu. .. Destroyed For Comfort has also performed remix work for Houston Bernard and Suicide God Pill, with more to come soon... Destroyed For Comfort has devoted several of their performances to benefits for non-profit, activist, and relief services such as the SIMS Foundation, Locks Of Love, The Livestrong Foundation, the Green Party, Anti-Racist Action, and the ACLU, as well as relief efforts for Katrina victims and the citizens of Darfur. We've also performed at benefits for independant music venues and the Texas Rollerderby jeerleader team Bomb Squad... .... To put it one way, if you desired to "hack" another person's soul the way you would a computer network, you would need a proper TCP/IP port. This port is buried deep within the other's brain. To hack another's brain, the most effective points of attack are the visual, the verbal, and the linguistic/symbolic. Up until recently, popular music was carried by a special, near shamanic group of people: bards, troubadours and what have you. Their songs told of old stories, revealed occult secrets and constantly evolved through time in a constant attempt to stay modern and relevant. In the process, it was not uncommon for a musician to borrow a line or a melody from another recognizable song and include it in "original" material in order to maintain the timelessness of their craft. Melody lines, lyrics, and occasionally whole choruses were freely borrowed, modified or even stolen between popular musicians from medieval times all the way up to the 1920s. It's only recently that the concept of "ownership" became applied to the previously transitory and practically hallucinatory craft of music. This "ownership" dictates power. The power to override hundreds of happy childhood and adolescent memories with the giant fucking soda can obstructing your field of vision as your favorite song plays. The power to make EVERYTHING sound the same in order to stretch the shelf live of bland, vapid tunes. The power to halt and stunt the natural evolution of the musical craft. A touring R&B band from the 1960s dropped their guitar amp, tearing the speaker and they were too poor to get it fixed. The resulting grunt the guitar made caught on like wildfire, and blues and rock bands all over the south were slashing their speakers to get that sound, which eventually inspired the inventor of the distortion pedal, a definingly essential part of modern music. Imagine if anyone in that whirling zeitgeist had decided to halt the process by claiming what they had done was exclusively theirs and began suing to maintain that position. The organizations and entities that rail so much about copyright protection and "intellectual property" are frequently the same kind of people (and often the same people) that make too much money anyway. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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  • Influences

    ..From about 1901 on, Austrian-American violinist Franz Kreisler (1875-1962) was perhaps the most popular violinist in the United States. He gained considerable fame by playing, for the first time, certain "little masterpieces" on the violin, which he found "in libraries and monasteries while visiting Rome, Florence, Venice, and Paris"- the works of masters like Vivaldi, Puganini, Francouer, Porpora, Couperin, and Padre Martini. Unfortunately, these classics NEVER EXISTED. Since noone would book a performance for a solo violinist, Kreisler had to INVENT these "hidden masterpieces" in order to be able to play. Even after the fraud was revealed, Kreisler remained very popular... Now that I think of it, one time while me and a friend were watching Sonic Youth, a man got stabbed in the parking lot where my car was, yet managed to run across the entire lot before dying in the lobby of the hotel across the street. At one point he must have stumbled, because he left smeared bloody handprints along the trunk of my car... I'm pretty sure that influenced us somehow. .. Seriously tho, influences include Butthole Surfers, DEVO, Foetus, Kraftwerk, KLF, MGMT, Negativland, PIL, Skinny Puppy and Suicide. Anyone that's gotten pretty good at hitting a few buttons and twisting some knobs while someone else screams and rolls around on the floor. Cool costumes. I dunno. Pretty sure none of that is surprising. ..

  • Sounds Like

    ..While many feel comfortable using canned or frozen Electro as their soup base, Destroyed For Comfort prefers to whip up their Electro from scratch, using fresh ingredients. We go heavy on the samples and are not afraid to spice things up in an unconventional way effects-wise, while mixing in traditionally enjoyed flavors like analog synth and 8-bit sounds...

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  1. Destroyed For Comfort

    is performing tomorrow, April 28th, at Elysium OPENING FOR OTTO VON SCHIRACH! THIS IS A BIG DEAL! Would love to see you there.

    Mood: pirate pirate

  2. Destroyed For Comfort

    added a new photo to the Flyers album

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