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Feed Your Ears: Electrothrashmix by Vik44

Shawn | July 1, 2009 in Music | Comments (0)

I’d like you all to know (or know a little more) about a local Portland ME electronic dance producer named Abe Grivois that happens to be a close personal friend of mine. Under his Vik44 moniker Abe creates music that embodies a mind in motion and constant transition/evolution. He is a creative excavator of sound, the mad scientist of Portland’s Milled Pavement Records imprint. It’s been a thrill for me to watch & listen to Abe’s unique brand of EDM grow and evolve over the past 8 or so years. After listening to this debut Vik44 mix effort, I am excited (but not surprised) that my lofty expectations continue to be surpassed.

Electrothrash by vik44

1-Si Begg _Come_Correct_Original_Mix
2-LELE -Breakfast (Mercury Remix)
3-Bodyrox,Luciana -What_Planet_You_On_Deadmau5_Mix
4-Pryda -Europa_Original_Mix
5-Adam Freeland -Hate_Original_Mix
6-FukkOfff -I_m_A_Freak_Original_Mix
7-Alex Gopher – Aurora (Shinichi Osawa Remix)
8-far to loud -You_Know_The_Sound_feat__Subsource_Original_Mix
9-Deadmau5 – Ghosts N Stuff (Dirty Disco Youth Remix)
10-Hadouken! – Crank It Up (Noisia Remix)

Released by: milledpavement / Brick City Media

Vik44 is an INTP with ADD. Having a hard time staying with one sound, Vik44 moves from genre to genre. From minimal techno, glitched breaks to trip-hop he feels at home. Music is the only thing that slows his racing mind. For Vik44 music is an addiction, a lifestyle. He feels most comfortable alone in a pair of headphones. Removed from the real world to create his own.

In college Vik44 played guitar in the metal band Inventing Zero. During this time Vik44 spent more time putting drum machines through stomp boxes then he did guitars. Around the same time he was introduced to the world of mod trackers. After Inventing Zero’s breakup Vik44 dove into his electronic music. While going to school for art, Vik44 would apply the philosophies and ideas he learned in classes to create music with texture, contrast, emotions, and substance.

While not afraid of writing laid back tracks, Vik44 live is all about energy and performance. Live he favors playing more danceable energetic techno and breaks. Often teaming up with longtime friend, and fellow Milled Pavement artist Metris to create intense live sets that have been compared to the Crystal Method.

Discography

2009 – Vik44- Was Never White (Milled Pavement)
2008 – VA- Goose Bumps 2.0 (Milled Pavement)
2007 – Project Dark- The Director’s Cut (Milled Pavement)
2007 – VA- beats.on.the.rocks Vol.2 (brick.city.media)

http://www.milledpavement.com/
http://www.milledpavement.com/vik44.html
http://www.myspace.com/vik44
http://soundcloud.com/vik44