textbeak

TXTBK's CHV?CH XV B?XK3N 7ANGvAG3 Tune in every Sunday 7pm Pacific / 10pm EST at http://bummerbliss.com for a new mix by Textbeak or a guest. Past guest mixes have included Robot Elephant Records, MASCARA, MATER SUSPIRIA VISION, ?AIMON, Funerals, Daniel Dodecahedron of Gucci Goth/BlackBlackGold (Berlin), Ben Tundra of Tundra Dubs label, Something Cold (Detroit), Burial Hex, Daytime Television (Dior Nights), Slow Head, Silver Strain, Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records...

Tune in every Sunday 7pm Pacific / 10pm EST at
http://bummerbliss.com
for a new mix by Textbeak or a guest.
Past guest mixes have included Robot Elephant Records, MASCARA, MATER SUSPIRIA VISION, ?AIMON, Funerals, Daniel Dodecahedron of Gucci Goth/BlackBlackGold (Berlin), Ben Tundra of Tundra Dubs label, Something Cold (Detroit), Burial Hex, Daytime Television (Dior Nights), Slow Head, Silver Strain, Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records, Clint Catalyst, NATTYMARI, Fauxmusica, OS OVNI, I??, Skerror, Carl Clan Destine, Jerome of Desire Records, MARA5, CRIM3S, Fil OK of Atomizer and Nag Nag Nag, BLVCK CEILING, S4NtA_MU3rTE (WhITCH) of 120 Minutes (San Francisco), LAKE R?-?DIO and many others.

Send all promo materials/press packs to
textbeak66@gmail.com

For booking enquiries contact
textbeak@philtre.com

Mike Textbeak has always straddled the line between experimental industrial and dance music with his releases on labels such as Tundra Dubs (San Francisco), Lasergun (Berlin), Bleak (Vienna), Pale Noir (Madison, WI), Vaatican Records (France), Xynthetic (Canada), Time Theory, 21/22 Corp, Swishcotheque (UK), Colin Johnco (France), Amduscias, Audiotie (Germany), Politicide (Germany), and co-owns the Philtre Com imprint with co-conspirator Claus Muzak aka Lucas Kuzma of The Strange Agency (musical instrument app company). He was just commissioned for the exclusive Precarious mixtape for Disaro Records.

His band Bath was featured on the ?Why Be Blake When You Can Be Bleak?? compilation on the Bleak label with experimental industrial veterans Coil, Attrition, SLEEPCHAMBER, Nocturnal Emissions, and Portion Control. He also is in the projects WEEP THE PEOPLE (with Claus Muzak and Ben Jones Like Whoa) and 1954 (with poet and stencil artist Eric Alleman, Robert Nagy aka Voctave, and deceased artist Jason Adams aka AGATE).

Textbeak has performed at the CVRRENTS showcase at SXSW 2012 (with ?AIMON, Funerals, Men in Burka, Strange Powers...), The 2012 Euphony showcase for Pale Noir label (with ?AIMON and eyedoublecross), the one year anniversary event for Tundra Dubs label in 2011 (with ?AIMON, Nako and Bobby Peru). He has also performed at various events and festivals around the United States with acts such as Test Department, Nitzer Ebb, Pictureplane, David J of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, Gatekeeper, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Teengirl Fantasy, The Legendary Pink Dots, Meat Beat Manifesto, Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Larry Tee and many more.

His weekly radio show, TXTBK's CHV?CH XV B?XK3N 7ANGvAG3, has become a staple within the so called witch house/grave wave movement with past guests including Robot Elephant Records, MASCARA, MATER SUSPIRIA VISION, ?AIMON, Funerals, Daniel Dodecahedron of Gucci Goth/BlackBlackGold (Berlin), Ben Tundra of Tundra Dubs label, Something Cold (Detroit) Burial Hex, Daytime Television (Dior Nights), Slow Head, Silver Strain, Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records, Clint Catalyst, NATTYMARI, Fauxmusica, OS OVNI, I??, Skerror, Carl Clan Destine, Jerome of Desire Records, MARA5, CRIM3S, Fil OK of Atomizer and Nag Nag Nag, BLVCK CEILING, S4NtA_MU3rTE (WhITCH) of 120 Minutes (San Francisco), LAKE R?-?DIO and many others.

His visual artwork was featured in the Necessary Discomforts tribute to Rozz Williams (Christian Death, Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation) at the Hyaena Gallery in LA. His writing has been featured in several print and online publications and he is a staff writing for the MISHKA clothing company's Bloglin (blog). From the early ?90s Columbus, Ohio rave scene, when he was a member of Body Release with Titonton Duvante (Residual Records), Todd Sines (Frankie, Planet E, Peacefrog, YORE, Seventh City), and Charles Noel (aka ARCHETYPE, ARCH_TYP?21/22 Corp, Bag Pak), through the mid '90s early 2000's with his band Bath, to his current endeavors, he has always pushed the envelope with his compositions, visual artwork, text collages, and genre-blasting DJ sets.

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Nets the Si'ze of Souls
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