The Antipatterns

The Antipatterns is a collaborative music project between John Quarles and Jason Baker. The Antipatterns sound ranges from atmospheric electronic melodies to punk. The music is best experienced in dark solitude with headphones cranked to 11. Shared influences for the group include Sigur Ros, and Nine Inch Nails. Their first album, entitled "Negative Space" was released in June of 2008. The official Antipatterns website is www.theantipatterns.com.

Their first album, entitled "Negative Space" was released in June of 2008.

The official Antipatterns website is www.theantipatterns.com.

The Negative Space sessions began in March of 2006. That was when Jason sent John a cd with 15 or 16 scratch tracks to listen to. Both John and Jason spent the next year working with some of those tracks and adding a few new songs into the mix as well. The album was in a near-final state by the end of the Summer in 2007, but busy work and school schedules prevented finalization of the album until the Spring of 2008.

If you like The Antipatterns music and would like to show support, you can contact them through their website and tell them you're a fan, or scribble some kudos here on their last.fm profile, or buy cds and such from their website.

HOW THE BAND CAME TO BE:

John and Jason were both undergrads in the Computer Science program at UT Austin. They briefly met during their freshman summer orientation when John's Jane's Addiction t-shirt caught Jason's eye. That was the first Jane's shirt Jason had ever seen and he was quite the late-comer / after-it-was-cool-to-be-a-janes-fan janes fan. Jason complimented John on his awesome t-shirt and that was about it.

Years later the two future rock stars crossed paths again in an Operating Systems course and they shared some coding adventures as a student team working on exciting concepts such as journaling file systems built with multiple layers of abstraction and other boring topics like that.

Jason learned of John's musical talents and interests while working with him in their college operating systems course. At that point John had quite a history of musical accomplishments and Jason became an instant fan.

After the OS course, the two parted ways and kept in touch sporadically over the span of a few years. Jason picked up musical aspirations somewhere in the middle of that timeline, and he eventually came to the conclusion that he'd be better able to learn and improve his skills if he worked with someone rather than kept working alone.

At that time, Jason lived in Texas and John lived in Florida, but Jason had heard of The Postal Service's feats of long-distance collaboration and figured he could work in a similar setting with John, so he e-mailed John and the first bit of musical ideas were floating back and forth a few months later.

ABOUT JOHN:

John was born in 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas. John picked up his first guitar when he was ten and started his first band a year later. This band, which eventually became Firebrand, was together for 7 years. In college, he formed another band during his undergrad days at UT Austin -- Spybot. Spybot released a full length album -- Self -- and a follow up EP. Today, John continues with solo work, film scores, and collaborative efforts such as The Antipatterns. Aside from music, John's currently working on a PHD in computer engineering out in Florida somewhere. In the future, he would like to have a mad scientist laboratory and a sound-proof home-recording studio. A few of his musical influences are Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, and Sigur Ros.

You can read more about John, and check out more of his music at his personal page.

ABOUT JASON:

Jason is a software developer working & living in Austin, Texas. Music is one of Jason's favorite personal hobbies. He has self-published a few solo albums, and continues to work with John and other friends on various music projects. His musical influences include The Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Orbital, A Perfect Circle, Sigur Ros, The Silversun Pickups, God Is An Astronaut, Matthew Good, and Greg Shark. Jason's favorite song of all time is probably "Porcelina of the vast oceans" by The Smashing Pumpkins or "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus. He can't decide.

You can read more about Jason, and check out more of his music at his personal page, or right here on last.fm at Jason's last.fm artist page.