Catharsis - Live @ Minimal Monday. San Francisco, USA - 2003

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Catharsis - Live @ Minimal Monday. San Francisco, USA - 2003

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Info: Catharsis' first experience with electronic music occurred during the early to mid 90's in the San Francisco industrial scene. Genres ranging from no wave, classic EBM, to electro-industrial provided early inspiration and a stomping ground that would later translate into a larger appreciation for all edgy EDM genres; most notably acid & hard techno. During '96 to '02 Catharsis relocated to San Luis Obispo, CA. In '98 he started DJing and over the next four years ran approximately 90 electronic music events from club oriented (Bad Monkey) to undergrounds that hosted many international producers/DJs and California based performers. In '02 Catharsis returned to the San Francisco Bay Area. Recently, he has turned his focus to producing various genres of techno and spending a lot of time in studio. Beyond DJing & producing Catharsis is available as an audio engineer for mixing and mastering for CD and vinyl working at the Bloody Angle Compound in SF: Audio Services.

Catharsis is also coding a cutting edge software environment for advanced control of DSP/synthesis engines: SCREAM.

DJ Name, Electronic Personality - Catharsis
Birthdate - March 8, 1978
Height - 6'2"
Eye Color - Blue
Hair Color - Brown
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator - INTJ
Favorite Color - Forest Green
Sci-fi Authors - Robert Heinlein, Frank Herbert
Fantasy Author - J.R. Tolkien
Fiction Authors - Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut
Philosophy - anarcho-transhumanism
Location - San Francisco, CA
Degree - BS Computer Science, Cal Poly, SLO, CA, USA
Occupation - Computer Music Researcher
Current Residency - Asphodel
Programming Languages - Java, Perl, SuperCollider, and C/C++
Professional Interests - Audio for music, Component Architectures, Design Patterns Computer Human Interaction, Intelligence Amplification
2nd Occupation - Independent Audio Engineer (mixing/mastering)
3rd Occupation - Producer/Live PA/DJ
Affiliation - Egregious
DJ Since - April 1998
Past Residencies - Industrial resident at Club Egregious from April 1998 to April 1999 Tech resident at Bad Monkeyfrom January 2000 -- April 2001
Events:
Cusp, SF (12/03)
Harvest (Moksha Tribe), SF (11/03)
Sol System, Burning Man (8/03)
Bump, SF (8/03)
Defcon XI, Las Vegas (8/03)
Infinite Beats, Magic (6/03)
AMBreaks, Teaser, SF (6/03)
Minimal Monday, SF (5/03)
Club Wednesday, SF (2/03)
:Code/DNA Lounge (12/02)
T.A.Z. 2002, SLO (5/02)
Electrik, SLO (5/00)
Stargaze VI (4/00)
Robotiks, SLO (3/00)
Arrival, SLO (9/99)
Stargaze V, ~Yosemite (8/99)
Influences - My Music Collection
Favorite Genres - Hard Techno, Industrial, & various beat/non-beat oriented electronic music
Email Address - catharsis@egregious.net
Booking Contact - catharsis@egregious.net

Tracklist:
???; Chris Burfine's last track - ???; in mix
Taylor Deupree - Subtract
März - Ranking and Rating
Farben - Raw Micro
Unai -Brave Star
Metric System - A. Studio 440
Stewart Walker - Localization
The Soft Pink Truth - PramaFunk
Alex Cortex - A.2 Aitiai
Mathias Schaffhäuser - Musik ohne Bass
Dominik Eulberg - Marylin
Studio 1 - A. Grün
Studio 1 - A.2 Orange
Geoff White - Pixie Sticks & Whiskey
Gabriel Ananda - Quartal IV
Com.munikation - Moment for Moment
Sutekh w/ Geoff W. - A.
Alter Ego - The Fridge

*Minimal Monday is a nice free minimal techno weekly in San Francisco headed up by DJs Forest Green and Chris Burfine of OrganizedChaos among other residents. It currently is located at the Hush Hush on 14th st. The location is fairly small, but has a decent atmosphere when people arrive. I had a great time performing here. The house mixer (some old Rane model) was not the easiest to get a handle on; I mix with the channel faders and not the cross fader and on this DJ mixer there was no separate gain control per channel; the faders went to +10dB! Yikes; this is appropriate for a pro fader taper on a mixing board, but not a DJ mixer! I tried to be as careful as possible on every cut, but pushed it a little far sometimes; though I swear the faders/pots were also dirty and contributed to a scratchy sound when they were moved.. If Creamy Goodness didn't get the monitor fixed/hooked up I think my set would have been a disaster. Big thanks CG! ;) Anyway, my set was a combination of classic minimal techno with some newer tracks.

Catharsis - Live @ Minimal Monday. San Francisco, USA - 2003

Website: http://catharsis.egregious.net/
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