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Biography
Born in Saint Paul, Aaron started working on his musical endeavors in 1997 at the age of 19, when he bought his first guitar. He quickly picked up a few rudimentary riffs, and with a copy of Acid 1.0, started making songs. Most of his early attempts at "song-writing" were limited to the few royalty free loop libraries that he had.
By 1998, Aaron acquired Fruity Loops, a ground-breaking loop creation tool. This significantly opened up his ability to write songs, and soon started making loops of his own. He would then import these loops and guitar he had written into Acid.
Spew
The Beginnings of Spew
In 1998, he formed the techno-industrial-metal group Five Finger Discount. He brought childhood friend Dave (aka. Spookrat) on board as an additional guitarist. One of the first songs they collaborated on was a spoof of the 60's era theme for the Batman T.V. show. After finding out that the name "Five Finger Discount" had already been used by another band, they switched the band name to Insaniac, but was thwarted a second time upon finding out that yet another band had used that name as well. He finally settled on Spew.
In 1999, as Spew, Aaron brought aboard Roy (aka. Blaknite-X) on keyboards. Roy and Aaron collaborated on several songs, including the first incarnations of "Cog". Shortly after Roy joined Spew, Dave decided to leave the group. With Dave's departure, Aaron offered a spot to his co-worker Wil (aka. Wil Spew). Wil accepted, filling the spot of Spew bassist.
Between Aaron, Wil and Roy, they began work on the debut Spew CD titled Statistic. After begining the first few songs, Aaron and Roy invited high school friend Leo (aka. Guide-X) to play guitar. Leo only manged recording a handful of riffs in one jam session before dissappearing. Soon after Leo's departure, Roy followed, moving to New Mexico.
Spew was essentially down to a duo, and Wil and Aaron pounded through the disc on their own. Near the end of recording, Junky was hired to become the new Spew guitarist, but was fired shortly after the release of the CD. Binary was brought in to replace Roy on keys, but he also left shortly after the release of the CD. Once again, Spew was back to being a duo.
In 2000, shortly before Aaron left for another summer as touring webmaster on Ozzfest, Wil invited his co-worker, Jive over to try out as the Spew guitarist. It was instantly apparent that he was the perfect fit, and he became the 5th and final Spew guitarist.
Spew Becomes a Live Band
When Aaron returned from Ozzfest, it quickly became apparent that Spew had outgrown Aaron's apartment (after a couple police calls and teary neighbors showing up begging for the volume to be turned down). They grabbed a practice space at Kooler Sound and started searching for a keyboardist and a drummer.
Wil and Jive turned to yet another co-worker, this time it was Roman (aka. DJ Romanoff), and he was installed as the keyboardist. Shortly after he was picked up, Nate Dogg was brought in on drums. They had a full band, and quickly began writing new songs as a full band.
On March 6th, 2001 Spew played their first show at the Red Sea in Minneapolis. The set was a short 30 minutes, half consisting of Statistic tracks, and half of brand new songs.
After several successful gigs, the band came to the conclusion that Roman wasn't going to work out. Aaron invited a high school friend, Ben (aka. BBX) to come in and fill in as a keyboardist, until they could find a permanent replacement. Soon, they posted an add in City Pages, looking for a new keyboardist. Enter Limey (aka. CaO, Brian Grey). Limey would end up being a musical counterpart to Aaron, long after Spew's demise.
With the hiring of Limey, BBX was converted into a live electronic percussionist. By the end of the year, Spew started recording the EP Sacrifice, with a CD release party at Sursumcorda in February of 2002. This would also be Nate Dogg's last show.
Due to differences in opinion on what Spew's goals should be, Spew fired Nate Dogg (ironically, he quit the previous December, but was begged to stay in the band). Filling his shoes, Siren.
Aaron, Wil, Jive, Limey, BBX & Siren played dozens of shows in 2002, and also started gathering digital recording equipment, so they could record their next CD on their own.
In early 2003, while recording Sellvation, BBX was dismissed from Spew, and Limey left the band. Filling their spots was Xiv on keyboards and percussion, and Jez, formerly of Death Toll Odometer on Samples. Jez was later fired in the fall of 2003.
The End of Spew
Even though Spew continued to play many shows despite the staff turnover, eventually this constant flux contributed to the end of Spew.
In early 2004, Dr. T replaced Jez on samples, and just when it felt like Spew was going back to it's roots as an industrial, sample-based group, Dr. T lost his job, had a mental break down and eventually went to rehab. With the loss of Dr. T, the remaining members of Spew decided to attack his abscence from a different angle. Rather than replace him from the outside, why not replace him from within?
Spew reorganized, figuring that cohesively, it's harder to constantly replace a samplist/keyboardist than to replace a bassist or guitarist, so Wil fell on that landmine, giving up his bass to become the samplist/2nd keyboardist behind Xiv. They brought in Nugget on bass.
With this radical change, also came the departure of longtime keyboardist/percussionist Xiv. Spew had several people audition for the vacant spot, until, in November of 2004, Spew collectively called it quits.
In February of 2005 Spew had one last show, at the legendary bondage/goth club, Ground Zero.
Gabber Nullification Project
In early 2004, Aaron and Xiv joined forces to resurrect GNP. At the time, it was just something to do while waiting for the rest of Spew to show up for practice. For the next few months, Xiv and Aaron worked on a handful of songs, with whatever extra time they had before and after Spew practices.
After Spew officially called it quits in November of 2004, Aaron contacted Xiv, to see if he would like to re-kindle GNP. Xiv agreed, and GNP was resurrected once again.
Within short time, the duo had put together over 20 songs, and figured it would be best to release their electronic chaos on the world. In July of 2005, they released their 21-track eponymous debut.
By mid-2006 they had played a handful of shows, and had also begun work on their second full-length disc, 2A03, a concept album based loosely around the CPU responsible for the distinct sounds of the Nintendo Entertainment System. 2A03 is scheduled for a late 2006 release.
Live, GNP turns low-budget electronic music on it's head. Instead of one guy in front of a laptop, you have Xiv playing keys live and Aaron performing live video sampling, with both contributing vocals.
The Brian Grey Collaborations
K-Y Conspiracy Theory
In addition to working with Xiv, since the demise of Spew, Aaron has also been working with another former Spew keysmith, Brian Grey (aka. Limey).
Their first collaborative project actually began while they were still in Spew. Some nights, the band would pack things in early, and the two would want to continue to make noise, and noise they would make.
The concept behind the group was to make the polar opposite of the Top 40 pop songs. No catchy riffs, vocals were mostly indecipherable and where they weren't indecipherable they would offend every sensibility. 10 second songs, 20 minute songs, 4 minute long 2 kHz sine wave only broken up by screaming and white noise. This was K-Y Conspiracy Theory.
The twosome released two albums, Live From Buttholekhan, a satirical live album, and the double disc The Mack: Vol. 1 & 2, recorded with the movie The Mack running in its' entirety, in the background. Brian's departure from Spew effectively marked the end of K-Y.
Systole Vs. Diastole
After Spew's demise, Aaron and Brian began a new musical endeavor. Technology had advanced quite a bit in the past years, and this project was initially an on-line only experience. The premise was that one of the two would start a song, and then send it to the other, via the net, the receiver would do what he wanted with the track, and would then send it back to the originator. The back and forth would continue until they were satisfied with the track. Playing off the to and fro nature of the project, they dubbed themselves Systole Vs. Diastole.
They have been working on this project in their spare time, and hope to have a CD released in the near future. They performed their first live show on October 21, 2006.
Underage Corporate Goatsucker
Current Groups
Gabber Nullification Project
Systole Vs. Diastole
Cubikiller
Underage Corporate Goatsucker
Napalmbiance
Punditfucker
Former Groups
Spew
Electrochemical Migration
K-Y Conspiracy Theory
Five Finger Discount
Insaniac
Discography
Gabber Nullification Project - 2A03 - (2006)
Gabber Nullification Project - Gabber Nullification Project - (2005)
Napalmbiance - T11C36 - (2006)
Spew - Sellvation - (2003)
Spew - Sacrifice - (2001)
Spew - Statistic - (2000)
Electrochemical Migration - Napalmbiance - (2000)
Electrochemical Migration - Deified - (2000)
Electrochemical Migration - 9 B.D. (re-release of self-titled album) - (2000)
Electrochemical Migration - Electrochemical Migration - (2000)
K-Y Conspiracy Theory - The Mack: Vol. 1 & 2 - (2001)
K-Y Conspiracy Theory - Live At Buttholekhan - (2001)
Systole Vs. Diastole - (Various "Unreleased" Tracks available @ http://www.systole-vs-diastole.com) - (2005)
Cubikiller - Representation Without Taxation - (2006)
Underaged Corporate Goatsucker - The Kid Chupacabra & Cubikiller Sessions - (2006)
Audio
Related Web sites
http://www.gnphurts.com
http://www.cubikiller.com
http://www.systole-vs-diastole.com
http://www.vomitvisionrecords.com
http://www.spewicide.com
