Sin_Addict

ESA visits Rome.

2009-09-08T18:56:07Z

ESA live at Stakanovismo - Rome - July 09

Sonisphere

2009-07-20T18:31:28Z

Is there anyone on here going or would like to go to Sonisphere?

uk.sonispherefestivals.com/

Loving home wanted for 8/9 week old kitten

2009-06-14T09:12:34Z

We are looking to rehome our kitten, Sophie. She is a gorgeous little kitten who is very loving but loves to play! We are just finding that we are too busy to give her all the attention she needs and deserves and have decided it isn't fair for us to keep her. If you are interested, or know anyone who may be interested in giving Sophie the home she deserve, please get in touch.

Jamie.

gestapo69 @ 2009-06-13T10:03:00

2009-06-13T09:05:22Z

Goooood Morning everybody.

Should you have the time, please take a wander over to the new ESA interview posted this week in www.regenmag.com/Interviews-286-Electronic-Substance-Abuse.html

Satnav??

2009-06-03T18:39:14Z

What is this (sign displayed outside a local Baptist church here in Dewsbury) really saying to you??

I did it....

2009-05-08T17:06:09Z

...I bought a MAC.

It's all dutch to me.

2009-04-04T12:30:59Z

I made it to Rotterdam, ears intact. Doctor said perforation was unlikely so I took a shot and glad I did. Pretty nasty show, great sound and great whiskey rider. Good to see Lenny and Yann again..what a comedy tag team. Was glad I got to meet Elliot too and as promised he played an almost entire dubstep filled set, much to the dismay of the speeding tekhnoheads who were onlooking...silly tecknoheads.

Another review :

http://www.darktwincities.com/reviews.php?review=152

gestapo69 @ 2009-04-01T23:19:00

2009-04-01T22:25:01Z

So the flight to Rotterdam is in 32 hours and I have an ear infection that has been getting increasingly worse over the last two days, even with the antibiotic spray shit. I have to see the doctor tomorrow to get the thumbs up on whether I can fly or not.
I havent even practised my set cos the headphones hurt too much..

Great!!

Before I give up..

2009-03-30T17:00:04Z

Last call for help!

I bought one of these www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-CardBus-ExpressCard-Adapter-adapter/dp/B000ZLPR1G/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1

Tried to install my EMU-1616M software and drivers for soundcard (which worked). However now, whenever the expresscard adaptor and EMU card are slotted into the cardbus...the computer crashes. The longest I have managed without a crash is one minute. An much more patient person than I has put XP on the laptop and taken Vista off as I know that is what the EMU worked with before so there should be no conflict there. Everything works fine, except for when I try to stick in the emu card in adaptor!

Can anyone help? I thought I would ask for a last ditch saviour before I attempt a refund for the adaptor (hmmmm) and start saving for an ultra expensive interface that has a express card fitting instead of PCMCIA card.

gestapo69 @ 2009-03-05T18:12:00

2009-03-05T18:15:24Z

Have cardbus slots changed in laptops over the past 5 years?

I have just purchased a new HP laptop and my emu 1616m soundcard won't fit in the slot, its too big for the hole! Taking into account this is a problem I have run into many time over the past 10 years of making womens lives worth something*..but never involving a laptop and soundcard!

I dont know what to do now..one of the reasons for getting a new laptop would be so my sound software would run more efficiently.

*Intentionally sexist and arrogant statement.

I'm interesting..honest!

2009-03-02T22:01:27Z

ESA interview now online at www.enochianapocalypse.com/index.php

Read about all my lavish rider requests, the tales of me singling out and beating up the most vulnerable members of my 55 strong crew and how I was brought up in the hood, surviving over 60 shootings!

To lap a top or not a lap a top..

2009-02-03T15:37:54Z

Does anyone know anything about laptops?

I'm moving back to Dewsbury in a couple of days and need to have broadband. However I refuse to pay £130 for a man to drive 3 miles from his home and flip a BT connection switch. So Im gonna get mobile broadband, however my current laptop will not play with dongles and refuses to acknowledge their drivers (tried with 3 seperate types). So Im gonna maybe get a new laptop because mine is ready for it's pipe and slippers and labours far too much to be cool!

Can anyone who knows about laptops advise on a decent one. I can't afford more than £450. It needs to have good RAM for the music software and have wi-fi and bluetooth.

At some point you have to do it...

2009-01-26T00:23:36Z

Okay, I have to do it at some point, so here are some reviews of 'The Sea & the Silence', newest first :

www.amodelofcontrol.com/reviews/

www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php

www.gothtronic.com/

www.reflectionsofdarkness.com/index.php

..and this is taken from the French digital fanzine www.axesscode.com, translated into English (you'll just have to trust me ;-)

''Although numerous techno industrial projects pushed the genre further than a simple "nodding-head machine" like those stupid dog puppets found on the back of cars, nobody went as far as ESA did. The apparent simplicity of his music hardly defines the power that comes out of it. Anyone lucky enough to have listened to The Sea & The Silence will struggle to put words on his experience apart from a: "it blows me away". We try in vain to understand its mechanisms only to see for ourselves the crushing effects of this electronic substance.

Of course we can dissect the techniques. We realise then that the rhythms linearity gives a wrong impression as they evolve perpetually while staying true to the spirit of the original pattern. The beat escalates and gets more complex without ever losing any substance. I am not even mentioning his "cut science" or mastered use of effects to give life to the beast or his constant atmospheric changes and the incorporation of the singing. From digital hardcore to dark-folk, he brings to some tracks the efficiency of a pop song, which chorus we will hum. He also uses judicious tricks such as sounds inversion, musical instruments swapping their rhythms so that everything changes although nothing does. At every listening, you will try to navigate through the broth of this alchemy and at each time, you will fall over board trying to understand.

And you will be swallowed up by this wild sea, tossed about by the flood tide and the ebb tide of the waves. You will be sucked in, touching the bottom of the seabed, caught in the silence of the depths and then resurface, deafened by the heave crashing against the reef. The Silence will then come to offer you a makeshift raft on which you will catch your breath a bit before the next breaker. Soon you realise that you don't stand a chance against the vast ocean. Soon, worn out, the mermaids singing will captivate you. You will now sink while contemplating the stormy and twinkling surface fade away. And you will let out your last sigh in a ballet of twirling bubbles. You're quite right, I could have said as well that the latest ESA literally "blew me away".

gestapo69 @ 2008-12-18T23:04:00

2008-12-18T23:10:15Z

Anybody wanting the new ESA album that will be present at Wendyhouse, let me know on here (preferably before tomorrow lunch time as I will have limited internet access after then) or text me. I 'should' be at Wendyhouse as long as I can shift this stinking *plague!

*slight over exaggeration

What will they think of next?!

2008-12-18T01:54:40Z

Dear Electronic Substance Abuse,

I am writing to you on behalf of the teachers’ council of our Moscow Musical College after finding link to you at The Noise Music Links Directory.

For more than 15 years we have been providing music training for children from 5 to 14 years of age. Unfortunately, because of the poor economic situation that has prevailed for a long time in Russia, we have received only minimal support from the Moscow government’s federal budget.

I would like to explain that we do not collect any tuition fees from the students at our college, otherwise the majority of parents would not be able to afford their children’s tuition. Consequently, it is becoming increasingly difficult to continue with this very worthwhile enterprise. Furthermore, when it comes to the matter of teaching materials, the situation is little short of catastrophic, particularly with regard to sound materials.

We would be extremely grateful if you could send us any recordings of music on CDs, DVDs or LPs, even if their boxes are damaged.

YOUR HELP IS NECESSARY TO US!

Yours faithfully and hoping for your help,

Nickolay Carmanow,
Director.

Moscow Musical College
39-5-25, 3-Barkovaya street
105037, Moscow
Russian Federation

Phone: 7-985-366-6917

E-mail 1: MusicalCollege@mtu-net.ru
E-mail 2: MusicalCollege@bk.ru

Web: http://MusicalCollege.narod.ru

I'd give it 2 days before seeing it on ANOTHER russian illegal mp3 download site!

gestapo69 @ 2008-12-15T16:31:00

2008-12-15T16:35:13Z

I will be on the Miss Jinny show tonight attempting to talk some sense in my very first radio/phone interview. ESA will also be the featured artist in the show. It's on between 9pm and 11pm UK time and is streamed throughout planet earth. The interview taking place, I think around 9.30pm.

www.missjinny.com/

Raise your hand..

2008-12-11T13:31:01Z

All those that wish to have a brand new ESA album in their filthy anxious hands (6 fold digipack no less)....let me know!

...THEY HAVE ARRIVED!

Damned Nation.

2008-11-17T10:40:09Z

Is anyone on here going to Damnation?

Edit : As much as I don't want to tempt fate, I have already been planning my viewing rota for the day. Im pretty much gonna be at the Jagermeister stage from start to finish. I wouldnt mind seeing 10mins of Pitchshifter but I think it's all gonna be about the Carcass.

Also I think I will be making sure I get a good spot for Sigh! I think the music is shit but, well :

* Edit 2. Anyone wanting tickets should get over to the forum now co's some more have become available for Friday pickup.

www.damnationfestival.co.uk/forums

I dont often post tube of you's but...

2008-10-21T22:39:26Z

This is absolutely terrifying!! One for you Charlotte definitely...

Stolen from xdingbatx</lj>

gestapo69 @ 2008-09-22T00:15:00

2008-09-21T23:15:50Z

I think i've just been crying at 'The Notebook'.

..fucks sake!

gestapo69 @ 2008-09-14T20:14:00

2008-09-14T19:20:43Z

Those of you that don't know. Jacqui and I (more Jacqui than I) have deceided to have a break (possibly evolving into a break-up). This is due to the health circumstances that have been going on this year for me, Jacqui has started to find this extremely difficult to deal with and is unable to see me unhappy anymore, this being the reason for the situation.

So, at the moment..I have moved out of our home and am back at my parents and have been for the two weeks. My folks went on holiday on Friday to Greece. So things are a bit strange, going back to your childhood home after living away for 9 years is quite strange. So it's safe to say I'm pretty lonely (collecting awwww.).

Therefore, if anyone feels like coming over and visiting a rather large house out in the country and staying with me for a bit..that would be lovely. I go for the operation on Thursday but other than that am here all the time.

gestapo69 @ 2008-09-11T16:40:00

2008-09-11T15:41:34Z

Album finished!

This is just how it is...

2008-08-26T23:21:20Z

I wish I could one day post a happy, positive, meaningless, shit, trivial entry..

I can't see that happening for a while.

My pre-operative assesment for the general anesthetic is tomorrow. The general is for the Cystoscopy in which ill have a camera put inside my bladder. There's also some other lovely stuff that's gonna go on at the same time involving that wonder of the modern man..the prostate. I'm so lucky.

I'm so physically and mentally drained at being in pain. Ive been in discomfort for 6 fucking months without a break! When I went to see the urologist, he implied this may well stay with me forever, but hey it's not dangerous. How am I supposed to acccept that not only can't doctor after doctor fully explain what's wrong with me but also it may well (as with others) be something that will be with me for the rest of my life!!

Infest was actually ok, it was very hard at times but I battled..mostly with the aid of drink. Here i got the best and the worst. I realised who my 'real' friends are..the people who when you look into their eyes, actually have sincertiy. I also realised how much I fucking hate peoples trivial shit..who cares if you got vodkha spilt on your pants you just bought on an overpriced cybershit stall downstairs?! Ill do you a trade..here, ill take your spoiled pants..have some of this pure pain for an hour, it's a fair deal.

I spoke with Andy on Sat about his situation and although ours are completely different and his pain must be a thousand times worse than mine, we agreed theat people are fucking stupid.

Oh and the fact that certain people don't even get back to me after 30 email asking for their help when they offered it in the first place, goddamnit!!!

That Ying n that Yang.

2008-08-21T20:15:52Z

Has anyone ever had experiences with Eastern/chinese medicine? Eg: Acupuncture and herbal remedies?

If so....waste of money? Or the best thing you ever did?

gestapo69 @ 2008-04-28T01:01:00

2008-04-28T00:05:32Z

5 X Blood tests

3 x Swabs

1 x Ultrasound

4 Visits to General Urinary Dept and

2 visits to A & E later

......still nowhere. Life is pretty shitty atm.