User:BrentonRyan

About Me

I live in back-road zombie country in the middle of Missouri. I hail from the San Francisco area of California originally, and spent my high school years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but Colorado will always be considered home. Those mountains are in my blood. I identify myself as an artist, though I haven't done much art in the past year or so. I have a very strong interest in collecting music, and have been known to obsess over a band here or there in the past. I decided to join the Wikipedia project after feeling frustration that certain bits of information I was looking for concerning some favorite bands was not in the wikiverse, and decided that I should go about adding that information myself rather than complaining that nobody else has!

My Interests

Music

My taste in music has taken a long, twisting road since childhood, pulled a few u-turns, and cruised through some strange country. One of the stranger bits has been industrial rock music, especially that of what we fans used to call "the New York Posse" - four guys who grew up and went to church together in New York City, got into industrial metal in the late 80s and early 90s, and produced some fantastic but little known albums before going their separate ways. I obsessed about this stuff for a while, and know more about those albums and bands than I do about almost anything else. Hence my first Wikipedia projects were to update, clean up, and expand the pages for: Argyle Park, Circle of Dust, LVL, and Klank. A couple of them still do music, notably Klayton with his project Celldweller. I am also considering creating a page for FiXT, Klayton's independent record label.

Pages I've created:

• Flaming Fish Music now deleted - couldn't find enough references :(

Pages I've overhauled:

• Celldweller an electronic rock project begun in 1999
• Klayton an industrial/electronic rock musician, the man behind Celldweller, founder of FiXT
• Sebastian Komor, a prolific EBM/industrial musician
• Meat Beat Manifesto, a very influential and long-lasting industrial/Big Beat/dubstep band
• Attrition, a pioneering industrial/darkwave band that's been around for 30 years
• The Echoing Green, a synthpop band with a long and busy history

Pages I've touched up:

• Embodyment
• The Lassie Foundation
• Mortal
• R.E.X. Records
• The Crucified
• Stavesacre
• Leaderdogs For The Blind
• Rocketboy
• Sebastian Komor
• G.M.S.
• Gothic fashion
• EMS Synthi 100
• Unwoman
• Monofader

Reminders for myself

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes#List-defined_references

External Links

• my blog/art dump

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