Android Lust
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Android Lust is the Industrial solo project of Shikhee. Combining elements of rock, industrial, gothic and classical styles into a dark blend of music that is cold, harsh and fiercely emotional. She describes her music simply as "electronic and dark" and that is exactly what it is. Her music is embraced by the gothic culture though she denies her music is 'goth', though it reeks of hurt, of lonely lust and feeling dirty, rejection, impatience and anger.
Guest Members:
- Christopher Jon: Drums, Keys, Backing Vox
- TrevorG: Keys, Bass, Guitar
- Bret Calder Bass, Backing Vox
- Marshall Cohen Keys, Guitar, Backing Vox
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Official Bio
Android Lust is the vision of its sole creator, Shikhee. Born in Bangladesh, schooled in England and in the United States, Shikhee's background is as varied as the music she creates: running the emotional gamut from loss to discovery, from regret to carnivorous loathing. Borrowing elements from a variety of styles Android Lust presents a blend of electronic rock music that is dark, icy, and fiercely emotional.
After two independent label releases (including 1998's critically acclaimed debut Resolution) Shikhee released The Dividing on her own, bringing her to the attention of Projekt Records who quickly signed and re-released it to eager music fans all over the world. Outburn Magazine calls The Dividing "Unconventional and adventurous - 10 out of 10" while The Boston Phoenix says "The Dividing never misfires; it feels almost - but not quite - slick, its arranging smart, its themes ingenious". Jane Magazine said "The Dividing is filled with intensely passionate lyrics delivered in low whispers and startling, penetrating screaming". They even gave away copies of the album to 30 lucky readers.
In addition, a video was shot for the song "Stained" by director Dan Oullette (whose credits include production design on David Bowie's "Dead Man Walking" video). "Stained" has received regular airplay on music video shows and channels across the United States, as well as 120 Minutes on MTV Latin America and Australia's music video show Rage. "Stained" and other songs from The Dividing have also been featured heavily on CBS' "Navy NCIS" (including an on-air mention of the band's name) and MTV's The Real World and Road Rules, as well as receiving club and radio play all over the world.
Shikhee's third full length album, Devour, Rise, and Take Flight, was recently released on February 21st, 2006. "Dragonfly", the first single for the album was released on October 18th. The video was directed again by Dan Oullette and keeps the bizzare style of her "Stained" video, utilizing futuristic, yet disturbing, mechanical pieces.
About Shikhee
Originally from Bangladesh, Shikhee was sent away from the unstable political environment by her parents for schooling in England. In 1999 she moved to New York City, believing America to be a place of ultimate freedom. She also has a cat Motu named after her MOTU hard disk recording system.
There are some interesting interviews with her scattered about the internet.
Please add more if you know of any.
Equipment
Shikhee uses a dual 867 processor G4 running Mac OS X,
and a 400 MHz G4 running Mac OS 9.
Running Digital Performer as an audio/MIDI sequencing software
and the modular soft synthesiser Reaktor as her main synthesiser,
as well as an Access Virus, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Synthesizers.com modular, and Korg Z1,
For vocal effects Shikhee uses a Neuman TLM 103 microphone,
a Great River pre amp, and the Distressor, which is an outboard compressor.
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Discography
- Foreign Body - Demo - 1996
- Resolution - Album - March 1998 - Tinman
- Evolution - Remix CD - May 1999 - Tinman
- The Want (Out of Print) - Single - October 2001 - Dark Vision Media
- The Dividing (Out of Print)- Album - 2002-10-22 - Dark Vision Media
- The Dividing (Enhanced) - Album - 2003-07-29 - Projekt
- Stripped and Stitched - Remix Maxi-CD - 2004-08-10 - Projekt and Dark Vision Media
- Dragonfly - Single - 2005-10-18 - Projekt and Dark Vision Media
- Devour, Rise and Take Flight - Album - 2006-02-21 - Projekt and Dark Vision Media
- Appears on
- Ringworm v.1 - Cherished Agony (Last Drops) - Tinman
- Awake the Machines 2 - Where Angels Lie (Writhing) - Out of Line
- The Unquiet Grave - Heathen (A Thousand Thoughts) - Cleopatra
- Empire One - Refuse, Where Angels Lie, Soviet (colder) - Tinman
- Awake the Machines - Suffer the Flesh - Out of Line
- Tentacles of Submission - No Going Back - Psykoziz
- Diva X Machina - Down - C.O.P. International
- Project Sampler - 2005.1 - Sin - Projekt
Shikhee has also created in collaboration with Daniel Ouellette two music videos for the songs Dragonfly and Stained. They are available to download from http://www.androidlust.com/v4/?s=video