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The Mental Straights is my musical ramblings on a plate. From dirty fuzz pop to anarchic and wacky , to punk to funk. But all laced with the same DNA.
And it's all old school...no computer trickery, just play and record and go. 
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First release on Source Lab2 (Source/Virgin) in 1996 as KRELL « Planete Interdite » with a Deep D&B Hit coproduced with Zend Avesta and used by car brand Peugeot for the promotion of a futuristic car, I then autoproduced "First Sight" a Deep Funk Drum&Bass tune played on french radio station "Radio Nova" for about 5 years, 

Remixes of Tony Allen, Bum Cello, Omar Soza, Ashley Slater, Anthonin Artaud, Bernard Parmegiani... 

Sound design for CanalPlus TV channel - various work for contemporain theater and dance shows. 

Creator and producer of LeBreak (first Drum&Bass DJ tools ever made "from scratch" - 

Resident dj at the Cithéa (Paris) between 1996 and 2009 and spinning in various clubs & dj bars in France, Germany, USA, Japan, Romania, Switzerland, Hungaria… besides 4 Heroes, Daft Punk, Hazard, Top Cat, Afrodite, Gilb’r, Otis...

Live dj/keyboard musician with "Live Trip Hop D&B Jazz & Experimental" Bands as LeBreak Live, ToySun (LP on Comet Records) with John Silverman, Marc Chalosse, Gregor Hilbe, Benoit Delbecq and Steve Arguelles. 

Other guys i worked with : Arnaud Rebotini, MiniMatic, Olivier Portal, Serge Adam, MC WAPI, MC IZM, Yves Robert, Francis Lebras, Disco, Marten Ingle, Dj Cristalo, Ashley Slater, Deborah Tanguy, Matthieu Waki, , Antoine Banville, Ciryl Attef, Tony Allen, Cedric Ricard, Jeff Hoffman, DATIKA, Cheik Tidiane, Christian Sebille, Denis Levaillant, Edouard Ferlet, Laurent Levesque, Pablo Cueco, Philippe Foch, Etienne Brunnet, Gael Horrelou, Guillaume Dommartin, Stephano Di Batista, Sebastien Llado, Didier Petit, Bruno Letort or the mythic Un Drame Musical Instantané (GRRR records) with it's crazy members Bernard Vittet & Jean Jacques Birgé…

DISCOGRAPHIE
- 1996 - Source Lab 2 - KRELL "Planet interdite" (Source - Virgin)
- Source Lab 3 - Influx "Docteur F." (Source - Virgin)
- Influx Remix of Spicy Box (Island)
- Dj Nem Remix of Audio Direction (Vendome Rec.) 
- Scratches on Virgil Brown's LP (?)
- Dj Nem Remix - Megapoles LP - "Paris 6h - NewYork Minuit" (CMG - Koka)
- Scratches on D. Prigent LP (Rosbud - Universal)
- Dj Nem - First Sight (White)
- Dj Nem Remix - Out There / Ailleurs (CMG-Koka Media)
- Scratches and additionnal productions on DMI's LP (GRRR)
- Dj Nem Side - ToySun LP (Comet)
- Dj Nem - First Sight/Junky Street (Pamplemous)
- Bum Cello - Marathon Man - Nem Remix (Comet)
- Nem - Plush Selection (Plush)
- Artaud Remixes - Tutuguri - (Signature-RadioFrance)
- nem track on French Various "Tranquille la fraiche »
- B Parmegiani - Nem Remix - (CMG - Koka Media)
- Ashley Slater - "Husband" Nem Remix (Plush)
- LeBreak Vol.1 "Nerves" (LeBreak)
- Tony Allen - Calling - Nem remix
- Metrologix - D&B Various
- Les Allumés du Jazz - FreeJazz Various

Oh my - don't we all just adore these ubiquitous miniscule "Bio's"?! ROFL 🤣 - I think NOT! Lolol 😄!

What to say..... I was born & raised in Gainesville, Florida back when dinosaurs 🦕 roamed freely. I graduated 2yrs early at 16. By 12 I was already 'That peculiar, awkward, brainy kid, who's always got a book shoved in her face!', so obviously I was never in with the popular crowd, ROFL 🤣

Had great family who were very active in the Civil Rights Movement, Women's Rights, LGBTQ Anti-War Movement, etc., brought my sister & I with them to all the marches & rallies. Best of all to concerts filled w/amazing music. Folks worked at Hogtown Food Co-Op & brought free food to music events @ 'The Farm'.

Went to college, & went back again & again & then oh yeah, I went back again! Lolol So far amassing a current tally of: 2 PhD's, 10 Master's Degrees, & 8 Bachelor's! Lolol 😄. I'm officially changing my job title to 'Professional Student' - a title borrowed from one of the characters from Gary Trudeau's long run & epically fabulous comic strip 'Doonesbury'!

My 1st PhD, awarded in '99, is in Geomorphology, specializing in Volcanology & Plate Tectonics; it is my first & foremost love, which I have truly dedicated my life to. Hopefully, I've been able to inspire other young women to get involved in this ever challenging, growing, & fantastic scientific study! 

What the scholarships, grants, & fellowships didn’t cover, I paid for doing music tours starting from rigging & working my way up to lights, lighting design, running the lights during shows & eventually stage management. Loved it & the roadies I had the privilege to work with, we were a family to be sure! Plus, nothing beats awesome live music 🎶, & it paid well 😀 Lolol!

Along the way I dated several & married *(NEVER ANYONE I EVER WORKED WITH)* many complete losers, highly abusive types, before finally getting my demons 😈 exercised once joining the Navy, as an AT.

I got to work on the sensational, sexy, most incredible jet the Navy's ever had, the F-14D Tomcat, with the infamous, & very best squadron ever, VF - 213 The Blacklions. Also got to work at J.A.G.
Navy, best years of my life.

Met a man in Navy, who's response to finding out from the VA I had a terminal disease (ALS), was to wake me up next day & marry me. Pay attention everyone: THESE are the human beings YOU WANT IN YOUR LIFE. The one’s who love, respect,  & take you as you are & ESPECIALLY if you're getting married when that little part about 'for better or worse, in sickness & health' gets said? MEAN IT.

Amazing, I guess you finally kiss enough 'wife beating, hateful, abusive misogynistic, toads', plus one Psychopathic Rapist, & you really do find an amazing REAL MAN!

Retired from Navy, & basically went back to school, hence the many degrees, Lolol 😄! Although several I'd already at least had a Bachelor's degree in & a few of the Master's degrees as well. Hence...

2nd PhD in Abnormal Psychology - Specializing in Psychopathy & Microexpressions, awarded in 2020.

Now, I'm finishing up a book about that, that should be available November 2024‐ish. I may or may not be around when it comes out, but I hope it's not only well received by my fellow colleagues in these fields, but the public 'true crime' interested people who I hope will actually learn from it as well.

A portion of the proceeds will go to help fellow victims & their families as the antithesis for this book was my own experience & luckily release by a high level Psychopath after six days. In many ways writing not only about this particular group of high level Psychopaths allowed me to finally find my voice about not only overcoming the sexual trauma I'd endured but to actually get to confront the man responsible for it. Though I'd removed him from my research study, due to obvious bias, he actually volunteered to participate. Ahh Psychopath's are indeed truly narcissistic in all aspects of their lives, Lolol. 

Jessica M. Kandal, PhD



ZARINE (Dj Zarine) is one of the drum & bass DJs and producers whose work has brought considerable popularity to this style.
Starting his career in 97, he started promoting the Jump Up style in Russia. This always positive and open person still carries the culture of broken rhythms to the masses.

He received a classical music education. He studied conducting. He also plays guitar (played death metal, hardcore, techno death, was a session guitarist.) Sound engineer, worked with many well-known musicians, both foreign (Henry Rollins Band, Young Gods, Braut schlägt im Auge), and Russian, such as: the King and the Jester, Bricks, Torba-na-Kruche, Nom, TV, Calibri, Two Planes, Brigade row, Spitfire, and others.

His creative pseudonym, the female name ZARINE, owes his love for decadence, and the eponymous name of one of his projects-ZARINE (sarin) with the crossed-out letter " E " at the end. In 1996, after playing his first ever set at the CLEO club, he decided to keep the name.

The first single, "Drunk'n'Bazz Wize", was recorded in 1999 and released as a compilation album on a no-longer-existing foreign label. This was followed by releases - "Drunk n Bass" and "Art Core", "Eazy Drums" - released on the now-defunct KDK records

Later there were releases on "Dj Parade", "World of the Drum n bass" - Dj SS took the single "GO ON" recorded together with Liza K. Audio design of the magazine "SPB. RU". Release of the album "Leading the rats". Working with Goldie, Aphrodite.

To date, singles have been released on Italian, French, German, and English labels.

EP "Blind fury / Water party", "Ghost of the Rock n roll", "Atmos robotics", " May Be Vibes? (feat. PropheC)". Remixes of DnB monsters, Future Cut, Konflict, Posij, Ray Keith, Huge, Gridlock, Keaton, as well as Fugees, Eminem

Today, ZARINE is the owner of the "HS Recordings" label. He is a resident of the English radio resource MIXCLOUD, and enjoys the support of the Russian radio Record.