Formed in 2014 in Denver, Colorado, Against Himself fuse elements of rock and metal. Shortly after forming, they released a four-track self-titled EP, which exhibited their hard-hitting potential. Their celerity in recording their first EP exemplifies their focus on not over-complicating the equation by agonizing over obstacles. David Hunt, vocalist of Against Himself, explains, “If you want to achieve anything in life, the only true barrier to getting where you want to go is yourself. Just remove yourself from your own path and you won’t be working against yourself; you’ll likely achieve what you want to do. The only barriers that exist are the ones you allow to be there.” The band, never intimidated by the prospect of experimenting with their sound to continually create unique music, is true to their motto that “there is no failure, only a process of elimination, and trial and error.”

While not inherently a political band, Against Himself is not afraid to tackle political ideas and avoid the stereotypical rocknroll topics that ensure record sales but lack a message that would connect them with their audience. When describing the songwriting process, Hunt notes, “I like to talk about things that matter, things that most people avoid. Strippers and coke – they’re great, fuck yeah! But when you’re being robbed by your government and there’s shit going on that’s way bigger, sometimes there’s something that needs to be said. It’s hard to change the world, but the way we know how to do it is through music.”

The band’s eclectic influences – including Johnny Cash, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Avenged Sevenfold, Lamb of God, Stone Temple Pilots, Chris Cornell, Blink 182, Machine Head, Pantera, and Amos Lee, to name a few – can be heard on their full-length album The Awakening, slated for release early next year. Dalen Buckalew, guitarist for Against Himself, says of their sound, “When you listen to our songs, you can hear that each song has a different musical influence, which makes every single song sound completely different. But what makes it sound like Against Himself is David’s voice.”

The Awakening – produced by the legendary Logan Mader of Once Human and Machine Head, and recorded in Las Vegas, NV – features 11 tracks with themes encompassing “the awakening of us, of reality, of people, of the world.” Regarding the meaning of their debut album’s title, Hunt says, “There is a major awakening going on and there’s going to be a revolution, it’s just not going to happen the way people imagine it will. It’s going to be based around social media, with the youth being more educated, making bigger and better decisions than the generation before them.” For David as a lyricist, the driving force behind the album’s theme is the ability to share a connection with the band’s audience. He explains, “I’m always the one holding up the show when a new song comes out because I don’t want to write something just to write it; I want it to be real. If every song is real, I will feel it on stage. Our fans watching will get more enjoyment out of it and will feel it as well. The energy connection will be much stronger.”

MGI rainmaker and guru, Shawn Barusch, says of MGI’s collaboration with Against Himself, “I’m excited to be working with a band that knows what’s going on and has the music to back it up. Expect big things to come from this band.” Rest assured that Against Himself will not disappoint – they will be “a parasitic plague of music seeping through everybody’s veins.”

DJ from San Francisco California.
Born and Raised in San Francisco and has been a DJ in the Bay Area for many years.
Love mixing music I grew up listening to (Old School from the 80's-2000's).
Although I grew up with the Old School stuff, I can still appreciate the new technology. If the younger guys can understand where  and how it all started then we'll all be better artist for it.
When I was a young Dj just starting out I grab my parents old Turntables and save my money and went down to Radio Shake and bought a cheap realistic mixer and starting Djing with my parents old Vinyl. As you can imagine its not easy mixing Liza Minnelli with some Frank Sinatra so I started saving my allowance and would go down to the local Record store on Persia and Mission in San Francisco. I was so excited when I bought my first record License to ill by the Beastie Boys. I went home grabed a key so could slice the Vinyl package on the record open, put the needle on the record of the first song PAUL Revere and when that  Bass Dropped I WAS IN LOVE with DJing!!!  I will always be a Dj, something about it relaxes me in a way that nothing else can. I guess it hard to think about your problems when your worrying about what the next songs is going to be or what the BPM's are set at : ) 

I love music. I have fond memories of singing with my family in the car, harmonizing in rounds and singing along with the radio to the Carpenters, or in the living room to the Sound of Music.

I have always loved the sound of human voices harmonizing together, raising each other's vibration, both simultaneously giving voice to other-worldly Spirit and being driven by that same otherworldly Spirit to connect with something larger than any one of us alone; and thru this higher connection, realizing the true joy of our common, divine identity...

I love the universal humanity of singing: the voice is the cleanest, purest instrument of audible human expression. Such qualities are the most direct way to the heart.

But I'm interested in stretching myself too. I love reaching for more expression of feeling, in experimenting and manipulating my music in service of expanding emotional experience. Such stretching reflects one quality I love about science fiction: in sci-fi, humanity stretches its vision into possible futures and all sorts of places that the promise of our hopeful imaginations can take us. In that way, I often imagine my music as a soundtrack to beautiful and otherworldly sci-fi/fantasy settings, utopian futures that I love to daydream about… 

I love SoundCloud for many reasons: it's how many musicians these days (including me) share their most intimate, ineffable souls. And it's timeline comments allow us to connect with each other, to support each other, to help raise our common vibration, and to simultaneously remind ourselves of our common divinity. Thank you, my virtual vibrational brothers and sisters...

A little history:

I've always had music in my life. I grew up singing rounds of "Frere Jacque" and "London's Burning" with my family. I sang in the church choir and in high school, I made the Texas All-State choir.

I started composing music in college, using staff paper and pencil, then learned enough keyboard to pluck out melodies and chords, at which point I started using two cassette decks to bounce multiple takes and thus layer instruments and vocal harmonies. Also in college, I took a composition class which gave me access to their electronic music lab. The lab was built around an ARP 2600 which was both exciting and frustrating: you had to plug in at least a few wires (in all the right places!) to even get the thing to make a sound. But, as frustrating as that classic synth was, I was hooked.

My friend Dell Little and I (together known as Syntax) continued to compose music however we could: we purchased a used TEAC A-3440 4-track open-reel deck and instantly had quality multitrack recording capabilities. Dell then bought a Yamaha DX-7, and I bought a Roland SDE-1000 digital delay, and we were off!

Syntax led to Renjeaux, our first band, which, after a few months of weeding, settled into me and Dell, along with drummer/keyboardist Domingo Leija, guitarist Luis Longoria, and artist Lawrence Garza. While Renjeaux never officially played a gig, we composed and recorded originals of uniqueness and sufficient complexity to impress Donnie Jones and Chris Fisher of Shreveport's the Late Show, which was an extremely talented and rockin' working band who were simply masters of progressive '80s synth pop. Chris and Donnie invited us up to Shreveport to pool our gear and take a crack at the commercial music industry. While we never made any money working out of their studio, Arthurized Music, we did make some really cool music, and I hooked up with prodigious musical naturalist Geoff Walden to produce the first King Felix album, 1987's "Rivers and Veins." KF even played two gigs with new members Wade Ozment on guitar and Mitchell Player on bass. 

I'd had enough, though, of being a starving artist, and went back to college, where I earned a Bachelor's degree in English and then continued on into grad school because I wanted to create a Master's project, which eventually became 1996's "logos, eros, cosmos," a 48-minute original music and 416-digital-image multimedia piece. I had purchased a Yamaha SY-85 workstation synth with gift money from my first degree, which begat 1994's "cloud-hidden," the first official yugenro release. 

Also around that same time, I was joined by Keith Krause and Gregg Willman to form (officially the second incarnation of) Makak, an all-drum, world-beat, gigging party band. Makak played quite a few shows in the Corpus Christi area, always to excited audiences, and also released a full-length album, 1995's "Visiting Dog." 

Since then, I've been composing tracks here and there and compiling them into loosely-themed "albums," including 2004's "Technoliberación," and 2010's "Oashaa." 

As of Feb 2012, I have become newly-inspired to create some new music, which always has been and continues to be my first and foremost passion. Stay tuned for more music!

PS: check out this blog entry which details my musical history: http://yugenro.com/2009/09/19/yugenro-music/

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"Uncle Mark " is a Composer/DJ/Producer/Musician of all forms of music, predominately focused on the house, down-tempo, and ambient hip-hop style. His style of music is unique and like no other. Hailing from TN there is a sure influence from the "music city" including genres ranging from bluegrass, country music, folk, rock, jazz, hip-hop strive to compose a collective work of mind-altering and stimulating music, sure to keep the listener excited. 

It took me quite some time to put together this release. I’ve spent most of it traveling and listening to music. Every city I visited had it’s own vibe. There is just one no slavik track despite 2 previous compilations.

Romadi — Sometimes is giving you the right emotion you sometimes might get. Don’t worry and change your state of mind so you are in the flow of life. http://romadi.ru

It’s always awesome to listen to Awesomatic (Dj Ekspert & Jeremiah of Antenna project), it’s positive and makes you fell the nice vibe and you don’t give a damn ’bout a thing. http://awesomatic.info

Mangobay — Invisible Man, sometimes everyyou can be invisible to the whole world and it’s good, but make sure you’re visible to yourself otherwise you gonna be lost, dude. http://mangobay.yolasite.com/

Tinavie — 7778, each time I hear this song, I’m automatically finding myself in Reykjavik, walking the streets towards the Bjork park and it’s peaceful and calm http://tinavie.ru

Solomina — this girl from Kyiv, can sing her heart out. Her Country / Pop songs always warm and cheerful. “Sunshine” is so damn good, I’m really glad to present it to you. NB. the rights to the track belongs to Oxenuk music corp.
http://fb.com/pages/Solomina/218513721

Kubrick’s Cube — Bright, outstanding chill electronic track with post-dubstep elements and deep atmosphere. This tune was originally released through Ultra Vague Recordings a couple months ago and received great feedback from around the world. Make sure you listen to the whole album. http://kubrickscube.com

Black Light Coma — Colors, another new artist from Ukraine capital. He did a great job recording his debut song and shooting a video for it. Such a great vocal line and melody, he’s gonna be huge! http://soundcloud.com/blacklightcoma

ChaCha & Wordysoulspeak — One More Day is the only foreign track on this issue. I love China and really excited to present a Chinese track on my compilation! I’m working on an Interview with ChaCha (voice) http://soundcloud.com/chachachina, so you’ll get to know the project better and learn how they make trip-hop in China.
http://wordysoulspeak.bandcamp.com

New Edge — Unmade Beds, I’m really thrilled to present this track, from New Edge coming album Stars All We Can, which is set for release for September as well. Especially because, for the first time, it has vocal parts recorded by Iva from Moscow band White Slaver http://whiteslavermsc.tumblr.com. Unmade Beds is a great trip-hop song. http://fb.com/needge

Sistra — Gentle Dead People, coming from a cold place in Russia and now settled down in Moscow, this band is so good on stage. The rhythm divine and energy you feel listening to them makes you go insane. There is a couple of days left and you have a chance to support the band on MTV U.S. “Artist of the Week” http://mtviggy.com/blog-posts/artist-of-the-week-vote-for-your-favorite-81 Luckily, I have one more news to come, I’ve finished remixing this song and it’s gonna appear on Sistra’s remix CD along with the video.
http://fb.com/sistragroup

Alina Os — Moya Moskva (My Moscow), what a beautiful voice that girl has! Deep meaningful lyrics, acoustic guitar played folk songs in soft and alight soul and r’n'b manner. She sings in Russian and it sounds great even to a non-Russian listener. Definitely one of the best new Russian folk artists.
http://thankyou.ru/music/hip-hop/alina_os/albums/acoustic

Anton Tarasov — Listen, Ukrainian trip-hop / indietronic musician. Together with Troepolsky they make splendid songs with a little melancholic touch.
http://soundcloud.com/antontarasov

Polya — Kaplyami (remix by Highway), this song from Sevastopol producers has so much of r’n'b and pop influence. Polya http://polinaloves.com has a great voice, her tone reminded me of Christina Aguilera a bit.)) http://soundcloud.com/highwayp

Karman Verdi — Japan, I share the passion for Japan and really like this track from Russian producer Oleg Gabisov aka Karman Verdi. It’s so much like I picture this beautiful country in my mind.
http://soundcloud.com/karman-verdi

Synthetic Cotton — Notes From The Underground, imagine an Alien retelling you a story Notes From the Underground by Fedor Dostoevskiy, it’s kinds cool, isn’t it?) Awesome Russian meaningful lyrics and mesmerizing music is all you need to get into your subconscious. http://soundcloud.com/synthetic-cotton

Jungleman — Wonderlands, the destination for each of us. I know Andrei Popov, band’s leader, as a great guitar player, once he was awarded by Jeff Back himself for his talent. This time the band presented a lounge ballad that intend to take a listener to a world hypnotic bow guitars and unearthly sounds.
http://vk.com/junglemanband

BONUS TRACK:

PlayGame — Forbidden, I didn’t want to leave these guys behind even the music is kinda too rocky for me, but they are good. Lead singer is really cute and has a strong voice. Track Forbidden was originally released on their debut album Forbidden. So check it out! http://playgameband.com

There is Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik on the cover. Photo: Fudo Kazuki

SUPERNAL ENDGAME is:

JOHN EARGLE - Electric, acoustic, and synthesized guitars, mandolin, keyboards, bass, programs, loops, secondary lead vocals.

ROB PRICE - Primary lead vocals, drums, loops, keyboards.

DAN POMEROY - Electric, acoustic, and classical guitars, tin whistles backing vocals.

BRAD OLDHAM - Bass guitar, midi pedals, backing vocals.

JETT CHEEK - Keyboards, backing vocals.

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Supernal Endgame's beginning was in 2000 when John Eargle and Rob Price had the idea of forming a unique band fusing symphonic progressive rock and artsy power-pop all with a spiritual emphasis. They brought in other musicians, (notably Dan Pomeroy, whom they had played with before) to share this goal. A healthy dose of AOR pomp rock and a touch of celtic folk were also thrown into the mix with tin whistles and violins playing a prominent role. If you can imagine the sound of bands like Yes, Kansas, Rush, and Genesis mixed with the modern pop of bands like Keane, Mutemath, The Corrs, and Jellyfish, and the spiritual sensibilities of, say, Iona or Neal Morse, then you might get close to describing the style of Supernal Endgame... thoughtful compositions with tons of hooks.

The band's first project was to mix all of these styles into a unique "worship" project titled "Touch the Sky". A couple of discs worth of tunes have been (and still are being) recorded, but the first volume was released on the Progrock Records label on March 30th 2010.

"Touch the Sky: Vol. I" boasts two very special guests. Roine Stolt of The Flower Kings and Transatlantic adds his tasty guitar and imaculate tone to one of the tunes and Randy George of Ajalon and the Neal Morse band plays bass on several tracks. The release's songcraft and dense arrangements are presently creating a buzz for the band in the prog rock community."I just love a good hook and a good melody and Supernal Endgame has it in droves, I was really excited to get these guys on the label.” said Shawn Gordon, President of ProgRock Records.

The Summer of 2010 brought two new members to the band. Tom More plays bass guitar and Jett Cheek is on keyboards. Generally a violinist is used in live gigs, but the search for the perfect permanent member continues. In the Summer of 2011, Dan left the band to pursue another vision. New guitarist, John Crafton has stepped in to take over his duties.

Concerning other projects, Supernal Endgame has contributed a song on Colassus' Flower Kings tribute album on the Musea label recently released and they appear on the new CPR 4 compilation. They will be contributing a tune to a forthcoming Yes tribute album on the Mellow label as well. A tune was also donated to the Haiti Relief Projekt in the Spring of 2010. Of course, "Touch the Sky vol. II" is due out in early 2013. Recording is well under way and about two thirds of it is finished as of the end of 2010. Some of our older recordings will also be released in an unofficial capacity. Keep checking back for more details.

HI-PRESSURE SODIUM
Born in Ashland Oregon in 1983  Huron Phillip Smith IV also known as Huey, carrying influences from Hawaii and Nova Scotia, i have eclectic musical, cultural and political interests that have heavy influence the content of my lyrics while life and my idiosyncratic thought process act as a muse for one of the most erratic styles of delivery in the entire music industry, it allows me to stay excited for new hip hop beats, and lyrical oddities, Humble on site but cocky on the mic is the M.O. Hi-Pressure Sodium is proud to carry, I love sounds that are the regurgitation of previous musical art forms, similar to the Art of Andy Warhol hip hop's intent is to re imagine and sculpt previous works of art into a new meaning and purpose, and Birth New Barrier-braking techniques in the form of music creation. Hip Hop encompasses a plethora of art forms but in of its self it is Americas truest and newest Art-form, And as it transcends to Global acceptance it is officially world wide soul music

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