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Torrent Vaccine, PreSonus, and Bit Riot Records are excited to announce the winners of the Torrent Vaccine Remix contest. The winning mixes were selected from over 200 entries and created by Torrent Vaccine enthusiasts from around the world. We would like to thank everyone who participated, with a special thanks to PreSonus for their involvement, and congratulate those who won! To learn more about PreSonus and their amazing Pro Audio offerings, visit www.presonus.com. |
First Place: Project: Deadliner Location: Plainfield, IL Myspace: myspace.com/heavymediadeadliner Second Place: Project: Testube Location: Eureka Springs, AR Myspace: myspace.com/testube Third Place: Project: Mangadrive Location: Rock Kill, SC Myspace: myspace.com/mangadrive 1st Runner Up: Project: phonogeist Location: Baton Rouge, LA Myspace: myspace.com/phonogeist 2nd Runner Up: Project: baconhanger Location: fullerton, CA Myspace: myspace.com/baconhanger Random Drawing Winner: Project: Adam Hartner Location: Ethel, LA |
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Torrent Vaccine is an electronic solo operation out of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, brought to life by Brad Vaccine after moving there in 1998. Growing up in rural Louisiana, Brad was continuously searching for ways to pass the time. This eventually led to an interest in music and writing his own was a natural progression. While searching for new forms of expression he was introduced to industrial music. Never having heard anything like this, it quickly became a part of his personality. This new acquaintance convinced Brad to begin his exploration into electronic sound design.
Interested in the voyeuristic and confrontational ways that the world around him interacted, Brad was inspired. In a harsh celebration of sound through life and experience, Torrent Vaccine took form. Starting out as pure experimentation, a DIY demo tilted "Somewhere in Between" was selectively handed out in 2001. Following that was "distort = kewl" a more polished EP sold in Louisiana and on tours supporting Stromkern and Cut Rate Box. This release has been described as atmospheric, desolate, aggressive, vibrant, creative, confident, controlled, and subjective.
Without committing to a defined style, Torrent Vaccine has left room to expand into different scenes while still maintaining the idea of "industrial" music and his individualism. Taking part in the southern underground, Torrent Vaccine has shared the stage with Assemblage 23, Bella Morte, Bile, Bozo Porno Circus, Chris Connelly, Cut Rate Box, Cyanotic, Defragmentation, Dope, Hanzel und Gretyl, Helltrash, Infinite Motion, Jenifer Mclaren, Meg Lee Chin, More Machine Than Man, My life with the thrill kill kult, Nocturne, Pigface, Pitbull Daycare, Professional Murder Music, Sheep On Drugs, Slick Idiot, Stromkern, Tubring, Voodou, Zeromancer, and VNV Nation.
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