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  Pitchshifter (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pitchshifter are a British metal/industrial band from Nottingham.
Pitchshifter's guitarist, Jim Davies, went on to continue playing with British hard dance band The Prodigy before recently announcing his decision to leave.
Bands inspired by Pitchshifter include Lostprophets and Hundred Reasons, both of whom have supported the band on numerous tours.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pitchshifter_(band)   (411 words)

  
 Pitchshifter
Among the converted were the folks at MCA records, who released Pitchshifter's latest effort, "www.pitchshifter.com," which has been hailed by critics as "a modern industrial classic", showcases a band utilising all their creative powers to entertain, to question and to break new musical ground.
Pitchshifter's live show are always compulsive (and some times dangerous), stage invasions huge and frequent, exploding sound systems and the odd broken limb not unheard of.
Performing songs taken mostly from the album "www.pitchshifter.com", the band stomped and kicked and pounded their songs into the ground until they were hardly recognizable, all to the extreme delight of the screaming masses that serve as Pitchshifters fans.
www.rockpublication.com /pitchshifter.htm   (409 words)

  
 pitchshifter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
12 years ago pitchshifter were born, now they are dead.
the band who have had some ups and downs in their career and have had quite a lot of shit over the years are finally calling it a day after their farewell tour.
they finisshed with please sir, the best pitchshifter song ever and the pit went fucking crazy, my nipple bar got torn out, it was badass with a fucking bullet.
www.angelfire.com /emo/eth3real/reviewpitchshifter.html   (247 words)

  
 Sorted magAZine, Features, Pitchshifter
Despite this one disadvantage, the band is unlikely to run away and cry in a corner.
Bands like Limp Bizkit can sing about hating their home-town, going to the mall and how they'd rather live in Paris or London and their fans dig that.
The band is currently working on new material for their next album; in fact Jon had just come out of the studio when I talked to him.
www.sortedmagazine.com /archive/magazine/features/pitchshifter.htm   (1337 words)

  
 Show & Tell - Pitchshifter, "PSI" CD review
Pitchshifter's latest release, P.S.I., is by far their most accessible, ambitious album...
It not only shows there's been an evolution to the sound of the band but it actually makes you feel that music itself can evolve and you with it, that from the time you press play you are evolving.
The songs on this album are heavier than their previous works, the blend of technology tighter and used far more masterfully and the lyrics are blazingly raw, yet snug tightly around each beat.
www.showandtellonline.com /_pitchshifter/_cd_review_psi.html   (409 words)

  
 earpollution : features : the blueprint - 01.06.2003
Comprised of members of Earthtone9, Pitchshifter, and Consumed, the band have defied comparisons to their day jobs and are on a quick course to becoming a household name in the U.K. indie scene, alongside the likes of Hundred Reasons, among others.
The band had just come off their first major tour of the U.K. and Grundy was very ecstatic with the warm reception they had received.
Bands like Hundred Reasons have caught the attention press and paved the way for a lot of bands.
www.earpollution.com /v2/vol5/interviews/blueprint/index.html   (1153 words)

  
 Pitchshifter - Music Downloads - Online
The band signed to Earache in 1992, and their first couple releases -- the mini-album Submit (1992) and the full-length Psensitised (1993) -- firmly entrenched the band in the industrial underground and brought their music to the attention of American listeners.
Pitchshifter's shows used live programming and slides, and further spread their music in the States, though their confrontational attitude almost ensured a lack of commercial airplay.
The band toured relentlessly and successfully for the next couple years, playing with the likes of Korn, Tool, Ministry, and even Girls Against Boys, bringing them to the attention of American major label DGC, which signed them in 1997.
musicstore.connect.com /artist/103/066/0/1030660.html   (297 words)

  
 BBC - Leicester Music - Pitchshifter at The Charlotte reviewed by Jamie Hancock
The band seemed to be having fun onstage and vocalist John Clayden’s crowd banter is as friendly and engaging as ever.
Pitchshifter are currently bigger than ever on the British metal scene and they got a huge reception here tonight.
Each member of the band seemed to be having fun onstage and vocalist John Clayden’s crowd banter is as friendly and engaging as ever.
www.bbc.co.uk /leicester/music/2003/03/pitchshifter_review_charlotte.shtml   (571 words)

  
 Pitchshifter / The Kennedy Soundtrack - Live in Manchester @ Designer Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
They have all the right elements to be a classic rock band and have youth and enthusiasm on their side.
For a Welsh band to adopt fake American accents and trying desperately to look like inner city MC's from the heart of the projects is nothing short of an embarrassment.
Pitchshifter have moved on, but not to the extent of alienating their fans and it would seem then that Pitchshifter have yet to reach their peak.
designermagazine.tripod.com /PitchshifterLIVEREV1.html   (448 words)

  
 betterlie.tk
Officially labelled an ‘indefinite hiatus’, Pitchshifter have confirmed that this will be their last run, citing “the natural course of Pitchshifter being run and positive growth of our collective other projects” as their reasoning.
Both the band and Jim are sad about this, but all felt that it was the right thing to continue with the tour.
This band has been a long and eventful journey for all of us and we hope that this last tour can be a celebration of everything we experienced and achieved in our 13 years as Pitchshifter.
betterlie.tripod.com /html/home.htm   (1182 words)

  
 DigitalMetal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
In these times of almost every band adding token samples into their music to try and sound new, it's nice to know that there is a pioneer in that field still true to their style, still making awesome music, still not following fashion, still leading the field.
The band is known to champion causes they believe to be relevant, from Amnesty International to alternative publishers AK Press.
Machine and PITCHSHIFTER are in agreement that this is the most energetic, flavorful, but heavy record in the band's history.
www.digitalmetal.com /news.asp?cid=1896   (473 words)

  
 ACIDplanet.com: Contests: PitchShifter
This is a band that's not just pushing the envelope; they've torn through it, chewed it up and spit it back at the mailbox.
Pitchshifter's live shows—fueled by powerful visuals and onstage programming—continued to build excitement and spread their reputation.
Pitchshifter encourages fans to "steal" their music to create their own musical realities.
www.acidplanet.com /contests/pitchshifter   (409 words)

  
 Anglo Plugging Artist - The British Music Industry's Favourite Pluggers
Pitchshifter are of this rare and special breed of artists and we should salute them for having the balls to follow their instincts and mutate into the state of the art hybrid that they have become.
Over the past two years Pitchshifter have come through the most stressful period of their careers, what with a change in record label and management, and no doubt much of the excitement and ferocity of PSI is, in part, a reflection of their recent trials.
Pitchshifter came together at the tail end of 1990 as Nottingham based brothers JS and Mark Clayden (vocals and bass respectively) took their love of all things dark and beautiful in music and ran it through a bastard sized distortion pedal and a pulverizing drum machine.
www.angloplugging.co.uk /artist.cfm?do=artistID&artistID=197   (2407 words)

  
 BLABBERMOUTH.NET - PITCHSHIFTER To Disband Following U.K. Tour
Pitchshifter used to be a great band back in the Earache days, but went downhill fast from there.
pitchshifter were an awsome live band,they blew away almost everyone at ozzfest 98 ive met js clayden a few times and hes always been a gent, i for one will miss em.
PSI were always the thinking mans band, which explains why their revolutionary style and radical 'give a damn' attitude are often miss understood by those who just can't understand.
www.roadrun.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=9033   (1912 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/pitchshifterband
Pitchshifter's music has even been used by industry giants such as Volkswagen to promote the release of their new Vortex edition Beetle.
In movies Pitchshifter's music has been used in major motion pictures, trailers and soundtracks, from Mortal Kombat (which earned the band their first platinum sales disc) and Paycheck (starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman, directed by John Woo) to cult classic The Crow and oddball Sci-Fi thriller Brainscan starring Edward Furlong.
In the office Pitchshifter took the band/fan relationship to a new level by starting their own record company PSI Records.
www.myspace.com /pitchshifterband   (1227 words)

  
 Pitchshifter www.pitchshifter.com
As with bands like god lives underwater, Pitchshifter have pushed the guitars to the rear of the mix in favor of samples and drum 'n' bass loops.
Pitchshifter have been recording their brand of sickness since 1991, with their debut, Industrial, and haven't looked back since.
Once established as a force to be reckoned with, on disc and live (the band toured non-stop, including England's popular Reading and Phoenix festivals), the band "pitched" their latest project to DGC and the ink was laid.
www.penduluminc.com /MM/June/rev069802.html   (347 words)

  
 Pitchshifter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Pitchshifter's music fits into a heavy metal/electronica sound considered a "new hybrid" of aggressive music.
What the band has going for it is its adrenaline rush, which is comparable to a sweaty, naked hobo running down the street on crack; sure he has lots of energy, but it goes to waste.
At the end of the CD, Pitchshifter includes a number of samples so the listener can make his own godawful repetitive music in the discomfort of his own home.
archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1998/050698/pit.5.5.html   (204 words)

  
 REVIEW: Pitchshifter - "Deviant"
Pitchshifter's previous album, www.pitchshifter.com, hit me like a Lincoln Navigator driven off the roof of a Starbucks: their insidious mix of heavy electronics, raw rock power, social commentary and pop culture pessimism was pure genius.
It is obvious that the band is still using electronic means to sequence and arrange their songs, but their music is much more organic, as they now sound like a post-metal rock band: heavy rock guitars, Sabbath-like bass, over-the-top drumming, melodic vocals, but not much in the way of keyboards.
Pitchshifter wants you to sample them, in fact the disk comes with 30 pre-moistened samples in ready-to-loop WAV format.
www.legendsmagazine.net /103/pitchsh.htm   (771 words)

  
 Transcending the Mundane: Interview with Blueprint
I think it is quite obviously different to the bands we were in before, but you have to bear in mind that no one in the Blueprint was a song writer in their previous bands, so it's not that we're going "Let's do something different", it's more "Let's do what we always wanted to do".
But, generally we have a lot of common ground in the bands we like and how we want our stuff to sound- that's a big part of how we came to from the band in the first place.
The experience with our previous bands definitely helps, it allows us to avoid problems we've met before, be they within the music industry or just internal communication problems within the band.
basementbar.com /InterviewN1.asp?ID=350   (735 words)

  
 Reviews for This Illusion - SoundClick Music
But, at the moment they seem destined to fall into the swamp of emocore releases, and this is their problem, unless they can follow this up with something even more astounding they will forever sit in the middle league and not quite taste the icing on the emo cake.
Bands like Staring Back and The Used whilst not being exactly the same do play a similar style in a lot of ways to This Illusion.
This Illusion is a very good band, that I feel could make a fair good go of this band business if they put their minds to it.
www.soundclick.com /bands/reviews.cfm?bandid=264092   (2389 words)

  
 Sorted magAZine - Distorted - Pitchshifter
The last time Pitchshifter's frontman, JS Clayden, spoke to Sorted magAZine, his band were after signing to a major record label (DGC) and had just released an album that mixed punk-rock music with techno beats, a radical departure from the extreme industrial/metal sounds that had dominated their previous releases.
Pitchshifter have never been shy about giving their opinions on the press, least of all JS.
Pitchshifter are also known to have had a turbulent past with the music industry in general.
www.sortedmagazine.com /Distorted.php3?nID=317   (1270 words)

  
 nighttimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
If you’ve never had the chance to see Pitchshifter perform live, here’s an opportunity to see how great they are.
He even claims that he doesn't blame Pitchshifter fans if they don't like them, as Doheny is softer and not at all electronic.
There are also a lot of interviews on the CD with the other band members, mostly reminiscing about each other and how much they enjoyed being in the band.
www.nighttimes.com /nt_main.asp?aID=587   (472 words)

  
 earpollution profiles - pitchshifter [page 1] - issue 1.12, december 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Applying an increasingly subtle intelligence to the chaos that was driving their music, both the band's musical and political messages were starting to show in clever ways.
And proving that they could be just as impressive with their techno savvy beyond its musical applications, the band launched their official website along with the release of the album, inviting their fans to take a deeper look into the musical, political and social processes that they built their music around.
Having signed to MCA earlier this year in the aftermath of the Universal/Polygram merger, Pitchshifter released their self-produced EP, Un-UK, and are currently in the studio with famed producer Dave Jerden putting the finishing touches on their MCA debut, Deviant--scheduled to be released sometime around April of 2000.
www.earpollution.com /dec99/profiles/pitchshifter/pitchshifter.html   (2151 words)

  
 In Music We Trust - Pitchshifter: www.pitchshifter.com
Pitchshifter has created a new type of music, and yes, created is the correct choice of word.
Pitchshifter is taking the route of many other bands, such as Rage Against the Machine, using their music as a way to inform the masses of the problems of today's society.
All that the band asks is that credit be given where credit is due, and possibly sending them a copy of whatever music is made.
www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/08e04.html   (399 words)

  
 Features
Pitchshifter's sound was a cross between The Prodigy and KoRn.
Lately, the band has been moved up from their Division 1 ranking to Division 2 and recently attended a competition.
The lighting show was a great success and the band has had the pleasure of playing at a lot of assemblies.
www.lausd.k12.ca.us /Jefferson_HS/dpfeat.htm   (710 words)

  
 Harmony Central®: Feature: Pitchshifter's Jim Davies
The cover of Pitchshifter's new album, Deviant (MCA), offers a strikingly subversive portrait of two establishment icons: Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth II.
By blending propulsive hard rock (parts metal, part hardcore punk) with sample-heavy electronic dance music (mainly techno and drum 'n' bass), guitarist Jim Davies and the other core members, vocalist/programmer J.S. Clayden and bassist Mark Clayden, have forged a sonic and lyrical hybrid that's at once radical, weird, and altogether catchy.
Pitchshifter's music has evolved considerably since the band cut grittier and grindier records for the indie extreme-metal label Earache (1992-1996) and played keyboards with fire axes and sledgehammers in concert.
www.harmony-central.com /Features/pitchshifter   (821 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: P.S.I. (Enhanced): Music: Pitchshifter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
and well i heard that this band was somewhat industrial and i listened to their song on mortal kombat 2 and i liked it so i bought this cd since it was their newest album...
Sadly, Pitchshifter will be no longer, but that's not until the release of their new LIVE ALBUM!!!
Pitchshifter have changed over the years from industrial grind to scything electronic noise to charty chorus filled singalong songs.
www.amazon.ca /P-S-I-Enhanced-Pitchshifter/dp/B0000668MT   (634 words)

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