MELODIC ENERGY COMMISSION was formed many centuries ago to investigate and experiment with the energy caused by melodies, portrayed through sound patterns often classified as music.
Their original sound patterns were inscribed into clay cylinders and later, vinyl platters then distributed throughout the galaxies. Eventually, the investigations expanded to rhythmic and atonal pattern interpretation. So, more recordings have been created during these investigations and began appearing around planet earth.
On their recent plastic discs the Commissioners have placed advanced communications, disguised as songs and elaborate soundscapes.

•  Interesting, very colorful.

SOL 3, former heavyweights of Edmonton’s independent music scene have relocated to Vancouver and are poised to conquer Vancouver and beyond with their brand of well crafted, hook driven, guitar rock. Influenced by the great bands from every era in Rock n’ Roll history including the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Pixies, and U2, SOL 3 have evolved to create their own distinct and unique sound that pays tribute to all of the great Rockers of the past while maintaining a fresh and relevant sound for the modern age.
SOL 3 was first formed by song writing masterminds Blair Bellerose (guitars) and Lou Foley (vocals) in 1997. The two of them have in fact been writing together since 1991 and have developed an intuitive creative bond not heard since the early days of Jagger/Richards and Page/Plant. In 2004, SOL 3 recruited heavy hitter and long-time Vancouver musician Rick “Grizzly” Adams to play drums adding a new dimension of power to the band. Then in 2005, SOL 3 added ex Sarah McLachlan bassist and fellow Edmontonian Jeff Sawatzky on bass guitar.
SOL 3’s past accomplishments are many and include award nominations, radio exposure, and televised live performances. Their song Particles & Waves currently resides at number 8 on the New Music Canada charts and their song Manchu Picchu Cool is currently featured on the nationally distributed TEA volume 6 compilation CD.
SOL 3’s monster album, Ultrafade, is available now.
for further info contact Blair Bellerose.

•  GREAT INTRO!
•  Fans Scream for It
•  unexpected, but i like
•  Screaming Cheap Trick and Kiss
•  Gotta hear it live

Autobiography of an Unsigned Artist
David Anderson and How Twilight's Edge Began

David played his first guitar at age 20. It was an acoustic that basically introduced him to chords and notes on the fret board. Then it was shortly after that, he purchased his first real electric guitar, a Fender Stratocaster. A couple of years later, a Les Paul custom and to add the icing on the cake, a hand made Boogie Amp manufactured by Mesa Engineering around 1982.

Since he began playing, David was in and out of garage bands, always maintaining the Rock Genre. With the discovery of Michael Schenker, his dream was to play like Michael, but was just not capable of shredding, so instead, he created his own style of playing that has become his signature sound. In the beginning, lots of negativity came his way, but that didn't stop him pursuing the guitar.

His style seemed to become more refined as time went along. Emotion seemed to become more prevalent in his playing. His guitar playing has achieved a level of certain viturosity and giving him the ability to venture out as a solo artist with songs that are beautifully layered track on top of track with different guitar sounds all in synchronization with each other. Thus Twilight's Edge has been created.

Twilight's Edge is a musical entity that explores new areas of Rock/Metal. It is an alternative to commercial Rock & Metal music and is located in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the core of Twilight's Edge is Artist, Recording Engineer, Producer and Manufacturer, David Anderson. David's playing is a translation of 70's and 80's Rock guitarists and culminated into a distinctive style that truly is his own. As you listen to David's playing, you just might catch glimpses of Leslie West (Mountain), Ronnie Montrose (Hagar), Paul Kossoff (Free), Brian May (Queen) or even Buck Dharma (Blue Oyster Cult) and many other rock Legends of the 70's and early 80's.

On the other side of Twilight's Edge is Nick Anderson, a young guitarist usually found in the Thrash/Death Metal realm. Nick took time out of his busy schedule to contribute a very tasty piece of Metal with an eerie instrumental that will surely catch your attention.

Around 1988, David bought some studio gear and began experimenting around with recording. Learning what the equipment was capable of and stretching it to the limits. After a few short months, things came to a halt and the equipment sat for about 15 years.

Then during the winter of 2003 David had an inspiration in music and was able to capture
some very tasty Rock/Metal sounds. In about 8 consecutive weekends, David came up with enough material to cover 2 CD's. 8 of those songs ended up on the Simply Guitar album. The rest will end up on either the 2nd or 3rd CD's.

And so began a 3 year journey into the creation of a very unique and quite different CD titled Simply Guitar.

It was through the Simply Guitar journey that provided the experience needed to self produce and self manufacture a CD. This all provides a basis for future projects that may also involve other musicians and/or artists.

David has produced a CD that is unique and different than any other of its kind. Only the electric guitar is used to produce the basic beat, a passion and a melodic drive that the end result is nothing less than music with a life of its own.

David Anderson has proven that he has the ability to go solo on a CD project without the assistance from any production group or groups to get the job done. This then becomes a labor of love for the craft as well as the music produced by that craft.

This phase of the journey is now over and has morphed into a more complex Twilight's Edge, a more mature artist has emerged.

Cheers and Best Regards,
David Anderson
Twilight's Edge & d.e.a. music

For over four years Pretty Train Crash has dazzled Winnipeg with their unique musical style. As their name suggests, it's a mixture of light & dark...soothing & abrasive. High-energy performances combine with intelligent & innovative songwriting that leave packed houses moshing, singing along, and screaming for more.

Pretty Train Crash is:
Josh Bedry - Guitars
Rob Burton - Bass
Steve Hammel - Vocals
Eric Nordquist - Keyboards
Troy Strattner - Drums
Mike Wagner - Guitars

Contact the band at:
http://www.myspace.com/prettytraincrash

•  You're right
•  PERFECT! PERFECT!

By the time they produced their third album, ACHE and the 4 track 12" single DIE TOMORROW, The Cateran were edging closer to finally shaking off the Hüsker Dü comparisons that had dogged them since they formed in Inverness in the mid 1980s. With these two releases they were creating their own sound, merging layer upon layer of grungy guitars and delicate harmonies into a sonic maelstrom that only found its true expression in the bands increasingly intense and unstable live performances. High spots for the band included joyfully chaotic European tours, an abysmal BBC Radio One session and a couple of disastrous TV appearances. More memorably and despite the earlier unfavourable comparisons, the band played with Grant Hart on his first UK appearances after the demise of Hüsker Dü. They also had close links with such luminaries as Nirvana, Mega City Four, Bitch Magnet, Lemonheads and many more. Shortly after the release of Ache, Andy Milne left the band and was replaced by Willie Murray on drums. An acrimonious split followed soon after, which saw Kai and Murdo move on to form the Joyriders before eventually going their separate ways. There are no reports of Cameron having done anything post Cateran.

We have survived
6 albums, 2 ep's and 12 singles, 5 different vocalists, 1 major label, 2 songs in Billboard and 1 in Rolling Stone, 1 tour with Zymox and gigs with Pete Shelley, The Fixx and The Cramps, 1 AWOL singer, 1 drunk guitar player shooting a gun outside our tour bus in Tijuana, 1 album with producer John Fryer (Wire, Fad Gadget, Love & Rockets), 1 nice letter from producer Martin Hannett (Joy Division), countless samples and endless laughter.

•  Killer Track
•  80's Feel
•  I thought this was New...
•  A killer tune
•  Awesome stuff, Tom!

RECENT 2006 STUFF@NIGHT, BOSTON INTERVIEW!

http://www.stuffatnight.com/rd0405/partying/documents/05211973.asp

DJ Dale Charles started DJ'ing around 1983 at some infamous Summer Beach House parties, playing mostly New Wave including B-52's, The Romantics, Elvis Costello, Rockpile, Buzzcocks, The Beat, The Pretenders, 999, Depeche Mode, The Go-gos and Prince. New Wave was it, a funner, fresh new scene and lifestyle had emerged, the birth era of synth-dance and the 12" remix single.

Connected by fate to the few important New England DJ's including Ed Fritz and Kevin Fennelly, Charles' interests grew stronger as the music grew more interesting. DJ Ed Fritz' "Baptism" and its parties in 1986-88 introduced Dale to the European and US' Techno, Industrial and House scenes. Kevin Fennellys excellent Summer Of 86 club "Level Vibes" also paved the way and inspired those who were lucky to be there.

But it was DJ Ed Fritz who schools all in attendance how to mix three different styles of music on three turntables (SL-1800's) at the same tempo at the same time. This was essentially the definition of "House Music", before it was so called - and the Baptism had taken place. DJ Dale Charles was formally reborn. Then in 1987, seeing it all in action again in Montreal at Club "Business" on St Laurent changed everything. This was it. The calling was about to be answered.

The East Coast residencies began in 1988 - in the small New England towns, on off nights, at first Decadence in Dover, NH, then Zoots Thursdays with Portland Maines Kris Clark. Then south to Bostons Hub Club in 1990-91, now club Felt, for a huge 1000 capacity International Night on Fridays.

On to a big move way out west in the fall of 1991 to San Diego, and the birth of the legendary SoCal and US Rave movement, at first pure in all its forms, joining music lovers together to experience exciting new music, advances in lighting technology, fine-tuned sound systems, and an uninhibited gathering of all races, religions, thinkers and do-ers, perhaps not experienced since the late 60's. It was a cultural phenomenon, a time to meet new people and stay up all hours and experience new music and expressions. DJ Dale Charles was a leading SoCal DJ in 1991-92, headlining most major events with residencies at the famous MicroRaves, Narnia, Opium, Playskool, Rubber, Evar, G.U.N. and countless other one-offs.

News of west coast Raves and its DJ's spread quickly across the US and Dale Charles started booking nationally, then to Mexico, Canada, Asia (sadly cancelled) and nearly every major US destination.

Producing several releases since 1992 as Sedona with Benny Blanco on OHM Records, Boston, and Rampant records LA, Dale Charles has maintained a MIDI synth studio since the late 80's, producing today under the names Too (Element Recordings), Sedona and Time Beings on both Syncopate and most recently Reversible Records.

DJ Dale Charles has DJ'ed with and has DEEP RESPECT for: Evar SD, Wicked SF, Primary UK, Benny Blanco, 333, Mgee, Gatherings SF, Sasha, John Digweed, Frankie Knuckles, Danny Howells, Derrick Carter, Moby, Tiga, Luc Raymond, Micheal Thomas, Tony, Paul Grogan, Barry Weaver, David Morales, Josh Wink, Anne Savage, Luv Dup, Doc Martin, Scott Hardkiss, Dominic UK, Marcus Wyatt, Dmitri from Dee-lite, Lil Louis, Frankie Bones, Adam X, Justin Johnson, Debo, Jellybean Benitez, Mark Farina, Pete Moss, Fred "kooky" Gianelli, Hector Romero, Jimmy Van M, Tin Tin, Taul Paul, Carl Cox, Rick Preston, Daeman, Mark E Quark, Jon Bishop, Thin e thin UK, Q-Bert, De La Soul, Primal Scream, Jonas Temple, Hipp-e, Armand Van Helden, Jeno, Garth, Marky, Joeski, Onionz, Ryde, Chocolate Factory NY, Felix Da Housecat, Brother Cleve, DJ Dan, Kevin Saunderson, LTJ Bukem, DJ Trixie, Misstress"... wanna come to my room and for some Kokanee...?" Barbara, Overload, Chicken Leg Crew, Caseroc, Shalako, Scott Bliss, Skye, Larry Love, Manolo, Pauloo, Deshaies, Sergio, Arturo, Mike Walsh, Pat Fontes, EB, dPl, Eli Wilkie, Steve Porter, Chris Reavey, Chris Micali, Hush & Bons, Paul Dailey, Charles Feelgood, Donald Glaude, Prima DJ and more.

Currently projects include a full Time Beings Concept LP, Sound Design, Film and Advertising scoring, along with a lifetime ahead of music production.