It’s been in the works for sometime, now it’s on the launchpad.
I love the music and the performance aspects of my current band. That’s not changing, although, the three of us have been quite busy and haven’t accomplished much lately.
I have this other musical alter ego that creates music that doesn’t suit the mend palette. I have a back catalog of songs (some more in the vein of ideas than structured songs) gathering virtual cobwebs.
It occurred to me last year that I should actually finish them and release them under my own moniker. Especially in the digital age where I don’t have to worry about the expense of pressing CD’s.
I also discovered beatport.com…..it’s like itunes but deals primarily with electronic artists. There is some amazing electronic music brewing out there, aside from the darker harsher industrial/EBM stuff I love. So I’m tapping into that side of me. Yep, it’s the proverbial solo project. There’s something kind of freeing about working outside of a band format. 100% control….the only schedule I have to worry about is mine…which is hard enough right now. It will also be a great way for me to dive into my love for trance, house, glitch, trip hop and ambient music. I may also dive into “covering” some classical music….and when I say covering I mean turning some Mozart into a full blown beat driven club song.
I’m calling the project “finding wonderland”…yes there is an obvious Lewis Carroll reference there, I like it, it feels epic and psychedelic. While cruising around the net one day, I saw a humorous pencil sketch of a cartoon rabbit wearing a gas mask carrying a basket with the caption “The Ether Bunny”. I saw the potential for a “white rabbit” reference.
I found some clip art did some surgery and electronic drawing in photoshop & gimp and developed my icon for the project.
Meet DJ Wonderland, aka The Ether Bunny, aka The White Rabbit.
The project site is at www.findingwonderland.com and will progress as time and schedules allow.
