Injekted (Brandon Balliett)
Sixteen-year-old raver who conceived and named ultrabeat, a music-only techno group, after an earlier non-tracking stint as Zer0 of defiance. The single source is Cerulean's traxweekly interview with him and subhuman (source: s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman).
Facts#
- Brandon Douglas Balliett, 16 in April 1996, "legal enlisted raver and general techno head"; never without a walkman of house and acid tapes. Known to older #trax people as Zer0 of Defiance, where "i didn't track much" (source: s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman).
- Ultrabeat was his conception and name, founded 50/50 with Subhuman about March 1996; his track on Lucid was unfinished when released. Planned an all-acid disk, Happiness is a 303 (source: s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman).
- Views: techno is "an ideal suit" for tracking because "with good samples, you can make stuff that sounds like real vinyl"; FM caters to mainstream tracking, kosmic "is an empire"; compo winners are predictable and NAID would bring "400 disks labeled 'my techno tune'" (source: s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman).
- Inspired back into tracked music by Earthtones by Mentalfloss and acid/breakbeat from Cybie; respects Radical Rhythms and HBE (source: s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman).
- ryan-sprott (July 1996): "underrated: injekted, he rules my world"; Ryan calls himself Injekted's "tabasco-sucking texas hosebeast" — Injekted had claimed him (source: s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott).
Related#
ultrabeat · subhuman · balrog · defiance · realism-in-tracked-music · compos · ryan-sprott
Sources#
s-tw054-interview-injekted-and-subhuman · s-tw063-interview-ryan-sprott