Mike Textbeak has always straddled the line between experimental industrial and dance music with his releases on labels such as Carlos Peron's (ex-Yello) Dark Daze label, Tundra Dubs (San Francisco), Savas Pascilidis’ Lasergun Records (Berlin), Bleak (Vienna), Pale Noir (Madison, WI), I Had an Accident, Vaatican Records (France), Xynthetic (Canada), Time Theory, 21/22 Corp, Swishcotheque (UK), Colin Johnco (France), Amduscias, Audiotie (Germany), Politicide (Germany), and co-owns the Philtre Com imprint with co-conspirator Claus Muzak aka Lucas Kuzma of The Strange Agency (musical instrument app company).
His band Bath was featured on the “Why Be Blake When You Can Be Bleak?” compilation on the Bleak label with artists Coil, Attrition, Sleepchamber, Nocturnal Emissions, Mushy, Konstruktivists and Portion Control. He also is in the projects WEEP THE PEOPLE (with Claus Muzak and Ben Jones Like Whoa) and 1954 (with poet and stencil artist Eric Alleman, Robert Nagy aka Voctave, and deceased artist Jason Adams (aka AGATE). He has remixed 3 Teeth (Artoffact Records), Bestial Mouths (ClanDestine Records), Daniel Myer of Haujobb’s Architect project (on Hymen), Tamara Sky (LIL DEATH) and others. He has done mixtapes for a long list of publications and labels including No Conclusion, I Vacation in Your Hell, LA Substance, MISHKA (with actor Omar Doom of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds), Pulse Radio and more.
Textbeak has performed at the CVRRENTS showcase at SXSW 2012 and 2013 (with ∆AIMON, Funerals, Men in Burka, RITUALZ, Teeel, Strange Powers…), The 2012 Euphony showcase for Pale Noir label (with ∆AIMON and eyedoublecross), the one year anniversary event for Tundra Dubs label in 2011 (with ∆AIMON, Nako and Bobby Peru) and LIL DEATH in LA (with Sinden, Tamara Sky and Umberto). He has also performed at various events and festivals around the United States supporting acts such as Death in June, Light Asylum, Neuport, Test Department, Nitzer Ebb, Pictureplane, David J (of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets), Gatekeeper, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Teengirl Fantasy, The Legendary Pink Dots, Meat Beat Manifesto, Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Larry Tee, Robert Disaro and many more.
His weekly radio show, TXTBK’s CHVяCH XV BяXK3N 7ANGvAG3 on WFKU out of NYC, has become a staple within the witch house/grave wave movement with past guests including Andy Oppenheimer of Oppenheimer Analysis (Minimal Wave Records), Robot Elephant Records, MASCARA, MATER SUSPIRIA VISION, ∆AIMON, Funerals, Daniel Dodecahedron of Gucci Goth/BlackBlackGold (Berlin), Ben Tundra of Tundra Dubs label, Something Cold (Detroit) Burial Hex, Daytime Television (Dior Nights), Slow Head, Silver Strain, Alessandro Adriani of Mannequin Records, Clint Catalyst, NATTYMARI, Fauxmusica, OS OVNI, I††, Skerror, Carl Clan Destine, Jerome of Desire Records, MARA5, CRIM3S, Fil OK of Atomizer and Nag Nag Nag, BLVCK CEILING, S4NtA_MU3rTE of 120 Minutes (San Francisco), LAKE R▲DIO and many others.
His visual artwork was featured in the Necessary Discomforts tribute to Rozz Williams (Christian Death, Shadow Project, Premature Ejaculation) at the Hyaena Gallery in LA. His writing has been featured in several print and online publications including the MISHKA clothing company’s Bloglin (blog). From the early ‘90s Columbus, Ohio rave scene, when he was a member of Body Release with Titonton Duvante (Residual Records), Todd Sines (Frankie, Planet E, Peacefrog, YORE, Seventh City), and Charles Noel (aka ARCHETYPE, ARCH_TYP…21/22 Corp, Bag Pak), through the mid ’90s early 2000’s with his band Bath, to his current endeavors, he has always pushed the envelope with his compositions, visual artwork, text collages, and genre-blasting DJ sets.
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Nets the Si'ze of Souls
there is a music in the roosts, from deadly war teams of the wildlife colony tubes. Shy is the Wildlife of conflicting del fuegos and the orthodox Soul Nets of recent mystery. in a worship, Nations existed in dinosaur cries of hades. Of the book of Lamps, i march the del fuego in search of dolphins and Mighty departures. To hours and ears of the living in the Novembre well of books whining friendly with the days of the ghosts of the sea ledges of the '70s. a message of Azimuth and try Not to Make Company while swimming. Giant, how a Monster in May Stops in April Easter days. Eighty-Eight Monsters 9 bees and Over and Over Easter of Michael Gold of the Sands of tierra del fuego. * we were carrying the trusting, a dead court, down a millennium to an abandonnned torpedo in the sands of australia, colouring and shifted, as if fooling the ghosts of the tierra. orthodox 88, stuff changes today. We Send New Deal Reptiles down Private telegrams of a Northern Disco. Am imported today they will return the predecessors golden books to the wild & Eastern in 1829. We were carrying the souls of tierra del fuego. A dead Millennium of Sand in Australia and April as if for Colouring and Shifting. 88 of the ghosts had trusting ego'sss. The torpedo dead court feels abandonnned lifted of orthodox ties. New Deal Representatives of Northern Disco, A Cult, Changes today. Today is April, i walk down a private telegram of golden books imported by a theory of our predecessors. Goliath gets up on Latin on boil and Must feed, Must feed but surrenders a lot to orthodox telegrams from the Swans. Corpses, history had a slow course of life. and climbers of the Passive Mystery tour were Saved for holy fucking deadly Caves. secretaries Post Packs away everyday. left in the Evening among the front Story book service, lost in the hunger of a had song. the cries were sweet long ago. a pack of cries of hades friendship. A Sea, A harbor, above a book about to have someday someday. access the essence of torpedoes for Saturday. Edgy past points wearing down 150 years of adjacent lands. the 979 predecessor reproducing disaster and its friday, Young & Public diaries day. My dinosaur, look at the post of monsters & Lore. the cries were sweet in hunger of a hades friendship. A Sea ago. pack a book about to have a harbor above essence and torpedoes to someday someday. Past Points Wearing down to Saturday. ticking upon them. try not to make goliath jump up. Giant, how a monster must feel, the slow course of life ticking upon them.
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…shrink me down again