|
|
|
|
|
Def FxDef FX (1990-1997) were an Australian industrial-dance-rock group, formed in Sydney. The core of the group was keyboardist and vocalist Sean Lowry (also a visual artist) and vocalist Fiona Horne (interested in Wicca and environmentalism). Top 50 ARIA hit "Psychoactive Summer" is exemplary of Def FX's music, combining elements of electronica and heavy-metal instrumentations and grunge vocals. Their music throughout their career can be described as a fusion of elements of psychedelia, industrial, grunge, electronica, and heavy metal, and in their early days, even reggae and disco. In fluctating degrees their sound has similarities to that of Pink Floyd, Skinny Puppy, Cliff Burton-era Metallica, Soundgarden, Jesus Jones, The Prodigy, INXS, Garbage, Rammstein, 1990s Brisbane grunge band Tumbleweed, Marilyn Manson, and current hit-makers Evanescence. With guitarist Blake Gardner, bassist Martin Bashsa, and Larry van Kreidt on saxophone respectively, the band released theit first EP Water in 1990. The release featured the song "Surfers of the Mind", the band's first video. Their first album Light Speed Collision was released in 1992, and featured a cover both parodying and paying tribute to that of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, with the title track also decidedly Floydesque. The album also featured supplementary vocals by New Zealand singer Margaret Urlich. For its release in the United States the band were forced use the artist name "Definition FX" to avoid any confusion with US band Das FX. The next album Baptism, released in 1993, was a compilation of selected songs from Light Speed Collision and their first four EPs plus a disc of concert recordings. It also featured the single "Make Your Stash", which is apparently so rare that Horne had no idea of its existence when presented it for autographing by a dedicated Def FX fan. The single was rather atypical of Def FX, in that it had no cover art and no B-sides, which had characterised their EPs. Lowry and Horne usually preferred to make each release, be it album or EP, a conceptual work that made full use of the compact disc format that had recently come into commercial prominence. In 1994 Gardner left and was replaced by Dave Stein, with Larry van Kreidt leaving a year later. Ritual Eternal was a more experimental album, featuring some tracks without the standard guitars, and others featuring Charlie McMahon playing the didgeridoo, with whom Def FX also toured. Late 1995 also saw Basha leave to be replaced by Sean Fonti, formerly of Sydney grunge act Caligula. 1996 saw the release of Majick the band's most techno/metal sounding album. It spawned four singles, and became the band's only certified release, going gold in 1997. The band dissolved in May of that year, after Lowry grew tired of the project, perhaps not realising the critical and commercial recognition that they were potentially on the verge of attaining. The split was announced by Horne on ABCTV's Saturday morning youth variety show Recovery, coincidentally during the same news segment as seminal Seattle grunge act Soundgarden's demise was also made public. Fiona Horne has subsequently become a successful author, writing an autobiography, and a work discussing the Wicca rituals she practices, with a biography of Def FX believed to be in the works. Sean Lowry completed his PhD in 2003 at the University of Sydney (his thesis concerned appropriation art and sampling in music) and has since formed a new group, Celebrity Drug Disasters, together with producer Rob Taylor. The debut CDD album is due to be released early 2005 on the Prick Up Your Ears recording label. Discography - Water EP: 1990
- Surge EP: 1991
- Blink EP: 1992
- Light Speed Collission: 1992
- Space Time Disco single: 1992
- No Time for Nowhere EP: 1993
- Baptism: 1993
- Make Your Stash single: 1993
- Post Moronic EP: 1994
- Kill The Real Girls EP: 1995
- Ritual Eternal: 1995
- Psychoactive Summer EP: 1996
- Spell On You single: 1996
- Majick: 1996
- (I'll be your) Majick single: 1996
- Deja Vu single : 1997
External links - http://www.fionahorne.com/
- http://www.celebritydrugdisasters.com/
|
 |
|
| Copyright 2005-2009 OnPedia.com. All Rights Reserved |
|
|