LANCE BLISTERS: LIVE Jungle, Breakcore, Punk, and Noise performed with MIDI Guitar and Microphone, using custom software to create cutup political anthems. LIVE synchronized visual transcriptions of the songs' subjects. LANCE BLISTERS was initiated in 2003 to SMASH THE STATE with a show which will ROCK YOUR FACE OFF!

LANCE BLISTERS is a live multimedia band currently comprising Lance Blisters (music) and Ilan Katin (visuals). Separately and together, they have played hundreds of shows in NYC, Europe, and Japan over the last 6 years, sharing stages with artists including

• Venetian Snares
• Jega
• u-Ziq
• Datach'i
• Soundmurderer
• Drop The Lime
• and Genesis P-Orridge

at venues including

• Tonic
• Knitting Factory (main stage)
• Tonic and (sub)Tonic
• Rothko
• Chashama in Times Square
• Delancey Lounge
• NorthSix
• Siberia
• and countless lofts, warehouses, squats, and galleries

for crews/events including

• Blackkat
• Helllab
• Wrecking Ball
• Broklyn Beats (Barrelled and Pure Fire)
• Renegade Virus
• Ultrasound Festival

LANCE BLISTERS, Geoff, Ilan, and/or their related projects have been covered in

• New York Times
• Wired
• The Wire
• Remix Magazine
• Tech TV
• Blackbook
• Rhizome
• Repellent
• Linux Journal
• VJ: Live Cinema Unraveled

What people are saying about Lance Blisters:

If that day comes when life as we know it now is over and Mad Max is the order of things, we will need people like Lance Blisters in our underground oasis to keep the power on and the music running... Lance is a circuit bender/software programmer/electronic twister extraordinare who will once again be shredding our preconceptions of sound, music and live performance with his latest project. Like a cyborg Johnny Cash sent from the future to prevent it, Lance unleashes a torrent of apocalyptic audiovisual propaganda on those within blast radius. Jungle, breakcore, punk and noise, photos video and illustration, singing and songwriting are mashed up into a potent weapon of shock and awe, and used to smash the state. 22nd Century protest music, wargasmic revolution.

-Jason BK, Blackkat

Downtown NYC's Lance Blisters has been on the scene for years now performing his live punk breakcore sound via his own GDAM software. He's finally honed his set into a solid CD of innovative tracks. Live, he plays a midi guitar in which the frets trigger manic breaks, as well as crusty punk guitar licks all accompanied by punk screams and a video backdrop. Equal parts angry punk, laptop impressario and tongue-in-cheek mash-up, the CD succeeds as one of the best anarcho-punk breakcore laptop hybrids we've ever heard... if not the only one! Fun and original.

-Criterion, Broklyn Beats / Applecore Mailorder

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