Dym (band)
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DYM is the Industrial music
band created by Canadian E-N in 2001 and turned into a duo when Arc joined the band in 2003. In 2008 DYM signed to Noitekk Records and released their debut full length release The Invilid which entered the Deutsche Alternative Charts
in January 2009 at #10 and peaked at #8.
project. Influenced by old-school industrial acts such as Skinny Puppy
, Throbbing Gristle
, and Frontline Assembly, (E-N) conceives DYM.
2002: At the start of the year, three of DYM’s tracks hit the internet, and the band’s popularity first begins to swell. DYM holds the top 3 slot on the mp3.com
Canadian Industrial chart, and gains international acclaim with their lo-fi single, “Dirty”, as it lands at 23 on the mp3.com World chart.
2003: longtime friend (Arc) joins forces with E-N, and DYM plays their much anticipated first performance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. DYM continues to play live, and the band is well received by Hamilton and Toronto audiences. DYM also finds critical recognition in the same year: after a mere 3 shows, Alex Veronac of (internationally distributed) Release Magazine
names DYM one of “the best electro-industrial newcomers of 2003”.
2004: DYM meets 2004 with a series of live performances, headlining shows in St. Catharines and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, while also continuing to play to their growing Torontonian fan-base.
In the following year, DYM takes a break from live appearances, choosing instead to focus on writing and studio work.
Also in 2005: DYM relocates to Toronto.
2006: DYM returns to find that all of their diligent work is about to pay off. In March, DYM clenches the 1 position on the numberonemusic.com industrial chart with their engaging single “Zenologic”. Four of DYM’s songs remain in the chart’s top ten for three weeks. “Zenologic” gains widespread popularity throughout the industrial scene, and is remixed several times by other accomplished bands and DJs. Early spring finds the duo playing to a packed audience at the world renowned C.O.M.A. 3 festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In September, DYM wins Caustic’s remix contest (artist's choice) with “Give Me Damage”. The track appears on Caustic’s 2006 release, Give Me Free Handjobs.
2007: DYM is nearing completion of their latest album, The Invilid. With inspiration from rhythm and noise of acts such as Venetian Snares
and Enduser, The Invilid is set to feature an enigmatic design of aggressive EBM
synths, interfused with an influence of breakcore
percussion and 'glitching'. Nick Gorman (of Fractured
- Dependant Records) co-produces.
2008: DYM signs with Noitekk and released through Cop International in north America - "The Invilid" released in September.
2009: “The Invilid” appears On Germanys DAC top 10 for 2 months at the beginning of 2009 marking DYM’s entry onto the international scene and receives a number of great reviews from various magazine, webzines, and forums worldwide (see blog). During this year DYM played a numbers of live shows to support the Invilid including appearances at north America’s biggest industrial music festival, “festival kinetik” in Montréal & the infamous B.E.A.T Crusher in Toronto. In between Live performances EÑ of DYM had been Working hard on a slew of remixes for other bands (Grendel, Acylum, wynardtage, Caustic, Cdrone Defect, Preemptive Strike, C lekktor, and others) as well as preparing a remix version of “the Invilid” to be accompanied by a New yet to be titled EP from DYM.
2011:“The Swarm” is released on Noitekk, Cop international, and Death watch Asia. It has been well received around the world with many great reviews 2011 has also been the year of remixes for dym having already completed a a great deal of tracks for VPROJEKT, SIVA SIX, TERROLOKAUST, VIGILANTE, DIE SEKTOR, CEDIGEST, DISTORTED MEMORY, LATEXXX TEENS, THE CRYSTALLINE EFFECT, FRACTURED, DETROIT DIESEL, AND MORE! DYM has also appeared on many compilations this year including but not limited to; Dependence 2011 (A Remix), Stahl Disko, Kinetik Fest Compilation(A Remix), Orkus Comp 71, Direct World Action for Japan, Electro-industrial Infection Vol.01, Zillo CD 03/2011, and more! Dym has also been working hard on a new CD to arrive in the public around late 2011 early 2012
Signal Down (CD, Maxi) Not On Label 2003
Zeno Logic (CD, Maxi) Not On Label 2005
The Invilid (CD, Album) COP International/Noitekk 2008.
The Swarm (CD, Album) COP International/Noitekk/Death watch Asia 2011.
Prospero - Stormfront (rmx by DYM)
Collide (Noiseplus Music) - Halo (pure form mix by DYM)
Obelisk - Sensation (glitch that bitch mix by DYM)
As Ember - In remembrance (nail polish mix by DYM)
Proyecto Crisis - Eljuego de le merte (Salted wounds mix by DYM)
Controlled Collapse - Insane Asylum (Mix by DYM)
Abscond: The Abandon Remixes (CD) Under Blue (Remixed By Dym)
Caustic - Give Me Free Handjobs
Crunch Pod Media - "Give me Damage" remix by DYM
The Angels Of Prostitution (CD, Album) The Whore (DYM Has Herpes Mix)
Wynardtage - Walk with the Shadows Ltd. CD (US VER.) - 2009 E-noxe/rupal records "Walk with shadows" [remix]
Acylum - The enemy - 2009 Alpha Matrix "Lightning child" [remix]
Vicious Alliance - TBA - 2009/2010 COP international "Crushed by the system" [remix]
Grendel - Chemicals + Circuitry - 2009 Infacted Records "Chemicals + Circuitry" [remix]
"Mortal Decay" (2xCDr, Comp, Ltd) - "bender" Dark Horizons
2007
"A Compilation 3" (2xCD, Comp, Car) - "Autonomy Of The Will" Black Rain
2008
Endzeit Bunkertracks
[Act - IV] (4xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd) - "Government Stomp! (Overplayed Mix)"Alfa Matrix
2009
Kinetik Festival Volume Two (2xCD, Comp) "bitrated (Instrumental)" Artoffact Records
2009
United Vol 2 (CD, Comp + Box, Ltd)
"The Invilid" NoiTekk 2009
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
band created by Canadian E-N in 2001 and turned into a duo when Arc joined the band in 2003. In 2008 DYM signed to Noitekk Records and released their debut full length release The Invilid which entered the Deutsche Alternative Charts
Deutsche Alternative Charts
The Deutsche Alternative Charts is the primary record chart for Germany's alternative music scene. The charts cover genres ranging nu metal to Britpop, from rock music to alternative electronic...
in January 2009 at #10 and peaked at #8.
Biography
2001: DYM (Death to Your Modern) begins as an electro/industrial musicIndustrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
project. Influenced by old-school industrial acts such as Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....
, Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...
, and Frontline Assembly, (E-N) conceives DYM.
2002: At the start of the year, three of DYM’s tracks hit the internet, and the band’s popularity first begins to swell. DYM holds the top 3 slot on the mp3.com
MP3.com
MP3.com is a web site operated by CNET Networks providing information about digital music and artists, songs, services, community, and technologies. It is probably better known for its original incarnation, as a legal, free music-sharing service, popular with independent musicians for promoting...
Canadian Industrial chart, and gains international acclaim with their lo-fi single, “Dirty”, as it lands at 23 on the mp3.com World chart.
2003: longtime friend (Arc) joins forces with E-N, and DYM plays their much anticipated first performance in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. DYM continues to play live, and the band is well received by Hamilton and Toronto audiences. DYM also finds critical recognition in the same year: after a mere 3 shows, Alex Veronac of (internationally distributed) Release Magazine
Release Magazine
Release is an independent alternative music web magazine based in Göteborg, Sweden. It was born in Umeå in 1986. The first years it was run by Britta Näsman as an A5 fanzine, just for fun. When she moved to Belgium, Mikael Kahrle and Lotta Kahrle took over the business gradually. They wanted to...
names DYM one of “the best electro-industrial newcomers of 2003”.
2004: DYM meets 2004 with a series of live performances, headlining shows in St. Catharines and Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, while also continuing to play to their growing Torontonian fan-base.
In the following year, DYM takes a break from live appearances, choosing instead to focus on writing and studio work.
Also in 2005: DYM relocates to Toronto.
2006: DYM returns to find that all of their diligent work is about to pay off. In March, DYM clenches the 1 position on the numberonemusic.com industrial chart with their engaging single “Zenologic”. Four of DYM’s songs remain in the chart’s top ten for three weeks. “Zenologic” gains widespread popularity throughout the industrial scene, and is remixed several times by other accomplished bands and DJs. Early spring finds the duo playing to a packed audience at the world renowned C.O.M.A. 3 festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In September, DYM wins Caustic’s remix contest (artist's choice) with “Give Me Damage”. The track appears on Caustic’s 2006 release, Give Me Free Handjobs.
2007: DYM is nearing completion of their latest album, The Invilid. With inspiration from rhythm and noise of acts such as Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares
Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...
and Enduser, The Invilid is set to feature an enigmatic design of aggressive EBM
Electronic body music
Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...
synths, interfused with an influence of breakcore
Breakcore
Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
percussion and 'glitching'. Nick Gorman (of Fractured
Fractured
Fractured is an Industrial band created by Canadian Nick Gorman in 2003. Formed in Toronto, his self produced release CD-R demo titled Contami-Nation caught the attention of European label Dependent who signed them. After the release of the demo Gorman was joined by Famine and in 2006 released...
- Dependant Records) co-produces.
2008: DYM signs with Noitekk and released through Cop International in north America - "The Invilid" released in September.
2009: “The Invilid” appears On Germanys DAC top 10 for 2 months at the beginning of 2009 marking DYM’s entry onto the international scene and receives a number of great reviews from various magazine, webzines, and forums worldwide (see blog). During this year DYM played a numbers of live shows to support the Invilid including appearances at north America’s biggest industrial music festival, “festival kinetik” in Montréal & the infamous B.E.A.T Crusher in Toronto. In between Live performances EÑ of DYM had been Working hard on a slew of remixes for other bands (Grendel, Acylum, wynardtage, Caustic, Cdrone Defect, Preemptive Strike, C lekktor, and others) as well as preparing a remix version of “the Invilid” to be accompanied by a New yet to be titled EP from DYM.
2011:“The Swarm” is released on Noitekk, Cop international, and Death watch Asia. It has been well received around the world with many great reviews 2011 has also been the year of remixes for dym having already completed a a great deal of tracks for VPROJEKT, SIVA SIX, TERROLOKAUST, VIGILANTE, DIE SEKTOR, CEDIGEST, DISTORTED MEMORY, LATEXXX TEENS, THE CRYSTALLINE EFFECT, FRACTURED, DETROIT DIESEL, AND MORE! DYM has also appeared on many compilations this year including but not limited to; Dependence 2011 (A Remix), Stahl Disko, Kinetik Fest Compilation(A Remix), Orkus Comp 71, Direct World Action for Japan, Electro-industrial Infection Vol.01, Zillo CD 03/2011, and more! Dym has also been working hard on a new CD to arrive in the public around late 2011 early 2012
Releases
In Memory Of Tim Clopp(CD, Album)Not On Label 2001Signal Down (CD, Maxi) Not On Label 2003
Zeno Logic (CD, Maxi) Not On Label 2005
The Invilid (CD, Album) COP International/Noitekk 2008.
The Swarm (CD, Album) COP International/Noitekk/Death watch Asia 2011.
Remixes
Truenzie (Subhuman Studios) - Numb (glow in the dArc remix by DYM)Prospero - Stormfront (rmx by DYM)
Collide (Noiseplus Music) - Halo (pure form mix by DYM)
Obelisk - Sensation (glitch that bitch mix by DYM)
As Ember - In remembrance (nail polish mix by DYM)
Proyecto Crisis - Eljuego de le merte (Salted wounds mix by DYM)
Controlled Collapse - Insane Asylum (Mix by DYM)
Abscond: The Abandon Remixes (CD) Under Blue (Remixed By Dym)
Caustic - Give Me Free Handjobs
Crunch Pod Media - "Give me Damage" remix by DYM
The Angels Of Prostitution (CD, Album) The Whore (DYM Has Herpes Mix)
Wynardtage - Walk with the Shadows Ltd. CD (US VER.) - 2009 E-noxe/rupal records "Walk with shadows" [remix]
Acylum - The enemy - 2009 Alpha Matrix "Lightning child" [remix]
Vicious Alliance - TBA - 2009/2010 COP international "Crushed by the system" [remix]
Grendel - Chemicals + Circuitry - 2009 Infacted Records "Chemicals + Circuitry" [remix]
Tracks Appear On
"Random Infliction" - "Autonomy of the Will" Allay CE 2003"Mortal Decay" (2xCDr, Comp, Ltd) - "bender" Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons
Dark Horizons is a movie centric website owned and written by Garth Franklin of Sydney, Australia. Dark Horizons is dedicated to news, interviews, rumors, and reviews of upcoming and currently playing films and television projects. The focus initially was almost exclusively related to science...
2007
"A Compilation 3" (2xCD, Comp, Car) - "Autonomy Of The Will" Black Rain
Black Rain
Black Rain may refer to:* Black rain, a term used by survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to describe the nuclear fallout from the bombs, which initially occurred in the form of precipitation- A film :...
2008
Endzeit Bunkertracks
Endzeit Bunkertracks
Endzeit Bunkertracks is an aggrotech/electro-industrial compilation album series featuring exclusive, deleted and/or hard-to-find tracks. The first volume, or "act", consists of 60 tracks, 50 of them being exclusive...
[Act - IV] (4xCD, Comp + Box, Ltd) - "Government Stomp! (Overplayed Mix)"Alfa Matrix
Alfa Matrix
Alfa Matrix is a Belgian record label. Founded in 2001, the label releases various musical styles including aggrotech, dark elektro, synthpop and electronica....
2009
Kinetik Festival Volume Two (2xCD, Comp) "bitrated (Instrumental)" Artoffact Records
Artoffact Records
Artoffact Records is Canadian industrial, EBM and electronic music record label that was founded in 1999.- Artists on this label :*Blank*Cabaret*Headscan*Interlace*Kobold*Jesus on Extasy*Massiv in Mensch*Monster Movie*Netz*Psyche*Standeg*Steril...
2009
United Vol 2 (CD, Comp + Box, Ltd)
"The Invilid" NoiTekk 2009