Skincage @ OPi8.com
OPi8.com is pleased to announce Skincage as our inaugural artist in our newly revamped LISTEN section. An experimental artist whose music puts the listener in a hypnogogic state of uneasy lucid dreaming, Skincage laid the foundation of the fledging Antibody sub-label at Malignant Records and has provided the soundtrack for the Lovecraftian short film, The Resurrectionist. Through the LISTEN showcase, OPi8.com and Skincage invite you to experience altered waking states with four complete tracks offered as downloadable MP3s.
Over the past three years, OPi8.com has been positioning itself as a nexus point of New Dark Culture, a home for artistic expressions that focus on the dark underbelly of the world and the provocative allure of this shadowed space; from goth to industrial to horrific to retro to rockabilly to erotic. The site showcases on-going serial graphic novels, one-shot comic strips, fiction, culture logs, and visual art. OPi8.com is now expanding into the sonic world with LISTEN, its division devoted to the music and sonic arts. Much in the same way that the VISION section highlights an individual artist and their work, LISTEN is intended to be a showcase for a band, a solo musician, a label or a performance collective. LISTEN is intended to fuck with your ears in the same way that VISION fucks with your eyes.
We are putting out an open call for musicians and labels to submit their material for consideration as a showcase event at OPi8.com. Events run one month and will include a brief description of your work and/or your intent as well as samples of your music. All sound files will be hosted by OPi8 which makes the bandwidth stress our problem and not yours.
The intent is to spread the word as well as provide a central point where like-minded individuals can find agreeable content. You won't get lost among all the other pop shit on the market; you won't have to compete for eyeball time against other artists. It is just you, your tunes, and the world. When the month is over, your entry joins others in our archive, part of a growing compendium of material.
What is the sound of New Dark Culture? As an answer to that question, OPi8.com presents the Opiate Suite -- a four-part mashup collage of artists and songs that we like. This is your launch point: this is the brain virus that starts your downward spiral; this is the dose that starts the disease. The Suite is our opening statement of intent and is intended to welcome the world to the sonic darkness of the underground culture.