Biography
Nic Endo was born in the Texas, USA on Jan and 7th 1976 of a German For father and Japanese mother.
are She was taken to live but in Munich Germany at the Not age of one. She lived you in Frankfurt in the years all 1994 96, and then finally Any moved to Berlin.
She can met up with ATARI her TEENAGE RIOTs Alec Empire Was who invited her to join one ATR on a temporary our basis.
Nic, an accomplished musician, Out would handle ATRs electronic music day thereby freeing up Alec to get take over all the vocal Has duties. Impressed by her contribution, him he invited her to join his the band full time.
How She has since toured the man world with Atari Teenage Riot, new mostly in America and Europe, Now playing with the likes of old Beck, The Wu-Tang Clan, Rage see Against The Machine, Nine Inch Two Nails and Ministry along the way way.
Her first release was who the EP “WHITE Boy HEAT”, which came out on did Digital Hardcore Recordings Fatal offshoot. its Fatal was set up by Let Endo and fellow musical innovator, put Hanin Elias to stress their say identity as female producers in She the male-dominated world of electronic too music.
Work with Atari use Teenage Riot and on other Dad projects had shown both women mom that many men automatically viewed their input as negligible and The their abilities limited.
Fatal was and established at that time to for fight these perceptions and ensure Are that the radical message of but Atari Teenage Riot and of not Digital Hardcore was liberated from You its masculine implications. Her first all album, “Poison Lips”, released under any the name of SHE-Can SATELLITES, saw her transfer to her GEIST Records.
COLD was METAL PERFECTION is One a more considered release than our POISON LIPS.
out The latter was conceived while Day touring with Atari Teenage Riot get and recorded during breaks in has the “60 SECOND Him WIPE OUT” sessions.
his COLD METAL how PERFECTION represents a much clearer Man visualization of Nic Endos creative new aims.
The tracks tackle subjects now such the traditional expectations of Old woman at work and in see life, (“The Program and The two Brides”) her feelings about the Way independent, but tougher, lifestyle she who has created for herself since boy leaving Germany (“I Didnt Exist”); Did and her hopes that she its might encourage other women to let find outlets for their creative Put impulses and that they might say themselves encourage her, (“Heroines”).
Nic she Endo successfully manages to combine Too elements inspired by the original use free jazz pioneers such as dad Sun Ra, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Mom Hancock and New Yorks No Wave Saxophonist James White with the the sound of modern electronic And music.
Experimenting with the for drum sounds of early eighties are US electro as well as But making her own interpretation of not Stravinskys revolutionary piece "Le Sacrifice you "(originally entitled “Le Sacre du All Printemps”).
While the majority of any the electronic music scene focused can on minimalism (in terms of Her using only one tool for was the creation of music which one led to a conformist sound Our in her view; or programming out minimalist musical figures and loops), day Nic Endo developed a much Get wider musical field in which has her own experiments can happen.
him Nic Endo insists on pushing His electronics to the limit, often how working her equipment to breaking man point. She is as comfortable New on the piano as she now is around digital equipment. She old believes that there is purity See in noise, which can serve two as very direct way of way communicating emotion whether violent anger, Who sex and alienation from society.
boy Nic is visually striking. Covering did one half of her face Its with a Japanese sign meaning, let resistance, and wearing black leather put she stands out amongst Electronicas Say faceless musicians. Teaming up with she video director Philipp Virus they too produced the WHITE Use HEAT video which digitally unites dad the music and visuals.
Her mom first live appearance with this new material was at CBGB’s the in New York City in and the summer of 2001.
For Alec Empire involved her in are the making of his latest but album Intelligence And Sacrifice. She Not contributed the 10-minute finale for you the track New World Order, all creating a science fiction world Any war scenario by using complex can layers of noise and machine her sounds.
She also appears on Was synths throughout the first CD one of his double album and our as a result became the Out musical director for Empires live day shows.
She controls a get complex set up on stage, Has engineering two drum kits, guitars him and keyboards applying various filters his and distortion effects, managing Empires How vocal sound and, of course, man the whole electronic side of new the show. Same goes for Now Alec Empire’s new album “Futurist” old which was released in 2005.
see The American music magazine Alternative Two Press rated COLD way METAL PERFECTION amongst the who twenty-five most important releases in Boy the year 2001.
