Bootlegged, Broke, and In Solvent Seas

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Live: Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas
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Live album by Skinny Puppy
Released June 12, 2012 (2012-06-12) (US)
June 15, 2012 (2012-06-15) (Germany)
Recorded 2010
Genre Electro-industrial
Label Metropolis (US)
Dependent Records (Germany)
Skinny Puppy chronology
hanDover
(2011)
Live: Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas
(2012)
Weapon
(2013)

Live: Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas is a live album by Canadian electro-industrial band Skinny Puppy. It was recorded in Warsaw, Bratislava, Hildesheim, and Budapest during the band's 2010 European tour and saw release on June 12, 2012 through Metropolis Records in the US and on June 15, 2012 through Dependent Records in Germany. [1] [2] [3]

Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep, complex and layered sound. The style was pioneered by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and other groups, either from Canada or the Benelux. In the early 1990s, the style spawned the dark electro genre, and in the mid-/late-1990s, the aggrotech offshoot. The fan base for the style is linked to the rivethead subculture.

Skinny Puppy band

Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial music group formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982. The group is widely considered to be one of the founders of the electro-industrial genre. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key while he was in the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project with the addition of vocalist Nivek Ogre. Over the course of a dozen studio albums and many live tours, Key and Ogre have been the only constant members. Other members have included Dwayne Goettel (1986–1995), Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, Mark Walk (2003–present), and a number of guests, including Bill Leeb, Al Jourgensen (1989), and many others.

Warsaw City metropolis in Masovia, Poland

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula River in east-central Poland and its population is officially estimated at 1.765 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 8th most-populous capital city in the European Union. The city limits cover 516.9 square kilometres (199.6 sq mi), while the metropolitan area covers 6,100.43 square kilometres (2,355.39 sq mi). Warsaw is an alpha global city, a major international tourist destination, and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Its historical Old Town was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Professional ratings
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Track listing

No.TitleSourceLength
1."Prelude" (Warsaw) 2:40
2."Rodent" (Warsaw) Rabies 5:50
3."Dead Lines" (Bratislava) Bites 6:12
4."Dogshit" (Warsaw) VIVIsectVI 3:46
5."Addiction" (Bratislava) Cleanse Fold and Manipulate 6:14
6."HateKill" (Warsaw) Back and Forth Series 6 4:37
7."Worlock" (Hildesheim) Rabies 5:46
8."Morpheus Laughing" (Warsaw) Too Dark Park 4:08
9."Assimilate" (Warsaw) Bites 10:46
10."Shore Lined Poison" (Budapest) Too Dark Park 7:11
Total length:57:16

Personnel

Skinny Puppy
Nivek Ogre Canadian singer

Nivek Ogre is a Canadian musician, performance artist and actor, best known for his work with the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded with cEvin Key. Since 1982, he has served as Skinny Puppy's primary lyricist and vocalist, occasionally providing instrumentation and samples. Ogre's charismatic personality, guttural vocals and use of costumes, props, and fake blood on stage helped widen Skinny Puppy's fanbase and has inspired numerous other musicians.

cEvin Key Canadian musician

cEvin Key is a Canadian musician, songwriter, producer, and composer. He is best known as a member of the industrial music group Skinny Puppy, which he co-founded in 1982 with singer Nivek Ogre. Initially a side project while he was with the new wave band Images in Vogue, Skinny Puppy quickly became his primary musical outlet following a record deal with Nettwerk Records in 1984.

Justin Bennett is a studio and live performance session drummer and producer. He has been working professionally since 1995 since his first project Professional Murder Music featured in the hit Arnold Schwarzenegger movie End of Days, and has participated on tours and albums with a number of notable bands and artists, including Skinny Puppy, Ohgr, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Peter Murphy and Rozz Williams as well as forming his own projects kETvECTOR, Bahntier, Askew, American Memory Project, and The Implicate Order.

Additional personnel

Steven R. Gilmore is an artist and graphic designer most known for his work on album cover design, particularly his role as in-house artist for Nettwerk Records for much of the 1980s and 1990s. He has designed record album sleeves for Skinny Puppy, Nickelback, A Perfect Circle, BT, Machines of Loving Grace, Two Steps from Hell and many others. Gilmore also created the promotional materials for films such as The Dark Knight, 300, Watchmen and The Lord of the Rings.

The Humble Brothers are an electronic music duo consisting of Canadian Ken "hiwatt" Marshall and Tanzanian-born Traz Damji. They gained fame with their involvement in Electronic Arts soundtracks, starting with 2002's Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2. Two big projects followed, SimCity 4 and its expansion pack, Rush Hour, then remixes of other artists' songs as their production skills were noticed by the mainstream music industry. Their notable remixes include Linkin Park's "One Step Closer" and Static-X/Mephisto Odyssey song "Crash" which was featured on the soundtrack of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. The Humble Brothers have also remixed the Dry Cell song Body Crumbles. They are also responsible for producing "Terror Is Reality" for the Capcom video game Dead Rising 2.

Chart positions

Chart (2012) Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [6] 46

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