I started a few terrible punk bands in the very early 2000s (Violence Under Pressure and The Lunchbox Bandits) and a metalcore band (A Day 2 Late). All three bands performed as opening acts in the Fredericksburg, VA area. But whoa...we were pretty awful. In 2003, I started recording mostly on my own. "Ex Libris Deus" was originally the artist name I used; now, it makes more sense to fold that work into my portfolio as "Terminus Vex". The Terminus Vex moniker came about as I searched for a handle that conveyed both meaning and mystery - in Latin, "terminus vex" can mean several things. Most of the hip-hop that I've recorded has been released under the TV name, though there may be one or two recordings floating around out there under the name "Mr. Kiasma".
Bass guitar
Guitar (poorly)
Drums, kind of
FL Studio 10
Sony Acid 7
Reason 5
ASUS B980 2.40ghz dual-core, 8 gigabytes RAM
JBL Jembe speakers
Akai MPD18
Korg Nanokey
AKG Perception 120 condenser microphone
CAD U37 USB microphone
Lexicon Lambda DA
Aesop Rock - Skelethon
RJD2 - Deadringer
The Faint - full discography
Labor Days - Aesop Rock
Smash - The Offspring
Evil Empire - Rage Against the Machine
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
Thrice - Beggars
RJD2, Massive Attack, Tricky, DJ Shadow, Portishead, The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Aesop Rock, Sage Francis, Grieves, BT, Paul Van Dyk, Atmosphere, The Faint.
Philip K. Dick, Khalil Gibran, Alan Moore.
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do things that I'm not going to discuss here.