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Steaming Dookies |
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Friday, 05 October 2007 |
 I guess we'll start at the start...
Steaming Dookies is an ongoing techno industrial electronic project founded by me, Billy Pfrommer, a lifelong Chicago musician who, for the last 5 years, have been known to most of the area as the party animal side man and rhythm guitarist for Chicago punks Genral Patton and His Privates. After many tours of active duty with the Privates, I decided to try my hand at electronica, and almost overnight, developed an accessible and irresistible sound, fusing all things rock with a techno-funk-punk edge. When you start to explore the Dookies' catalogue of music, you will also find club, trance, progressive techno, breakbeat, triphop, house, IDM, hardcore, pop and many other genres of electronic music.
Drawing influences from some personal favorites, Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Trent Reznor and The Prodigy, I began tossing a few of my songs around the internet to kind of test the waters. That was two years ago.
Since then, I have watched the Dookies move on to the top of the charts on all the big MP3 music sites and we are featured on so many internet playlists I have lost count. We are also racking up club plays worldwide (all over the US, Ireland, UK, Hungary, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, and Canada, that we know of).
I have also started Big Yellow Hand Studios, a virtual studio that produced a grand prize-winning remix of The Project's song "The Truth" sponsored by Sony and Acid Pro Software. There is also a buzzing on the grapevine about the Sony-owned acidplanet.com hosting a remix contest of one of my songs later this year. Past contests have featured music from Gene Simmons, NIN, Kidney Thieves, David Bowie and more, so I am in good company!
Currently, there is a live lineup in the works and will feature some of Chicago's best musicians. Rehearsals are scheduled for Summer 2006.
I enjoy writing stock music and have a growing list of clients, remixing other artists like Platinum Dragon 17 (Canadian industrial recording artist), and most recently, Peter Hyrka (violinist, Gypsy Hombres/Producer, Sixpence None The Richer), performing live with Genral Patton and His Privates, and as a solo acoustic artist with scheduled performances and recording sessions in Nashville.
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It's been a busy year so far, but here's the highlights.
New Release 1:
Title: Steaming Dookies - The Club Singles
Artist: Steaming Dookies
Label: Big Yellow Hand Records, Special Products Division
Available: Only at www.bigyellowhand.com for FREE.
Our number one recording artist Steaming Dookies has a new album out "Steaming Dookies - The Club Singles" exclusively for DJs and members of the press to download for free on our website at http://www.bigyellowhand.com/music-group-45.html. No FTP required, just preview, download and burn. It features the best tracks from the Dookies' first two albums, "Skid Marks Of Joy" (BYH001, 2004) and "Lycanthropy" (BYH003, 2005) plus a bunch of previously unreleased studio tracks. This one's hot!
New Release 2:
Title: Gimme Drugs EP
Artist: Various
Label: Big Yellow Hand Records (U.S. version only)
Label: Subsonic Records (worldwide)
Available: Summer 2006 (release date pending)
This one is unique to our catalogue. It features the original version of the Dookies classic "Gimme Drugs" plus an incredible lineup of remixes from artists around the globe. Featuring bristling heavy industrial, chilled downtempo trip hop, psytrance, killer drum and bass, technopop, and more, this collection is slated for wordwide release starting with the BeNeLux region as the proving ground. Artist roster and track listing still pending. Hear the original here:
http://www.bigyellowhand.com/music-group-45.html
It's the first track on our Club Singles album.
New Release 3:
Title: Jimmy Craps Corn
Artist: Steaming Dookies
Label: Big Yellow Hand Records
Label: Experimental Division Nashville Records
Release Date: September 4th, 2006, all major online music stores and some major retail outlets
The third full-length release from the wildly original industrial techno-punks from Chicago. Featuring more of the bombastic sonic doom, tongue-in-cheek wry humor, and sarcastic politically INcorrect observations that can be found in their last effort, 2005's "Lycanthropy". Previews can be heard at:
http://www.bigyellowhand.com/music-group-44.html
A live lineup is being assembled and will begin rehearsal this summer. This will be a show the likes of which the world has never seen, and will not involve any cruelty to animals, small children, houseplants, anphibians, reptiles, fish, or insect life, but may leave viewers with the uncontrollable urge to rip their eyes from their sockets. (just kidding, we MAY set fire to an ant farm or something, who knows).
This artist is available for interview, via telephone or internet at your convenience, if you dare.
Discography at-a-glance:
Gimme Drugs EP: Summer 2006
Jimmy Craps Corn: Sept 4th 2006
The Club Singles: 2006
Lycanthropy: 2005
Skid Marks Of Joy: 2004
Thanks for your support,
Billy Pfrommer
Big Yellow Hand Records
Chicago, IL USA |
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| Webpage: http://www.bigyellowhand.com |
| Location: Chicago, IL, U.S.A |
| Description: Wildly original industrial techno-punk and goth from The Windy City! |
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