Fanatik J is an American hip hop producer from Los Angeles, California known for his role in the production of The Return of Dr. Octagon.
History
In 1996, emcee Keith Thornton released the album Dr. Octagonecologyst under the name Dr. Octagon. Thornton later expressed some frustration with the "Dr. Octagon" nickname, and introduced the character of Dr. Dooom on the album First Come, First Served, which featured a track in which the character murdered Dr. Octagon. Thornton had intended to move away from the character, but later decided to record another album under the Octagon name.
In 2002, Thornton announced The Resurrection of Dr. Octagon, a proposed sequel to Dr. Octagonecologyst, that would reintroduce the character. After shopping around demos for the proposed album, Thornton signed a contract with CMH Records to release the album. Preceding the production of the album, Thornton told Rolling Stone that "this album is fine-tuned with instruments, deeper and more spaced out. The last one was cool, but I didn't like it because it wasn't funky. When I don't work on a project, it's not that funky. When I do work on it, it's funky, and it has soul to it...I'm proud of my funky sounds right now."<ref name="Moayeri"/> Fanatik J was not named as the album's producer, with Thornton stating that with Dr. Octagonecologyst, "I chose to bring Automator in to work on the project. I gave Automator his introduction to the music industry, gave him his first start. With this , I will make another person and create another star."<ref name="Moayeri"/>
As production on the album was underway, Thornton had a falling out with Fanatik J over contract rights.<ref name="Downs"/> Thornton referred to Fanatik J as "greedy" and stated that "He went out of his level of producer's ranking. Maybe he thought he was an overnight Quincy Jones, that he was the Automator."<ref name="Downs"/> Fanatik J engaged in a legal battle with CMH over contractual terms that did not give him artistic control over remixes, stating that he wanted to prevent the album's release.<ref name="Downs"/> The resulting album, The Return of Dr. Octagon, did not contain any of the work created by Fanatik J, who referred to the album as the "evil sibling" of his collaborations with Thornton.<ref name="Downs"/>
History
In 1996, emcee Keith Thornton released the album Dr. Octagonecologyst under the name Dr. Octagon. Thornton later expressed some frustration with the "Dr. Octagon" nickname, and introduced the character of Dr. Dooom on the album First Come, First Served, which featured a track in which the character murdered Dr. Octagon. Thornton had intended to move away from the character, but later decided to record another album under the Octagon name.
In 2002, Thornton announced The Resurrection of Dr. Octagon, a proposed sequel to Dr. Octagonecologyst, that would reintroduce the character. After shopping around demos for the proposed album, Thornton signed a contract with CMH Records to release the album. Preceding the production of the album, Thornton told Rolling Stone that "this album is fine-tuned with instruments, deeper and more spaced out. The last one was cool, but I didn't like it because it wasn't funky. When I don't work on a project, it's not that funky. When I do work on it, it's funky, and it has soul to it...I'm proud of my funky sounds right now."<ref name="Moayeri"/> Fanatik J was not named as the album's producer, with Thornton stating that with Dr. Octagonecologyst, "I chose to bring Automator in to work on the project. I gave Automator his introduction to the music industry, gave him his first start. With this , I will make another person and create another star."<ref name="Moayeri"/>
As production on the album was underway, Thornton had a falling out with Fanatik J over contract rights.<ref name="Downs"/> Thornton referred to Fanatik J as "greedy" and stated that "He went out of his level of producer's ranking. Maybe he thought he was an overnight Quincy Jones, that he was the Automator."<ref name="Downs"/> Fanatik J engaged in a legal battle with CMH over contractual terms that did not give him artistic control over remixes, stating that he wanted to prevent the album's release.<ref name="Downs"/> The resulting album, The Return of Dr. Octagon, did not contain any of the work created by Fanatik J, who referred to the album as the "evil sibling" of his collaborations with Thornton.<ref name="Downs"/>
Jacob Bannon (born 1976 near Boston) is the vocalist and lyricist in hardcore punk band Converge. He is also the founder and owner of the label Deathwish Inc. Bannon is also a well respected visual artist and has created many visual works for the independent music community.
Bannon was also the founding member of Supermachiner, who released one album "Rise Of The Great Machine". He is in the process of creating a solo album on the Deathwish label.
He is vegetarian and lives the straight edge lifestyle. Though in the past he supported , he no longer champions the organization, citing PETA's support of Breed-specific legislation as the reason.
Life
After graduation from High School, Bannon attended college at The Art Institute of Boston, and earned a Bachelors In Fine Arts in 1998. After working a variety of freelance design jobs around Boston, he stepped out on his own as a freelance Artist/Designer.
In late 1990/early 1991, he started the band Converge with Kurt Ballou.
In early 2001, he founded the Deathwish Label with his best friend Tre McCarthy.
Solo Discography
* The Blood Of Thine Enemies, Deathwish Inc (March 2008)
* Wear Your Wounds, Deathwish Inc (2008)
Bannon was also the founding member of Supermachiner, who released one album "Rise Of The Great Machine". He is in the process of creating a solo album on the Deathwish label.
He is vegetarian and lives the straight edge lifestyle. Though in the past he supported , he no longer champions the organization, citing PETA's support of Breed-specific legislation as the reason.
Life
After graduation from High School, Bannon attended college at The Art Institute of Boston, and earned a Bachelors In Fine Arts in 1998. After working a variety of freelance design jobs around Boston, he stepped out on his own as a freelance Artist/Designer.
In late 1990/early 1991, he started the band Converge with Kurt Ballou.
In early 2001, he founded the Deathwish Label with his best friend Tre McCarthy.
Solo Discography
* The Blood Of Thine Enemies, Deathwish Inc (March 2008)
* Wear Your Wounds, Deathwish Inc (2008)
Al Steiner is the pseudonym of a prolific online author of adult novels and shorter pieces. His online blog entries and story descriptions point to the fact that he may be published under his real name as well. His stories rate the two top spots on the adult fiction site storiesonline.net (as of 3/16/2007, Top 20 Long Stories This Year (Greenies #1) and Top 20 Classic Long Stories (Intemperance #1)). He is one of the top rated writers on the site by downloads and story ratings.
He is an eleven year paramedic who lives on the west coast of the United States. He has been writing short stories and attempting novels since high school. In the late 1990s he began posting erotic fiction to Usenet as a way of getting realistic, constructive criticism of his writing skills.
He has become famed in the Internet writing community for his intriguing premises, well-developed characters, exciting story-lines, and detailed research.
His most well-known works are the novels Doing It All Over, Aftermath, Greenies and A Perfect World, the latter two of which are part of his Greenies/A Perfect World Universe. He has published over 50 pieces of writing in all, including shorts, novellas and novels and has recently finished publishing his second volume in the Intemperance series about the behind-the-scenes life of a successful rock band.
Doing It All Over
Doing It All Over, first published online in 1999, is the story of a 32 year old paramedic, who wakes up one morning to find himself back as a 15 year old in 1982, with a chance to redo the crucial years of his life.
Many of the plot points from this story were similar to the short-lived 2002 WB television series Do Over, which aired three years after Steiner's story was published.
Aftermath
Aftermath tells the story of a small band of survivors after a large comet impacts on the Pacific Ocean. Tsunamis rebound across the coastlines of the world, wiping out most of the cities situated there and a large part of humanity. Those remaining must learn to endure not only the inhospitable conditions of the world that remains... but the dangers they face from each other.
A Perfect World
A Perfect World is Book 1 in the much loved story series categorised as, A Story in the Greenies/A Perfect World Universe.
A Perfect World tells the tale of a police helicopter pilot named Ken Frazier who, shot in the course of duty in 2003, is cryogenically frozen at his wife's request and awakens in the year 2191 on the planet Mars.
In between Ken's "death" and his revival, humanity has colonized Mars and the Moon. A third World War has been fought in the early 21st century between China, Japan and India, and the rest of the world. After that war, the world has been divided between the American continents - the "Democratic Alliance of the Western Hemisphere" (or "WestHem") - and its Eastern equivalent ("EastHem"). WestHem is a highly corporate state, in which the major corporations effectively rule through their strong control over the apparent WestHem government. Mars, which was originally a WestHem colony, has fought a war of independence some fifty years previously, and is a de facto independent state.
Ken, meanwhile, finds a Martian society based on principles similar to democratic socialism, in which corporations are forbidden and workers are rewarded depending on the difficulty and necessity of their work. Sexual politics have reached an extremely liberated state, particularly now that cures for all known STDs have been found.
Meanwhile, WestHem has never accepted the loss of its formerly very-profitable colony on Mars. Using technology originally inadvertently discovered by Martian researchers (but subsequently suppressed), it builds a "lemondrop reactor" - a device which creates a wormhole in space using antimatter, and is therefore effectively a time machine - and prepares to send agents back in time to undo the Martian revolution before it ever happens.
Greenies
Greenies is a prequel to A Perfect World.
According to the introduction, the story was in response to those of Steiner's fans asking for some of his more conventional writings. Steiner started it several years before 2006 and wrote to Chapter 13, then set it aside feeling that story arc was too complex, to try and tie into the world written in A Perfect World.
The story takes place decades before A Perfect World, in the time of Laura Whiting the newly elected Martian President and her declaration for Martian independence form the corrupt WestHem government in charge, resulting in the Martian Revolution.
It is considered to be a beautiful, science fiction and political/war story.
The story was completed in August 2006.
Intemperance
Intemperance, the trials, tribulations, and debauchery of the fictional 1980s rock band Intemperance as they rise from the club scene to international fame; .
He is an eleven year paramedic who lives on the west coast of the United States. He has been writing short stories and attempting novels since high school. In the late 1990s he began posting erotic fiction to Usenet as a way of getting realistic, constructive criticism of his writing skills.
He has become famed in the Internet writing community for his intriguing premises, well-developed characters, exciting story-lines, and detailed research.
His most well-known works are the novels Doing It All Over, Aftermath, Greenies and A Perfect World, the latter two of which are part of his Greenies/A Perfect World Universe. He has published over 50 pieces of writing in all, including shorts, novellas and novels and has recently finished publishing his second volume in the Intemperance series about the behind-the-scenes life of a successful rock band.
Doing It All Over
Doing It All Over, first published online in 1999, is the story of a 32 year old paramedic, who wakes up one morning to find himself back as a 15 year old in 1982, with a chance to redo the crucial years of his life.
Many of the plot points from this story were similar to the short-lived 2002 WB television series Do Over, which aired three years after Steiner's story was published.
Aftermath
Aftermath tells the story of a small band of survivors after a large comet impacts on the Pacific Ocean. Tsunamis rebound across the coastlines of the world, wiping out most of the cities situated there and a large part of humanity. Those remaining must learn to endure not only the inhospitable conditions of the world that remains... but the dangers they face from each other.
A Perfect World
A Perfect World is Book 1 in the much loved story series categorised as, A Story in the Greenies/A Perfect World Universe.
A Perfect World tells the tale of a police helicopter pilot named Ken Frazier who, shot in the course of duty in 2003, is cryogenically frozen at his wife's request and awakens in the year 2191 on the planet Mars.
In between Ken's "death" and his revival, humanity has colonized Mars and the Moon. A third World War has been fought in the early 21st century between China, Japan and India, and the rest of the world. After that war, the world has been divided between the American continents - the "Democratic Alliance of the Western Hemisphere" (or "WestHem") - and its Eastern equivalent ("EastHem"). WestHem is a highly corporate state, in which the major corporations effectively rule through their strong control over the apparent WestHem government. Mars, which was originally a WestHem colony, has fought a war of independence some fifty years previously, and is a de facto independent state.
Ken, meanwhile, finds a Martian society based on principles similar to democratic socialism, in which corporations are forbidden and workers are rewarded depending on the difficulty and necessity of their work. Sexual politics have reached an extremely liberated state, particularly now that cures for all known STDs have been found.
Meanwhile, WestHem has never accepted the loss of its formerly very-profitable colony on Mars. Using technology originally inadvertently discovered by Martian researchers (but subsequently suppressed), it builds a "lemondrop reactor" - a device which creates a wormhole in space using antimatter, and is therefore effectively a time machine - and prepares to send agents back in time to undo the Martian revolution before it ever happens.
Greenies
Greenies is a prequel to A Perfect World.
According to the introduction, the story was in response to those of Steiner's fans asking for some of his more conventional writings. Steiner started it several years before 2006 and wrote to Chapter 13, then set it aside feeling that story arc was too complex, to try and tie into the world written in A Perfect World.
The story takes place decades before A Perfect World, in the time of Laura Whiting the newly elected Martian President and her declaration for Martian independence form the corrupt WestHem government in charge, resulting in the Martian Revolution.
It is considered to be a beautiful, science fiction and political/war story.
The story was completed in August 2006.
Intemperance
Intemperance, the trials, tribulations, and debauchery of the fictional 1980s rock band Intemperance as they rise from the club scene to international fame; .
"Happy Hawaii" is a popular song by pop group ABBA. It is a novelty song with a Hawaiian flavor, featuring a steel guitar as part of its arrangement. Lead vocals are by Frida, with all four members joining in from time to time. It was first released as the B-side of "Knowing Me, Knowing You", and became well known by many people. The song has over 60,000 combined video views on YouTube. An animated video was made for the song, with typical 1970s animation in the style of Hanna-Barbera and Filmation. The video was thought to have been lost for many years but was recently rediscovered in somewhat poor condition. Allmusic once called the song "a soaring, rocking dance number". The song has appeared on various ABBA reissues and it appears as a bonus track on the reissue of their album Arrival. It was composed by Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus.
Why Did It Have To Be Me
ABBA later reused parts of the melody for a song called "Why Did It Have to Be Me?", which appeared on the album "Arrival".
Why Did It Have To Be Me
ABBA later reused parts of the melody for a song called "Why Did It Have to Be Me?", which appeared on the album "Arrival".