Engines Roar

03 December, 2010

The Quondam Empire

Blurry Polaroid
Dr. Zaius is holding
Jonathan's manhood

Engines Roar will be publishing it's first limited edition book this Christmas called The Quondam Empire: Roanoke Haiku 1997-2002. Written by William Sellari & Matthew Permenter, this book is a nostalgic collection of loving, revolting, and naked haiku about the two authors' formative years in the Roanoke Valley.

Engines Roar will be producing a short paperback run as well as an extremely limited hardback edition. For ordering information please email: CONTACT@ENGINESROAR.COM

15 September, 2010

LuckyIam Flyer

Last minute flyer for LuckyIam of Living Legends.

21 August, 2010

New ER Bumper

16 August, 2010

Low Resolution & AMODA

flyer by Engines Roar

Low Resolution 003

Engines Roar is helping to put on another installment of Low Resolution this month on Saturday, August 21st at the Baby Blue Studios. We were incredibly fortunate to have the Austin Museum of Digital Art on board to bring in a dream line up of friends and extremely talented musicians.

Furthermore, the event is being sponsored by the extremely generous and amazing Switched On; which if you haven't been to Switched On yet, please do yourself a favor and drop by. Switched On is legitimately the modular synth equivalent of every Bruce Willis movie, if every one of his roles was played by a different, rare, and equally amazing synthesizer.

The show starts at 8PM on Saturday, at the Baby Blue Studios directions. It's BYOB so make sure to bring your favorite beverage, ie Lone Star, 40 oz. of Micky's , or some Sparks.

As for the music on Saturday, we have the following artists to peak any area of electronic interest your ear could possibly desire. They are as follows...

Shams New York, NY / Richmond, VA

If sex is bliss, Shams is an orgasm

Links myspace, live performance

Shams is a pulse. No matter what form his sound takes, it aches out at you in an undeniable stroke of passion, genius, and raw sex. Often mixing live performance with electronic backing, seeing Shams live is like the blissed out bastard kid Nurse with Wound always meant to have with have with the KLF.

Animal Style Philadelphia, PA

Chip-guitar wielding dance floor champion

Links myspace, website, live performance

Animal Style is a living chip music schematic. His creations range from genre connections to genre transformers and aren’t limited to common rules and regulations of normal sound organization. Known for bringing a heavily improvised approach to chip music, Animal Style with his Gameboy Foot controller + 8bit fuzz pedal, create a unique musical chemistry.

Narwhalz (of Sound) Richmond, VA

Menthol Gameboy, end poem

Links myspace, website, live performance, judge judy

Narwhalz himself once described his set at “metafiction”. While Narwhalz’s sound comes from a handful of angry interlocking Gameboys, it’s the subtext of his all to real and sometimes humorous dialogue he provides that makes even the 8bit aspects seem like an allusion. Each fevered piece is as much of a poem as it is a critique, and Narwhalz leaves the stage unsure if even it was real.

Wet Mango Los Angeles, CA

Pussy & Bass in Yo Face

Links myspace, live performance

Between two undulating GameBoy Colors is Wet Mango. A sucker for the four to the floor, freestyle, hip hop, industrial, and all other shades of electronic music mate unconsciously in her beats. A lover of simplicity, there are thick separated layers of pop music sewn in her use of experimental electronics. Wet Mango is the dirty, the glitchy, and heavy side of chip music.

Oven Rake Olympia, Washington

Epic 8-bit Nintendomancer

Links myspace, live performance

Oven Rake was that kid you remember talking to once in high school. He was in a band, and your friend dragged you to their first show. You ran into him later when he ordered some black coffee at your work. He likes what you did with your hair. Don't feel embarrassed, no one in this small town has made it big time yet, he’s just a secret master of an 8bit universe.

Sewn Leather Portland, OR

Smoke ov the Pvnk

Links myspace, live performance

Sewn Leather is the brain child of Griffin Pin & John Root. With a dark wave aesthetic and a roots punk approach, music as a whole hasn’t seen the likes of a group of this sincerity since the early days of Suicide and Cabaret Voltaire. Sewn Leather is rides the impossible balance of being perfectly suited for it’s time and a reminder of how perfect it seemed in the past.

AMODA Digital Showcase / Low Resolution 003

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 @ 8PM

The Baby Blue Studios

1522 East 12th St., Austin , TX, 78702

Brought to you by Switched On!

Free for all AMODA members, $6 cover for general public

BYOB

24 June, 2010

Arrington & Associates Website

We're about done with Arrington & Associates. Drop by their URL to check it out.

www.ArringtonAssoc.com

27 May, 2010

TnT

Recently, Engines Roar has been responsible for a good portion of the creative development of a new restaurant and bar in Austin called Tacos and Tequila. TnT has been something of a patron saint to Engines Roar, largely due to their owners Jim & Liz Baron; together they have been enthusiastic and offered support and approval of nearly all our proposals. Furthermore, TnT has served as a perfect model for how to propel a complex vision in relation to a local demographic that incorporates not only the local art and music scene but the desired patrons and clientele.

So far, our primary duties and developments have been the following:

Booking
Curating
Online promotion / advertising
Social networking
A/V systems and development
Custom remote and playback applications
Training manuals
In house production

Please drop by TnT to see some of the collaborative efforts that have occurred due to our latest partnership.

17 May, 2010

Low Resolution 002

Friday, May 21st at 8PM, Cheer Up Charlie's is hosting the second installment of Low Resolution, a monthly showcase of synth, 8bit, and DIY artists. This month Low Res will be feature Hexcrusher, MVSLVS, Psychic Violence, and I, Cactus.

Low Resolution is brought to you this month by Okay Fresh!, Engines Roar, and Kung-Fu Saloon.

Click here for directions

24 April, 2010

High Score Mondays

As part of our on going promotion and partnership with Kung-Fu Saloon, Engines Roar is throwing High Score Mondays, every Monday at Kung-Fu Saloon. This is perhaps your one chance in life to get rewarded for being whip-ass at video games. Think of it this way, if you were to put your high score in Donkey Kong on a resume, you probably won't get the job. However, at High Score Mondays you can win gift certificates to Vulcan Video, Game Over Video Games, and be the proud holder of one of our custom mugs.

What's the big deal about a custom mug?

Well, I'm glad you asked! If you're the colossal champion of Moon Patrol then you're entitled to fill that glass with any one of the variety of amazing beers Kung-Fu has to offer. Furthermore, you're the only who can use it, an 8-bit god strolling through a valley of 2-bit 1s & 0s.

So, please join us for High Score Mondays, where every man can be a GOD!

05 April, 2010

Kung-Fu Saloon: High Score Mondays

Starting April 12th, Engines Roar will be running a high score competition for Kung-Ful Saloon, a new arcade/bar in Austin. To the left is an example of one of the Mugs we are designing for the winners of said competition.