Eryk Bateman


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WWW.RAZINGBEAUTY.COM/ERYK

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Hi, I'm eryk... this page's use is to get my music to you. I sing and play violin in a band called Razing Beauty, we play some incredible progressive rock/classic music. However, there's a lot of music that I write that just simply doesn't work in a band situation, mainly because it usually involves heavy sequencing, bizarre sampling, or it just doesn't appeal to my fellow bandmates. This is where I am going to put that music. Occasionally you might hear some of my friends in it, maybe even members of my band contributing to parts here and there, but this is more or less my private musical world.

Special thanks go out to Sand for providing some mp3 hosting

MP3s:

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(Spiritual) Retreat
I put this together a week or two ago but had to wait to
get it uploaded (fortunecity again). The guitar work is
very simmilar to deftones (drop d w/ power chords that add
an octave to the 5th, 2 chords per major progression) but
it also incorporates a small little "melody/lick" on top
of the verse chords that reminds me of Soma (a friend's
band, it should be noticed that they really didn't invent
this idea either, but it's something they use). Other than
that this is 100% original (grin). I played both guitar and
bass, programmed the drums, and provided the vocals.

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Karma Police (Radiohead)
Not much of a story here. After doing walking after you
I thought it'd be fun to throw this together. Took about
two hours or so. Note: I did not write this song and do not
claim to have done so, it's a cover of a Radiohead song.

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Walking After You (Foo Fighters)
My friend Sara had a birthday (9/24) so I decided to cover
her favorite Foo Fighters song. It's called Walking After You.
The drums and bass are programmed, but the guitars and the
vocals are 100% real. While I performed every last note, this
song was completely written by Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters.

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Grow
Ever see the movie "S.F.W"? I saw it back in the 7th grade
or something and I loved it... but I saw it again a while
back and remembered an old themesong... Spab and his girl
were singing "As long as we've got each other...." and I
remembered how cool growing pains was... at least, it was
cool when I was 8. So I thought I'd take the themesong and
turn it into something else... this is what came out...
For some reason I feel dirty having written it... :)

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The Perfect Drug - "E" Remix
Whenever I sit down at a piano I am tempted to play
the soft part to Nine Inch Nails song, The Perfect
Drug. It's always had a special place in my heart. So,
one day I decided to remix/cover it. It turned out to be
a dance remix, however the drums are much more interesting
than those you would find in typical dance music.

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Spacey
I was recording a friend's band and he left some
equipment in my garage for a week. Among this was a neat
little delay pedal, so I popped it into my crappy casio's
signal path and made a little piano line. I then added
some drums. Over the span of several months I kept adding
to this until eventually it turned into the behemoth
it is. All the drums are programmed, but most of the
keyboards are recorded right off of the casio (back then
it was all I had, no midi whatsoever). I played all of the
guitars and I sang the vocals at the end. Clay lancaster
played the whispy rhythm guitar in the quiet subdued
bridge, and the very beautiful female vocal line is
sung by my friend Tammy Romero.

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My final Electronic Music project
During the fall of 1999 I took a beginning electronic
class at my local JC (I wanted some proof that I knew
this stuff) and for my final project my friend Steve
Buccedi and I put this together (it took an afternoon).
Steve plays all of the guitars while I programmed
everything else and added some vocals. We both passed
the class :) (if you're wondering, the funk ending was
the result of one too many jokes about the porn industry)

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Mr. Bonesey Come Play With Me - A "remix" of Harbinger of DOOM's Skeleton Warriors
Once upon a time Eryk's best friend/guitarist decided that
since his best friend/drummer was keeping his drums in his
parents garage, said best friend/guitarist might as well
take up drums and start a heavy/death metal/hawaiian luau
band. Thus "Harbinger of DOOM" was born. Eryk was always
present at Harbinger gigs (which were always hillarious,
the members of the band would come out in deep black cloaks
with death masks, and halfway through the set rip off the
costumes to reveal hulla skirts and coconut shell bras),
so Eryk decided that in the spirit of the band a REMIX of
one of their songs must be made - before it had been
recorded for real. So, from memory, eryk (I just realised
I'm reffering to myself in the third person, but its a
story, right?) transcribed the guitar line into elevator
music, and then had Kenn and Peter (the bassist from kenn
and I's old band, the others... and also singer for
Harbinger) to play the guitar and bass to the deathmetal/industrial
part of the "remix". (Let it be known that this kind of
incest usually confuses things and is best left unnaproached).

Long story short, this song is a remix of the Harbinger of
Doom song Skeleton Warriors, I programmed everything
except the guitar (played by Kenneth Knowles), the bass
(played by Peter Thatch), and the singing (throated by
Peter Thatch). While the original song was written by HOD,
the whole "remix it into an even funnier song than it
originally was" idea was mine.

(and they all lived happily ever after)

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Russel's Cock
(I sure hope fortunecity doesn't have policies against my freedom to publish webpages using the word "cock", but then again they own the webspace so if they ask I guess I'll bleep it out or something...)
Some people think it's strage that I wrote a song about my
friend Russel's cock, but I feel perfectly justified. My
two best friends (Kenn and Gloria) and I were at a party
over at "Bucky"'s house (bucky's name was changed to
protect his stupid, not-showing-up-to-our-gigs ass). Bucky's
is known to be quite the place to get drunk, wear a dress, and
possibly flash your cock at someone. Actually, it got to be
known for that because of Russel... For you see, Russel got
very very drunk (as did we all), and dissapeared with this
girl that he'd been trying to sleep with... well, Gloria and
Kenn and Myself (multiple "and"s to simulate our drunkeness)
found that being drunk caused us to be curious types, so we
wondered what would happen if we (the three of us) started
humping the door to the room in which Russel was getting
some action in... suffice to say we found out. The door
opened, the girl walked out, and Russel flashed us his cock.
(oh, and he was wearing a skirt with no underwear underneath
which made it easy to whip it out; later he claimed he
thought he had underwear on underneath... he didn't.)

So, the next day I spent an hour and wrote him this song.
It basically explains everything that needs to be said. I
Programmed everything and used ReadPlease2000 to create
the voiceover. The lyrics go something like this, "I've
seen Russel's cock, blah blah blah,".

(it should be said that this was the second time we'd seen russel's cock)

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I understand that this page is ugly as hell.. to be honest I put way too much time into putting together the Razing Beauty site and so I just threw this together. Perhaps soon it will be cleaned up, but for now I'm going to leave it as this ugly mess, for no other reason than to save my sanity.
-eryk

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