What is new? I had to fix my modular. The plan b oscillators would not old scaling calibration in my modular set up. So i traded them in for the MFB OSC-01 triple dco for super stable osc. And a moog freqbox for a wild heavily fat drifty osc that have way more beef than any modular osc on the market today. I also picked up the Polivoks filter, didn’t like it at first, but learned what it was good at, resonant bass. I will write reviews of this stuff soon so look for it. This held up production. I think i like my gear setup now, but i really miss having an analog poly synth. I have my SH-2, and my modular, and my FR Revolution for analogs. But it’s not enough. I really want a polysix for strings. But those are a pain in the ass, I need midi hahhahaha. I might sell some more stuff.

I have no idea what musical direction I am going into. I am noticing that lately I am a huge fan of death in june, new young pony club, mstrkrft, the knife, LCD Soundsystem, Digitalism, The Horrors, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ladytron and the 80s new wave and goth. Lust for blood was good, but dark, and i think vac needs to lighten up a little and make catchier songs. FWK worked that way. I don’t want to just do techno or industrial. I want to make timeless songs that don’t always fit into one genre. I’m running out of time. I’m looking in other directions for inspiration now, because I feel the goth industrial ebm thing is way over played out and over saturated with home studio acts. I’m really not into clubbing anymore because of it. Who knows. I hope i can still progress and have an edge that is not just industrial and techno. I want more than this for my project. I dont want to make complete gloomy records anymore. I want a balance of songs that touch on all moods and ideas and emotions. VAC may drastically change.. who knows. If I don’t pick up production on the new LP soon, there wont be any live shows, so i had better figure this out quick..

In my modular, the plan B model 15 oscillators failed me, is not stable enough for my tastes. I simply got tired of having to calibrate the keyboard scaling every time I turned the unit on. Oh well. I am very glad to say that Shawn of Analog Haven and I worked out a deal to work this out. I still want a plan b model 09 though. Plan b is good, I think I just got a couple of sour modules.
 

What am I replacing the model 15s with? MFB OSC-01 triple DCO oscillators that sound more like a juno 106 and sh-101 but super stable and scale almost perfectly. DCOs are great, but do lack a little warmth and lower frequencies. Not to worry, I will add a Moog Freq Box that will work just like any oscilator in my rig, controlled with cv. This is an oscillator from the minimoog voyager. This will fatten up my dcos nicely.. The voyager oscillators track great so i should have no problem. THIS DEMO of the Harvestman Polivoks Filter is mindblowing. I love my bitcrusher from Harvestman. In fact that is what kept me from selling off the modular. That polivoks sounds simply amazing. WOW. A while back I used to layer my juno 106 and micromoog together and would get huge sounds. Now I will have that with better filters. I cannot wait to get all this.. I will post reviews of it once I have it for a week.
 

Yup, I am working full time on the new record. This site will not be updated like it was. I will add things when i have time for it. Video games and movies are something I cannot get into right now as I have a million other things to do, and writing game reviews doesn’t pay the bills. Oh well. I hope to continue to make this site more interesting though. So stay tuned.

UPDATE: I’m taking a few days off from the blog. need a break. worked through the entire holiday season.

A very complex Question. As of right now it is Bryan Erickson aka Disease Factory(as vocalist and musicians) aka Hexfix93(As producers and engineer): Plays Keybaords and Synths, Drums, Guitars, Bass, Vocals, Lyrics, Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Programming fx and synths. Todd Loomis aka Elegia: Plays guitars, and keyboards and synths, some drum work. I will work on a track with Erick Kosnar as well, we’ll see how that goes. VAC started in 1990 in Boulder Colorado. Inventor and founding member is Bryan Erickson, Bryan has been the leader in every incarnation and line up of the project since it’s inception.

We finally have a live band in the works, The line up might be, Disease Factory, Elegia(maybe), and Hypostasis and maybe Eric Kosnar of Darker Days Tomorrow/Emergence(this depends on some things and may or may not happen). This will probably be the live band during the upcoming 2008 Velvet Acid Christ world tour. Hope this gives my fans some hope. Nothing is written in stone, but so far I think these guys on will be on board for shows. We plan on having a new VAC record out in spring or fall, and a tour in the summer. I will be adding a Current band members page to this site very soon. No mater what, i am touring in 2008, even if all my hair falls out.. ahahaahahah

The New LP to come out in 2008 is called “Songs for Villains: Hymn’s ov the Apocalypse.” . So far we have 4 songs finished, Phucking Phreak 2008, Killed In Space(i’m on the fence on this track though, it might not make the final cut), Caustic Itch, and Faded. We only plan on making all new vac cds 45 to 50 minutes long, so 8 to 9 songs maximum. We will not do any singles in the future. If we decide to do covers, they will be online releases only for sale through Itunes or amazon. Our production is much better this time, we have mastered many daws, fx units and mixing analog. This has really improved our production, we have high end fx, great converters, great hardware compressors, mics, guitars, amps, mixers, synths and a desire to make dark brilliant songs that are catchy and memorable. We are making huge strides.

Also Todd/Elegia has made a lot of progress on his solo project. I’m hoping it will open for VAC instead of toxic coma this is not confirmed either. Toxic Coma has no plans as of now. We lost a member in Toxic Coma, so I don’t know what will happen with that side project as of now. Todd’s project is pretty cool. It sounds nothing like vac, but it is electronic. Hopefully soon we will have some demo tracks online for us to listen to..

The very first VAC podcast. Yes, listen to yours truly blab about song writing, music production and old music. Yes, in MP3 format. And yes, I do put a strange effect on my voice.. :) You get to hear me play my bass and my acoustic, just messing around. Hope it sheds some light on the VAC process. Right click on the picture above and Save as will allow you to download the mp3. Or Click Here to download the VelvetAcidChristPodcast#1. The mp3 is about 33MB.

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