I Am Neorev

[iamneorev]

Hey fellow Underworld fans,

I hate folks who just post links to their music and that's it. So I figure it's best to write a little something to introduce myself. So if you don't want to hear my story about how I got to this point, skip on down the page to the album links. If you wanna know a little about me and my music, here it is...

I'm a striving electronic music producer from New York. My name is Mike, I go under the alias Neorev. I started producing music back in 2000 when I got sick of trying to keep a band together. I was originally a drummer in my good ol' days. But I always had a love for electronic music when I first heard Priority Records' Best Of Rave compilation back in 1993. Funnily enough, that compilation featured Lemon Interupt's "Big Mouth" along with The Prodigy's remix of Art Of Noise's "Instruments Of Darkness" and LFO's "We Are Back." But the moment I first put on that tape and heard L.A. Style's "James Brown Is Dead," I was transformed from a rocker to a raver. Being from the States, it wasn't until the mid-90's "electronica" boom here when the style I loved started getting some respect. I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings here, but The Prodigy are my biggest inspiration after hearing their Art Of Noise remix along with "Charly" and "Everybody In The Place." But I kept digging and looking for new music and discovered legends like Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, Meat Beat Manifesto, Leftfield, Fluke, Atari Teenage Riot, and too many others to name. That period of electronic music was very important to me and a huge influence in finding my own sound over the years.

I recently self-released my album "Disrupt The Scene" along with a couple of others releases in digital music stores and on streaming sites. The album was written completely within Ableton Live. Over the years I've worked with both software and hardware. I've worked with Fruity Loops, Reason, Acid, before moving completely over to Ableton. I must give props to Native Instruments, Korg, Arturia, Moog, and Izotope Ozone for mastering. My Bandcamp page has a much more extensive back catalogue, which I'm slowly moving over to online stores and streaming sites.

It all began back in 2003 when I submitted one of my tracks to a competition on a fan site for The Prodigy that ended up getting enough votes to become the opening track. The 13 top voted tracks became the Brainkiller Presents Music From The Jilted Generation compilation, which actually has made its way around the interwebs over the years. It's funny to still see that comp pop up every once in a while. I found my audience with that community. So I began focusing on putting together a debut album and spent the next three or so years working on it. Unfortunately, due to a computer hard drive crash, I lost all of my work from those years. I was absolutely gutted. I had to start all the way back at square one.

It wouldn't be until 2009 when I finally released my debut "Lines & Shapes," an homage to the early 90's warehouse rave and breaks music that I grew up on. In 2011, I followed that up with the darker, bass oriented "Children Of The Bomb" in 2011, which was a reaction to the social/political atmosphere at the time. After releasing a few supporting EPs, I wanted to try something different by working with other people besides myself. So I spent the next couple of years working with different vocalists and rappers. That become "Disrupt The Scene," a heavy mix of electronica with elements of dubstep, industrial, hip hop, and rock. This was my first album where I used distribution to get it out to more sites. It was released at the end of 2015 and got a pretty decent response.

Over the years, I've played shows/raves all over the tri-state area with artists like Marty Party, Atomic Babies, Delerium, Wizard K-Jee of Public Enemy, Omar Santana, Hellfire Machina, and many more. The Brainkiller compilation back in 2003 got me some radio play on Radio 101 in Italy where the website is based. With "Disrupt The Scene," I started getting some support and radio play in the UK from 102.4 Redroad FM and 93.2 FM Sheffield Live.

Now I'm back at work and experimenting for the next album and hope to reunite with some of the folks who appeared on my last record. Until then, I hope you enjoy this one.

Anyway enough gabbing...

NEOREV - DISRUPT THE SCENE

01 SWAY [ft. Marcuss]
02 NO CONTROL [ft. It Was July]
03 CHIP AWAY [ft. Argotec]
04 PRUNE JUICE [ft. Centri]
05 START THE REVOLUTION [ft. Villain]
06 SHOCK WAVE [ft. Noise Generator]
07 TERRIBLE SKY [ft. It Was July]
08 SMILES AND HANDSHAKES [ft. Kid Versus Chemical]
09 SO TWISTED [ft. Marcuss]
10 ROLLERCOASTER [ft. It Was July & Noise Generator]
11 MONETARY POLICY [ft. Centri]
12 RUFF, RUGGED, N' RAW [ft. Villain]
13 THE SWITCH [ft. It Was July]

- Limited Edition CD -
http://neorevmusic.com

- Bandcamp (name your own price, enter "0" for free download) -
http://neorev.bandcamp.com/album/disrupt-the-scene

- iTunes -
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/dis...e/id1043573748

- Amazon -
http://amzn.com/B015SK57MC

- Google Play -
https://play.google.com/store/music/...ouu6pipva3t6ey

- Apple Music -
http://itun.es/us/0V6m-

- Spotify -
http://open.spotify.com/album/39Sa4ebSvpj45sA9wuGb4o

- TIDAL -
http://tidal.com/album/51735483

- Deezer -
http://www.deezer.com/album/11273006

- Microsoft Groove -
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/stor...e/8d6kgx09f9l9

- Soundcloud -
http://www.soundcloud.com/neorev/sets/disrupt-the-scene

- YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...OyEq5hrwzpWNcx

Long Island’s Neorev finally returns to the physical format after six years with bona fide “best of” that collects collaborative highlights from his now out of print Bandcamp EPs with some stunning new material, proving, once and for all, that he is the best electronic artist you’ve never heard of.

Disrupt the Scene carefully celebrates the many modes of electronic dance music without sacrificing artistic integrity in the process. Most of the tracks center on hip-hop, beginning with the opening onslaught of “Sway” featuring rapper Marcuss, who also appears on “So Twisted.” Later, Centri brings a Kool Keith weirdness to “Prune Juice” and “Monetary Policy,” while Villain completely dominates the hardcore drum & bass of “Rough, Rugged, N’ Raw” and the dubstep attack of “Start the Revolution.” Kid Versus Chemical even drops jaws on the Wu-Tang-inspired “Smiles and Handshakes.” On the other side of the spectrum, It Was July adds an upbeat pop sensibility to “No Control” and “Revolution,” but shows range in darker tracks, like “Terrible Sky” and “The Switch,” and Noise Generator incorporate their industrial touch in “Shock Wave.” It’s not just dance music, it’s real music borne from electronics, but raised on a rock sensibility that stays away from the average 4/4 thumping you hear in the club.

At this point, Neorev should be Diplo, but he’s not, and maybe that’s a good thing. He’s still an artist who’s not afraid to take chances, beholden to no one but himself, and that’s perfect.
- Chuck Foster (Big Takeover Magazine)

Read the full review at:
http://bigtakeover.com/recordings/ne...e-scene-neorev