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Post by JAI
Award winning composer, vocalist, and superheroine

Sensuous Enemy 2012

Sensuous Enemy 2012

We have a lot to tell you about AND we have an exciting announcement! For those of you who don’t know about us, Sensuous Enemy is a female fronted electronic darkwave band that’s been around for almost a decade! We have worked hard writing, recording and performing solid music while going to school and working multiple jobs in order to support our number one passion…Music!

We started in 2004 and put out our first album “Deadly Sins”, which included six original songs and one cover that was released on Sonic Mainline label out of Madison, Wisconsin, owned and operated by Matt Fanale of the band Caustic.

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In 2006 we came out with our first full length album “Fragments” with eight originals, one cover and four incredibly powerful remixes from some of the most well known bands in the EDM Industrial music genre.Fragments
The album was mixed and produced by Wade Alin of the bands The Atomica Project & Christ Analogue in Chicago and also released on Sonic Mainline label.

Then after a couple of years of continued growth and changing members we signed to a new label called Radio-Active-Music [RAM] out of Virginia Beach, Virginia, owned and operated by Laura Hofford. We released “Parity” in 2010 with three original songs and seven fabulous remixes.
SE_Parity_online_artworkIn 2011 we continued writing new songs, we designed a new light show, performed numerous shows throughout the Midwest and we delivered a powerful and exciting east coast tour.

Sirens of the SeaBy the middle of 2013 we had written nine more songs. We wrote and recorded all summer and released our single “Sirens of the Sea” this past September with five moving remixes. In one short week you’ll now be able to purchase and listen to our newest and second full length album “Voyager”, with nine original songs, mixed and produced by Wisconsonites Dan Clark of Listless Works and mastered by Eric Oehler of Submersible Studios!
We will be performing most of “Voyager” at The Frequency in downtown Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday November 16th, with our new label mates Null Device and pounding dance beats provided by DJ Siberia!

Voyager

That isn’t all though. The best news is that we recently signed with the long established, well known Nilaihah Records out of Columbus, OH,owned and operated by Kristy Venrick of the band The Azoic!! Both our single “Sirens of the Sea” and our full length album “Voyager” will be released under Nilaihah Records this month! We’re so excited to be a part of the Nilaihah team of bands and friends!! Check out our music and some of the fabulous bands currently signed to Nilaihah Records!

We look forward to performing for you in the near future. Thanks to all of our family, friends and fans and for all of your support, love and dedication. We could not have done this without YOU!

Sirens of the Sea

SIRENS OF THE SEA!!

We just released our new digital single EP “Sirens of the Sea”! The CD includes remixes from I:Scintilla, Endless Blue, Loss and Killcrop! One original and five remixes are FREE to download on our Sensuous Enemy at Bandcamp account. You can also pick it up from our Sensuous Enemy at Soundcloud account.

Thanks go out to Dan Clark of Listless Works and Eric Oehler of Submersible Studios for recording, mixing and mastering this fabulous single EP for us!

Our sophomore full length CD “Voyager” will be released this November 2013!!

Sensuous Enemy Loki and Thor

Cyber Perversion Loki and Thor

Thank you to all of our darklings who made it to the 3rd annual Cyber Perversion show at Club Inferno in Madison, Wisconsin! We had a lot of fun  with our Avengers costumes and we really enjoyed playing with our co-villains Cynergy 67 (Upper WI), V is for Villains (Chicago, IL), and AS/OF (Minneapolis,MN), along with DJ EfN (Green Bay, WI), and our very own DJ Psych0tron (Madison, WI).  Thanks to Apollo of  the Inferno for  a great venue space and to Rooster for running sound for all of us.

We were able to showcase two of our new songs “Freedom from Religion” and “Sirens of the Sea”, we just completed this past September. Both songs went over really well and we received a few kudos for them.  “Freedom from Religion” is a word speak with a melodic chorus. Since we have never done a song like this  before, the style of writing and performance really shocked some some people. “Sirens of the Sea” is definitely going to be a dance floor favorite as many started bouncing as soon as it began. All in all, it was a really fun fest and we look forward to doing it again next year!

Over the next few months, we’ll be working hard to write and record music for our next CD “Voyager”. We’re excited to get something new into your hands by Summer of 2013!

Post by JAI

Award winning composer, vocalist, and superheroine

Casket Recording Booth #1

Casket Recording Booth #1

We recently built a new vocal recording booth under our basement steps, where the band rehearsal room is located. With all the padding, it’s about the size of a casket when you close the door, so I’m glad I like the coziness of enclosed spaces…NOT. John had large bass traps from his studio he brought over and we cut them to fit into the corners of the bottom of the stairs. They are made out of insulation and gauze.  Wait…that’s what a mummy is made out of right?  Hmmm I’m sure I won’t be in there for more than an hour at a time, so I’ll just have to think about it as being ‘headspace’ and it will be a lot easier to not feel clausterphobic.

Speaking of  ‘headspace’ that lil box could also be used for sensory deprivation sessions.  Well whatdya know, that closet will serve two functions!

Casket Recording Booth #2

Casket Recording Booth #2

We recorded some sample backing tracks last week and I think the space is going to work out perfectly for us.  This will save us a lot of time traveling to other cities in order to just record Vox.  Although we love spending time with our recording and producing friends Dan Clark and Wade Alin, time is a rare commodity and most of us understand how valuable it is. We will however still need to record grinding guitars, so I’m sure we’ll make some visits from time to time.

We’re pretty new at all this live recording stuff, so we’re going to need some pointers to make sure we’re doing it correctly.  If you have any suggestions, please let us know and we’ll try to implement them if possible.  Until our next release, we’ll keep plugging away at recording stuff to see what we can come up with!

Related Links:

http://www.audio-production-tips.com/recording-vocals-basics.html#

http://www.homestudiocorner.com/processing-vocals-part-1-recording-the-vocal/

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct98/articles/20tips.html