news

January 2010
MSR has always been about love, inspired by love, and filled with angst and pain. The latter has passed, been absorbed by love, pure love. My life is changing for the better. It's changing in ways I've always wanted, I've always dreamed of, I've always imagined, but could never fathom how it could really be.

OCTOBER 2009: New photography series on Flickr: photography by deborah jaffe.

I'm in the planning stages of a series of photographs featuring myself and the wonderful and talented Jessica King (wife of brilliant GX Jupitter-Larsen of The Haters) - two women in Los Angeles doing whatever they want to do. I'm looking for guest photographers for this series, so if you are creative, in the LA area, and can shoot a cool photo, contact me.

I finally succumbed to Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/webmistressdj. Thanks to my good friend Jessica King for making it fun. Pictured, right: me in my living room in LA with a giclee print of one of Jessica's beautiful paintings.

I recorded a new music piece for Hal McGee's Dictaphonia compilation project called "Give". This is the first musical recording I've done in a decade. You can listen here.

I've been asked to become a member of the Dada Action Group with James Banner. I've known Jim since we corresponded back in the 80s and Dada has been a huge part of my life and my creative work for as long as I've been an artist. If you aren't familiar with it, please check out the Dada Action Group Myspace page, and if you don't know what Dada is (shame on you) - read all about it here.

Thank you Monte! Monte Cazazza, infamous artist/musician extraordinare, that is, and my new BFF. I'm doing an extreme art performance with him sometime later in 2009 at the Museum of Death Festival - well maybe. Details are still in the planning stages. In the meantime, I'm enjoying living in Los Angeles.

I'm very pleased to announce that I'm collaborating with Stefan Kozak and I'm a new member of The Skaden (aka Eikenskaden) and Mystic Forest! His work in both Eikenskaden and Mystic Forest is excellent and highly respected, and this is great news! Listen to samples of earlier releases by Eikenskaden and Mystic Forest.

Richard Kadrey of HOT WIRED/Covert Culture did a live Club Wired interview on 10/4/95 with me at the Wired Magazine warehouse/offices in SF. I have located this interview once again and you can read it here.

After having a strange beginning to this new year, I'm feeling renewed inspiration, finally. With the advent of new techniques technology and that aforementioned renewed inspiration, I am exploring new ideas in recording music and have begun a new music project that will be released sometime in the future.

MSR is now available direct at iTunes (you'll be asked to launch iTunes app)

Few of you know this but I have been concentrating my efforts on visual art for the past several years. I have now decided to make some of my work available in the form of high quality Limited Edition signed giclee fine art prints. These prints are not "posters" - they are the highest museum quality giclee p rints made with pigment inks and signed by me with a Certificate of Authenticity. This art is available here.

I'm on MySpace - add me as your friend.

My early work in VISCERA is now available as free downloads through Hal's website. This early work is raw and primitive and was the foundation for all other projects to follow. An interesting look back. The downloads are free. You might be very surprised at what you hear.

Previously out of print cassette releases are now available on CD for the first time. MP3 downloads are also available now - here.



previous news:

• I originally designed and implemented the official Mortiis website. The URL is www.mortiis.com. He is really finding a voice in the underground music world and I'm pleased. Find out about all those MORTIIS rumors you've heard about from the Elfen One himself.
• I own and run a heavy metal music mailorder website called blackmetal.com which begin in 1996. It should come as no surprise considering I have always been interested in extreme music.
• I wrote a piece on "female submission" for issue #21 of Skin Two.
• Skin Two featured a double-page spread on Debbie in issue #18.
• MSR was reviewed in the November '96 issue of Terrorizer magazine out of the U.K. (a black metal/extreme music magazine) with an article that appeared in the January '97 issue also by Chad Hensley.
• I was featured in Esoterra Magazine. There is an interview and an article written for Esoterra Issue #7 by me.
• "SCENARIOS: special WIRED edition" magazine listed Master/Slave Relationship's Music for a Sadomasochistic Scene in the Colophon as "music that helped get this issue out" ..... cool! Unfortunately, it is now sold out, the magazine that is.
• Richard Kadrey of HOT WIRED did a live Club Wired interview on 10/4/95 with me at the Wired Magazine warehouse/offices in SF. I have located this interview once again and you can read it here.