Starting in 2000 I began creating short multimedia promotional biographies of Gothic, Industrial, Electronica, EDM, IDM, Noise, Techno, Dark Pop, Electro Punk and Black Metal artists in Macromedia's Director/Shock Wave Format(SWF) and Flash. In 2015 I converted over 200 animations from Flash to HTML5 code and in 2017 I again converted the features to Mpeg4 YouTube Movies. These are my historical archives...

Summer 2002

Summer in Alaska. It's great having direct sun till 11 PM at night and then the longest sunsets you ever experienced. Looks like we only have eight features for twelve weeks but maybe I took some time off for a vacation.

So I got this debut EP from Girlie Action for a local NYC band. MAROON5. 11 years later as I look back I could not of guessed that they would become huge though the quality of the music is undeniable.

Girlie Action also sent me something from a major label (RCA) telepopmusik from France. Quite a step up for me.

The rest of this issue's features are more like what I usually get. First a self-title debut single from England by the band the Sepia. Then a band submitted CD by SPELLGATE, Lilac Ambush from Boston sent their new EP and from Australia Zeitgeist has submitted their 4th CD. My favorite CDs this time around is the German band Beborn Beton and from Athens, the duo Jucifer. Check them out and see if you agree.

About the author

RG Geiger has been a visual artist since a very young age. His creativity with technology began with the Commodore 64 where he learned machine language and BASIC programming. Next, he utilized that knowledge to explore the ATARI ST and was published in the first edition of COMPUTES! First Book of ATARI ST. Then moving on to a Windows PC he learned Macromedia Director to created CD-ROM presentations and then Macromedia Flash (later bought by Adobe) to create this Ezine. Since then his concentration has been various web technologies to maintain and expand his internet presence. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Communication from the University of Alaska with an emphasis in graphic design and a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from Penn State. Under the name Bytet he released a vanity CD of original Electro Gothic music and has appeared on 18 International darkwave compilations in the 90s from France, Italy, Canada and the United States.

(the original pitch)

Are you a music promotional/marketing firm (like Girlie Action NYC), a record label (like WTII Records or Art Of Fact) or a DarkWave, Gothic, Electro or Industrial band? Would you or your represented artist like to be featured in a future issue of our zine? you must be prepared to give us permission to use images and words from your web site and/or press kit. Loop creates an animated biography for your project. It can also be very auto-biographical as we often will merely mirror your web content using your own words in our interactive musical animations. Loop uses this multimedia production to highlight your current available product. You must also be willing to give permission to Loop to sample from 20 to 40 seconds of your music for this production. Loop prefers to receive this product along with your press kit. E-mailed Electronic Press kits will not be accepted.

MAILING YOUR PRESS KIT TO LOOP IS CONSIDERED ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE SUBMISSION CONDITIONS. DO NOT SEND A PRESS KIT UNLESS YOU AGREE WITH THESE CONDITIONS AND YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH LOOP USING YOUR WORDS, IMAGES AND MUSIC TO PRODUCE THIS SHORT PROMOTIONAL MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION.

Mail your press kit to
RG Geiger@

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