Sage Brooks presents '12345555hypoxia' on Nühn Records

        

Nühn Records presents in 1 September, 2023 the last album from Sage Brooks aka Deepgrave Min Og Dog

"The 12345555hypoxia album is dedicated those dying.  Those receiving their final care.  Deepgrave min og dog didn't get its name until 2001.  Over time the deepgrave recordings got better, evolving from raw cassette, to cassette portastudios into 16bit soundcards, to itb productions, to using a usb mixer,and then finally to using an audio interface."

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Sage started jamming out on keyboards and recording to cassette in 96 Albany,oregon.  Him and his friend realized they needed to start an industrial band and got some good gear and made some good tapes.  He got his first synth/sampler/workstation, the k2000, then later went solo.  After that in 1996 to 1997, alone jamming and making the first instrumental recordings, he made bizarre tapes and crude sequences on floppy which were shared only with friends then moved to Maryland.  he spent time traveling and his main two synthesizers broke down in ups shipping and greyhound.  Then after watching vhs japanoise tapes from his sister sage realized he had to get into analog synths.  In 1999 he got the sidstation,gem s2 as a controller, and began recording to a Windows 98se machine with Jetaudio software.  Around this time sage took classes in arts and computer graphics at montgomery college which really helped and inspired him.  2001, he began submitting tracks to compilations over the internet. The very first compilation was when the Yahoo! "Strange puppets" had their group album back in 2000. The first deepgrave single released on that compilation was called "b-coldroom" and the only reason the project name, "deepgrave" was chosen was because it was the yahoo id he used at the time.  Min og dog was added to deepgrave because there was already a band with that name.  Min og dog's meaning has something to do with ??drugs?? and the relationship between soundwave and ravage of transformers.  Shopping for analog modular in 2001 was quite different then it is in 2023.  So he got the Doepfer A-100 modular which was his main synthesizer for a long time from 2001 to present.  2001 to 2004 was the time he made a ridiculous amount of gross multitrack cassette tapes and regular cassette tape recordings.  Ridiculous raw noise and sounds, tapes of just appreciating soundwaves,synthesizer sound qualities,synthesizer programs,experiments,bleeps,beeps,hisses,and noises.  Annoying people with abstract audio bombardment, like aiming monitor's output of his apartment window to children at the gaithersburg elementary school around 2002.  He also jammed out using some fruity loops back during version 3.  The many old tapes and cdr's are preserved and planned to be released and remastered.  Weird serious vocals was always the theme.  Heavily processed and also sometimes badly recorded spoken word,screams, and noises.  2004 to 2010 was a time he made strange psychedelic noise with many others in a big setting.  2004-2010 Deepgrave released many very limited cdr's and also uploaded to the internet.   Sometimes files and samples were shared with online friends.  From 2010 to present productions got alot cleaner and of higher resolution.  These recordings were made using a DAW and nicer interfaces. Sage worked by himself most of the time.  Sometimes when sage recorded, he included many friends.  Some of which became official or unofficial bandmates.  The two people he jammed with most in the past was Orlik on vocals and guitar(2004-2010)[rediculous amount of psychedelic noises] and Toadie aka Sdx aka Lepsi on synthesizer and computer assistance&support(2001-2011,2023).  The deepgrave genres include electronic, experimental electronic, minimal electronic, psychedelic, harsh noise, harsh noise wall, and ambient.  Sage would like to thank the following: Matt Fisher,Matt Shipp,Brokecore recordings,N0-age,Bode Gustav,The Church of the Noisy Goat,The Autonomous Individual Network,The Facebook Group HNW Harsh Noise Wall,All of the great labels and the people who hosted the compilations that had deepgrave, all of the great people he worked with and helped him through the years, family and friends, all the synthesizer companies, and of course Nühn records and the people who listen to Deepgrave min og dog.