DJ Audio Rage
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7/27/2006 4:44:20 PM
DJ Audio Rage - The Adventure
Band History:
Audio Rage, the computer band project was brought together by Patrick Lew long after his circle of friends (Samurai Sorcerers) at Wallenberg High left him on his own to create his masterpiece of new music, “Revenge.” Now he was doing all the instrumentation by himself along with his performances. Other musicians were brought in for touring and live performing purposes from his circle of friends @ college or online ads..
Audio’s old musical group Samurai Sorcerers reached fame and cult following of friends/fans on various Audio/Samurai Sorcerers websites (i.e. MySpace, SoundClick or PureVolume). But near the end of 2004, drama arose in the band camp of musician friends. And on October 2004, Audio hired two session musicians Mony and Janet on the trendy networking website MySpace as touring/studio members for Samurai Sorcerers, but only for finishing the music for the album “Psychotic Love” and its subsequent college campus live tour.
Samurai Sorcerers (Audio, Eddie and Shawn) got into Eddie’s house and workshop to make their second (but final) album called “The Blizzard of Sound” on a computer and instruments they rented from a guitar store. This was also the very first time, Audio made music on a computer application.
The band camp’s home-made demo “Psychotic Love” was released on December 6, 2004 via internet. But badly enough, the musical promotion and live tour for the album proved to be grueling. Samurai Sorcerers’ two warm-ups at City College proved to be flops when Audio previewed music from Samurai Sorcerers album to the community college crowd. The last show on the “Psychotic Love” tour was at Balboa High on February 13, 2005, which also started a short-term romance and love relationship Audio had with a Japanese girl named Yoshiko Kuwamoto, whom he met backstage at his gig.
Samurai Sorcerers continued to be a group and make music together, planning a third album which was being made in Eddie’s house using computers and guitar store rented equipment again. In May 2005, the band hired Audio’s college friend Zack Huang on keyboards. Numerous jam sessions and band practices at Eddie’s workshop proved to be tough, and not much activity went on. “Blizzard of Sound,” the album which was delayed for 1/2 a year was leaked on SoundClick and hXcMP3.com websites. This also caused a growing tension between Audio and his other bandmembers Eddie and Shawn. And the album was taken off the internet, causing Audio to be on bad terms with the group alumni’s.
The only solution was Eddie to make “Blizzard of Sound” was to make it his solo album called “Personality” and he only put the music up for free MP3 downloads on his website instead. Eddie and Shawn have since done another musical project called Sapien, which did shows across the Bay Area.
On June 8, 2005, the Samurai Sorcerers made their last public performance at Archbishop Riordan High, which featured founding member and original bassist Mayumi taking part in the music and gig. In an ironic grim twist, Audio’s grandmother passed away on his day. The group’s time was nearing an end, as on August 9, 2005, the group members and musicians of Samurai Sorcerers agreed to part ways in acrimony.
Audio had a musical career ahead of him, but seemed more interested in computers and college. He played music for a various musical groups for a little while, until he went to Guitar Center and computer shops to pick up computer applications to make music, and thus formed School of Audio Rage, his solo project and promotion which served as Audio’s one-man band in the studio and live. The Audio Rage project was formed by October 2005, and Audio soon began a musical promotion tour for his new band Audio Rage in Asia, coinciding with a musical performance on his 20th birthday at a party.
For a short time, Audio Rage placed a "musician wanted" ad on Craigslist.org to search for a session guitarist. M
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