Divination (2021)

Here's a Youtube thing I put together recently for the second Circumvent album, Divination. This one was released within a month of my first record back in 2021 and shares a lot of the same energy and aesthetic. The continuation of a theme, if you will. Haha. Thank you for listening. Be well. - Chris (Jabbo)

Three-Year Anniversary!!!

Next month will be three years since I started releasing music as Circumvent. It's been a really rewarding project. Thank you to everyone who has supported what I'm doing. I've met awesome people from all around the world and collaborated with lots of artists who are all more talented than myself. I appreciate you all. I have a new album out that I'm really stoked about. It's called Created to Serve and you can hear it over at the bandcamp page. Also, I finally got around to uploading the very first Circumvent album to Youtube. When I Left Home was my first attempt at creating noise music and although it's primitive, I'm still really proud of it. It was basically my attempt to sound like WhiteHouse or Atrax Morgue. You'd never know it, since I was trying so hard to make the record hyper-edgy and dark, but this is what unbridled enthusiasm actually sounds like. Haha. When I first started working with a no-input mixer setup, I was super inspired by the artistic possibilities and the mutability of the project. That enthusiasm just keeps snowballing and the sound of Circumvent keeps mutating. I'm so grateful to everyone who has helped in giving me this vehicle to express myself. :-) _Chris

New Project From SFW Records - Circumvent

Subvert From Within Records announces a suite of harsh noise recordings. Circumvent is our new harsh noise project. Experimenting with anti-music and super aggressive sound in a time of turmoil and uncertainty. I've put a Bandcamp page (circumvent.bandcamp.com) together where you can download the material for free. Please drop by and check it out. As always, thank you for listening. -Jabbo

Gridcrawler - Stop Trusting (free album download)

Subvert From Within Records presents the newest Gridcrawler project, Stop Trusting. Ten tracks of eccentric minimal-techno. Music to dance to while you're quarantined in your apartment! Download it for FREE at  this Mediafire link.

New music from Eula Mae and The Paranoia Room coming later in 2020!

Entire SFW Catalog - Free Download 2018

I was really excited this summer to have some time to work on my art, music, etc. I bit off a little more than I could chew, though. I wanted to keep my webcomic updated https://circleofeyes.tumblr.com/, work on some new paintings for my fall exhibition, take a couple of online classes, and finish a new album with each of my three musical projects. In the end, I was able to finish everything but the music. Oh yeah, I had to find a new job, too. It's been a busy one, for sure!

I'm still workin' on the new records, but I definitely overestimated how much time I would have to work on 'em over the summer. So, here it is early autumn and I'm just entering the mixing/mastering stage of the new Gridcrawler record. New records from The Paranoia Room and Eula Mae are essentially a giant stack of raw demos at the moment. New material is definitely coming, but it's taking me longer than I ever anticipated. Just to add a new wrinkle to the whole thing, I'm collaborating with my longtime buddy Juan Pistolas on the new Eula Mae record. He's gonna play all the guitars. Working with another person adds another variable to the process, but I am VERY excited about the music we're making.

During the summer of 2017, I was able to remaster the first four SFW releases. Most of those songs were recorded on really primitive equipment, and had never been mastered. So, while the icing is cooling on the new material, I present updated links for remastered versions of every previous SFW release. Thank you for checkin' us out! -Y'er pal, Jabbo

A blast of metal guitars and primitive drum machines!!!  Eula Mae - The Iris Sessions

Lo-fi electronic noise. For brave listeners only! The Paranoia Room - Party With Tina

The Eula Mae sound gets even weirder with circuit-bent toys! Eula Mae - The Catbird

Lo-fi electronic noise that gets bleaker each time... The Paranoia Room - Cannibal Hours

My own eccentric take on minimal techno and EDM. Gridcrawler - Hallucinated

Just acoustic guitar and voice. Folk songs written by a moron. Eula Mae - Centaur Songs

Webcomic - CIRCLE OF EYES

Here's something a little different from your pals at Subvert From Within Records. CIRCLE OF EYES is a webcomic I've been developing over the summer. Comic books were my first love as a kid. Before music, writing, or art, I was heavily into comics, and I've always wanted to write/draw a comic of my own. CIRCLE OF EYES is an homage to Heavy Metal magazine, 70's and 80's sci-fi/fantasy, and all the comic books I obsessed over as a kid. Moebius, Frank Miller, John Byrne, Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Wagner, and John Romita, Jr. all served as inspiration in creating my own book. (Even though I don't have a fraction of their skill. Haha.)

The story is set in the late 22nd century. Political instability and disease have decimated the world population. The United States has been hit particularly hard and it's population has dwindled. Asian corporations have bought the remaining urban centers within America and sealed them within geodesic domes. Protected from disease, pollution, and crime within these cities, life continues with all the convenience and ease that technology can provide. Citizens are housed and cared for, while machines see to their every whim. However, the price for such a life of luxury is a police state that allows for zero dissent.

Outside these dome cities, the wilderness is lawless, but free. People live according to their own vision. Some live off of the discarded technology of the past. Repurposing computers, and bits of robotics for survival and profit. Some use violence as a means of survival. Others practice magick and the dark arts, manipulating the boundaries between science and the supernatural.

One such group is called the Circle of Eyes. They are an ancient group of witches, whose traditions go back a thousand years. They eschew technology and focus instead on refining their abilities in sorcery. They live in self-imposed exile within their labyrinthine complex, constantly searching for more mystic knowledge. Some who reside there, came seeking refuge from a world that offered only ignorance and brutishness. Others were born within the walls of their tower.

Our hero, a girl named Iris, has returned from Kaigara City where she has been living for over a year. She had wanted nothing more than to escape from the isolated world of the Circle, where she was born, and spend her life living "normally" in the city. However, when the telepathic connection she has always shared with her mother is abruptly severed, Iris knows that her mother is in danger. She must return home. Home to the CIRCLE OF EYES.

Check out the comic here!!!

Gridcrawler - Hallucinated (video)

Check out the new music video for Hallucinated, the title track from the new Gridcrawler album!!!

Download the album for free at http://www.mediafire.com/file/n2a2ykkumv2czax/Gridcrawler_-_Hallucinated.zip/file