Sensual, powerful, exotic, and alluring, Collide is a duo made up of Statik (noise) and kaRIN (vocals). Based in Los Angeles, California, Collide creates an aural sculpture that manages to defy categorization. It is at once deep and smooth as glass, with undulating waves of sound that seduce the senses. The essence of Collide is the coming together of two opposing entities to form a symbiotic whole.
Collide is about letting the sound orchestration unfold and develop into its own identity. This is probably why the band often hears that their music doesn't sound like anything else. Says vocalist kaRIN, "We are not your traditional type of musicians. We don’t really play music. We try to create soundscapes—layers of depth and emotion that dig into different levels of the psyche. Statik and I are complete clashing opposites that try to meet at the same place, combining the female and masculine energies, the cognitive and the subliminal, the strength and the mystery."
“I suppose I have always been driven to make music that I want to hear," says Collide programmer, noise maker, and producer Statik. "If I am working for other people, I just try to help bring their songs to another level, while adding my own sound. With Collide, it seems more difficult because we make all the decisions, and there’s a whole canvas to paint, and before a song is finished, the picture can change a dozen times.”
No strangers to the music industry, Statik has also worked with the likes of Tool, Powerman 5000, and Prince. He is also currently involved in the re-formation of Skinny Puppy. kaRIN has contributed vocals to Frontline Assembly and Plateau (cEvin Key’s side project).
"Halo" is song number seven on Collide's Chasing the Ghost CD, which was created and recorded on a Mac. The song features kaRIN on vocals, Fritz Heede on the sitar, and Statik handling the rest of the "noise." To record the music, Statik lists his impressive Mac set-up: Pro Tools MIX 3 running on a 733MHz Mac G4 and mounted in a Marathon Computer PowerRack G Series rack, 768MB of RAM, two 20-inch monitors, 140GB worth of SCSI drives, 160GB worth of ATA drives, 250GB worth of FireWire drives, and a 60GB USB drive. To work out the vocal parts, he used a 400MHz Mac G4 with Pro Tools LE, which is networked to a 400MHz G3, a 400MHz iMac, and a 233MHz beige G3 in their house. He also used an assortment of instruments, including an Akai S6000 sampler, a Studio Electronics SE-1, and an Alesis Andromeda, as well as varioius guitars and outboard effects.
