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Origin & Evolution of Headcleaner

1996 started with me picking up a guitar for the first time. Shortly after this, three high school friends and I started The WOO-C's - a typical 90's South African garage band born in the hey-day of grunge. In a shed on a smallholding outside of town we struggled getting a grip on bar-chords, song writing, lyrics and melody lines. Lost in our new discoveries we knew that we had something behind that rusted door. With heads full of music we burnt the midnight oil. With our focus on this new horison, we turned our backs on our doubts and locked the door behind us.

Highschool soon ended and two years later I unsuspectingly found myself behind a badly rusted drum kit barely hanging on to the searing pace of Patient Zero. With a mix of rap, rock and metal my musical borders were forced open.

For me, however, the ground was set for assimilation - and in a cloud of smoke Numlock appeared. Numlock was a Frankenstein's monster of low-tech, slow PC's, bad software, humming cables and an urge to write electronic music that did not remind of any of the genres of the time.

Headcleaner began life as a partial rebirth of Patient Zero. Initially the music was based on the same premise, but by 2004 I found myself wired for a new sound. The "band" eventually disappeared in the divide between the "original versions" and the electronic mixes on my hard drive. This finally took shape as "The Dynamics of Extinction" - a conglomerate of songs based on the decay of society, the transient nature of this "machine of loss" we call reality, transcendence and our acceptance of the status quo.

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