Noxious gas toting 'Ruin' is the project of Phil Baljeu. 'Ruin's' musical stylings have been all over the map, but as of late is focusing more on texture, rhythm and FM synthesis. Using the cast away machines of a bygone age 'Ruin' forges his songs from the firery furnace of industrial into moldy peices of soundtrack fit for a film that never existed. This is music to smith metal to, shave to, run marathons to, beat up mlbutt to, etc. Please enjoy. (from the Nineteen Eighty FourRuin Profile) Guide to understanding Ruin: 1. He’s Canadian, quite young, and lives with his parents 2. He uses plenty of great, cheap gear, including electribes, paia, old fm synths, and sweet old tape machines 3. He builds his own modular gear, which contributes to the dirtiest sounds on earth 4. He loves him some Pansonic and Throbbing Gristle. 5. He owns a gas mask and takes hilarious pictures of himself in it 6. He’s capable of some intense sarcasm. Dirty sounds, not like some squarewave through a resonant filter with fuzz on it, but dirt like oscillator crosstalk while the vca picks up some am talk radio station at 3 in the morning. Dirt like someone is pouring dirt into your ear. Dirt like getting lockjaw from eating an old rusty sandwich. Scott Bruzenak sept 07