The magick report

The Magick Report is an electronica project that is the brainchild of Ross Finlayson. Generally it is a solo project, but William Gilchrist, otherwise known as Avatar Glaeba, has been involved in a large amount of recordings and live shows. Finlayson has gone by a number of monikers since he started making electronic music in the summer of 2003, under the alias Majiq Rupert. He has since gone by Dr. Knives, Bassnoise Boomtower, Antitower, Venereal Coil N Snake, Screaming Cheetah, Anticheetah, Polycheetah, IO/NIO, 1/0, 0/1, The Nothingness, among others. He has also produced hip-hop for Godfather Germ and Loo$e $crew$.

History
Finlayson started playing guitar at age 12, when his parents bought him a Samick acoustic guitar for Christmas. Since then he has mastered guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer programming and music production, teaching himself how to play these instruments. He started electronic music production in the summer of 2003, when a neighborhood friend Mike Vargas, otherwise known as Konnichiwa Jihad, introduced him to FruityLoops 3, a software program made by Image-Line. This became his main focus of interest after hishigh school rock band, Vaginosis, broke up. He used this for a few years, introducing Gilchrist to it in 2005 when he moved into his house and joined the Rock band Tribit. In October of 2005 he moved to England, his birth country to live. While he was staying at his fathers house in Corby, a friend from Connecticut and fellow electronic musician MisfitChris introduced him to Ableton Live 5. He used this exclusively during his stay in Corby and his time in London, producing 2 full length albums and 3 EP's, out of which came the underground single 'In Search Of...', which hit number 3 on the London Techno Charts, under the moniker Bassnoise Boomtower. Finlayson moved back to America in June of 2006, to live with Gilchrist in Connecticut. shortly after his move back he renounced computers as a medium of music making, and started collecting hardware. Him and Gilchrist started a noise band with Finlayson's girlfriend Lesley Hann called The That, which was shortlived. After this he started a project with Patrick Murphy called The Controller, Murphy contributing with a Korg Kaoss pad. Starting with a stolen Boss Dr-670 and a casio keyboard, he started making music with nothing but hardware. He now resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Equipment
Finlayson currently uses an amalgamation of cheap equipment amassed from late 2006. His setup includes a Korg DS-8, Kawai K1R, Boss Dr-202 and Boss Dr-5, Roland MC-09, Behringer Eurorack UB-1622 FX Pro, Behringer Xenyx 802, dbx 266XL, Yamaha QX-7, Boss LS2, Boss ODB-3, DOD FX25, Behringer DD100, Boss DD-6, Boss PS-5, Boss MT-2, Digitech SynthWah, Fender Stratocaster, Epiphone Les Paul Special, Jay Turner violin Bass, Korg D3200, three Microphones and various circuit bent instruments. On every EP under the name The Magick Report Gilchrist plays The Korg EX-800 using a Yamaha SY-35 as a controller. Earlier recordings were cut into tracks using Audacity software on a pink Mac DV.

Discography
Note: Does Not Include Rock proijects such as Vaginosis, Tribit, etc.
2003 The Walking Headz (Finlayson, Vargas) V 1.0: Songs for the Lightheaded
2004 Majiq Rupert (Finlayson) The Drizzle EP
2005 Dr. Teeth and Dr. Knives (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Teethandknives
2005 Dr. Knives (Finlayson) Innocence and Sorrow
2005 Bassnoise Boomtower (Finlayson) Static Building EP
2006 Dr. Knives (Finlayson) Resonance and Resilience
2006 Dr. Knives (Finlayson) M-Angle EP
2006 Antitower (Finlayson) Lesley's Wet Panties Demo
2006 Screaming Cheetah (Finlayson) 12 Tales of The Cheetah
2006 The That (Finlayson, Gilchrist, Hann) Balls Single
2007 The Controller (Finlayson, Murphy) Decahedrous Mind-Drill
2007 The Controller (Finlayson, Murphy) Live at U-Conn 6/21/07
2007 The Controller (Finlayson, Murphy) Razorblade Rave
2007 The Controller (Finlayson, Murphy) Threshold Disasters
2007 The Magick Report (Finlayson) Forget, Forget, Forget
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Convene EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Intramesque EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Architexture EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Oscillant EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) 51608 EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) KngGridDust EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Orifice Office EP
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Capture Single
2008 The Magick Report (Finlayson, Gilchrist) Incongruent Shiftloss Formant EP

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