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Artist
The Rhythm Messiahs
10+ albums
ambientinstrumentaltrip hopelectronicchill-wave
about
The Rhythm Messiahs is the music project of multi medium artist and 24/7 thought broadcaster J.D. Casten. Free tracks can be downloaded at the offical website, http://therhythmmessiahs.postegoism.net. Hailing from Eugene, Oregon, USA, Schizophrenic multi-medium artist and 24/7 thought broadcaster, J.D. Casten, born in 1968, has been listening to background music almost constantly since 1993, in order to drown out the voices he hears in his head. Having undergone extensive treatment for his condition, including repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation experiments at Yale, he recaptured some of his creative time, and besides creating art and poetry, tried his hand at playing guitar, keyboards, and DJ looping, to create the sounds of the albums “American Power Projection” and “Melody Method” under his moniker “The Rhythm Messiahs.” J.D. comes from a computer programming background, having published Atari computer games in the 1980s, and has turned to computers again to help realize his artistic aspirations, both visually and musically. Counting many artists and bands as influences, from DJ Shadow and Odd Nosdam to Radiohead and Boards of Canada, J.D. has forged his own style of mid-tempo trip-hop with a wide spectrum of moods, from the fun-funky “Super Sly Fly” on the album “Melody Method” to the darker, somewhat spooky, “Slow To Sleep” from “American Power Projection.” In 2009, J.D. established Post Egoism Media, in order to make books, art and music from talented digit
