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Knifehandchop

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Toronto native Billy Pollard may be the guy behind the plunderphonic hardcore techno of Knifehandchop, but he began playing in a normal rock-band at age 15. A enthusiast of death steel, experimental noise, commercial music, and hip-hop, Pollard quit the guitar when he got a pc. Initially his music sounded just like the pumping hardcore techno of Alec Empire or Hellfish, but following a while Pollard appeared to work in a few of his cherished hip-hop or possibly some pop. Without rapper or vocalist available, he began chopping up and merging his favorite information to attain his objective. As Pollard split pop music over R&B music he understood that he was commenting over the sameness from the 2000s’ make of pop, which Pink sounded exactly like blink-182 to his ears. Four singles for the Irritant label had been released between 2000-2002 before Child 606 snatched Pollard up for his Tigerbeat6 label. In 2003 Irritant gathered all of the singles plus three compilation and three previously unreleased monitors for Bling the Noize, while his Tigerbeat6 debut, Rockstopper, made an appearance within the fall. His second full-length, THE WAY I Still left You, implemented in 2004.

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Full Name Knifehandchop
Nationality Canadian
Music Songs Bounty Killer Killer, Goin Back to Scarborough, I Hate Your Fucking Face, My Hooded Sweater, 2 Sexxxy Booty, Transition Emotion, I Want to Kung Fu Kick My Everything, Dirty New York, Tizzy Tixbown Riddim, Technological Option, Down With the Technics / Don't Sweat the Scene, Return to Chinatown, Fakin the Punk, I Hope You Are Proud of Me, We Used to Make Love, Tutti Fruity Booty, Not for Tha Ladies, Dancefloor Seizure, 94 Hardcore, Hooked on Ebonics, You Never Cease to Amaze Me, Now With 50% More Rave, Break Your Speakers, Morning Tonight, Return to Form, Taking the Soul Out of Music, Vacant Chinatown Recital, Policecore, I'm Sorry Miss Pollard, Knifehandchop Is My Favourite DMX Master, Neuromancer, Dancemix2000
Albums Rockstopper, How I Left You, Fighting Pig Learns Judo Tricks, Street Chic, Respect to All the Haters, Bling the Noize, TKO From Tokyo, Techno-Gaiden, Get Yourself Ready, Dirty New York, The Triple Threat EP, Bounty Killer Killer, Taking the Soul Out of Music

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