Birth name Skiz Fernando Education Harvard University Role Record producer Name Skiz Fernando | Labels Wordsound Years active mid-1990s–present Movies Crooked | |
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Also known as The Eye, The Ill Saint, Minister Fernando, Wordsound I-Powa, Slotek Albums Acid & Bass, Internal Dynasty, Psychic Wars Genres Illbient, Hip hop music, Trip hop Similar Sensational, Dr Israel, Prince Paul, Bill Laswell, Susan Christie Profiles | ||
Spectre is Skiz Fernando, head of the Wordsound label, in his record producer, rapper and electronica artist persona.
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Career
He is known for dark, brooding compositions inspired by illbient, trip hop, industrial music, and horror films, and has been described as "the Nosferatu of underground horrorcore". His first album was The Illness (1995), which drew comparisons with the Wu-Tang Clan and Lee "Scratch" Perry, and cemented his reputation in the musical community. He soon began collaborating with Prince Paul (on his Psychoanalysis album), Techno Animal (Vs Reality), Sensational (on Spectre's 2001 album Parts Unknown), and others.
Spectre also released a 90-minute mixtape, RuffKutz, which showcased his new label, Black Hoodz, and featured tracks by Dr. Israel, Sensational, Mr. Dead, and the Jungle Brothers. His second album, The Second Coming was released in 1998, with a third, The End following in 2000.
Psychic Wars was released in 2003, with reviewer Mason Jones commenting "Spectre's world is a dark, dank back alley, with echoes of doom-laden bass pulses and the distant clanks and thuds of a factory on the outskirts of town". German magazine Skug described the album as "Gnackwat for the brain cells". The album featured vocals from Honeychild and was mixed by Pere Ubu's Tony Maimone.
Crooked
In 2000 while visiting family in Sri Lanka, Fernando wrote the script for a movie called Crooked. The film was shot in 25 days in April 2001 then edited and put through post production through the summer and winter of the same year. It was released on the Wordsound label as a soundtrack and a two disc DVD set in 2002.
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Film
Several tracks from The Illness and The Second Coming were used in the film The Mindscape of Alan Moore.