It’s a fact that a band like Jackal & Hyde (that you created) influenced at least two decades of artists. When I finally could afford and purchased this synth, I was instantly and forever deeply hooked into synthesis and the making of Electronic Music. The final step was to wash a million cars in the neighborhood and mow a million lawns as a kid in order to get my first synthesizer, a Korg Poly-800. After witnessing this strange phenomenon over and over, my family found me a seasoned piano teacher and got me started on actually learning to read and write music instead of just doing it all by ear. I would go see movies with my mom even back when I was six or seven years old, and come home afterwards and play parts from the movie’s score or opening theme from the film on our families piano all by ear and after only one listening in a theater. By the luck of the stars, I always had a knack for music, it’s difficult to explain. Scott Weiser: I began playing piano at age seven and switched to synthesizer and computers in my teenage years. Briefly tell me how you got into making music, what were your main influences as a kid? What inspired you to get into making music? With numerous instant classics on labels such as Hallucination Recordings and Frajile Records (as J&H), Dynamix II with David Noller (as Dynamix II), Joey Boy (as Industrial Bass Machine along with UK’s Bass Junkie) just to name a few, Scott has nothing more to prove that he hasn’t finished to get talked about!Ĭhris Nexus 6: Welcome Scott, it’s an honor to have you do this interview with me, I am a huge fan of your music! This might be a famous story, but from my European eyes, it remains untold. And when the “purveyor of the hardcore-Electro sound” gets the opportunity to talk about the syncopated scene, prepare for some lessons from a respectable veteran! For, the co-founder of the legendary Jackal & Hyde project along with long time partner-in-crime Todd Walker goes back into time with me, revealing how he jumped into the Electro train when he was a child, how he started Jackal & Hyde, and how he judges the current dance Electro scene today.
Scott Weiser is known to be a plain-spoken man. His greatest work not only mirrored the life and times of Deacon but it became a confessional for Stevenson's own drug use.The Interview with Scott Weiser From Jackal & Hyde: Words Of Wisdom From A True Master Of The Sound! And by age 35 the Deacon burst out of Stevenson's subconscious and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was born. In spite of his anxiety and lung disease he became an acclaimed author and upright member of society with a reputation for penning the most delightful children's stories of all time - Treasure Island being his most famous novel.īut beneath the respectable image, darkness still lurked. Aged 30, he married Fanny Osborne an American divorcee, nine years his senior. He could now only dream of living the life of Deacon. He spent months confined in his bedroom dependent on his father's money and an addictive cocktail of drugs, opium, alcohol and morphine, to keep him alive. But in 1872 Stevenson suffered a severe relapse of respiratory illness and almost overnight his bohemian days were over. It was her stories of Deacon that planted the seeds of a dark obsession.Īt University, Stevenson took to dressing like Deacon, By age 17, he was living the life of Deacon, exploring his old haunts and indulging in all his vices, inching his way closer to creating Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. He was raised by a God-fearing spinster nurse who attended to his spiritual health and administered what became a life long regime of drugs. A sensitive and sickly child, plagued by nightmares and lung disease.
A brilliant but tortured soul, Stevenson was born into a wealthy Victorian family. In this film, the true story of Robert Louis Stevenson is revealed. By night he was a compulsive gambler, sex addict and a criminal. By day, Deacon was a gentleman, a respected citizen with wealth and power. He had been obsessed, since childhood, with the notorious Scotsman William Deacon Brodie (known as Deacon), a legendary sociopath who lived 100 years earlier. What could this mild-mannered man know of inner demons and the power of evil and addiction?īut just as Dr Jekyll had two faces, so to did Stevenson.
Robert Louis Stevenson had been known as the charming author of beloved children's stories such as a Child's Garden of Verses. In the novel Henry Jekyll, a respected doctor, concocts a potion to release his inner evil and becomes Mr Hyde. It was the first time that literature had depicted evil residing in someone rather than an objective character, a creature.
It became an instant success and changed the face of horror stories forever. It told the terrifying story of the power of addiction and the monsters that lurk within us all. In 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a best selling book, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.