Android Lust is the Industrial solo project of Shikhee, combining elements of rock, industrial, gothic and classical styles into a blend of music that she describes as "electronic and dark." Her music is embraced by the gothic culture for its themes of hurt, loneliness, lust, rejection, impatience and anger, though Shikhee dislikes the 'goth' label.
Originally from Bangladesh, Shikhee was sent away from the unstable political environment by her parents for schooling in England. In 1999 she moved to New York City. She also has a cat Motu named after her MOTU hard disk recording system.Shikhee uses a dual 867 processor G4 running Mac OS X, and a 400 MHz G4 running Mac OS 9. Running Digital Performer as an audio/MIDI sequencing software and the modular soft synthesiser Reaktor as her main synthesiser, as well as an Access Virus, Ensoniq ESQ-1, Synthesizers.com modular, and Korg Z1. For vocals Shikhee uses a Neuman TLM 103 microphone, a Great River pre amp, and Empirical Labs Distressor, which is an outboard compressor.
Shikhee, in collaboration with Daniel Ouellette, has also created two music videos for the songs Dragonfly and Stained. They are available to download from http://www.androidlust.com/v4/?s=video
Members:
- Christopher Jon: Drums, Keys, Backing Vocals
- Bret Calder: Bass, Guitar, Backing Vocals
