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Julien-K

Julien-K. From left to right: Brandon Belsky, Amir Derakh, Ryan Shuck, Elias Andra.

Julien-K is an American band who has done work for the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

History[]

Julien-K began as a side project for electronic music created by Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy, with the later addition of Brandon Belsky, Elias Andra, and Anthony 'Fu' Valcic. Their debut album, Death to Analog, which was mixed by Tim Palmer, was released on 10 March 2009 in the U.S., and later on 5 March 2010 in Europe. The album was initially planned to be released on 17 February 2009, the date the United States switched from analog to digital television.

Julien-K's webpage was launched in the summer of 2003 with initial demo versions of songs "Look at You", "Kick the Bass", "Someday Soon", "Everyone Knows", and "Technical Difficulties", the latter of which was later featured both in the film and on the soundtrack from Michael Bay's 2007 Transformers. Up until 2007, the webpage said "Coming Soon." Since the official webpage launch, the site has been redesigned and updated with a wealth of information, links, photos, and other media.

Julien-K has also lent musical contributions to several video games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, including Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, as well as the official musical score for the 2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen video game.

The band also made a guest appearance at the Summer of Sonic event in London on 25 June 2011 as part of their second European tour.

List of members[]

Current[]

  • Ryan Shuck - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (since 2003)
  • Amir Derakh - main guitarist, samples, keyboards, synthesizers, bass (since 2003)
  • Anthony "Fu" Valcic - bass, keyboard, programming, samples (since 2010)
  • Elias "Bones" Rodriguez - Live drums, backing vocals (since 2003)
  • Bidi Cobra - keyboard, bass, backing vocals (since 2017)

Session and live members[]

  • Brandon Belsky - keyboard, bass, backing vocals (since 2003)
  • Paige Haley - bass (from 2020)
  • Bobby Hewitt - drums (from 2016)
  • Galen Waling - drums (since 2017)
  • Alex Gonzales - drums (from 2018)

Credits[]

Soundtrack[]

Trivia[]

  • According to an interview with Ryan Shuck, their contribution to Sonic Heroes got the band lots of fans.
  • Jun Senoue happens to be a fan of the band Rough Cutt of which Amir Derakh performed in.
  • The late Chester Bennington from Linkin Park performed some songs with Julien-K, such as "Kick the Bass".

External links[]

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