A band from Long Beach, California that started out as a side project of Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from ''Orgy.'' Genre-wise, they're definitely ''something'' electronic: they started out closer to IndustrialMetal, but their most recent album is more {{Synthpop}}/dance oriented.

[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] fans might recognize these guys as the band behind the songs "[[VideoGame/SonicHeroes This Machine]]" and "[[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Waking Up]]". They also did "Technical Difficulties" for ''Film/{{Transformers|2007}}'' and composed the score for the ''VideoGame/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' game.

Every member of this band was also a member of "Dead By Sunrise" along with [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]]. Ryan and Amir considered them essentially the same band, just playing different genres with a different singer. This band put out 1 album in 2009 before going on hiatus in 2012. After Chester's passing in 2017 it's unlikely they'll perform as this band again.

[floatboxright:Related Acts:
+ Dead by Sunrise (Derakh, Shuck)
+ Orgy (Derakh, Shuck)
+ Street Drum Corps (Zummo)
]

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[[folder: Current Lineup ]]

* Ryan Shuck - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
* Amir Derakh - lead guitar, synthesizer
* Anthony 'Fu' Valcic - keyboard, programming, samples, bass guitar
* Frank Zummo - drums

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[[folder: Discography ]]

* ''Death to Analog'' (2009)
* ''Out of Ashes'' (as Dead by Sunrise) (2009)
* ''Death to Digital X'' (2010)
* ''Casa del Tigor Sessions'' (in collaboration with Music/VirginTears) (2011)
* ''[[NewSoundAlbum We're Here with You]]'' (2012)
* ''California Noir - Chapter One: Analog Beaches & Digital Cities'' (2015)
* ''California Noir - Chapter Two: Nightlife in Neon'' (2016)
* ''Harmonic Disruptor'' (2020)

!!Julien-K provides examples of:
* AlbumTitleDrop: "We're Here With You," also the TitleTrack. (This was not the case with "Death to Analog," however, while "Analog Beaches & Digital Cities" and "Nightlife in Neon" are instrumentals.)
%% * BreakupSong: "Close Continuance".
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Why else would the woman in "[[IntercourseWithYou Systeme de Sexe]]" be speaking French?
* AGoodNameForARockBand: The band name comes from Julian Kaye, Richard Gere's character from ''Film/AmericanGigolo''.
%% * HarshVocals: Present in "Death to Analog" (the song, not the album).
%% * IndustrialMetal: On their first album as well as "This Machine".
* IntercourseWithYou: "Systeme de Sexe". With background moans for added NSFW-ness! Live performances take the NSFW of the studio version and pretty much ''run'' on it, with Amir panting and moaning during the bridge.
%% ** Zig-zagged with "Dystopian Girl".
* LighterAndSofter: ''We're Here With You'', as explained below, eschews industrial metal for more accessible synthpop in the vein of Eighties music.
%% * ListingCities: "Breakfast in Berlin".
* LyricalDissonance: "Close Continuance", an 80s-ish, bouncy, catchy number about a failing relationship.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''We're Here With You'' is significantly different from ''Death to Analog'' (and their Sonic songs), with a much more dance/synthpop-oriented sound. The band's former bassist, Brandon Belsky, left due to his dissatisfaction with the new direction. (Coincidentally, the two albums were distributed by different record companies, with ''Death to Analog'' coming from Metropolis Records and ''We're Here with You'' coming from Circuit Freq Records.)
** At least judging from the singles, ''Harmonic Disruptor'' goes back to the sound of ''Death to Analog'' but with a stronger emphasis on the metal elements than on the synthpop elements.
%% * NonAppearingTitle: They're doing this more often with ''We're Here With You'': "Close Continuance", "Colorcast", "I'll Try Not To Destroy You", and "Palm Springs Reset". Prior to that album, most songs have a TitleDrop somewhere other than "Dystopian Girl" and "[[TitleTrack Death to Analog]]".
%% * ObligatoryBondageSong: "Dossier" from ''Nightlife in Neon''.
%% --> ''Sometimes love requires humiliation / Sometimes lust requires domination''
* APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy: The music video for "Kick The Bass". Possibly doubles as a ShoutOut to Derakh and Shuck's former band.
%% * PrecisionFStrike: Profanity isn't used often, but when it is this is the best description of how it's used.
* {{Sampling}}: The source of the name of "Technical Difficulties." (Also pops up in other songs, such as the intro to "Death to Analog.")
* SomethingSomethingLeonardBernstein: Most of the lyrics to "Technical Difficulties" are lost in heavy electronic distortion.
* {{Synthpop}}: The style of a lot of songs on the album on ''We're Here with You''. ''Death To Analog'' had this mixed in with industrial metal and alt rock; ''California Noir'' is somewhere in between.
* TitleTrack: Each album so far has one, though only "We're Here With You" contains an AlbumTitleDrop.
* WeAreExperiencingTechnicalDifficulties: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Technical Difficulties]]".
* XtremeKoolLetterz: "Cruel Daze of Summer". (Unless it's a pun?)
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