OhGr

提起OhGr乐队可能没有多少人知道。但是，它的前身Skinny Puppy可是鼎鼎大名的工业dance乐队。OhGr的制作成员是Skinny Puppy的Nivek Ogre 、Dave Ogilvie 与录音师Mark Walk（此君曾与pigface合作过）。 　　 　　不过OhGr的东西和Skinny Puppy时期比起来有很大的改变。旋律化的失真电子音效代替乐生硬的爆炸性鼓机。以前Skinny Puppy的音乐背景有各种很复杂的采样音效，听起来也很阴暗、诡异。但OhGr怪虽怪，却明快、清晰了许多，音色也比较单。有几首歌的节奏清楚得甚至可以用吉他扒下来。Ogre的嗓音经过处理显得的很“时尚”，纤细、无助、苍白，却没有了Skinny Puppy时的暴躁。我看过skinny Puppy早期的现场video, Ogre穿了一身十足的punk行头，皮衣加狗圈。现在再听OhGr，Ogre已经显得的老练多了。不知是level up，还是down了。　　
Biography
by MacKenzie Wilson
Nivek Ogre was the snarling voice behind Canada's fierce industrialists Skinny Puppy, and after their demise in 1995, he was already tinkering around with various music projects. Together with producer Mark Walk (Pigface, Ruby), he designed the unit called OhGr. The new moniker, which had been in the works just prior to Skinny Puppy's end, did not see the light of day until the late '90s due to contractual drama with Rick Rubin's American Recordings. Ogre had anticipated releasing the debut album entitled WELT that same year, but music industry politics and egos played into ignoring the record. It wasn't until 1999 that Ogre's legal bindings to the record company expired and WELT was finally rescued. Tracks were revamped and OhGr inked a deal with Spitfire Records instead, and the album was issued in February 2001. Far more positive and motivated compared to the years he spent with Skinny Puppy, Nivek Ogre appeared thrilled with his OhGr and eager to make it worthwhile.