Posted by  Patrick in on September 6, 2005 at 9:03 PM
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Audio Rage, the computer band project was brought together by Patrick Lew long after his circle of friends (Samurai Sorcerers) at Wallenberg High left him on his own to create his forthcoming masterpiece of new music, “Revenge.” Now he was doing all the instrumentation by himself along with his performances. Other musicians were brought in for touring purposes.
Mainly a rock & roll project done by a computer, Audio Rage was the one-man band and musical concept of Patrick Lew. Patrick Allan Lew was born November 15, 1985, in San Francisco. An Asian American of Taiwanese and Japanese ancestry, he showed promise as a creative artist and musician but not as a stereotypical Asian child. Even more so, Patrick stated his childhood was mostly tumultuous. Patrick was an outsider at school and was teased by other children for being “different” and “unique.” But while Patrick’s school life was sort of difficult, he acted small roles in many theatrical plays and became an avid Beatles fan. His interest in music came as an answer to his anti-social life, as he got into rock & roll before reaching 5th grade. At the age of fourteen, Patrick got a guitar and began teaching himself through books. He also worked at a comic book store and worked at the Cherry Blossom festival at Japantown as a teenager. Eventually, Patrick became a computer geek and began teaching himself how to use various computer applications and working on his own music for hours.
He spent his high school years as a well-appreciated student from his classmates on campus at Wallenberg High. It was here where he studied computers and drama, but failed many of his academic courses. Also around this time, he was discovering J-Pop and assorted underground music. Patrick spent a year at City College of San Francisco studying music and broadcasting, but left the community college to escape his past and began playing music more than attending class studying for exams. Around his final year at Wallenberg High, Patrick Lew and his circle of friends Eddie Blackburn and Mayumi played in a school grunge band called Samurai Sorcerers. Most of the time, they would do a gig and play their instruments at a street corner in the city. The Samurai Sorcerers released 2 studio demos on disc, “Psychotic Love” “Blizzard of Sound” which was raw, primitive garage band music the circle of Wallenberg High friends made during their short time together. You can find lots of Samurai Sorcerers websites on the internet by searching on GOOGLE. The Samurai Sorcerers broke up after long periods of no jam sessions or band practices in Patrick’s house, and Patrick subsequently jammed with other local garage bands on guitar but was booted out for his amateur musicianship.
In reaction to being booted from playing in local bands with real-life musicians, he replaced the musicians with a computer program. This became Audio Rage, Patrick Lew’s alternative to Samurai Sorcerers. As Audio Rage, which the bandname was taken from Patrick’s obsession with heavy rock & roll music being played on his portable mp3 player, he began producing his own Beatles-inspired compositions through 21st century technology, the computer, playing all the instruments himself. Although he is in such a state of creative lull at this moment, Patrick managed to cobble up the demo tapes he made of new material, and began posting it on various artist showcase websites. The mp3 podcast singles “Asian Woman Blues” and “Revenge” earned Audio Rage and Patrick good reception and became a fixture on mp3 downloads. Sooner than later, his music was promoted on fan-made websites to some bands he liked, The Beatles and Poison.
As Audio Rage began showcasing their musical work on various websites and with Patrick Lew getting expelled from Skyline College, Patrick and his one-man band Audio Rage moved to his bedroom and assembled a studio from $1,500 worth of equipment and musical instruments bought from junk shops to Guitar Center to record Audio Rage’s album “The Chronicles of Revenge.” In the meantime, Patrick Lew in the meantime, began collaborating with his Skyline College pal David "Knuckles" Arceo to create a non-Samurai Sorcerers side project called Fatal Fury, which the musical duo and project specializes in making video game soundtracks and dance/electronica in Patrick's bedroom during social gatherings at his house on a weekend when school is out.
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