history

Divider is a project took its first form back in the summer of 1995. Bryon Wilson was 17 years old and about to be a senior in high school when he began to experiment with electronic music. Initially, he only used a Kurzweil mark 10 that he borrowed from his grandfathers piano store. It was the only electonic instrument that Bryon had access to.

The Kurzweil mark 10 is a family instrument, but Bryon used it to emulate the music he loved best. Heavily influenced by Skinny Puppy, New Order, Devo, Die Krupps, Nitzer Ebb, Joy Division, Digital Poodle, Front Line Assembly, Kraftwerk, Benestrophe and Front 242, Bryon began to make unusual mechanical rhythms and beeping noises on the Kurzweil Mark 10's primitive sequencer. Some times joined by his friend Ryan Lafferty (who, with Bryon, latter formed the group Echo & Deadboy /Love and Robots), Bryon's musical ability began to grow. Bryon produced twelve 90 minute tapes of experimental electronic body music at the tender age of 18.

After a few years of musical experimentation and midi classes at the local community college, Bryon came up with the concept of Divider, an electronic industrial band that would draw influence from electronica and the new wave post punk of the late 70's and 80's. When Bryon got enough songs together, he began sending his demos to KUCR 88.3 FM's DJ Kevin Regan who hosts an industrial-goth show called "Shaving the Donkey". Kevin actually liked the demos and played them regularlly. Many demos soon followed and Bryon kept expanding on the possibilites with Divider.

In 2003, Divider was a hit on the old MP3.COM. The Divider synth pop song 'Future Beat' was the # 1 on the official MP3.COM synthpop charts for 2 weeks straight! The second to 'Future Beat' was Erasure doing a Peter Gabriel cover! Divider saw over 11,000 downloads in only 6 months time. Alas, MP3.COM ended and Bryon had to take Divider elsewhere. Everntually, Bryon got some new gear and kept moving ahead with Divider.

2004 saw the first Divider live show openning for Regenerator. In early 2005 Divider played agains to a packed show for local Riverside industrial club 'Klub Empire'. Both times, Bryon was joined on stage by Dave Call of Monowheel.

Along the way, Divider has attracted much attention from other veterans of the scene. Myspace.com has brought Divider to many to many new fans and friends. Among those are Christian Lund (Icon of Coil/Northborne), Spaz, (Sphere Laza), Gary Dassing, (Mentallo & the Fixer), James Mendez (Jihad/Trial By Fire), Charles (Lost Signal), Marco V. (XP8), Tommy T. (Diverje /DSBP), Ryan (Y-Luko). Along the way Bryon has even found friendship with Martin (Seabound). Divider has also been long-time friends with Regenerator whom were the first to give Divider the opportunity to remix a song. Thus Regenerator's remix album 'Regenerated X' features Divider's first publication.

In 2005 , Divider was busy remixing for many artists and also recieved made their first compilation appearence on Telegrammetry Record's first 'Weatherhead' Compilation. 2005 also marks the moment when Bryon's friends Aaron Hall and Peter Beal became full-time members of Divider. Now Divider is ready to handle a wide variety of different subgenres in the Industrial EBM scene. Among the recent works were covers of Benestrophe's 'Endangered Species, Mentallo and the Fixer's 'Inner Peace, and Pop Will Eat Itself's 'Everything's Cool'. All of these covers were highly regarded by the original writers. Divider are now poised to take the Industrial scene back to it's roots. With diversity in mind, Aaron, Bryon and Peter are working on new material to satisfy the dance floor minded while not conforming to any particular trends in the scene. Divider is an ambitious project that will always attempt to bring melody and experimentation to EBM.