Ditto. I ran into him at a horror convention in Hollywood, around '91. He was an eager horror fan looking to meet his horror movie heroes just like the rest of us. Super nice guy. And yeah - an innovative and oft-copied vocalist that gets better and better as the years go by.
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Right here it is now seven in the morning. I will try it this evening!
Greetinga from Bavaria.
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As @Scot_Solida said, set pattern length to a multiple of 12, the Elektron sequencer can definitely bang out these rhythms.
Here’s a Rytm jam that started out as an Assimilate cover
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Ok now’s my chance: where to get started with Skinny Puppy? Only one album please🙏
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For me it’s a hard call between Too dark park and last rights… but if you held a giant syringe to my arm (reference intended 
) I’d say Last Rights
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This is one of my favourite records of all time. So heavy and yet so beautiful. The missing track 10 was a mystery for a long time and then when they first released it, it blew my mind. Sometimes I miss the old days when music was hard to find and you really had to dig to get records or info about bands.
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Last rights is great, yes track 10! Really inspired my younger self, also vivisect vi, rabies, the process( unaltered vocal! What!) maybe that doesn’t help, you could just start with smothered hope and go through the years or just skip around some lots of great stuff to dig… it
Also worth mentioning ohGr, a more accessible sound still some of the great odd appeal and was amazing live much like sp, cevin key on a the craziest eletrionic drum setup I’ve ever seen, it looked like a blown up modular, tim skold from kmfdm on bass and ohgr singing through multi layerd masks, one was like a pope type where the face was rigged to open, a monkey maybe a gas mask, it’s hard to remember and they were slowly peeled off throughout the show revealing more masks, still remember the theatrics and energy from those skinny puppy and ohgr shows, back then. A great live experience.
This music definitely inspired me into wanting to get into music creation so this is a cool thread, lots of great side projects too, great to see download get a mention.
Brap on
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The way you assimilate my puppy makes me feel skinny.
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I add more great side projects to the thread:
cEvin Key has a Youtube channel where he chats with great guests. It’s full of anecdotes and gear talk:
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the way you make me feel by MJ…
mixes very well with this…ive done it in my mixes…
soulwax - compute.
very similar bassline…
i’m not so familiar with skinny puppy… ive tried over the years but it just sounds dire to me…like actual amiga demo music that somehow made it onto vinyl/cd .
assimilate … its not likely to get played again … sorry …
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My favourite is
Cleanse fold and manipulate
Dark and full of weird sample stuff and drum Sounds…
At least thats my kind of music…
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I would say Last Rights is my favorite. I’ve listened to it probably over a thousand times and still hear new things.
But their sound is so diverse, from industrial to metal to techno to ambient, you’re bound to find something you like.
I would stay start in their mid-era with Too Dark Park and Last Rights.
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And let’s not forget their greatest side project, and one of the most incredible electronic albums ever made …
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100 percent true! I bought the record in '96 or '97 and couldn’t believe what I heard then. It was the first “dance” album I liked and it still sounds fresh. Mark Spybey’s and Gen’s vocals are phenomenal.
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Rabies is my favorite. It was definitely not the first SP I’d heard, but the first I owned. It was a mainstay of the hardcore acid years (I don’t mean 303 here) and I love it to pieces to this day. Too Dark Park is also a great way in.
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Thanks people 
I’ve not actually listened to it recently, but thanks to this thread I now have “Assimimate” as an earworm. This is a good thing, that and remembering details of past Skinny Puppy gigs and realising that it will soon be chilly enough to wear my tour hoody again (perhaps while walking a suitably slim young canine too).
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Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse is my alltime fave. But they had a run from Bites/Remission well into the 90’s of amazing records.
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The 1st time I took acid I was by myself listening to Too Dark Park on repeat. I drew the album cover in oil pastels but blown up about 10x in size.
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Ha, Mind:TPI here, too. Or at least until Handover, which I like as much.
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