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"I'm the revolution," wails Ian Erix on the emotionally charged anthem entitled "For Conformity." "I'm chaos and confusion. Your problem, your solution," Erix declares in the title track to his debut album. "No product of a nation or overnight sensation," he quips in witty reference to the trials and tribulations he has encountered along his path. His story goes something like this. Born and bred on New York's suburban Long Island, Ian got his start in the music scene as a DJ/MC at age nine. Yes, nine. There, he nurtured his musical skills into his teens and claims his DJ days as invaluable training ground. From those days of spinning music and performing daily in front of the crowds, came the offers to join in the boyband explosion. "It was a real struggle for me," Erix says. "Because by that point I was writing my own music and I had my own look and ideas about what I wanted to do. But, I had no contacts whatsoever in the ...