Gutt Funker is a Martian performance artist and the host of the Gutt Funker S.L.U.D.G.E. Network, a two-hour radio show broadcasting every Wednesday night across the relay satellites on TCCC 106.9FM. Gutt Funker is a towering man with a mellow temper, he's generally soft-spoken in regular company but when he's in front of a mic he'll dial up his energy and put on his stage persona, coming across as way more forceful and aggressive than he actually is. He loves to smoke Ganymedean tobacco. He has two tattoos of the same woman; he believes she is a Mercurian Firewalker who sneaks into his room at night to pin him to his bed and he's really into that, but she is in fact simply his sleep paralysis demon. He is Puke Commander's ex-lover.
The Gutt Funker S.L.U.D.G.E. Network is a weekly radio program dedicated to surfacing new and underground talent from around the Sol system, primarily focusing on scenes and genres of music that don't see a lot of widespread support. Scuzcore, ratfunk, skrizz, rust metal, toilet noise, dockstep and void fusion are some of the many wells Gutt Funker draws from to feature on his show, often choosing to promote a certain genre in the first hour of the program before segueing into a regular medley of things in the second. Blocks of music will be punctuated by bits from Gutt Funker himself, sometimes telling stories from when he knew a band in his touring years, other times taking callers and razzing them over whatever they have to say, and then playing their requests anyways. It's all part of the show, and the volume and intensity of Gutt Funker's stage persona are a big part of why people tune into the S.L.U.D.G.E. Network in the first place.
Back in the day, back home on Mars, Gutt Funker was the guitarist and co-vocalist for a band called The Skidmarks, sharing microphone duties with his then-boyfriend, Puke Commander. The Skidmarks gained a bit of fame within the scuzcore scene and soon they were playing shows offworld, on abandoned satellites and backwater moons, eventually finding their way to Titan Garden. The band was approaching its zenith when a rift tore the group asunder: Gutt Funker wanted to pursue wider acceptance of scuzcore, he wanted The Skidmarks to find a bigger audience and find comfort through commercial success, believing if more people were exposed to The Skidmarks then more people would get onboard with the scene. Puke Commander vehemently opposed the idea, believing that the power of their work was in presenting an alternative to curated media, to show that there is always more to life than what we're served up and that those who needed them would find them organically. Half of the rest of the Skidmarks agreed with each opposing viewpoint, and their differences would prove to be irreconcilable, splitting the group in half. Gutt Funker's half would go on to form Gutt Funker & The Screaming Shits, while Puke Commander's half would become The Pukes. The Screaming Shits were successful in bringing broader awareness- if not widespread acceptance- of scuzcore to the wider Sol system, while The Pukes forged deeper roots within the underground community of Titan Garden. Gutt Funker and Puke Commander haven't spoken to each other since.
Today, Gutt Funker is retired from the performing life. He enjoys a modest but comfortable living on Titan, broadcasting once a week out of the E-District's studio block across the Outer Belt's satellite relay network. More than a few starfarers look forward to The S.L.U.D.G.E. Network program on long flights through space, and have begun looking for cartridges of music by featured acts when they land in port cities throughout the Sol system. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but then what is? Gutt Funker loves to play up his stage persona when he's on the air, speaking big and brash, but every now and then, once every few months, Gutt Funker will close out his show with a song dedicated to "Pea Sea", wherever he is out there, if he happens to be listening in to the program. Once every few months, Gutt Funker will close out his show with a song by a little band from Mars called "The Skidmarks".