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Mys-Elf

About Me

i was born on 08/08/80 @ 8pm
i play with fire.
i produce music and create sonic art.
i like to draw abstract thoughts and paint pages with lyrical poetry.
i learnt at an early age an art form in folding words, where some folds appear to not actually crease. I play with fire. I create surreal things.

i organise guerrilla zoo events/exhibitions/happenings - check www.myspace.com/guerrillazoo

DOWNLOAD MY LATEST MIX - !!! 40 tracks crushed into 78mins

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 13/08/2006
Band Website: www.GuerrillaZoo.co.uk
Band Members: Johnny Tripp - Production / Lyrics / Samples / Vocals / etc...

Sound designer, sample maker / decontructor Sonic art, soundscapes, trip hop, glitch, bastard pop,electro, dark-sided dance, punk, rock, ambient, experimental, art pieces, remixer, digital dj, will work in any genre...
Influences: MUSIC: like poetry, walking in the paths of Saul Williams, Taylor Mali, Sage Francis, Buck 65, Dose One, Themselves, cloudDEAD, why?, the listener, boom bip, stuff on lex records and anticon...MF Doom, Quasimoto, wu tang, gravediggaz, etc...hate fake fuckin gangsta rappers...they piss me off - if your gona bring 'da word' then make it something positive, like music creates so manifest better futures for your listeners, rather than making murder....old skool punk from 1977, Ramones, GBH, GG Allin, etc drunken punk like dropkick murphys, the living end, lars frederiksen and the bastards, distillers, the living end, sub humans... rock like desert sessions, tool, perfect circle, smashing pumpkins, NIN, pearl jam, system of a down, therapy?, the pixies, red hot chili peppers, klaxons....ummm tripped out stuff like THE MARS VOLTA, omar rodriguez lopez, cane and able, can, booker t and the mgs, howlin' wolf, old lost 50s rock n roll and psychedelic funk....hehe anti folk music scene (the outsiders to the industry), johnny cash, tom waits, nick cave and the bad seeds, electronic music from sonar festival, dj shadow, tricky, mike patton, alec empire, nic endo, digital hardcore records, the whole glitchcore scene like shitmat/wrong music, breakz n jungle n Drum N Bass... dub like trojan records, lee scratch perry, junior reid & prince buster, ambient stuff, warp records, trip hop, ninja tunes, coldcut, dj food, krush, all of the music scenes...apart from bad commercial pop bile that chokes the children. i could probably go on like this forever you realise....but i'm gonna stop...4 now.

Books: Any thing by William S Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien, Archetypes - Elemire Zolla, The Seventh Octive - Saul Williams, Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman, Hermetics - Franz Barton, Ocean of Sound - David Toop, Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing - René Daumal, Bardo Thodol, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic, Rashomon, misc Nietzsche & Tesla, Deliverance from Error - Al-Ghazali, Cosmic Canticle - Ernesto Cardenal, Faeries by Brian Froud, Steppenwolf/Siddhartha - Herman Hesse, Cosmic Canticle - Ernesto Cardenal, All and Everything - Gurdjieff, Doors of Perceptipm - Aldous Huxley, His Dark Materials Trilogy - Philip Pullman, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Jung, The Astral World: Its Scenes, Dwellers, and Phenomena - S. Panchadasi, The Masnavi - Rumi, epics like Gilgamesh, ancient philosophers like Herticlitus, Eastern & Western philosophy & science & art like buddha, da vinci n whatever, mysterious like the Emerald tablets of thoth, hidden underground cave cities and astral planes, ancient civilsations, quantum theories about resonant strings, lucid dream exploring and other junk food for thoughts...phew! oh and lots of comics like tank girl, the maxx & sin city style...
Sounds Like: Dreaming
Record Label: none

My Blog

Mys-Elf’s mix featured on Spannered!

Spannered's sixth Oddcast is a rich mix of folk, Latin, hip hop, indie and electronica woven together by none other than, Mys-Elf, organiser of London's Guerrilla Zoo parties!Check out the link below ...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:31:00 GMT

Road tripping in across USA in 30 days

Just returned from a road trip across United States of America with live collaborative artists Vorcan, who are undertaking an amazing journey, 50 paintings in 50 states in 50 days...I join in the madn...
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:19:00 GMT

time off

i havent written anything for months...constant sickness suffocates my elusive words and the pills stunt their childish growth...all else are still born thoughts and cat nap trips to oblivion.  This i...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:55:00 GMT

magic rites...

MAGIC RITES Before we begin...a pause...a moments silence.We remember those that have forgotten.... We invoke those that organise chaos in colour form.We mediate with elemental energies to converse in...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:53:00 GMT

summer words...

1 ----------------------------------------- Lost my lyrics in orpheus' lyre As my words were lured by a beautiful liar. Foolishly I fell in booby-trapped embrace And was consumed in the fever of love ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 05:25:00 GMT

short scribbled words

Matter is appearances conceptionWhich mind mouldAnd souls gatherTo anchor themselvesTo this moment.We are a movement with no apparent directionGingerly bred to find the crumbs.That lead to unfound kin...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:45:00 GMT

Maps and Signs (and Symbols)

I followed my white heart palpitating fastLike a rabbit thumping its paw in panicHead first down a spiraling hole I discovered in a flawed map of life.Just to see where it went,And where it led me I'l...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:29:00 GMT

Whiskey Dervish

The stranger sat awkwardly and to one side of the bar stool.Sipping his solem drink seldom blinking, lost in deep thoughts.Prostrating himself mentally for the communion, with the djins within bottles...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:24:00 GMT

New Order

New OrderBound by wired words in wireless worlds of dettached ob-servers as asserting free speech is often prelude to your own murder Transfixed like blue-tak to walls of sound bytes from two fear ind...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:59:00 GMT

The Story of Silence

Silence (i,ii,iii,v,vi)  ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   i       Once long ago, SILENCE was captured, hijacked and removed from thi...
Posted by on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:49:00 GMT