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