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Matt

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the fabrications

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Member Since: 4/18/2005
Band Website: thefabrications.net
Band Members: Matt Macfarlane and Friends
Influences: My friends & my family. Also Roger Troutman, Bruce Haack, Jay Dee J Dilla, Bernard Herrmann, Andy Kaufman, Ant Banks, Frank Zappa, The National Lampoon Radio Hour, David Holmes, Boards Of Canada, Madlib & Yesterday's New Quintet etc..., Ween, Daft Punk, Air, Prefuse 73, Amon Tobin, RZA, DJ Premier, Pete Rock, Dr. Dre, Firesign Theatre, Dust Brothers.
Sounds Like: Depending who I'm working with at a given time, anything from comedy to weird electronica to looped jams and weird psychedelia. These days, an emphasis on subtle variations in Sound, Texture, and Groove, with little or no emphasis on Words or Notes. And everything's more fun in headphones.
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Shuffletreats!

Shuffletreats.zip 6.1MBA fun trick to play on your friends! Put these mp3's on your friends mp3 player or in their music library, and watch the fun fly when these short, streamlined mp3's pop up durin...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:31:00 PST

"Nuking The Fridge" my ass....

So, in the new "Indiana Jones movie" (that's in quotes for other reasons), there's a scene near the beginning where Indy survives a nuclear bomb detonation by getting inside a refridgerator right befo...
Posted by Matt on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:43:00 PST

Complete Fabrications Podcast & Music Archive

You can download all episodes of The Fabrications' Podcast here: http://www.archive.org/details/TheFabrications_Podcast_Seaso n1ALBUMS:- Mouse Egg (Comedy, 2005)- Foxbot (Comedy, 2006)- Coke Rats (EP, ...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:52:00 PST

Which Is Worse: Across The Universe Vs. Im Not There

  VS This year has given us TWO crappy "re-imaginings" or "interpretive storytelling" or whatever-type movies about two of the most important musical forces of the 20th century: Bob Dylan and The...
Posted by Matt on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:31:00 PST

My CD Player doesn’t want to hurt my feelings....

I just noticed that the little text window on my portable CD player flashes the word "Sorry" every time it skips.... what a sad world we live in where someone mandated that particular feature......
Posted by Matt on Wed, 14 May 2008 10:30:00 PST

Audio Landmines (microsongs)

I know I've been talking about this project for a while, and some of you are probably sick of hearing about it, but I'm really doing it over at audiolandmines.vox.com.  These are short little tra...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:35:00 PST

Pause-Button Pete

http://pausebuttonpete.blogspot.comYes, this is the kind of szhit I do when I’m sick on the couch and can do nothing but use the pause button on my tape recorder.  I think some of this shit...
Posted by Matt on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:16:00 PST

Youtube rap fans hate Puppies

Anyone who’s ever searched for a music video on youtube has probably come across one of these videos - a bunch of google-imaged pictures of the artist and the studio mp3 version of the song play...
Posted by Matt on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:01:00 PST

New York

Wow, one of my best friends and both of my brothers now all live in New York, and they are all into making weird pointless art & shit.  I must visit. ...
Posted by Matt on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:09:00 PST