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mike

michaeltimothybrown

About Me


All my friends are a bit mad... musicians, artists, writers, inventors, philosophers, scientists, fashion designers, deep sea divers... they're all crazy... the lot of them.

...but I love them anyway
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My Interests

TRUTH

LOVE

BEAUTY

...and the occasional pint

I'd like to meet:



Music:

joy division, lamette, leftfield, the knife, nick cave & the bad seeds, sigur ros, albinoni, broadcast, new order, the seeds, tubeway army, john foxx, goldfrapp, love & rockets, bowie, hungry lucy, kraftwerk, this mortal coil, tiger army, eno, pistols, coil, the the, death from above 1979, (old) human league, FSOL, air, sonic youth, kate bush, spacetime continuum, cocteau twins, grinderman, the glove, arcade fire, sisters of mercy, venetian snares, death cult, bauhaus, atari teenage riot, boards of canada, U2, morcheeba, aphex twin, chris & cosey, japan, area, lustmord, ramones, chameleons UK, test dept, yazoo, the normal, slow dive, gorillaz, roxy music, heaven 17, b.e.f., the future, suicide, haujobb, ultravox, chandeen, attrition, in the nursery / les jumeaux, modwheelmood, richard devine, NIN, autechre, de/vision, phonecia, kho hat hasa, m83, thighpaulsandra, postal market, steve severin's new stuff with arban, not breathing, otto von schirach, electrostatic, the sound gallery, thai essence, cylob, sonichemist, mycomaster, grace jones, parallel worlds, self-oscillate, the wretch, JEM, high blue star, yeah yeah yeahs, SMGSAP, hans fjelstadt

Movies:

OK, just a few for now... star wars (all six), lord of the rings (all three), eraserhead, a man & a woman, the red violin, lost in translation, la vie en rose, the transporter, the matrix (all three), the filth & the fury, 24 hour party people, mulholland drive, reservoir dogs, the lives of others, the big lebowski, the professional, sexy beast, stranger than paradise, amelie, merry christmas mr. lawrence, breakfast at tiffany's, 28 days later, snatch, romeo + juliet, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, a room with a view, the quiet man, destroy all monsters, the spanish apartment, last of the mohicans, pulp fiction, bond films (all of them), roman holiday, remains of the day

Television:

what's television?

Books:

at the moment: the elegant universe, the way of all flesh, out of the silent planet, kafka - collected short stories, two weeks in another town, brave new world, true spirituality, the innovator's dilema, wuthering heights, me talk pretty one day, rotten: no irish no blacks no dogs, for whom the bell tolls, musical applications of microprocessors, ginsberg - deliberate prose, antonin artaud: collected works, the cmos cookbook, the dharma bums, escape from reason, grapes of wrath

Heroes:

best bowie song... ever

My Blog

New Chandeen Album Released

The album Teenage Poetry, which we recorded last october, has been released in europe as of 28 march... the U.S. release date is 8 april. This project was truly great&nb...
Posted by mike on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST

New Chandeen Video

the new video for 'welcome the still' is up on the chandeen myspace... it's a brilliant little film by emilie lefellic.   I love emilie's lo-fi, home-movie approach... ...bri...
Posted by mike on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:40:00 PST

NAMM 2008 & sonicstate video

well, yet another NAMM show has come and gone... had an enjoyable time hangin with all my friends, some of whom I don't get a chance to see often... jon, daniel, eric, richar...
Posted by mike on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:14:00 PST

Chandeen

info regarding the new chandeen album is now up at chandeen.com as well as the first new song on the chandeen myspace. we spent a few weeks last october at harald's stud...
Posted by mike on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:46:00 PST

NAMM 2007 summary - pt.2

well, I spent most of saturday searching down parts vendors and hanging with Alessandro...  Alessandro TorteliniI'm tellin' ya.....  it's like a little kid in a toy store...  Aless...
Posted by mike on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:03:00 PST

NAMM 2007 summary - pt.1

well, it's finally over...... overall, things went very well... made new contacts, met old friends & generally had a smashing time. the synth we took to the show... friend and co-conspirat...
Posted by mike on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:49:00 PST

NAMM 2007

well, the next 2 weeks will be extremely busy getting everything ready for the NAMM show in Anaheim... so please understand if I'm a little less communicative than usual...here's is one of the things ...
Posted by mike on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:37:00 PST

Last Sunset of 2006

so the sun has set here for the last time in 2006......it now travels to meet my european friends for the first sunrise of 2007now it's off to meet some friends for tonight's diversions... cheers to a...
Posted by mike on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 10:33:00 PST

NAMM 2007 video

Sonic State filmed an interview with me at the NAMM show, in which I explained my new synthesizer modules at the Analogue Haven booth...The video is now online and you can see it by clicking on one of...
Posted by mike on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:41:00 PST