Melissa - the Love of my Life.
The Pig-Pie, our adorable huge cat
Making my bedroom music:
I am MIGRATING ISLAND.
[click on the Migrating Island logo below]
[This is a work-in-progress.
Patience please.]
All music and cultures of all the world
...especially Jamaica. Roots, Reggae, Culture.
All about it.
Playing and learning all instruments of the world, especially the string kind.
Close Harmony
Creating Visual Arts
My Ninja - Sir Bart Stranglehold
All Penguin species
Beatboxing
Playing in my bands:
STOUT
CHOWDER
The SLUMLORDS
May we Rest.In.Pieces
Skateboarding
Skaatenflügen
Wheelyboarding
Trick-Sticking
Crepuscular and Anticrepuscular Sunrays
The Legend of Zelda's
The Final Fantasy's
The Metroid's
The Mega Man's
The Silent Hill's
Tales of Symphonia
Vagrant Story
The Tenchu's
The Super Mario Brothers's
Blaster Master
The Double Dragon's
Kid Icarus
The Guardian Legend.
Music:
Currently and always inspired by:
My Love, Melissa. She is the music of my soul. Our soul symphonies are perfect harmonic convergence.
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Hugo Emil Alfvén
Samuel Barber
Béla Bartók
Sir Arnold Bax
Ernest Bloch
Luigi Boccherini
Alexander Borodin
Johannes Brahms
Benjamin Britten
Max Bruch
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Frederick Delius
Antonín Dvorák
Edward Elgar
Gabriel Fauré
Henryk Górecki
Georg Friedrich Händel
James Newton Howard
The Hyrule Symphony Orchestra
Jacaszek
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Marsen Jules
Kronos Quartet
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Paco de Lucía
Jules Massenet
Gopal Shankar Misra playin his Vichitra Veena
Ennio Morricone
Nico Muhly
Nicolò Paganini
Arvo Pärt
Giacomo Puccini
A.R. Rahman
Maurice Ravel
Ottorino Respighi
Camille Saint-Saëns
Ravi & Anoushka Shankar
Dmitri Shostakovich
Jean Sibelius
Joseph Suk
Toru Takemitsu
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Ryan Teague
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta
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Primus
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33.3
Abyss!
AGF (Antye Greie-Fuchs)
AGF & Zavoloka
The Album Leaf
Azam Ali
Alias & Tarsier of Anticon Collective
Aphex Twin
Apparat
Arovane
Ateleia
Aus
Autistici
William Basinski
Biosphere
Björk
Bliss
Boards of Canada
Bola
Bombay Dub Orchestra
BT
Burial
(Only the finest, most profound and emotive in music. The best freakin beats! Straight up stealth-mode sleepytime ninja music.)
Caural
Jodi Cave
Richard Chartier
Sylvain Chauveau
Colleen (Cécile Schott)
Deaf Center
Deathprod
Taylor Deupree
(This man is an absolute all encompassing genius.)
Dierdre (Dierdre Dubois)
DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Dntel
Nancy Elizabeth
Enya
Emanuele Errante
Yair Etziony
B. Fleischmann
Flying Lotus
El Fog
Four Tet
Fourcolor (Keiichi Sugimoto)
Frog Pocket
Sia Furler
(The most amazing and truthful singer in the Universe.)
The Future Sound of London
Goldie
Michael Hedges
Helios
Marc Hellner
Icarus
Giuseppe Ielasi
Anders Ilar
Isan
Jacaszek
Jayce!
Jorane
Marsen Jules
Karsh Kale
Karsh Kale & Anoushka Shankar dynamic duo!
Christian Kleine
Klimek
L'Altra
Logreybeam
LTJ Bukem
Messiah
MIDIval PunditZ
Milosh
Moskitoo (Sanae Yamasaki)
µ-Ziq (Mike Paradinas)
Múm
Nico Muhly
Murcof (Fernando Corona)
(Pure musical sophistication!)
Julien Neto
Nostramus
Morgan Packard
Part Timer
Phelan Sheppard
(Keiron Phelan and David Sheppard)
Phonem
Photek
Piana
Pinch
(A whole 'notha level of profound Dubstep like no other.)
Pjusk
Plaid
Prefuse 73
The Promised Land drum.n.bass series
Doron Sadja
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Sawako
Seaworthy
Anoushka Shankar
Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale dynamic duo!
Shrift
Shuttle 358 (Dan Abrams)
Valgeir Sigurdsson
Talvin Singh
Sogar
Solo Andata
Squarepusher
Suphala
Tabla Beat Science
Ryan Teague
Telefon Tel Aviv
Mark Templeton
Amon Tobin
Triosk
Unit
Venetian Snares
Christopher Willits
Xela
Yasume
Savvas Ysatis
Kateryna Zavoloka
Zavoloka & AGF
Zero 7
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The entire U.K. Hardcore Family
RUCKTION • LBU • CRO • EBD • GHC
50 Caliber
Backstab
BDF
Blades of Unity
Broken Oath
Bun Dem Out
Diction
Divide
Flawless Victory
Hellbent Diehard
Hench Beast
Injury Time
Insurgent
Jailbait
Kartel
Knuckle Dust
Maldito
NineBar
Prowler
Six Ft. Ditch
Special Move
Sullen
Taking Names
TRC
True Valiance
Twist the Knife
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100 Demons
Agnostic Front
All Out War
Arkangel
Bad Brains
Billy Club Sandwich
Biohazard
Black Flag
Body Count
Breakdown
Bulldoze
By My Hands
Cause For Alarm
Chain of Strength
Cold As Life
Converge
Crawlspace
Creepout
WesTokyo Hardcore REPRESENT!
Cro-Mags
Crowd Deterrent
and all the S.O.S.F. Worldwide!
Curse of Years
Darkside NYC
Dead End Boys
Dead Kennedys
Death Threat
Deathcycle
E-Town Concrete
Everybody Gets Hurt
Full Blown Chaos
Fury of Five
Gorilla Biscuits
Gut Instinct
Harsh Truth
Hoods
Integrity
Irate
Life of Agony
Losers Sometimes Win
Madball
Merauder
The Misfits
...old-ass 1982 Misfits, that is.
Negative Approach
Neglect
Next Step Up
NJ Bloodline
NJ Redline
No Redeeming Social Value
One Second Thought
Out To Win (Mushmouth)
Pennywise
Pulley
Sheer Terror
Sick of it All
Slapshot
Sworn Enemy
Taken By Force
Tension*NY
Terror
Terror Zone
Through the Discipline
Trapped Under Ice
(Baltimore Hardcore on the rise up!)
Turmoil
Unbroken
Walls of Jericho
The Warriors
Warzone
Wisdom in Chains
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7 Angels 7 Plagues
A Long Winter
Angel Corpse
Arch Enemy
Between the Buried and Me
Borknagar
Buried Inside
Cannibal Corpse
Carcass
Carnivore
Cathedral
Covenance
Dillinger Escape Plan
(Calculating Infinity)
Discordance Axis
Disembodied
Disrupt
Dying Fetus
Epoch of Unlight
Exit 13
Fierce Allegiance
Goatwhore
Helmet
Incantation
Internal Bleeding
Old-ass Megadeth
Old-ass Metallica
Ministry
Misery Index
Morbid Angel
Nailbomb
Napalm Death
Nasum
Nile
Opeth
Origin
Overcast
Prayer for Cleansing
Sepultura
Scarlet’s Breaking the Dead Stare
Slayer
S.O.D.
Soilent Green
Suffocation
Type O Negative
Valkyrie
Zebulon Pike
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The Abyssinians
Buju Banton
Bounty Killa!
Dennis Brown
Susan Cadogan
Cecile Campbell
Capleton
Denise Darlington
Desmond Dekker
Phyllis Dillon
The Ebony Sisters
Hortense Ellis
The Ethiopians
Norma Fraser
The Gaylads
The Gaylettes
The Gladiators
Marcia Griffiths
Myrna Hague
Derrick Harriott
Hepcat
The Heptones
Dave Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7
Justin Hinds & the Dominoes
John Holt
The Jay Tees
Janet Kay
King Tubby
Joya Landis
Jennifer Lara
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Rita Marley and the Soulettes
Nana McLean
The Melodians
Jackie Mittoo
Derrick Morgan
Judy Mowatt
Naomi
The Paragons
Paulette and the Lovelets
Dawn Penn
Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Cynthia Richards
Doreen Schaffer
Sizzla
The Skatalites
The Slackers
Sound Dimension
Tanya Stephens
Patsy Todd
Toots and the Maytals
Peter Tosh
Turbulence
The Viceroys
Warrior King...
JAH GIVE I THE POWER TO CHANT!!!
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Akrobatik
The Beatnuts
Caural
All that comprise the
Def Jux collective
Digable Planets
Dr. Octagon
Flying Lotus
Gang Starr
All that comprise the
Hieroglyphics Crew
Jean Grae
Jeru the Damaja
Madlib
Madvillain
MF Doom
Viktor Vaughn
Metal Fingers
King Geedorah
The Pharcyde
Prefuse 73
A Tribe Called Quest
All that comprise the
Wu-Tang Clan
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The Andrews Sisters
Louis Armstrong
Dorothy Ashby
Count Basie and his Orchestra
The Boswell Sisters
James Brown
Ray Brown's Trios
Stanley Clarke
Alice Coltrane
Bing Crosby
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald
Charlie Haden
Billie Holiday
Roger Kellaway
Steve Kuhn & Gary McFarland
Oscar Peterson Trio
The Rat Pack:
Franky, Dean, and Sammy.
Nina Simone
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Triosk
Victor Wooten and his entire family
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The following Video Game Music
producers have had quite an
impact in my musical life:
Koji Kondo
Responsible for:
All the Legend of Zelda's
Super Mario Bros. 1-3 (NES)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
...and just about every classic
Nintendo game ever made.
Nobuo Uematsu
Responsible for:
All the Final Fantasy's music
Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka
Metroid (NES)
Kid Icarus (NES)
Ogeretsu Kun
Manami Ietel
Yoshihiro Sakaguchi
Mega Man II (NES)
Yasuaka Fujita "Bun Bun"
Mega Man III (NES)
Miyamo Shant
The Guardian Legend (NES)
Akira Yamaoka
Silent Hill (PSOne)
KONAMI Kukeiha Club
The group responsible for:
Castlevania (NES)
Contra (NES)
Kazunaka Yamane
Double Dragon I (NES)
Double Dragon II (NES)
Naoki Kodaka
Marumo
Blaster Master (NES)
More Yamasan
B. Hasake
Miyazaki
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Vagrant Story (PSOne)
