Member Since: 5/6/2005
Band Members:
Tero Smith aka Camu TaoRest In Peace ~6/26/77-05/25/08~
Brother In Arms.
Weathermen Up
Influences: His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie Jah Rastafari.freedom fighters, progressive activists and thinkers/doers worldwide.my beautiful and wonderful partner Sara Tewksbury.musically...everything I see and hear...especially...early Amon Tobin, Guillermo Scott Heron aka. Prefuse '73, Savath & Savalas, Piano Overlor.....
madmen & all types of cats on some next type shit...
including but not limited to Push Button Objects, The Books, Caural, Nobody, Madlib, J-Dilla, Machinedrum, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mad Professor, Boards of Canada, Cepia, Aeroc, , Bassnectar, EL-P, Glitch Mob, Her Space Holiday, Alert, Sigur Ros, SHADETEk Automator, Blockhead, Tadd Mulinix aka. Dabrye..., Plaid, DJ Krush, mum, 9th, Four Tet, Perry Farrell, Bjork & colaborators, RJD2, Shadow, Del, Hi-Tek, Adrian Utley and Geoff Barrow of Portishead, Steve "Lenky" Mardsen...cavernous, fuzzed dancehall ambience....circa '99-'05, Thievery Corp, Radiohead, Conor Obers of Bright Eyes, Beck, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Max Roach, Thelonious Monk, John & Alice Coltraine, Carlie "Bird" Parker~
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more recently, i've experienced a revivalist revelation and take strong influence not only musically but in my life personally and spiritually from many reggae artists, also moving past my aversion to over exploitation and lack of under(over)standing amongst my peers, i've found new truth in the martyrdom of Robert Nesta Marley, who by the graces of Jah brought consciousness to people, many oblivious to the facts, of the state of the world and the exploitation of oppressed people as well as the truth in the rightful heritage of Haile Sellasie as the ruler of this earth we call our home. more on this when i find time to readdress this myspage to reflect the changes i've undertaken in my life.
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...several turntablists i've witnessed: KRUSH, Shadow, Cut Chemist, Beat Junkies, Q-Bert (Scratch Pickles), Roc Raida, Rob Swift (X-Men)~
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...lots of works coming off Def Jux, Eastern Developments, Chocolate Industries, Warp & Stones Throw, Plug Research record labels...
Ghostly International/Spectral Sounds (ann arbor, mi) and Dope Recodings (boulder, co)~
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visually/artistically...Banksy, C215, Evan Hecox, Swoon, Sam Flores, Jeremy Fish, Doze Green, Jose Parla, sAne, ABSENT, Luke Chueh, Inks, Sub*lin*gual, VICTIM, Shepherd Fairley (Obey), TIO, COOP, Marc Ecko... and alot of the cats getting attention from the great people @ woostercollective.com
thanks & praise to the original 'estencelers' and some of the godfathers of visual resistance:Anton van Dalen, Blek le Rat, Basquiat, Sandinista revolutionaries, SUMA collective~
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I love good film, big influence...indie, music, shorts...Spike Jones, Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham, Stephane Sednaoui, Michel Gondry, Mark Romanek, Jonathan Glazer. that interplay of image and sound, it's a beautiful thing~
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Prefuse '73 (Guillermo Scott Herron) and all of his affiliates, subsidiaries, monikers and projects are always top ranking, this cat truly is the pinnacle of sample-based, post-hip hop, glitch hop, ect. type shit, he said it on 'Uprock', "hate me now, bite me later" (and the biters took to feeding without shame).
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Record Label: sovereign recordings
Type of Label: Indie