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About Me

Soon after surging and spawning from an early Serge synthesizer unit, Dean took a shining to the otherworldly sounds of electronics, or was it just the knobs and patchcords...probably the knobs [hint hint]. After being suckered into playing guitar for a progressive rock band [not that sissy dream theater prog crap] French TV and a fun stint with an electric african-style [bunch of grooving white hippy guys] pop band called Ube he was drawn towards the industrial tech metal bands [drunkin' club daze]. From this a taste for dance music ensued [a victory for alcohol]. In 1999 at an excellent camping rave [Interstaller Dreamfest!] Dean caught an earshot of psytrance, the Return to the Source crew had appropriated one of the sound systems. So armed with a love for the sound, the style, the dancing, the chemicals, errr...uh...the incense, a new musical focus was found [later to be defocused].
The "big break" [my ass] came when in 2001 Deanie [Weenie] from his "hometown" of Louisville Kentucky [plug for southern city] moved to New York's Hudson Valley [not to be confused with NYC] and coupled into the New York City psytrance scene. He eventually hooked up with Deeper in Zen, Mind Warped, and D-Space, and the Machine Elf himself and thus began Soular Records. In the subsequent 5 years the Onnomon project released a number of tracks on Soular compilations, and a full-length album "No Monno" in 2004. Also, "Virtual God" was released on Yellow Sunshine Explosion's Classic Goa Vol. II- to be found in barginbins everywhere in Goa India [Still haven't seen the royalities on that]. Onnomon's tracks span from sheer and utter tastelessness to some serious funkshun trance wid da hooks, and some evil dark tracks, for fun. The concept behind the music is to let the inspiration dictate the music, not the genre, this inspiration is handed down from the chaos around us. Consequently, Onnomon tracks tend to blur stylistic lines. [the editor here says "hi!"]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/2/2007
Band Website: www.onnomon.com
Band Members: Dean Zyg - Computer production, synthesizers, guitars, and assorted laundry devices.

Dan Covan - Live electronic percussion, trumpet, and voice.


Influences: Quite varied: Hallucinogen, Absolum, The Delta, Logic Bomb, Medicine Drum, Para Halu, Texas Faggot, System 7

Miles Davis, Weather Report, Mahavishni Orchestra, John Scofield, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Eugene Chadbourne (ha!)

Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Scorn, Godflesh, Bill Laswell, Autechre, Venetian Snares, Kilowatts, Squarepusher, Skinny Puppy, Bauhaus baby!

Yes, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, King Crimson, Gong, Led Zepplin, French TV, Jimi, Zappa

Olivier Messiaen, Eric Satie, Edgar Varese, Gyorgi Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis, Stravinsky, Beethoven, George Crumb, Berg, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and many others.

old-school electronic: Tangerine Dream, Popul Vuh, Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Morton Subotnick


Sounds Like: Bjork married Hallucinogen and gave birth to a spawn of Satan but we're not sure whether Miles used to lew first. Ok, let's try this one: tilt your washine machine at a 45 degree angle, throw in a couple of cats in heat, a dash of catnip, oh and a couple of dashes of tabasco and launch it into the spin cycle. Not doing it? Definitely like a covenant of fascist nuns playing bingo at the Fermi Physics Lab. Bonobos playing bongos? Chinooks with Chainsaws? Like armored vehicles drag racing. Well then, a driving sub-sonic pulse accented with tribal rhythms, processed percussion, subliminal atmospheres, the ocassional anti-melody, and highly detailed frequency work.
Record Label: Soular Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

all work and no play makes jack a dull boy. all work and no play makes jack a dull boy all work

Dean's a busy boy, a lot of work you know.  An intense dosage of PDEs, dynamical systems, and stochastics is equivalent to a complete transfusion of plasma...for the next year. So basically i've put t...
Posted by on Mon, 04 May 2009 02:27:00 GMT

Whoa are we kidding?

What are we talking about?  Who are we kidding?  We have merged. We are merged with the computer.  A fruition since vital youth, from the precipitation of machines behind glass fortresses into the ass...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:49:00 GMT

What is psytrance good for?

Ok, that's a hooked subject line. I was out the other night at a electronic music event in Seattle and talked to many people about the music they like [or don't] and was curious about the psytrance...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:25:00 GMT

teleportation

Ok....Dean is now in Seattle Washington. Dan was left back in NYC. Dean's current mission is to enhance his mathematical skills by attending the applied mathematics program at the Univ. of Washingt...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:50:00 GMT

Getting to Black Rock City and Burning Man

After a two year hiatus we've returned to Burning Man. This year we (Dan and I) decided to drive Dan's RV, a Winnebego Le Sharo, across the US. Normally i'm a working stiff and don't have the time b...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:55:00 GMT

No news is not nothing

In the final throws of mastering and soon the next album's worth of releases will out. Much busyness with the Kyma Stream project, and a Love Goddess side project, just to mention a few. Over the co...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:48:00 GMT