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Tetsuo!

About Me

Music.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

John Coltrane.

Music:

Meshuggah, Charles Mingus, Devin Townsend, M.I.A, John Coltrane, Goldfrapp, Peter Gabriel, The Mars Volta, Autechre, Public Enemy, Frank Zappa, Common, Monster Magnet, Thelonius Monk, Method Man, Neurosis, Secret Chiefs 3, Tori Amos, The Beatles, Herbie Hancock, Red Sparowes, Antony & the Johnsons, Marvin Gaye, The Roots, David Bowie, Alicia Keys, Wu Tang Clan, Nat King Cole, D'Angelo, Talib Kweli, J Dilla, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Jeff Buckley, MF Doom, Placebo, Mr Bungle, Billie Holiday, Emperor, GZA, Angelo Badalamenti, Muse, Amorphis, Nine Inch Nails, Prince, Isis, Raekwon, Opeth, Shpongle, Cypress Hill, Sade, MF Grimm, Electric Prunes, Brian Wilson, Decapitated, Tool, Tiffany Salazar, Frank Sinatra, Shadow Huntaz, The Beach Boys, Harold Budd, Mozart, Christina Aguilera, Portishead, Alchemist, Ravi Shankar, John Lennon, Bill Laswell, Dead Can Dance, Amon Tobin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Doseone, Saul Williams, Bjork, Susumu Yokota, Colder, A Tribe Called Quest, Syd Barrett, Aloke Dutta, Charles Ives, Edgard Varese, Sigur Ros, Mos Def, John MacLaughlin, Blur, Radiohead, Sun Ra, Melvins, Joe Hisaishi, Ministry, Bob Dylan, King Crimson, Hawkwind, Diamanda Galas, George Harrison, Kanye West, The Rolling Stones, Faun Fables, Devendra Banhart, Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Morbid Angel, The Eagles, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Yes, Pink Floyd, Headcoat, Murcof, Coldplay, DJ Muggs, DJ Krush, Miles Davis, DJ Shadow, Fantomas, A Perfect Circle, Whitehouse, Keiji Heino, The Chocolate Watchband, Belle and Sebastian, Squarepusher, Godflesh, Boards of Canada, Olivier Messiaen, Ornette Coleman, HP Lovecraft, cLOUDDEAD, Jesu, Damien Rice, Captain Beefheart, Mogwai, Deutsch Nepal, Bill Evans, Slayer, Incubus, Deftones, Olivia Tremor Control, Prodigy, Lustmord, The Stooges, Acid Mothers Temple, sQwurm, Xanpha, John Zorn, Maudlin, Re:Enactment, Scott Walker, Sonny Rollins, Tom Waits, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Coil, Boom Bip, Cecil Taylor, Ali Akbar Kahn, The Seeds, Holly Golightly, Claude Debussy, Amy Winehouse, TV on the Radio, Nick Drake, Unkle, The Cure, Cinematic Orchestra, Team Sleep, Soundgarden, Justice and then some.......

Movies:

David Lynch

Television:

Doctor Who, Twin Peaks

Books:

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Initiates and Initiations in Tibet, The Third Eye, The Man from Lhasa, Milarepa: Biography of the Yogi, Secrets of the Golden Flower: a Chinese Book of Life, Existence, Psychedelic Shamanism, Journey to Ixtlan, To Have or To Be, Witchdoctor's Apprentice, everything by Robert Anton Wilson.

Heroes:

Coltrane

My Blog

Japan post 2

WowHow things change... And what a cruel teacher the world is. This has been such a necessary trip for me, in so many ways that I could never have imagined. Travel seemingly always brings about such c...
Posted by greg reason on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:34:00 PST

Japan post 1

Yipes. Japan realy slapped me in the face for a while. I got here and was immediately overhelmed by the sheer intensity of the coldness. Of course it's just because I'm a pussy and in a few days my re...
Posted by greg reason on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:33:00 PST

ALLRRAAIIIGGGGHHHHTTT

Hey people First things first: my music production company 777 Productions now has a myspace page. I know that a few blogs back I was sayin stuff bout convertin this page to a music page but mysp...
Posted by greg reason on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:51:00 PST

Sydney September 2007

Well. Adventures adventures. The May NIN trip comes to it's frightful conclusion with the completion of their proposed dates that were rescheduled to this month. This happily coincided with the Tori A...
Posted by greg reason on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:40:00 PST

uuuurrrggghhhh

I am feeling pretty damn seedy right now. Too much to drink last night and now I need to hunt down some nice crappy food to line my stomach with. Oh man.O K so I have learnt not to drink good when I ha...
Posted by greg reason on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:45:00 PST

Amon Tobin and !!! interviews

I was fortunate enought to be able to interview both the legendary Amon Tobin and drummer John Pugh from !!! who are currently taking the world by storm. You can read the unedited version of both righ...
Posted by greg reason on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:57:00 PST

Saul Williams and Subtle interviews

As printed in Tsunami magazine, December/January edition SAUL WILLIAMSHip-hop was traditionally used as a means of communication and expression, as the "CNN for black people" in Chuck D's immortal wor...
Posted by greg reason on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:11:00 PST

Greg Reason interviews Muse

MUSE Greg Reason interviews Chris Wolstenholme As printed in Tsunami Magazine, December/January 2006 edition Few festivals are so hotly anticipated as the Big Day Out. Year after year, some of the gre...
Posted by greg reason on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:55:00 PST

The things we do for MUSE

Last night two friends and I camped out in the street for tickets to the Muse solo show in Sydney in January. I guess that only the precious few in Brisbane found out about it because we were only eve...
Posted by greg reason on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:05:00 PST

Music survey

1. What are you listening to right now?Psyence Fiction by Unkle 2. What song makes you sad?"Horse Tears" by Goldfrapp. 3. What is the most annoying song in the world?That fuckin "wish I was a punkrock...
Posted by greg reason on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 11:25:00 PST