Member Since: 5/19/2004
Band Website: peripheralrecords.com
Band Members: me, LazyI also work with 2% on Red Tide stuff and Television scoring.
Influences:My musical interests and influences include but are not limited to:
Black Sabbath
Bad Brains
New York hardcore
Indy Hip Hop
Punk Rock
Quicksand
Prince
early public enemy
Kutmasta Kurt
Outkast
Company Flow
Madlib
drum and bass
(specifically artists like photek and ed rush)
techno
(richie hawtin)
ambient
(Aphex twin)
and industrial
Movies:
Party Doll A-Go-Go
The Godfather trilogy
LOTR trilogy
Matrix
Star Wars
Natural Born Killers
Ice Storm
Crouching Tiger
anything by M. Night Shyamalan
5th element
Pootie Tang
Almost Famous
Stir Crazy
My Neighbor Totoro
Porco Rosso
Hong Kong cinema
Samurai movies (esp kurosawa b/w films)
Half Baked
Documentaries (I looooove documentaries)
Television:
Adult Swim
Digital Video Recording my shows
All the HBO original series
(esp the wire and carnivale)
West Wing (yay!!)
Threshhold
Surface
Raw on Mondays
Smackdown on Thursdays
TNA Wrestling
Boston Legal
Smallville
I loathe almost all reality TV
Desperate Housewives
The L Word
Weeds
Books:
Foucault
anything by him
anything about him
books on the music business
fantasy
Lyotard
Derrida
Anything about the early Christian Church
scholarly texts on Eastern culture and religion
erotica
Power/Knowledge by Michel Foucault
Moonshadow (graphic novel)
Books about Poker
Heroes:
The student who stood in front of the tanks in Tienanmen Square in 1989. My parents. Men and Women who sacrifice their own lives for others. People who stand by their convictions
Outside of music I'm into:
professional wrestling
Poker
post modern philosophy
animation
comics
collecting tattoos
porn
anime
movies
redheads
concerts
comedy
history
religion
cartoons
pop culture
cigars
fantasy fiction
Sounds Like:Who knows?
I will say that I really like loud, sawtooth, synth tones and grinding, distorted, bass lines.
I like to put flange effects on my bass and lead tones and sometimes I'll even filter or flange my hi hats.
But that doesn't mean that everything I make sounds loud and aggressive. In fact a lot of my work tends to have very simple almost childlike little melodies in it.
I don't use samples too much and when I do they're usually heavily effected and chopped.
I like to use Cubase for production.
I have a roland XP-30 synth.
I link everything together with a Delta 1010 and a Spirit M-8 mixing board.
I use Technics 1200's
and a Vestax 07 Pro mixer.
I've started to emcee a little bit but I'm nowhere near as good as my bandmate B.C hahaha.
He is the shit!
My drums are often pretty busy and upfront in the mix.
Too busy some might say.
You can decide for yourself.
Most of the work that you'll hear on myspace is not meant to be purely instrumental.
I tend to think about my production in terms of unfinished pieces waiting for vocals.
Maybe I need to get over that.
Record Label: Peripheral Records
Type of Label: Indie