Member Since: 5/25/2004
Band Website: geocities.com/sleepeng/
Band Members: fbk, The Sleepengineer, ISOS (international sound of struggle), Magleviathan, gelatinous coob.
Influences: classic dub (1976-82), pain, suffering, boxing, the fact that the world owes me nothing and gives less, Kraftwerk, Neu!, Can, Front 242, Shake, Charles Noel (Cro2), Steve Rachmad, Johnny Cash, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Public Enemy and the Shocklee Brothers, Dan Bell (DBX), the sounds of the freeway, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cannibal Adderley, Thrust-era Herbie Hancock, Devo, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, the sound of Guardian West's factory, Bach, Beethoven, Barry White, The Ohio Players, Eric Clapton, Cream, birds, roadways in Illinois, Tom Troccolli's Dog, Cluster, Stereolab, Floyd Kramer, Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies, the Pentatonic scale, Claude Debussy, John Adams, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnik, Steve Buchla, Robert Moog, the original Roland Design team from the 70s and early 80s, the Yamaha Design team from the same era, Phillip K. Dick, the cyperpunk genre of writing, Sara Vaughn, Billie Holliday, Claude Young, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Keith Emerson, ARP, PPG, John Paia Simonton, Craig Anderton, Numeric, The sound of a quiet morning, the sound of broken electronics, insomnia, Radiohead, Paul Johnson, the Smiths, the The, Berlin, 50s-60s era country, and any music that creates its own emotion...there's more of course, but why bother...if you've read this far, you've got an idea already...
Sounds Like: ...All depends on your mood...this music is not about sounding like any particular thing, as much as it is about evoking an emotion from the listener...I hope it does that for you.
Record Label: absoloop, frictional records, 21/22 corp.,xplor
Type of Label: Indie