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Mental Extensions

there's no grain of sand quite like this one here

About Me

Music is an extension of our mental abilities

Felix Greenlees and David Kastner both forged their musical skills in the lush Tasmanian wilderness before moving to Melbourne. Dave has been studying the properties of medicinal plants for many years and has found a way to bring the spirit of these plants directly into his percussive experiments, which can best be described as eclectic, weird and wonderful. Felix has been writing and playing electronic music around Australia for a few years under the name Terrafractyl, and brings his own distinctly twisted melodies to merge with all manner of different beats. The music of mental extensions can maybe be described as experimental dub infused psychedelic breaks with a twist of trance. Or maybe its just music. A live performance will typically see Felix mixing things up on the Laptop with a synth or two on the side and Dave will be banging out all sorts of strange sounds on some kind of magical electric box.

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Member Since: 6/29/2007
Band Members: Felix Greenlees - (Laptop, software & hardware synths, wind instruments, vocals) Dave Kastner - (acoustic & electronic percussion, vocals)................................ and sometimes: Legs B Mutumbo swinging guitars around wildly.
Influences: our music is influenced by our lives, our lives are influenced by (in random order): Tasmania, Salt and Vinegar chips, Herbs, The Laws of Physics, Mushrooms, African Drums, J.S Bach, Hunter S. Thompson, Cacti, Yanamamo Tribe from the Amazon, Albert Hoffmann, The Doors, The Simpsons, Shpongle, Stravinsky, Younger Brother, Zakir Hussain (tabla legend), Trilok Gurtu, Gary Wain, Brooksy & Paetzy of Mycosonic, The Shulgins, Shulman, Squarepusher, Blue Man Group, Frank Zappa, Infected Mushroom (not the last 2 albums), TIP, Spoonbill, Entheogenic, Ott, Pizza (no anchovies for felix), Camp Crusty Crew, Legs B. Mutumbo, Cut Lunch, Psycroptic, Karsh Kale, Devon Robson, The Gotan Project, The Big Lebowski, Juno Reactor, Buddy Rich, Bombay Dub Orchestra, Nige & Dino, Marco & Em, The Prodigy, Nitin Sawhney, Bluetech, Cosmosis, The Spirit Molecule, Dave Weckl Band, Indian classical music, Vegemite, Mayumana
Sounds Like: music to our ears, what do you think?
Record Label: unsigned for now
Type of Label: None