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Machines For Hire

Keep your plug in the socket.

About Me

Machines For Hire is composer Lee Varkin’s interpretation of...everything. Varkin uses his fascination for synths and sound design to translate life’s absurdities and personal experiences into a tangled mess of style, emotion, and unpredictability.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/14/2007
Band Members: Lee Varkin -
Synths, programming, sampling, sound manipulation, metallic beatings, fluorescent tube crushing, general noise making, etc.
Influences: Music, noise, movies, birds, long commutes, factories, traffic cameras, video games, electrical tape, flaws, black coffee, Spike Jones, Fullerite 60, metallic objects, Bob Moog, acronyms, acid reflux, crusty computers, the aroma of brand new electronics, air ducts, Ron, massive architecture, fresh sawdust, sensory response to horseradish consumption, the spectrum, weather, colors that occur because of weather, Looney Toons, disturbing 70s cartoons, toy robots that smell like burning wires, Stone Brewery, large fields in a variety of weather conditions, hot deserts and cigars, Danks, juicy neon, ruins of all sorts, Harley Stone, anthropogenic glitches, insects, the opposite sex, thinking, machines, and everything else.
Sounds Like: A presence of meaning. Absence of purpose. A wasteland. A catastrophe. Aggression. Lust. Anti-anti. Caffeine overdose. Anxiety. Positive negativity. A drive to an awkward situation. A bored pattern. Dislocated optimism. A cheesy moment. Mechanical failure. Right and left brain conflict. Whatever.
Type of Label: Indie