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THE MEKANO SET

Now what?

About Me


The words "sleazy" and "filthy" get used a lot. Bass-heavy. White-noise guitar. Multi-layered beats. Distored vocals. BBC Radiophonic Workshop style noise (usually guitar generated). Reverse-reverb guitar. Bass riffs. White-noise syn-drums. Etc.
"Slick spiky electronic rock that screams darkness beneath a seemingly delicate exterior." Natasha Scharf, Metal Hammer
"The Mekano Set get us all worked up with the promise of a song called 'Dirty Hand Job', and then totally spoil the mood by being goths... about as menacing as a Crow soundtrack." Emily Strange Mackay @ The Stool Pigeon
"Like entering an 80's burlesque club in the middle of filming Miami Vice." Ali MacQueen @ http://www.rockfeedback.com/
"Impressive and compelling stuff." Meatbreak
"contentious." Rollo Kim
"Filthy electro-rock..." Niall O'Keeffe.
"Seedily attractive, smooth, impressively catchy, seething power..." Mick Mercer.
"An excellent live show. Imagine a harder, more industial, more up-to-date Garbage. Hard beats, swirling Banshees style guitar and cool as fuck vocal." Rock and Roll Sweatbox .
"Delicate, filthy, post coital purr." Bubblegum Slut.
"A lovely noise." Allmanna, London.
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Member Since: 8/9/2005
Band Website: mekanoset.net/
Band Members: Sahara: vocals, bass. The Farsi Side.

Austin: Northern Guitars.

Milk: vocals, baritone guitar, beats. A miniature Ian Mcculloch / diminutive Johnny Marr.

Patrick: bass (Dublin bass), drum-synth.

Beth Rettig: vocals. Made in Scotland, from girders.

Cat Madden: Security & Sensibilities

Influences:

Curve / The Chameleons / Killing Joke / Public Image Limited / Kate Bush / Joy Division /Scorn / Massive Attack / Techno Animal / Carthage / Godflesh / Jesu / Autechre / Tool / Can / The Cure / Magazine / Stray Dog City / Cranes / Tricky / BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Richey Manic / Sapphire & Steel / Jo Stapleton / Al Neilson / Ade Bordicott / Cocteau Twins / Scott Walker / Garbage / Throbbing Gristle / Main / Talking Heads / Patti Smith / PJ Harvey / My Bloody Valentine / Bill Hicks / Nine Inch Nails / Hawkwind / Twin Peaks / Ivor Cutler / The Fall / The Manic Street Preachers / Depeche Mode / Leftfield / Underworld / The Smiths / The Ink Spots / Swans / Laika / Psychedelic Furs / Zoviet France / The Lines / Fennesz / Gurdjieff / Ouspensky / Whitley Strieber / Depeche Mode / Scott Walker / Meat Beat Manifesto / Nina Simone / Portishead / Tom Waits / The Walker Brothers: Night Flights / Talk Talk / Jon Hassell / David Sylvian / Seefeel.
Sounds Like: The Mekano Set. Seedy, filthy electro-rock. Noise, sound, music. Post-rock. Reverse reverb, live guitar loops, drum machines, feedback, guitar-synths, fuzz-guitar, drones, grooves, bass riffs, white noise.

According to You, We Sounds Like: Curve, Placebo, Cranes, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Massive Attack, The Sisters of Mercy, PiL, Killing Joke, Talk Talk, Meat Beat Manifesto, Kate Bush, The Chameleons, Breakbeat Era, Ruby, Tricky, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Phil Spector through a fuzz box, etc.

Record Label: Ink Stamps, Hand-Made Paper, Scissors, Ribbons...
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

PURE

Thanks yous to everyone that came to see us play last week. Brighton was fun but we couldn't hear what we were doing, London was louder! I only got that guitar (Baritone!) a couple of days before the ...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:44:00 PST

HOW TO BUY OUR STUFF AND WHY WE DIDNT SPLIT UP

Proper coffee. OK, so enough of you cheeky Mekanoids have asked this stuff so let’s sort it out.If you really want a CD the best thing to do is ask us for a CD at a gig, that way you’ll ge...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:05:00 PST

NOT NOW

New song, new gigs, new guitar. Same noises. New noises.You’re The One Who Started It:Sahara Ezzi: vocals / Farsi rant. Austin Davey: acoustic / electric guitars. Milk: baritone / guitar. Patric...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:16:00 PST

SPC-ECO

Do you know what it’s like when there’s a certain kind of music in your head and you realize that there’s no one out there actually making it? So you start looking, or you start a ba...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:43:00 PST

THINKING OF YOU

"Mmmm... yes."Busy busy busy fun fun fun. Lots done and lots to be done. Finally managed to see Time. Space.Repeat. at The Good Ship. Excellent night, great sound, full on post-rock antics oh yes. Ace...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:11:00 PST

NO MORE CDs?

I don't buy CD's anymore. I hardly ever did. So why should I expect anyone to buy ours? We went to great lengths to try and do something a little different with ours, but at the end of all the arty pa...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:01:00 PST

ENTER SAFE MODE


Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:32:00 PST

NIGHT SHOPPING

We're walking through a market place that's like a vast outdoor cloak-room. There's a music festival going on a little further along. They're using mirrors to make things appear bigger than they are. ...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:45:00 PST

CHILD OF THE ASHES

Body too tired to sleep. Brain won't accept defeat. Lots going on. Confusing stuff. Good and bad. Riding it. Christ I'm tired. Listening to tracks from the past how many, four years in all? Maybe five...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:45:00 PST

BREAD AND WINE

Hello,Hope you are all well fed and warm? Well now, I've spent the night watching the new website taking shape. I know we owe a few of you a CD or two but we're still working on the packaging - still ...
Posted by THE MEKANO SET on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:59:00 PST