Member Since: 8/11/2005
Band Website: soundclick.com/bubblegumoctopus
Band Members: I'm fucking tough
Other projects:
Fork Sister (a healthy dose of punk, thrash, power violence, grindcore, and noise rock dipped in lo-fi DHR-esque electronics with a sprinkle of dance sensibility)
c@ (totally fucked experimental noise/digigrind project that has transformed into an avant-garde mess that I'm finally proud of)
Black Clocks (party oriented digigrind I made prior to knowing such a thing existed; my first solo project)
yamiwosukasu (first experiment with melodic MIDI programming, also had some ambient digigrind songs, again made without knowing of such a thing. Songs could potentially be scattered around the internets, but it's not worth it)
First Aid Squid (burlesque digigrind. All of the stupid vocals were recorded first to a metronome, then I made MIDI for them)
Rage-a-holic Tortise (my first electronic project ever. Two man "experimental ambient/harsh noise/spoken word black metal" project that featured guests. It was one of my favorite things to work with.)
The Cuddle Sluts (me + teddy from Ultra Cutez. Sounded like First Aid Squid)
Groups/artists I'm recording with/for now:
Pie Taster Telethon (plunderphonic breakcore/pop from Digidan)
The Fuck City Fucks (noise rock of sorts with Mickey Roberts)
Keith Williams (very japanese sounding indie. We have recordings, but now we need them with our real drummer)
c@ Vs. Mickey Roberts (chaos)
Greezminh (digital metal from Germany)
1000 Deadly Angels (RPG battle music sounding digital metal from NJ)
Lance Eaglebauer Goes To Quiznos (thrashy electronic pop from Cory Monster)
Jess Chuuu (chinese hip-hop)
Daniel Kraus (experimental crap + ultra heavy drum machine grind)
Lango Bros. + Liz (free jazz)
Börtney Spaers (wonky digigrind with Ashley of Effigy Mirror)
Forest King (VGM-ish metal from Canadaland)
The Take (pop with guitars)
un-named, NJ based art/music collective with Mickey R. and Digidan (anyone can record with us)
Yorkshire Manor (extreme drum machine metal from CA)
DJ Camp Blood (we can't say what we're doing yet)
Bulldozerman (super fast, spunky electronic pop)
Highly Effective People (extreme metal. We're setting a very short time limit for how long we spend writing and recording the albums. Whatever happens happens)
If I'm forgetting something, let me know!
Influences: • Jun Ishikawa
• Yoshida Tatsuya
• Nakata Yasutaka
• Melt-Banana
• Iceman
• Plus-Tech Squeeze Box
• Scissor Shock
• Miyavi
• Sonic Coaster Pop
• Naoki Maeda
• Atari Teenage Riot
• Fragments Of Unbecoming
• The Locust and related projects
• Masato Nakamura
• Prince
• BeForU
• Mike Patton
• Masafumi Takada
• Circle Of Dead Children
• Deerhoof
• Eurobeat (it's all the same anyway!)
• Regurgitate
• Cutting Pink With Knives
• Konji Kondo
• Schwarz Stein and related projects
• The human mind and all things that affect it
• Cats
• Sea Creatures
• Video games (I can't be bothered to list the good ones)
• Anime (same thing applies)
• Shintaro Kago
• Bemani
• PLURR
• All the music and other forms of art I am exposed to
• Absurdism
• Love
• Friends and family
• That girl I call too much
Sounds Like: I like music that takes you somewhere else beyond where you are before you start listening. I want my sound to take you to the clouds, underground, through space, under water, through cities and the country.
I strive to rekindle the spirit of the almost dead child within me. Melodies that uplift the spirit; that overpowering bliss and weightlessness that makes your stomach twist into knots and steals your breath like a first love, but with the perversity of getting there with MDMA. I want to convey the menial intensity of a final boss fight. How It might not mean too much later, but until it's over, you'll be biting your nails, jumping out of your seat, and praying that everything works out.
I want to make music that you love or hate immediately; music that makes you fall in love, or that repulses and irritates you to the point of physical illness. I want immediate results of an opinion that comes to further realizations only upon deeper listening.
I want to express everything about myself. I want to show everyone who listens both the irrational idealist and the bitter and cynical bastard. I want to let all the screaming in my head, all the irrational over-the-shoulder peeking I do, the dialogues I have alone, the years of not fitting into any clique or scene by choice and by instinct, to all come out in the open and be okay.
I want to make myself laugh and become giddy as much as I want to make myself cry or become bitter. My music is overly paradoxical, but I like it that way. What you hear in it is up to you, but this is a fraction of what this madness means to me.
Type of Label: None