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Bubblegum Octopus

First album out soon! (no, you haven't DL'd it)

About Me

Hello babies!
I am m@, and this is my pop project!
This little experiment began a few years ago now with the intention of being a "synth punk revival" project. As with everything I do, it turned out not even remotely similar to how it was originally planned.
I am a huge fan of many forms of music, particularly unclassifiable things, intense metal, dance/trance/eurobeat, j-pop, picopop, and probably above all else, shibuya-kei. I have found through lots of experimentation and practice both the many limitations and the abilities of my voice and capacity to write and perform music in different styles.
FUN FACT: Contrary to an inexplicably popular misconception, I do all the vocals myself. This is really a solo project and all of the voices are me, in addition to all of the MIDI sequencing, writing, and instruments.
FUN FACT 2: A CD will be coming out and you will hear about it on the page! I will post copious amounts of bulletins, change the display name to something that'll include (CD FINALLY OUT) and I'm going to make it as cheap as one can make a 35 song CD when you're a broke ass musician.

• Music is an art of self expression, not a tool for popularity, not a way to get girls to write some stupid name you came up with on their breasts, not a platform for you to boost your egos from, and certainly not something to do so you can fit into some sort of trend. There are thousands of incredible bands and artists that know who they are and know what their music means to them, please never say anything to try to take that from people.
Please, if your music says nothing, make it sound like what it means.
That being said, feel free to continue writing me stories, drawing me pictures, making me signs, and whatever else has been done for me. I appreciate all of it immensely. Just make sure you don't have it set so I can't respond to your messages! I have gotten drawings and such from people who have set up their page in a way that disallows me to message back thanking them! (I always try to message people back/comment back as often as I can, but I do have a life outside of the internet and I do receive an exorbitant amount of both. Please do not be offended if I don't get to you. In the earlier days I used to comment every person who added me, and that continued for probably all of the first year)
Oh! Forest King helped me get the banner SIGNAL! made for me back on the page with html and such. Thank you to both!
Side note: I do not friend request people! I have probably only requested a total of 150 people at most. How I got this many friends is beyond me, so thank you much to anyone who has ever helped promote me.
Side Note 2: Cat Tour 2.0 is being worked on currently. No details exist for the public to know yet, but if this works out it promises to be quite delicious.

My Interests

Music:

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

My Blog

Cake Shop Show Report

The show went quite well (despite the usual awkwardness and the whole "Bradlea and I waking up too late" thing), and let me take this time to thank those who actually came out to the cake shop for me....
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Fri, 23 May 2008 09:06:00 PST

TOUR HELP NEEDED!

Hello Babies!I post here today with a request; one however that requires a preface.As some of you may know, Bonz Xylophone and myself were planning out a small tour earlier this year known as "Cat Tou...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:45:00 PST

Voice Issues

This is what happens when I give myself a deadline.I told myself I'd have the album completely re-recorded by March and released in April.As luck would have it, I have been struck with some sort of bi...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:24:00 PST

The New Songs

Well, as you can see, there are infact new songs posted, and I did infact replace the song that seems to have been responsible for the amount of myspace popularity I have attained. I know some of you ...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:57:00 PST

FAQ (read before messaging (updated))

Well, the FAQ doesn't get read as much as I'd like, but I'm still trying.Is it can be updates tiems now plees?Q:How Can I Get A CD/mp3s/tape/vinyl/8-track/wax cylinder?A: Well, as of this very second ...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:47:00 PST

¡Current Events! do read

Hello babies!!I have been very very busy as you know. Due to some health complications that I don't wish to discuss here I have been online very little, but no worries, I am still working when ever I ...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:56:00 PST

Winter Break/Christmasasaurus: Volume 2

Well, tommorow is Christmas and I hope all of you who celebrate have a wonderful one.I will be on break from the 25th (we're actually leaving at like 5AM the next day, but whatever) til probably after...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:57:00 PST

Show Report 1!

well well wellI haven't given a proper show report to all yet about my Dec 2 gigIt went well (besides some sound issues. Made the whole thing awkward)Apparently 1/3rd or more of the people who went th...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:03:00 PST

PLEASE READ! :(

I need to apologize over 400 times for the lack of comments I have left. More than 400 people have added me in the past few weeks and I have not commented a single one of them and consequently, I feel...
Posted by Bubblegum Octopus on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 05:22:00 PST