Member Since: 01/10/2007
Band Website: http://commonsmsmessages.blogspot.com/
Band Members: Mr Seb Valentine a.k.a Techno Theorist a.k.a. Frian Berry
Benatronic a.k.a Sonic Architect a.k.a. Bavid Dyrne
Diskjo a.k.a. Disco Geometrist a.k.a Eian Breno
Influences:
I like it.... i mean... who wouldn't right? Playing a pedigree of tunes right across the far reaches of the musical multiverse.
Like Einstein! Dirac! and Hawkins before, join us every thursday (9pm-1am @ common) as we strive to find a unifying concept behind this mad musical existance.....
So far, as is our understanding, the answer can only be comprehended in 12 dimensions....
1. Generation X, outsider music, slacker rock, lo-fi and all Alt. noise 1980 to present - Sonic Youth, Beat Happening, Pavement/ Stephen Malkmus, Dinosaur Jr, Yo La Tengo, Daniel Johnston, Mudhoney, Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Belle&Sebastian, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Portishead, Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Flaming Lips,
2. Beats In Space and disco/ nu-disco (not disco) utopia: Escort, Emperor Machine/Andy Meecham, Chromatics, The Loving Hand, Rub N Tug, In Flagranti, Black Devil Disco Club, Mock & Toof, Glass Candy, A Thousand Points of Night, Was (Not Was), Michoacan, Alexander Robotnick, Box Codax, Greg Wilson, Antena, Nick Chacona, Farah, Metro Area, Invisible Conga People, Chaz Jankel, Low Motion Disco, Arcade Lover, Baby Talk, Watussi, Diskjokke, YACHT, Runaway
3. Scottish post-punk re-releases on Domino a.k.a. Orange Juice, Josef K & Fire Engines...thank you Franz. and non-geographically specific: gang of four, pylon, talking heads, wire, devo, xtc, young marble giants, the fall
5. DJ Gigantic Dan.
4. Pitchfork rates elitist, hipster indie 8.4 - the fiery furnaces, spoon, islands, sleater-kinney, clap yr hands say yeah, wolf parade, deerhoof, animal collective, herman dune, sufjan stevens, bright black morning light, feist, grizzly bear, the microphones, sunny day in glasgow, m83, beirut, the blow, xiu xiu, wolf parade, scout niblett, broken social scene, the sounds, menomena, the sea & cake, tokyo police club, these new puritans, the chap, panda bear, vampire weekend, mgmt, black kids, deerhunter, yeasayer, hot chip, broken social scene, holy fuck, no age, times new viking, dodos, health, fuck buttons, fleet foxes, jay reatard, abe vigoda, tv on the radio, health, ratatat, metronomy, vivian girls, sic alps, lovvers, king khan & the shrines, titus andronicus, the pains of being pure at heart, copy haho, wavves, pens, male bonding, graffiti island, human hair, mazes, el guincho, telepathe
5. Reeves & Mortimer...
6. DFA Records. "I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know." lcd, delia&gavin, shocking pinks, hercules& love affair, black dice, juan maclean, the rapture, gucci soundsystem, holy ghost!, shit robot, syclops
7. Nothing less than a 32 pedal set-up: My Bloody Valentine, Asobi Seksu, Slowdive...Jesus & Mary Chain, & Kosmische Music: Neu, Can, Kraftwerk,
8. Berghain...clubs that go on till the next day and all those that dwell within: Stephan Bodzin, James Holden, Carl Craig, Supermayer, Audion, Villalobos, The Field, Gui Boratto, Ben Klock, Italoboyz, Ellen Allien, Equalized, Smith n Hack/ Errorsmith, DJ Koze, Dubfire,
9.Hans Peter Lindstrom & Prins Thomas's Norweigian cosmic disco. I feel space. Todd Terje, Studio,
10. 70s 80s 90s & 00s New York fag art-school experimentation...Liquid Liquid, ESG, James Chance, Glen Branca, Patti Smith, Modern Lovers, Suicide, Liars, Velvet Underground & Lou Reed, !!!, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Ut, OutHud, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio, Television
11. Scandanvian music: Annie, Mum, Jens Lekman, Sally Shapiro, Bjork, Love Is All, Studio, The Knife, Bjorn Torske, Robyn, Air France
12. Anything to get the party started; Chromeo, JT, Diplo, Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, Girl Talk
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Type of Label: Major