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About Me

OUR ALBUM IS FINALLY BACK IN STOCK!!!!!! WTFWTFWTFWTFW go to cdbaby and get it!!!! when i was a little kid and in school, i would bore very easily, and ended up doing things like drawing mazes and writing out googles. very OCD. when i was 15, i heard Coltrane's "giant steps" for the first time, and for the first time was aware of the mathematics behind music. The song "giant steps" has always sounded to me like a gem rotating in space. when i heard bach's "a musical offering" and "the art of the fugue," i heard, for the first time, the mazes and contours i had imagined put into music. So, it was all over from then on.Deantoni picked up the chicken bones and pots before he knew what a drumkit was. he played with the highschool jazz band at the age of 5, and I have a tape of him just murdering "billy jean" when just a little tyke.so, we met in 2002, recorded for the first time in september 2002, and the first album was done by June 03. It is my first attempt at electronic music, and has a certain naivety inherent in the techniques. I started showing the album around in 04, after being convinced by people who were hearing it that it was really cool.the second album should be done in some months from now. It will incorporate much more of a DSP/timbre morphing sound, and hopefully i'll map some of those mazes.scott

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Member Since: 7/18/2004
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/googleplex
Band Members: Deantoni Parks: drums Scott Bruzenak: sax, flute, sine programming
Influences: JS Bach, John Coltrane (especially giant steps and interstellar space), the Ruins, Squarepusher, Koji Kondo, Bogdan Racyzinski, Frank Zappa, Dabrye, Aphex Twin, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Don Cabellero, Hella, Eric Dolphy, Linc Chamberlain, Dave Liebman, Herbie Hancock, Conlon Nancarrow, Tony Williams, Elvin Jones, Jack DeJohnette, Bartok, Davidowsky, Castlevania, Metroid, Zelda, weird idealized video game music, Return to Forever, Yes, Electric Light Parade, Video Game music, 8-bit, chip, glitch, braindance, IDM, gamelan, west african djembes and koras, Gypsy jazzÂ , Delia Derbyshire, Fredo Viola, Deltasleep, Skerror, Hecanjog, Jesse Krakow, Soft Machine, Silver Apples, Lightning Bolt, Leafcutter John, Hrvatski, Wendy Carlos, Robert Moog, Curtis Roads, James McCartney
Sounds Like: love incarnate
Record Label: http://earstroke.com
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A Nice Reason To Live

Well, I'm quite overworked. Now I'm doing post-production on soon to be classic movies such as "Corpses Are Forever," "Alien Abduction," and ""Jolly Roger." I take the dialogue out of the stereo tra...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New song from "googleplex"

this one is in 60/4 and has 60 notes to the octave. it's a cover of giant steps by coltrane.
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

aleatoric production fun

hi all. in the studio again, recording the crushing of some charcoal briquets (a nice grey mineral thud thinkle). started wrestling with this part which had just too much loud, bit-crushed materia...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

astroid v. asteroid

Definition of astroid not what you might think
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

love everyone even more

the feedback people are giving me is almost too much. i already have a pretty passionate attachment to this project, and now all of the wonderful responses people are giving me, in emails and comment...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

bulgarian dnb

not actually bulgarian, and i have no idea what drum "N" bass actually is, but this is some fun more in the actual vein of sqp and amon tobin, i guess. a solo project, without deantoni involved (hey,...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I LOVE EVERYONE

thank you to everyone who has visited me, taken the time to write me a little note or letter. It makes me feel very good to know that people are finally hearing this music. i look foward to meeting ...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

over the hump

it takes me months to do new stuff, like this Astroid music. Why? because I'm always trying to find something new. I have to blunder in the dark, just working on faith that, after enough work and t...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

music theory 2

here's a fun one, kids. it's a technique for turning noise into notes. Take a digital band pass filter. put the Q as tight as possible. take a big, wide spectrum noise (anything, like a jet engine...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

music theory 1

ok so i guess people DO read these things, so maybe i'll add some value here. i have some crazy ideas about music, which i'm sure people won't give a shit about, but i'm always suprised THOUGHTS...
Posted by astroid power-up! on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST