Generator

Music:

Member Since: 17/12/2007
Band Website: www.coresect.com/generator/main.htm
Band Members: Generator is Generator.No weak links.

Influences: Lets go back in time... As a small child I grew up listening to everything from the Beatles to Pink Floyd, my family’s house was usually full of music.As I began to decide what I liked and what I didn’t, I was listening to the British Music Foundation, and then of course what they became (Clock DVA, Heaven 17, and The Human League). Kraftwerk really brought in the computer aspect, and bands like Cabaret Voltaire made me start to do it myself. Yes, I could be found cutting up cassette tapes to make beat loops, and thanks to a good friend of mine who shares my name, I was taping shortwave radio, sampling (with a tape recorder) weird documentaries, and similar. Test Department, and then Einstuerzende Neubauten had me hitting bits of metal, and the second hand electric guitar my father had bought me (yes I had an electric guitar. Yes, I hit it with bits of metal and I’m proud of it). Cabaret Voltaire led me to Hula, and then Front 242. It was 1985, and official version was one of the craziest things I’d ever heard. The KLF kicked off Acid House (what time is Love indeed...) and I loved it, whatever time it was... DAF came next, and then of course, Nitzer Ebb. I saw them in ’88 at the London School of Economics and was blown away. Then came another groundbreaking moment: Skinny Puppy, and then Nine Inch Nails. The music was growing fast, but I was still mucking about with analogue synths and an Atari.
What other groups can I mention? The Swans, the wonderful, and bastard, Aphex Twin, Ministry (RevCo forever), Klinik, Dive, Satie, ABC, Borghesia, Click Click, Michael Nyman, Apollo 440, Frontline Assembly (and their bastard offspring), Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Chris and Cosey, Underworld, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, the list goes on.
I devour music. My MP3 player (death to iPods) contains everything from opera to gabber, Traditional Japanese folk music to motown. If you don’t vary, you don’t know.

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