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About Me

Floorian is a seductively spellbinding band from O-high-o. Exploring the realms of psychedelia, space rock and experimentalism, Floorian has conjured its own unique style of darkly melodic, hypnotic drone rock. While not easy to describe, these excursions are very easy to space out to, filled with mind-stretching sounds and textures... yet they also spend a considerable amount of time rocking out. The critics rave -- Matt Shimmer said: "While some songs are predominately atmospheric and soundscapey, the focus rests on a strong rock and pop influence that Floorian pulls off wonderfully. "Symptoms Alone" is a nine-minute epic of intergalactic folk-rock, like what you'd get if you shot Yo La Tengo even further into the depths of space. "Auravine," meanwhile, focuses more on drones, making great use of a wavering bassline, a sparse beat, and some echoing, atmospheric sounds in the background. Filled with amazing solos, galactic atmospheres, and catchy, all-enveloping bouts of rock, this is one of the best psychedelic records of the year." And Matt Howarth digs it too: "Dreamy guitars waft in the air, squealing, grinding, defining astral chords with tasty ease... these stringed manipulations achieve a transcendental disposition, building from a nebulous fog to screeching outcries, further elaborated by lead guitars that seek quite foreign sonic territories with their languid sustains and bent notes... alternating between psychedelic stylings and gothic darkness, conjuring melancholia that then strives to escape the box with emotional exertions. There's a romantic edge in this music, bestowing this spacerock with more than a touch of humanity, making the tunes more accessible."

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Member Since: 8/12/2004
Band Website: floorian.com
Band Members: Todd Fisher John Godshalk Bill Spiropoulos Other conspirators: Larry Durica, Alex Lee Mason, Phillip Park, Keith Hanlon, Robb Jarrett, Tabitha Kelley
Influences: psychedelia, spacerock, drone, postrock, experimental rock, acid folk, feedback, vintage guitars/keyboards/fx, abunai!, ac/dc, acetone, acid mothers temple, aether, alice cooper, alien planetscapes, all tomorrow's party, amber asylum, amon düül II, the animals, apples in stereo, area c, ash ra tempel, a silver mt. zion, the asteroid ..4, aural innovations, the auteurs, baby woodrose, badfinger, rick bain and the genius position, bardo pond, syd barrett, bauhaus, the bavarian druglords, beatallica, the beatles, beck, bee gees 1st, chris bell, nick bensen, bevis frond, the black angels, black mountain, black nite crash, black rebel motorcycle club, black sun ensemble, the bleeding hearts, blur, bongwater, the boo radleys, boris, bowery electric, david bowie, brainbow, the breeders, the brian jonestown massacre, the broken face, brother jt, buffalo springfield, burning sensations, butthole surfers, the byrds, calla, camper van beethoven, can, caravan, catherine wheel, causa sui, nick cave, ccc, cerberus shoal, cerebral corps, charalambides, the charlatans, cheap trick, chemical brothers, chief leatherlips, the chills, the church, church of hed, circle, circle jerks, citizen bird, clinic, coil, colorsound, comets on fire, coo, julian cope, cosmic roughriders, elvis costello, the count five, cracker, the cramps, crazy horse, cream, crescent, cul de sac, the cure, current 93, dabenport, tony dale & camera obscura records, damien youth, damon & naomi, the dandy warhols, the darkside, davis redford triad, daydream nation, the daymare, the dead c, dead meadow, death in vegas, the decemberists, the december sound, dedelectric, destroyalldreamers, devo, dipsomaniacs, discolor, djam karet, dolly rocker movement, do make say think, donovan, donovan's brain, the doors, doves, the dreadful yawns, the dream syndicate, the dukes of stratosphear, dungen, earth, echo & the bunnymen, elbow, the electric mainline, electric prunes, elevator, eleventh dream day, danny elfman, brian eno, escapade, espers, ethereal counterbalance, evolution control committee, explosions in the sky, farflung, fat mattress, faust, fiend, ken fisher, fit & limo, flying lizards, flying saucer attack, peter frampton, john frankovic, friends of dean martinez, fripp, funkadelic, futant oblivion, future kings of england, fuxa, fuzzhead, the fuzztones, alastair galbraith, genesis (early), gentle tasaday, ghost, david gilmour, glider, goblin cock, godflesh, god is an astronaut, godspeed you black emperor!, gong, sam gopal, the gothics, grant lee buffalo, the grateful dead, green on red, the green pajamas, greyscale, grimble grumble, larkin grimm, gris gris, groundhogs, the guess who, guided by voices, guild navigators, the guitar man, guitaro, steve hackett, halophane, george harrison, hash jar tempo, hawkwind, headquarters, the helio sequence, jimi hendrix, the high dials, high tide, the high violets, the hiss, the hollies, holy river family band, hoodoo gurus, hopewell, the iditarod, iggy pop, imajinary friends, international karate, interpol, chris isaak, burl ives, jackie-o motherfucker, jason spaceman, the jayhawks, jefferson airplane, jessamine, jesu, the jesus and mary chain, jet black berries, brian jones, joshua, joy division, july, kaleidoscope, kemialliset ystavat, king black acid, king crimson, king missile, kingston wall, the kinks, kinski, kiss, korai orom, kraftwerk, kula shaker, michio kurihara, lab partners, labradford, greg lake, lamp of the universe, landing, lanterna, the lazily spun, led zeppelin, le fly pan am, legendary pink dots, lemmy, john lennon, lilys, liquid sound company, lockgroove, the lone pigeon, the long ryders, loop, mary lou lord, love, love and rockets, the lovetones, low flying owls, lungfish, macrocosmica, magic carpathian project, maggot brain, magnog, the mamas and the papas, manitoba, frank marino, massive attack, johnny mathis, matmos, eric matthews, mazzy star, mediaeval babes, mellowdrone, mellow drunk, melvins, mercury rev, mermen, the microphones, the minders, mirza, the misunderstood, the mock turtles, the modern art, mogwai, the monkees, monks of doom, mono, monster magnet, moody blues, the moors, the morning after girls, ennio morricone, mudhoney, müm, "muss", my bloody valentine, the mystic tide, marissa nadler, nebula, negativland, neu!, neutral milk hotel, anton alfred newcombe, new planet trampoline, nirvana, the notwist, oasis, the octopus syng, oingo boingo, olentangy indian caverns, oliver, olivia tremor control, on holiday, opal, opium jukebox, the otherside, the out crowd, outrageous cherry, p.g. six, paik, pavement, pearl jam, pearls before swine, pelican, pere ubu, the petals, tom petty, sam phillips, the phoebe cates, the photon band, pictures of matchstick men, pink floyd, pioneer 4, matt piucci, pixies, plasticland, the plugz, lara polangco, polyphemus, porcupine tree, portishead, the pretenders, primordial undermind, psychic ills, ptolemaic terrascope, public image limited, quad, quarkspace, the quarter after, queens of the stone age, quicksilver messenger service, r.e.m., radiohead, rad kjetil and the loving eye of god, the rain parade, the raveonettes, the residents, ride, terry riley, steve roach, paul roland, the rolling stones, rush, the rutles, sacred miracle cave, saddar bazaar, salamander, nick saloman, salomé, satwa, savage republic, savage resurrection, say jansfield, scattered planets, scenic, screaming trees, sebadoh, secret machines, serena maneesh, the serpents, set fire to flames, 7% solution, the sex pistols, the shamen, ravi shankar, shizuka, shoes, the shrills, sianspheric, sigur ros, silver apples, silvertone, paul simmons, simon & garfunkel, simple kid, singapore sling, six organs of admittance, sixteen deluxe, sky parade, skye klad, sleep, slint, smallstone, smashing pumpkins, elliott smith, the smithereens, kendra smith, steven r. smith, the smiths, the smoke, the snakes, snowdonnas, sonic boom, sonic youth, son volt, soundgarden, spacegarden, spacemen 3, space needle, the spacious mind, speaker/cranker, spectrum, spinal tap, spirea x, spiritualized, spoon, st37, the stevenson ranch davidians, stinking lizaveta, stone breath, the stone roses, stone temple pilots, the stooges, strange machine, strawberry alarm clock, stuntz's blue leg expedition, subarachnoid space, sugar plant, sunburned hand of the man, sundial, sunn O))), sunstorm, the suspects, matthew sweet, swell, swervedriver, talking heads, tall dwarfs, tanakh, tarentel, teenage fanclub, the telescopes, television, tenacious d, terrastock, thee shams, thighpaulsandra, thin white rope, 13th floor elevators, the thought, thought forms, throbbing gristle, thtx, the thunderbyrds, tiara, timonium, mia doi todd, tomorrow, tom spacey, tool, tower recordings, traffic, the tragically hip, trans am, the trashmen, the troggs, true west, tuatara, the turtles, tv on the radio, the tyde, u2 (pre-joshua tree), ultimate spinach, ultravox, urdog, the vanduras, varnaline, the velvet underground, the ventures, the vera violets, the verve, the vines, the virgineers, viva saturn, viva voce, vocokesh, the volta sound, voyager one, wall of voodoo, joe walsh, walter ghoul's lavender brigade, the warlocks, greg weeks, the wellwater conspiracy, white noise, the white stripes, the who, wilco, windy & carl, wire, wooden wand and the vanishing voice, wylde old souls, xtc, the yardbirds, yo la tengo, neil young, the youngbloods, robert zimmerman, the zombies, etc.................
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Record Label: Bomp Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

it’s alive

greetings floorianites.we have emerged from our black hole to bestow upon you the latest essential happenings:new album: "already?" ok, seriously, we’re down to the last song... dark at the en...
Posted by Floorian on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:46:00 PST

floorian.com

newish! semi-improved! guaranteed to make you see even more purple! yes, the long-overdue revamp of our website is finally done. it sux doing it ourselves... the shit takes forever when you're nov...
Posted by Floorian on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 12:21:00 PST

coming soon...

hmm... not much action here for almost a year, and now three more songs, a bunch of new pics and two new blogs in one day?!... what is the deal with that, you may ask? well... first of all, it's kind...
Posted by Floorian on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:08:00 PST

more songs!

greetings... yeah, we're still here! our apologies for being a bit outta touch lately, so as a peace offering, we've posted some more songs here which you may or may not have heard before... here's ...
Posted by Floorian on Sun, 16 Oct 2005 08:01:00 PST