Member Since: 02/10/2005
Band Website: http://www.MikePathos.com
Band Members: Mike Pathos
Influences: mono no aware.
MUSIC: Leonard Cohen, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Mozart, Alban Berg, Joy Division / New Order, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Morrissey, El-P, Recoil, Daniel Lanois, Mark Eitzel, American Music Club, Swans, Jarboe, Michael Gira, Angels of Light, John Zorn, Naked City, Boredoms, Gastr del Sol, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Billie Holiday, Ableton Live, Chet Baker, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, John Cale, Can, Faust, Kraftwerk, Ennio Morricone, Junior Boys, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Death In Vegas, Diamanda Galas, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Einsturzende Neubaten, Pigface, Pig, Nine Inch Nails, Propellerheads Reason, Xiu Xiu, Eric Clapton, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Sparks, Fleetwood Mac, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Sunn 0))), Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Tricky, Massive Attack, Portishead, Magnetic Fields, Gothic Archies, Marilyn Manson, M-Audio hardware, Sonic Youth, Foetus, Neurosis, Mission of Murma, P.I.L. (Public Image Limited), Malcolm McLaren, Atomsmasher, The Cure, The Tear Garden, Download, Skinny Puppy, Low, Ice, Barry Adamson, Non, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Raymond Scott, LCD Soundsystem, Six Finger Satellite, Marlene Dietrich, Philip Glass (especially "Einstein On The Beach" and "Hydrogen Jukebox"), La Monte Young, Steve Reich (especially "Let It Rain" and "Drumming"), Bjork, Luigi Russolo.
BOOKS: Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Fernando Pessoa, Leonard Cohen's "Book of Mercy", Stephen Crane's "The Black Rider and Other Poems", James Joyce's "The Dead", Geoffrey Chaucer, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Marquis de Sade, Dom Delillo, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, C.G. Jung, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Michael Bakunin, Karl Marx, Herbert Marcuse, Charles Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Stephane Mallarme, Jean-Paul Sartre, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, The Brothers Grimm, Bertolt Brecht, e.e. cummings, Plato, Socrates, The Book of Revelation, The Thomas Gospels, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Jacques Attali, Chuck Palahniuk.
VISUAL ART: Chargesheimer, Peter Gilles, Joseph Cornell, Christian Schad, Salvador Dali, Ansel Adams, Goya, Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele, Man Ray, El Greco, Barbara Kruger, Marcel Duschamp, Max Ernst, Cindy Sherman, Mark Rothko, Lucio Fontana, Kishin Shinoyama, Edmond Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Weegee, Duane Michaels, Eva Hesse, Jackson Pollock, Paul Klee, Komar & Melamid, Hieronymus Bosch, Marta Hoepffner, Howard Finster, Adam Parfrey, Suicide Girls, H.R. Giger, Sony cameras, Stanislav Szukalski, Hans Arp, Jan Saudek, Christian Boltanski, Alexander Calder, Jean Dubuffet, Adobe Photoshop, Rene Magritte, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Mick Rock, Andres Serrano, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Kasimir Malevich, Bill Brandt, Piet Mondrian, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Hermann Nitsch, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Kurt Schwitters, Bill Viola, Matthew Barney, Andy Warhol, Wols, Bernd & Hilda Becher, Edward Weston.
FILM: Apocalypse Now, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tim Burton, Alfted Hitchcock, David Fincher, Dead Man, Wings of Desire, Orson Welles, Monty Python, Brazil, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Stan Brakhage.
Sounds Like: I usually say the 'People' album that has gotten the wides release of my stuff 'sounds like Xiu Xiu jamming with Coil and John Zorn on Top of the Pops.' The material I'm writing now is still psychedelic and industrial, but reflects my renewed interest in electro and early post-punk. I've also always had a deep love and respect for blues idioms, which is finally starting to be audible in my work. Despite all these influences, I've never found anybody who really sounds remotely like me -- and I've heard a lot of music.
Record Label: TZADIK
Type of Label: Indie