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Lid Emba

If Timothy Leary hadn't left, he'd...

About Me

IDENTITY CRISIS

Absolute artistic fulfillment can only come to those who WANT to be inscrutable and anonymous in a commodity culture; that is, they don't give a fuck if YOU know who THEY are. Unfortunately, I'm not that enlightened... So, for the sadly obligatory bio, go here .

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DIGITAL GLUT

We Substitute Radiance


Lid Emba's collaboration with Bobcrane , co-released by Stickfigure Records and Inam Records, April 2008. Six tracks of art-damaged headphone food, mastered immaculate by James Plotkin . Available @ Stickfigure Distro/Mailorder , CD Baby , Public Guilt , I-Tunes , PayPlay.fm , Amazon, Napster, etc.

the good bits:

"Lid Emba brings us another trip into whatever psychedelic asylum he escaped from (or didn't, it's debatable)... wicked, textural, and disturbing." – MastanMusic

"Grotesque sonic landscapes of whacked-out electronics anchored by fat beats and trance rhythms, like a hallucinogenic mushroom cloud slowly dissolving in a dark dance club and bathing the dancers in radiation. Tripped-out sound is the order of the day. The final result is beat-laden exotica for the digital age, combining elements of drone, ambient, electronic, and psych music into a heavily layered tapestry of otherworldly sound, although there are passages where the beats die away and the sonic effluvia mutates into cosmic drift." – the one true dead angel

"Wow! Two awesome and ultra-underground musicians team up for a mail/internet collaboration. The result sounds like neither project, but like a strange, art-damaged jam between Tangerine Dream, early 90's Residents, and a dubbed-out electro-King Crimson. Heavy guitars, fractured beats, pulsing bass and massive amounts of knob-twiddling all collide for an amazing psychedelic journey to a better place." – Public Guilt

"Loud, not too fast beats, inspired by dub, but rockin not reggae-ing. On top of this spin a hot bed of electronics that sometimes float along nicely to the rhythms, but at other times collide like floating masses of ice. Nice one indeed." – Vital Weekly
"Elements of psyche, electro, prog, ambience lace this collaboration from some familiar A-file denizens. All instrumental, very interesting and progressive quantum leaps into the realms of new music, pop, experimental. For fans of post rock, prog, downtempo, Fripp, Eno. Name it." – KZSU Zookeeper Online

Reason Isn't Radar


Lid Emba's debut CD, released 5/2006 by Stickfigure Records. Obsessive compulsive disorder in stereo. Available @ Stickfigure Distro , CD Baby , Public Guilt , PayPlay.fm , I-Tunes , Emusic , Rhapsody , etc.
second opinions

"Your music includes many shared affinities... digging it all!" – Michael Diekmann, Ike Yard

"... a twitchy, glitchy, fun and funky exploration of the outer edges of beat driven sounds. Think Autechre with a smile on it's face and a song in it's heart." – Wonderful Wooden Reasons

"The grungy raw sound points to the use of traditional, non-sophisticated equipment for processing and marshalling; yet the glitch noise indicates complicated computer generated music... the intelligent use of technology and equipment rather than sampling makes this album uniquely styled, away from most of its contemporaries... a great effort to a unique debut." – The Plastic Ashtray

"Lid Emba plays a sprawling beast of a set, sometimes jarring unsettling jittery chaotic, often punchy and groovish... really great." – Eyedrum (show description)
"Noisy and dysfunctional psychedelia." – Creative Loafing

"On the experimental side, yet structured and relaxed. Loops and sounds that get close to prog rock." – KZSU Zookeeper Online

"An electronic, progressive, ambient project with a chaotic energy." – Intuitive Music


"(Radar) is such a fun album to listen to because there's something new and crazy every other second... the more organic approach taken to a style usually embodied by synthetics makes the album so interesting... really cool ambient, noise, experimental electronic stuff." – Ohmpark Atlanta Music Blog

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/5/2005
Band Website: lidemba.com
Band Members: Me and my pathologies: Sean Moore.

Other duties as assigned: providing metrics, assistance with arrangements, synthetics, and comic relief for Envie ; pounding bloody for Tenth to the Moon .
Influences: Originally, the listing here was as long as a whale’s tongue, similar to the Nurse with Wound list or the citations in Zorn & Naked City’s Radio. I can be too self-indulgent for my own good.

The tip of the iceberg: Three posters in my living room – Ramones, Miles and Kraftwerk. In my hallway – a poster for 200 Motels. My rehearsal room: Iggy, Faust, Soft Machine, Public Enemy, et al. For a more exhaustive roll-call of faves and essentials, subject yourself to my "inspirations, catalysts, galvanizers" blog.
Sounds Like: The refusal to surrender to the motherfucking multiplying maladies of modern malaise + restlessness x anger (discontent can be loud OR deceptively placid) + the doomed(?) search for transcendance and peace that will only end when I deactivate.
Record Label: Stickfigure Records, Inam Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The story behind We Substitute Radiance

As of the release of We Substitute Radiance, me and Ryan Huber of Bobcrane had yet to be in the same room. Picking each other out of a police lineup could have only been based on intuition; voice reco...
Posted by Lid Emba on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:00:00 PST

Inspirations, catalysts, galvanizers

The following tonnage of influences used to be on my actual page. There were two problems with that: the list took up too much space (like everything in my life, it's really hard for me to narrow...
Posted by Lid Emba on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:52:00 PST

Photos posted, at peace with the past that haunts

If you enjoy laughing at the expense of others (who really doesn't?), then you owe it to yourself to check out my additional photos. They encapsulate my shambolic musical continuum and perhaps are a t...
Posted by Lid Emba on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 07:22:00 PST

Fripp vs. the Velvet Underground

A friend and I saw Robert Fripp last night at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta. He's on the road doing his soundscapes thing, the digital offspring of Frippertronics, and is also actually SPEAKING. To...
Posted by Lid Emba on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:40:00 PST