Member Since: 9/15/2004
Band Members:
Jesse Sampson-Usatenko
Influences:
Nintendo, heartbreak, foreign films, lullabies, animation, modem noise, pop culture cycles, medications, sketch comedy, friends and family, science fiction...
As far as bands go:
!!!, 13 & God, Add N To (X), Air, Animal Collective, Aphex Twin, Apparat Organ Quartet, Arcade Fire, Autechre, Battles, Beck, Black Dice, Blur, Boards Of Canada, The Books, Bracken, Brainiac, Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Carpet Musics, Clouddead, Copy, Cornelius, Daedalus, Danielson, Darkel, DAT Politics, DJ Shadow, Dosh, Dwayne Sodahberk, Electric Company, The Flaming Lips, Fog, The For Carnation, Four Tet, Global Goon, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gorillaz, Greg Davis, Hood, Hot Chip, Jel, June Of 44, Kid 606, Kim Hiorthoy, Klaxons, Labraford, Lali Puna, Liars, Lineland, Low, Lullatone, Matmos, Melodium, Microstoria, Mouse On Mars, Ms. John Soda, Mum, The Notwist, Nudge, O. Lamm, Odd Nosdam, Oval, Pimmon, Plaid, Plone, Polmo Polpo, Portishead, Prefuse 73, The Presets, Radian, Radiohead, The Rapture, Ratatat, Reaching Quiet, Richard Devine, RJD2, The Sea And Cake, Sigur Ros, Slicker, A Small Good Thing, The Soft Pink Truth, Stereolab, Stilluppsteypa, Strategy, Subtle, Thom Yorke, Tortoise, Trans Am, Tripping Daisy, Why?, Wolf Parade, Yo La Tengo...
and many, many, others I have not the time to name.
Sounds Like:
Attacked By Tigers! (2007)
Hella Vegas Kids Say Hella (2005)
Kiddo (2004)
Manageable Monuments (2002)
MIDI laptop mantra punk, Progressive electronica for little kids, Washed out vinyl collages & Sun bleached playground equipment, White noise gravel and station wagon tires, Modems grieving dead video game consoles...
"Fractured, yet melodic IDM that’s a pulsing kaleidoscope of beats and twitchy rythms as malleable as wet taffy." -Jason Bracelin, LV Review Journal
Record Label: Uno Momentum
Type of Label: Indie