Music:
Member Since: 11/17/2005
Band Website: swhq.co.uk
Influences: Beauty-Love-Heartbreak-Anger-Melancholia.
David Lynch, Chris Cunningham, Luis Bunuel, Joel Peter Witkin, the train set I had when I was a kid, Frank Zappa, Orson Welles, Robert Fripp, Stanley Kubrick, James Joyce, Bill Hicks, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Lynne / ELO, Meshuggah, Pete Townsend / The Who, Bret Easton Ellis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Wilson / Beach Boys, sprawling double vinyl LPs in gatefold sleeves, Japanese bondage, Joy Division, XTC, Nick Drake, Can, Neu!, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Abba, Mikael Akerfeldt / Opeth, The Necks, Red House Painters, Massive Attack, The Smiths, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Arvo Part, Lindsay Anderson's "If" and "Oh Lucky Man", Dead Can Dance, The Cure, The Carpenters, Underworld, Hawkwind, almost all 70's progressive rock (King Crimson, Pink Floyd, VDGG, Yes, Camel, Genesis, Mike Oldfield, Caravan, Gentle Giant, Jethro Tull, Ange, SBB, Rush, Magma, Hatfield and the North / Egg, Gong, Focus, Henry Cow, Area, PFM, Arti and Mestieri..etc), but virtually no progressive rock after that. The same applies for Krautrock (Faust, Embryo, Cluster, Popul Vuh..etc). A lot of electronica, especially the holy Warp trinity of Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Squarepusher, but also Monolake, Plaid, Bola, Scorn, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares, Photek, Jan Jelinek, Brothomstates, Arovane, Panacea, Gas, 2nd Gen, Pan Sonic, Vladislav Delay, and Murcof. The so called minimal techno of Plastikman, Surgeon, and Ricardo Villalobos. A lot of industrial music from the late 70's / early 80's especially Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, MB, Whitehouse, SPK, Zoviet France, Nurse With Wound, Esplendor Geometrico, Muslimgauze. A whole lot of experimental / drone-based music, especially Richard Chartier, Thomas Koner, The Hafler Trio, Uton, Asmus Tietchens, VidnaObmana, Fear Falls Burning, William Basinski, Organum, and Mirror. Eno, The Waterboys, Prince (80's vintage), Neil Young, SLAB!, Swans, Black Sabbath, Lasse Hoile, PIL, Neurosis, The Fall, Linda Perhacs, Free, Bjork, Magazine, T-Rex, Wolf Eyes, Khanate, The Police, Fritz Lang, Chris Morris, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Cardiacs, Tom Waits, Harry Nilsson, David Bowie, Isis, The Durutti Column, Oval, Franz Kafka, Donovan, DJ Shadow, OMD, Gary Numan, A Certain Ratio, The Doors, Steely Dan, Circle, Momus, Mew, Roy Harper, John Martyn, Magna Carta, Trans Am, Magazine, Terry Riley "A Rainbow in Curved Air", The Moody Blues, Will Oldham, Alan J Pakula, Aphrodite's Child "666", Vangelis "Earth" and "Beauborg", Santana, Todd Rundgren, Smog, Scott Walker, Captain Beefheart "Trout Mask Replica", Family, Deep Purple, Mansun "Six", Jim O'Rourke, Paul Schutze, Steve Reich, Vivian Stanshall, The Beatles / Paul McCartney / George Harrison "All Things Must Pass", John Lennon "Plastic Ono Band", Slayer "Reign in Blood", Metallica "Master of Puppets", Talking Heads, Godley / Creme "Consequences", Air, Oceansize, Fovea Hex, Donna Summer, Ivor Cutler, Wendy Carlos "Sonic Seasonings", Third Eye Foundation, Tarkovsky, Alice Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Esoteric, Sunn O))), The Byrds, CSN, Cardiacs, Wire, Meat Beat Manifesto, Faure "Requiem", Alanis raging against her ex-boyfriend (and "Thank You" of course), Fleetwood Mac, Astral Social Club, Tim Hardin, my hatred of iPods, Earth, Sinatra, Kate Bush, Orbital, Dom "Edge of Time", Morton Feldman, Keith Jarrett, Jean Cocteau, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, "The Wicker Man" (not the abysmal Hollywood remake), Chic / Sister Sledge, Alain Resnais "Night and Fog", Philip Glass, Love, Sly and the Family Stone, Cocteau Twins, The Mars Volta, Terje Rypdal, Marvin Gaye, Gojira, Faith No More, Katatonia, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, DAF, Univers Zero, Morbid Angel, The Stranglers, Asian Horror Movies (especially Shutter, and Ju-On), Bauhaus "Bela Lugosi's Dead", Shit N Shine, Jeff Wayne "War of the Worlds", Mastodon, Tape, Serge Gainsbourg "Historie De Melodie Nelson", "The Company of Wolves" (Neil Jordan movie), Sun Ra, Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Prefab Sprout, Oren Ambarchi, Lard Free, Queen, The Blue Nile "Hats", Joni Mitchell, Set Fire to Flames, Tom Newman "Faerie Symphony", Man, Chemical Brothers, Corrupted, LCD Soundsystem, Harmony Korine "Gummo", Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Burzum, Pharoah Sanders, Killing Joke, Birchville Cat Motel, Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain", Boris, The Bee Gees, Merzbow, Stars of the Lid, The Bonzo Dog Band, Heldon.
And everything else.
Sounds Like: Words are trains, for moving past what really has no name
Record Label: Headphone Dust
Type of Label: Indie
