Member Since: 7/2/2008
Band Members: Moog Voyager (bass, LFO whibbles, filtered drones, WARMTH).Elektron MachineDrum (Emotionally challenged rhythms).SH-101, Juno (Budget warmth).Logic Pro (plasticky soft synths that sound just like everything else).MPC 1000.A smattering of 'real' instruments (i.e the out-of-tune, out-of-time bits). Guitars, basses, thumb pianos etc.Susan (withering sarca......constructive critique).
Influences: Seefeel, Air, Vashti Bunyan, The Cure (up to 87), MBV (but let's face it, everyone puts that but no-one sounds like them), Joy Division (ditto), Slowdive/Mojave/Rachel Goswell, U2 (yes, I know it's not cool, but I don't care actually), Suicide, Can, Low-period Bowie, Cabaret Voltaire (how did they sound that BAD??), Husky Rescue, Stereolab, The Glove, Mazzy Star, Low, Human League, Au Revoir Simone, Neil Young, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Cup of Tea records, Mira Calix, Pram, Broadcast, Faust, Neu!, Lindsay Anderson films, the 1980 made-for TV Hammer House of Horror series, Pink Floyd up to 1979, Tangerine Dream's 'Rubycon', Radiohead (but they make you jealous by thinking of everything ten years before you), Suspiria (the film), Lisa Germano, Bjork (genius lady), Death in Vegas, Lou Reed and the Velvets, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Trojan Records, Felt, Godspeed!, Asobi Seksu, the man next door who keeps playing his emo records so loud that I can't hear anything AT ALL, Aldous Huxley (you were sort of right mate, not bad going for 1930-odd), The Durutti Column, Laika, Kranky Records, Flying Saucer Attack/Clear Horizon, Spacemen 3/Spiritualised, Cocteau Twins, Ulrich Schnauss, late-period Talk Talk, Michael Jackson's face (living proof that money, fame and global adulation don't always make you happy), self-service tills at Tesco (but I've PLACED the ITEM in the BAGGING AREA, you fool!!!), oil on canvas (made a mistake? Just add more white and BLEND), Adobe Photoshop (TM) (Hey! I don't need any talent!!), Logic (TM) (ditto), Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cinematic Orchestra's 'Motion', Raymond Carver, Angela Carter (do you like your feminism dark and witchy, sir?), ZX Spectrum games like Manic Miner (how did they get that much personality into a 16x16 sprite?), small soft furry animals like GUINEA PIGS AND RABBITS, endless cups of tea...Oh I could GO ON AND ON like Thatcher. The SINGULARITY IS NEAR and only some of us will be able to afford to upgrade. Beware. The rest of us will die like spotty chavs.
P.S. I'm looking for an ethereal-sounding female vocalist to work with (there's no ulterior motives! I've got a girlfriend, despite the sarky comments below): preferably someone who doesn't live too far away, but obviously we could swap files.
Sounds Like: Music made by sensitive souls in daycare mental health community centres for therapeutic purposes. Never had a job, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or any idea what people mean when they refer to 'the real world'? You might like this....
Record Label: Will never get signed: too old, too ugly, no ideas
Type of Label: Major