Music:
Member Since: 9/25/2004
Band Website: animalswithmachinery.com
Band Members: Mark Ophidian
Influences: I listen to everything I can wrap my ears around. My tastes include electronic, noise, shoegazer, metal, punk -- anything psychedelic, challenging and/or intelligent:
Severed Heads, Cyclobe, Coil, Low, Boards of Canada, Mike Patton/Tomahawk/Mr. Bungle, Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Vampire Hands, Nico, Squarepusher, Mastodon, Radar Bros, Meat Beat Manifesto, Quasi, Circulatory System, Carla Bozulich/Geraldine Fibbers, Lungfish, Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Wilson, Marc Almond/Dave Ball/Soft Cell, Inger Lorre/Nymphs, Plaid, Olivia Tremor Control, Kraftwerk, Stereolab, Gavin Friday, Yob, Supertramp, Tribe Called Quest, Neutral Milk Hotel, TG, Cocteau Twins, Swans, Fog, Melt Banana, Psychick TV, Blonde Redhead, Can, The Electric Wizard, This Mortal Coil, The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud, The Anti-group/TAGC/Clock DVA, Funkadelic/Parliament, Yello, Melvins, Perrey and Kingsley, Bongwater, Giorgio Moroder, cLOUDDEAD, Wino/The Hidden Hand, Hymie's Basement, Einsturzende Neubauten, Fetus Productions, Grandaddy, Idiot Flesh, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Today Is The Day, Priestbird, Digable Planets, Black Sabbath, The Carpenters, Mogwai, Brian Eno, Lustmord, Aphex Twin, Chris and Cosey, Diamanda Galas, Flaming Lips, Skullflower, British Electric Foundation, This Mortal Coil, Mercury Rev, Boredoms, Nino Rota, Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot, Fever Tree, Brick Layer Cake, Freescha, Black Heart Procession, Pink Floyd, Cows, Smog, Merzbow, Prefuse 73, Deadbird, Sonic Youth, Jim Thirlwell, Queens of the Stone Age, Zebulon Pike, and much more...
Movies:
Touch of Evil, Chopper, Freeway, Diary of a Chambermaid, Law of Desire, L.I.E., The Other, Ravenous, Visitor Q, Blood Simple, House of Yes, Pumpkin, Election, Night of the Living Dead, Angels Die Hard, The Wedding Banquet, Desperate Living, The Beyond, Night of the Comet, Phantasm, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Killer, Teorema, Mad Dog Morgan, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Waiting for Guffman, The Reflecting Skin, Night of the Hunter, Zombie, Keep the River on Your Right, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, Matador, Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey, Audition, Chinatown, Halloween, Beavis and Butthead do America, The Hills Have Eyes, The Thing, Jaws, Ginger Snaps 1-3, Suspect Zero, Ichi the Killer, The Descent, Imprint, House of 1000 Corpses, Martin, Harold and Maude, Carrie, Best in Show, The Devil's Backbone, Opera, The Company of Wolves, Evil Dead, CQ, Salo, Suspiria, Repulsion, Holy Mountain, Sweet Movie, Despair, Cremaster 3, The Devils, Sexy Beast, Female Trouble, Piranha, Rush, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Party Monster (the documentary), Dead Alive, May, Up!, Bury Me an Angel, Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, 1991: The Year Punk Broke, Last House on the Left, Satan's Sadists, City of the Living Dead, The Company of Wolves, Super Troopers, The Beyond, The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, The Ice Storm, Harry Potter series, and lots more...
Reading Materials:
Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Death on the Installment Plan, Miracle of the Rose, Funeral Rites, The Wasp Factory, Electronic Revolution, Hell's Angels, The Nagas: Hill Peoples of Northeast India, Wood Book, Disco Bloodbath, Ritual Magic, The History of Beads, Vintage Synthesizers, The Rebel, Murder Can Be Fun, Prison Tattoos, Boiled Angel, Re/Search, Bizarre, Blab, Sound On Sound, The Japanese Tattoo, Tape Op, Ornament, Ubu Roi, The Supermale, Woodturning, Clone: The Life and Legacy of Al Parker, Contemporary Lampworking, Understanding Wood: A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology, A Massive Swelling, Struwwelpeter, Wood for Woodturners, Future Music, The Cremaster Cycle, Car Crashes, Fruits, Answer Me, Rites of Burial, Ed Gein - Psycho, Tape Delay, Edward Gorey stuff, various technical manuals and periodicals (especially musical), misc. art and true crime, and esoteric useless info...
Web:
Guerrilla News ModuSonics The Audities Foundation Whitehouse.org Sonic State We Got Power Films Bringdown (RIP)
Sounds Like: Isn't that a bit subjective? Also, my original songs don't sound muddy and distant like they do on here.
Type of Label: None
