Music:
Member Since: 11/1/2004
Band Website: hypersomnia.net (who wants to design it??)
Band Members: HyperSomnia is Jay Harnish.
Influences: Ecstatic trance states... Dead Can Dance, Merzbow, Einstürzende Neubauten, Der Blutharsch, Deutsch Nepal, Death in June, GLOD, Swans, Muslimgauze, Crash Worship ADRV, Zoviet France, DVoA, Rapoon, Coil, Boyd Rice, NON, Hybryds, Peter Andersson (Raison d'être, Necrophorus, Svasti-ayanam, Stratvm Terror, etc), Anenzephalia, Brighter Death Now, Cold Meat Industry (www.coldmeat.se), Arcana, Arcanta, Sophia, Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, Tear Garden, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Future Sound of London, 9-Volt Haunted House, Autopsia, Lustmord, Yen Pox, Tribe Of Circle, Les Joyaux De La Princesse, Andrew Liles, Alio Die, O Yuki Conjugate, Vidna Obmana, Maeror Tri, Troum, Talvin Singh, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan, Bill Lasswell, Prokofiev, middle-eastern electronica, all things dark/ritual/ambient/celestial...
Also much influenced by the films of The Brothers Quay & Jan Svankmajer.
Sounds Like: never being able to wake up
Record Label: comp tracks on Zaftig Research + DetroitGothic
Type of Label: Indie