Member Since: 1/23/2006
Band Members: MISSION CONTROL:
Charles Van de Kree (X-Ray Laser Guitars W/ 3-D Phase Projector, Plasma Jet Synths, Digital Sampler, Ionized Pulse Vocoder & Voice Command)***Philippe Byrnes (Photon-Energized Synths, Time Dilation Sequencer & Ferromagnetic Guitars)***Ron Grissom (Impulse Bass Engines, Infrasonic Wave Generator, KAOSS Pads & Ultraband Frequency Modulation Transmitter))***Roland Thoms (Drum Systems Control & Trans Warp Drive Injection, V-Drum Accelerator, Electronic Percussion & CO2 Filter Sax)***Joey Mach (Auxiliary DSC, Modular Syncussion Interface, Electronic Percussion & Android Samplers)AUXILLIARY CREW:
Glen Spencer (Keyboards, Synths, Sax)***Cyndee Lee Rule (Electric Violin)
Influences: MUSIC:CHARLES (Hawkwind, Robert Calvert, Chrome, Helios Creed, Be-Bop Deluxe, Bill Nelson, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Heldon, Ultravox, Gary Numan, XTC)***PHILIPPE (Hawkwind, FM, Can, Cluster, Neu, Amon Duul II, Guru Guru, Grobschnitt, Klaus Schulze)***RON (Alien Sex Fiend, Pressurehed, Dead Kennedys, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges)***ROLAND (Can, Neu, Krafterwerk, Harmonia, Cluster, The Residents, Chrome, Devo, Der Plan)***JOEY (Eat Static, The Orb, Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree, Omnia Opera, Future Sound of London, Cassandra Complex)***FILM & TELEVISION: 12 Monkeys, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Aguirre, A.I., Akira, Alien, Alphaville, Angry Red Planet, Apocalypse Now, Black Rain, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Cosmos, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Cube, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dead Ringers, Dr. Strangelove, Doctor Who, Dune, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Forbidden Planet, Gattaca, Heart of Glass,The Incredible Shrinking Man, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, The Last Wave, Lessons of Darkness, The Manchurian Candidate, The Matrix, Metropolis, The Omega Man, Orphee, The Outer Limits, Planet of the Apes, Planet of the Vampires, The Prisoner, The Right Stuff, The Road Warrior, Seconds, Silent Running, Solaris, Soylent Green, Star Trek, The Terminator, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, Them, The Thing, This Island Earth, THX1138, The Twilight Zone, Videodrome, When Worlds Collide, The Wicker Man, The Wild Wild West, The X-Files***BOOKS & AUTHORS: Brian Aldiss (Non-Stop, Hothouse), Isaac Asimov (I, Robot), J.G. Ballard (The Drowned World, The Crystal World, Crash, High-Rise, The Atrocity Exhibition, Memories of the Space Age, The Terminal Beach), Iain Banks (Feersum Endjinn), Charles Baudelaire (Flowers of Evil), Jean Baudrillard (America), Barrington J. Bayley (The Fall of Chronopolis), Alfred Bester (The Stars My Destination), Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles, R Is for Rocket, S Is for Space), Frank Brunner (The Shockwave Rider), William Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Arthur C. Clarke (Childhood's End), Hart Crane (The Bridge), John Crowley (Engine Summer), Mike Davis (City of Quartz), Samuel Delany (The Einstein Intersection), Philip K. Dick (The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Philip Jose Farmer (To Your Scattered Bodies Go, The Fabulous Riverboat),William Gibson (Neuromancer, Burning Chrome), M. John Harrison (The Centauri Device, The Viriconium Series), Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), Frank Herbert (Dune), Ursula K. LeGuin (The Left Hand of Darkness, The Hainish Trilogy), Stanislaw Lem (Solaris, The Futurological Congress, The Star Diaries, Microworlds) H.P. Lovecraft (At the Mountains of Madness), Michael Moorcock (Behold the Man, The Cornelius Chronicles), Arthur Rimaud (The Illuminations), Kim Stanley Robinson (Icehenge, The Mars Trilogy), Rudy Rucker (Software, Wetware), Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden, Cosmos), Robert Silverberg (Hawksbill Station, Tower of Glass), Norman Spinrad (Agent of Chaos, Little Heroes), Bruce Sterling (Schismatrix), Dylan Thomas (Collected Poems), Alvin Toffler (Future Shock, The Third Wave), John Varley (The Ophiuchi Hotline), Gene Wolfe (The Fifth Head of Cerberus), Roger Zelazny (Jack of Shadows, Lord of Light, Damnation Alley, The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth)***VISUAL ARTISTS: Urs Aman, Gareth Botha, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, H.R. Giger, Tomas Gilsanz, Rene Magritte, Jim Steranko, Yves Tanguy, Gilbert Williams
Sounds Like:Jet planes crashing through the sound barrier, rockets exploding through the Van Allen Belt, lasers firing from an orbital space station, alien rayguns disintegrating human flesh, neon flashing on city streets, liquid metal falling from a cold gray sky, robots fucking on a smooth steel floor, thunder in a subterranean cavern, the collision of protons in a particle accelerator, the crackle of electricity in a Tesla coil, a Cylon raider attack, a brain being probed by electrode fingers, a neutron star collapsing under the force of gravity, the shockwave after a 50 megaton nuclear explosion, a Space Invaders game on acid, the hum of machinery on the outskirts of an industrial megalopolis, an android dreaming of the god of biomechanics, computers talking to one another about global domination, a U.F.O. crash landing on Devils Tower, two planets colliding, radio transmissions from the Monolith, the death scream of a melting droid, what your hovercar stereo will play in 2053
Record Label: Black Widow Records (Italy), Overlord (USA)
Type of Label: Indie