JAN ACH - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Jan Ach was apparently raised by a pack of jackals. Discovered in the jungle and then kept for a time by the Maharini of Cooch Behar. Like so many other feral children, he longed to return to the jungle but had little means to get back. In adulthood he found a guitar and a sampler and now uses the savage instruments to return to the impenetrable thicket.

All of this music has been a long time in the making. Many of you have heard previews of my tracks popping up from time to time. Right now, there is a collection of my best tracks to date. All of these tracks have something to them, "Ways of Talking" has its shotgun break, "Hot Output" swings rough, "The Arm", with the sitar in the background (a guitar actually). "Gum" is something I am really proud of, with its precision simplicity and you gotta love that bass; but they are all special to me, abominations of sound and hardwork; these tracks are little monsters!

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Member Since: 2/1/2006
Band Website: virb.com/janach
Influences: A Certain Ratio, Add N to (X), Laurie Anderson, Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Buzzcocks, John Cale, Can, The Cars, The Clash, Crass, Holger Czukay, Devo, Ian Dury, Echo & The Bunnymen, Brian Eno, ESG, The Fall, Faust, Serge Gainsbourg, Gang of Four, Philip Glass, The Jam, Joy Division, The Kinks, Kraftwerk, The Modern Lovers, Neu!, New Order, New York Dolls, The Only Ones, Pere Ubu, Iggy Pop, Public Image Limited, Lou Reed, The Raincoats, The Rolling Stones, The Ramones, Roxy Music, The Slits, The Smiths, The Specials, The Stooges, The Stranglers, Suicide, Swell Maps, Talking Heads, Television, T.Rex, Tubeway Army, Velvet Underground, Scott Walker, Wire, XTC...
Record Label: Slang
Type of Label: None