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OKR

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About Me

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OKR (Raj K. Ojha) combines live drums, keyboards, found sounds, horns, guitars, and other elements to form, dissect and educate himself about music in his bedroom. Inspired by music ranging from Autechre to CAN to Black Sabbath to Mort Garson to Magma; OKR attempts to create a instrumental, electronic and rock amalgam reminiscent of progressive rock and fusion of the seventies coupled with contemporary elements of electronic music. He is currently putting a a live band together to play some renditions of these songs live (with less electronics than on the recorded versions). OKR has done remixes for The Roots Of Orchis, Deerhoof and Run_Return. He also plays drums and writes beats for Rapatron and is a former member of the group Run_Return . You can purchase the run_return album, Metro North at the iTunes Music Store . He has also been playing and collaborating with Carta . He also feels weird writing about himself in the third person.
Bands I've Played Shows With
Here are some bands that I have played shows with, playing drums, keyboards and laptop in Rapatron, Run_Return and The Why Because over the last few years.
Tortoise , Trans Am , Fog , Boom Bip , Har Mar Superstar , HIM , Daedelus , Talk Demonic , Rubber 0 Cement , Numbers , Jel , Subtle , Bitcrush , Mice Parade , The Lovemakers , Bonobo, Honeycut , Isotope 217 , The Roots of Orchis , Call and Response , Experimental Dental School , Bunny Rabbit .


Personal LinksMy VIRB (listen to more songs here) My Last.fm My Movies View more of my movies here . My Photos My FUZZ
Some other bands I play inRapatron - on myspace The Why Because - on myspace Carta Zeinscholt Schneider and the Angry Neighbor


OKR LIVE VIDEOS
OKR Live - 2001, Santa Cruz CA @ the cube
Here are some video clips from the only show I've done with a live band at the Santa Cruz Big Bang, Underground music festival, (sorry about the sound, it's all from the in camera mic).
Videotaped by my friend Joe Stillwater .
with...
Joel Robinow (Drunk Horse) - Guitar, Trumpet, Rhodes, Juno
Andrew Seger (Rapatron) - Guitar, Bass
Andrej Hronco - Saxophone, Vibraphone, Percussion
Raj Ojha (OKR) - Drums
To Sleep Live At The Cube, Santa Cruz 2001
Melon Live At The Cube, Santa Cruz 2001
Elon Live At The Cube, Santa Cruz 2001
Weird Meta Live At The Cube, Santa Cruz 2001
Go Buy Cool Things! HERE - Christian Rosencreuz

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/4/2004
Band Website: okrweb.com
Band Members: Raj K. Ojha
Influences: Eno
R.D. Burman
Delia Derbyshire
Mort Garson
White Noise
Space Art
Catharsis
You
Harold Grosskopf
Gong
Captain Beefheart
Amon Duul II
Magma
Green Milk From the Planet Orange
Autechre
Radiohead
EOG
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Jose Gonzalez
Olivier Messiaen
Deru
BOC
Aphex Twin
Camp Lo
MF Doom
Busta Rhymes
CAN
Cluster
Return To Forever
Tony Williams Lifetime
Pentangle
Bran
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Goblin
Exmagma
David Earle Johnson/Jan Hammer Group
Henry Cow
Embryo
Michael Mcdonald
Aeroblus
Kubero Diaz
Robert Wyatt
Genesis
Wishbone Ash
Deerhoof
Sir Lord Baltimore
Silver Apples
Gentle Giant
This Heat
Quiet Sun
Ratatat
Last Step
Tape
Argent
Curved Air
The Tubes
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.
Jimmy Edgar
Electronic Music Composer
Delia & Gavin
Delarosa & Asora
Chris Clark
Wisp
SABBATH - LED ZEP - DEEP PURPLE
PRIEST - MAIDEN - PENTAGRAM
Sounds Like: Moloko Ice Cream Dreams, Asteroid Burgers, Your name on fire, Weekend at Burn Victom's
Record Label: caveman record producer says, "me smell hit".
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Live OKR Videos From 2001

Hate to be a giant blogging nerd but I'm sick and I cant sleep. I just updated my music profile and added a couple videos from my performance at the Santa Cruz, Big Bang Festival in 2001 on my page ...
Posted by OKR on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:50:00 PST

New Song Up, Weird Meta

Hey everyone, I put up a rough mix of a song I'm working on for my album. It's more of a taste of things to come with the live drums. Soon I'm gonna record guitar, keyboard and balinese flute parts as...
Posted by OKR on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 09:01:00 PST

Run_Return Metro North LP released!

Hey everyone, some of you may not know but I'm also in a band called run_return (runreturn.com + run_return on myspace). We just released out album "Metro North that's been 3 years in the making. Y...
Posted by OKR on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 05:59:00 PST

okr flickr blog

the best sounding photos I've ever made. http://flickr.com/photos/okr
Posted by OKR on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

big shows comin next month..not okr ones though

hey, I dont usually name drop but i'm playing some big shows next month with some other groups I play in. On may 14th run_return is playing with daedelus and montag (which features members of animal ...
Posted by OKR on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

rough sketch of a new track

very rough aketch of a track featuring some lines I made with samples of individual nots from a rhodes and upright bass (not samples from songs). Founding Fathers (working title)...
Posted by OKR on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Get the new roots of orchis record - I have a remix on it!

I remixed politics of bacteris for the new double roots of orchis album, "crooked ceilings". Even though I spent like 4-5 months on it I'm not so happy with it still, some people seem to like though....
Posted by OKR on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST