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Touching Centauri

This Eschatology Has Gone Far Enough

About Me

Not much to say really. I play keys/synths/piano in Below the Lights but also record my own stuff, mainly using Cubase and Reason. The stuff I write varies through ambient, dance, noise and piano pieces all with plenty of film samples. There are very few vocals (mainly as I can't sing).Not much here will change, it just gives me somewhere to host my music. Gigs will be extremely unlikely (read "not gonna happen").For the most part I reside in Bangor (studying an MSc in Ecology) but for the holidays I'll be in St.Helens................................................... ................ ............................................................ ................................................. "You cannot know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough" - William Blake

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/9/2006
Band Website: spaces.msn.com/touchingcentauri/
Band Members: Me! - synths, keys, piano, lyrics, vocals, sample mutilation, beats
Influences: MUSIC - Coil, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, NIN, The Orb, Third Eye Foundation, Mali Rain, Plug/Luke Vibert/Wagon Christ, Spacetime Continuum, Meat Beat Manifesto, Orbital, Underworld, The Prodigy, UNKLE, Atari Teenage Riot, Alec Empire, Gary Numan, Aphex Twin, Venetian Snares, Squarepusher, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, Kinski, Acid Mothers Temple, Merzbow, Kid 606, Moby, Killing Joke, Halo, VNV Nation, The Postal Service, The Cure, Vex Red, Radiohead, Muse, The Prodigy, Ministry, Front Line Assembly, The Coral, Ultraviolence, Skinny Puppy, ohGr, Cooper Temple Clause, Incredible String Band, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, Astral Moonbeam Projections, Placebo, Saul Williams, Flying Saucer Attack, Cave In, Arab Strap, Eric Bibb, Belle & Sebastian, Joy Division, New Order, U2, REM, James Yorkston & The Athletes, JJ72, Ooberman, Phantom 309, Flaming Lips, The Eels, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tori Amos, Six Organs of Admittance, Stereolab, The Smiths, Friends of Dean Martinez, Tom Mcrae, Reindeer Section, Fear Factory, Godflesh, Air, Tekton Motor Corporation, Marilyn Manson, Mercury Rev, The Doves, Autechre, Edgar Froese, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, Pink Floyd, Enslaved, My Dying Bride, Mull Historical Society, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Jeff Buckley, Faithless, Alabama 3, Fairport Convention, The Music, Skunk Anansie, Cave In, The Mars Volta, British Sea Power, Pulp, Anthony, Mojave 3, Ryan Adams, Pete Yorn, Damien Rice, Led Zeppelin, Inkxpotter, The Beatles, Cinematic Orchestra, Dirty Blue Gene, Rotting Christ, Thorns, Stabbing Westward, Iron & Wine, Mew, Low, Sulpher, Relaxed Muscle, Jean Michel Jarre, Lamb, Aprodite, Mr Scruff, Black Sabbath, Laura Veirs, Velvet Acid Christ, Captain Beefheart, State River Widening, Juantrip, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Oysterband, Leftfield, Dick Gaughan, Rage Against The Machine, The Smashing Pumpkins ...............FILMS - Lost Highway, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Natural Born Killers, Withnail and I, The Cube, Garden State, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Blue Velvet, 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, Fight Club, American Beauty, 28 Days Later, Event Horizon, Donnie Darko, Before Night Falls, High Plains Drifter, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, The Silence of the Lambs, ..................WRITING - East of Eden, The Moon is Down, The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row (Steinbeck), 1984 (Orwell), 2001 A Space Odyssey, Rama (Arthur Clarke), Complicity, The Crow Road, Excession (Iain Banks), Century Rain, Revelation Space (Alasteir Reynolds), Time, Space, Origin, Phase Space (Colin Baxter), Blake, TS Eliot, Keats, Paradise Lost, Richard Dawkins, The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Thunder Perfect Mind, George Russell (AE), The Silence of the Lambs, Lord of the Rings, Dune.....................OTHER - lucid dreaming, mountains, my friends, my girlfriend Susan, the sea, drink (pernod, whisky - single malt that is, beer), Salvador Dali, Bill Hicks, Brass Eye, the night, revels, oh and myspace too!
Sounds Like: You tell me
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Darker Days

For those interested here's some info on my new song. Firstly, samples: "By the dead clock will you wait for me there?" and "dead!" are both taken from Current 93's song "The Inmost Light Itself". The...
Posted by Touching Centauri on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 06:27:00 PST

Into the Unholy Night I flee

Just a word on the new song up. It was written entirely on Reason and sequenced on Cubase. The main synth melody was written for piano but as 1)i had no keyboard when recording and 2)i had no midi lea...
Posted by Touching Centauri on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:46:00 PST

A Word On Songs

I've just added another song (Human Junk pt.1 - Substance Abuse) partly to showcase the more experimental side to my work. The song features samples from Cube, Lost Highway, Fear & Loathing and Na...
Posted by Touching Centauri on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:28:00 PST

Drowned in Sound

There is too much music in the world. I've said that before. Far too much good stuff that i want to buy. And not enough money. Now that myspace exists it's all free but the problem isn't money it's ti...
Posted by Touching Centauri on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 02:26:00 PST

On a Name

Well, partly cause i'm bored (and therefore you should be bored too) i decided to tell you all where the name Touching Centauri comes from. It's the name of a short story by Stephen Baxter taken from ...
Posted by Touching Centauri on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:45:00 PST