the Dropsy Twins - ProfilesArchive

About Me

the dROPSytWINs make music with electronic thingies. i like what i do and i do what i like. so do I. we’re currently in the process of finishing up some work i and i’ve been assembling for the past several years. it has been difficult for us to finish stuff in the past. i get jumbled. yeah, me too. but we’ve been better lately. i work with samples and live acoustical phenomena. and i handle the synths - see our kitlist. nothing fancy really, but it’s all effective and fun to use live, unlike laptops and fancy workstations, in my opinion. i agree - i like hands-on jamming, not mouse clicking and shit. little in the way of MIDI synching. what little keyboard ability i got i like to flaunt, y’know? i’m a hardware guy - except for a little sample fiddling and editing on Sound Forge. no laptop dancing here. whoever’s reading this babble, prove your love to us...
::kit list::
+yamaha SU700 sampler/sequencer
+yamaha TX16W sampler, Typhoon OS upgraded
+boss SP202 sampler, the first one
+korg microKORG synth - sooo badasss!
+yamaha DX100 - my first synth, thanks SystemAdykT.
+casio SK1 sampler/synth. the classic sampling keyboard we all played with at Fred Meyer.
+boss EF303 fx/synth/drum/seq. - lots of sliders and quirkiness.
+casio CK500 keyboard/beatbox/dual tapedeck/AM-FM fucking radio!!!!
+roland tr505 drum machine/midi seq. - this has been my primary
midi sequencer since 1997. i don’t use midi for a lot these days.
+boss DR550mkII drum machine - mostly use it for drum sounds,

i hate to program beats into the Dr. Rhythm series!!
+assorted FX boxes (zoom 1204, Lexicon mpx100) and pedals.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/27/2006
Band Members: Just the two of us.
Influences: things like music and life and death and nature and science and peace and war and love and evil and corruption and fear and courage and art and sex and friends and enemies. truth and lies and all kinds of little tiny other things that end up also being important at some time or another. and some other specific things too, like dinosaurs and underground lakes and meteor showers and giant prehistoric dragonflies. cold equations. the evolution of plants and animals. psychoacoustics and the effects of sound on the nervous system. yeah, that sounds important.
we love to think of the plants that have been subjected to the various audio studies comparing abrasive sounds, ie. metal and noise, to soft lulling sounds and "classical" music. we can't wait to have our own greenhouse. imagine hothouse tomatoes that have been raised with the nourishing sounds of noise pulsating through the soil. will they be bitter or sweet?

Motion pictures have probably had the greatest influence on us. Both their ideas and their soundtracks. Also, ambient sounds, those which are created and lost all the time, all around us, are sources of constant inspiration.
--and also, musically speaking:
5ive. 16 volt(wisdom). afrikka bambatta. air supply. amps for christ. angelo badalamenti. APHEX TWIN. autechre. BABYLAND. bananarama. syd BARRETT. bauhaus/tones on tail. berlin. the blackouts. black sabbath. blindidiotgod. blue cheer. BORN AGAINST. botch. cabaret voltaire. john cage. CAN. carcass. the Carpenters. CASIO KILLAH. cathedral. chris + cosey/CTI. the clash. clockDVA/adi newton. COIL. PHIL COLLINS. john coltrane. CRASS. cyberaktif. DAF. miles davis. dead voices on air/mark spybey the dead kennedys. depeche mode. destroy all monsters. DEVO. dmx krew. don caballero. doctor DRE. dub syndicate/On U Sound/adrian sherwood. DURAN DURAN. earth. einstuerzende neubauten. EX-LIBRIS. expose. THE FALL. finitribe(the earlier stuff, w/chris connelly). a flock of seagulls. FOSCIL. (old)frontline assembly/intermix/noise unit. GASP. the english beat. ..GLASGOW.. grandmaster flash. goblin. GODFLESH/jk broadrick/final/ice/sweet tooth/the sidewinder, etc... godheadSilo. GREY(seattle). bruce haack. HALL AND OATES. hammers of misfortune. pj harvey. ISSAC HAYES. helmet. high on fire/sleep. ..highpriestsovpanick.. the golden voiced holly louann. ice cube. information society. iron maiden. isis. janet and michael jackson and their producers from back in the day. jah wobble. jane's addiction. jaydee(rip). the jesus lizard. john foxx/ultravox. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN. joy division/new order(the earlier the better). judas priest. KILLING JOKE. kim wilde. kk null. KRAFTWERK. lab report/eric pounder. bill laswell. LEE PERRY. les georges leningrad. huey lewis. lene lovich. lustmord/terror against terror. madlib. MADONNA. manISthebastard. masonna. michael mcdonald. meat beat manifesto/jack dangers/tino corp. the melvins. melt banana. mens recovery project. merzbow/masami akita. Metallica. mick harris/SCORN. ministry/1000 homo djs/PTP/revolting cocks/lead into gold etc... mike patton/mr. bungle/FNM/fantomas etc... monster defiance headquarters. giorgio moroder. ennio morricone. motley crue. Motorhead. murder inc. my life with the thrill kill kult(the earliest). napalm death, circa SCUM. VICTOR NORIEGA. neurosis. newcleus. nina hagen. nomeansno. NOT BREATHING/dave Wright/CARRIONSOUND.COM. gary numan. nurse with wound. nu shooz. NWA. oingo boingo/danny elfman. PARLIAMENT. lee perry. (old)pigface. the pink floyd. basil poledouris, composer of the Conan the Barbarian and Robocop soundtracks. primus. prince. Psychic TV/genesis p-orridge. PUBLIC ENEMY. PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED. quasimoto. rapoon. robert rich. anthony rother. RUDIMENTARY PENI. rush. Scary Bear. sean. the Sex Pistols. sheila e. siouxsie/creatures. SIR MIX-A-LOT. shep pettibone. shuggie otis. SKARP. skin chamber. SKINNY PUPPY/hilt/cEVIN KEY/doubting thomas/downLoad. slint/rodan. soft cell. sonic youth. S.P.A.S.M. SPAZZ. SPK/graeme revell. karlheinz stockhausen. SUNN 0))). SUN RA. swarming hordes. tangerine dream. the Tear Garden. techmaster PEB. THROBBING GRISTLE. the THRONES. tomtomclub. BONNIE TYLER. U.N.(seattle). the velvet underground. VENOM. vicious pink phenomenon. WIRE. wormwood. Zeni Geva. john zorn/painkiller/masada/naked city. the album we'll eventually put out (getting closer)...
Sounds Like: kind of a "brr-rr-r-rrghh-AHHH! brr-rrr-ga-GA-ga!" sorta of thing.
Record Label: this music was meant for your ears only; no labels
Type of Label: None

My Blog

time is like a clock in my heart

we took a break from the studio to allow a good friend a place to stay. we've had time to go to Portland and celebrate our birthday, help the Dad finish a house, begin the legal processes to free ours...
Posted by the Dropsy Twins on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:56:00 PST

thoughts on Night Flight.

so this new track is an amalgam of an older song, "recharge" circa 2002, and brand spankin' new elements comprised of EF303 hi-hat, DX100 arps and free pads, microKorg arps and SU-700 samples. title c...
Posted by the Dropsy Twins on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:43:00 PST

Dropsy Twins, 1 Fed, 1 Dead

Now that our studio is back on track, and 1 Fed is mobile and healthy enuff to make the trek from Gig Harbor to Seattle, we all thought it be high time for a collaboration. 1 Fed did not disappoi...
Posted by the Dropsy Twins on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:54:00 PST

waxing nostalgic about my new songs, which are really old.

this won't mean shit to many of you, but i've finally uploaded what was, at the time, my most complete and complex piece of music. "at the time" meaning like 6 years ago. yes, i remember working on th...
Posted by the Dropsy Twins on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:06:00 PST

another new/old song.

found a bit i had recorded in a hurry about two years back that features a Megatron sample and some live DX-100. It's pretty stiff, by which i mean there's not a lot of live interaction going on, but ...
Posted by the Dropsy Twins on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:33:00 PST