Music:
Member Since: 5/10/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/sheerzedrecordings
Band Members: Sheer Zed is Sheer Zed is Sheer Zed is.
Influences: In no particular order...Syd Barrett (and selected Pink Floyd), Negativeland, David Bowie, John Foxx, The Associates, King Tubby, Raymond Scott, Faust, Can, Sandy Nelson, Harmonia, Gong, Kevin Ayers, The Harry Smith Folk Collection, Suicide, The Beach Boys, John Cale, Lou Reed, Ivor Cutler, The Beatles, Ash Ra Temple, The Seeds, Japan, Ozric Tentacles, Lee Scratch Perry, Captain Beefheart, The Soft Machine, ELO, OMD, The Move and Roy Wood, The Nuggets Box Set, Richard Hell, Kraftwerk, Tom Waits, The Goodies, A R Kane, New Order, Joy Division, Visage, Sex Pistols, Wire, Giorgio Moroder, Bipolar Disorder and Manic Depression, T-Rex, Trevor Horn, Joe Meek, Scritti Politti, Blancmange, LFO, Ian Dury, Jandek, Frank Zappa, Mozart, Debussy, Phillip Glass, Big Star, Steely Dan, Steve Hillage, DMT, The Orb, Simple Minds, Roxy Music, Aphex Twin, My Bloody Valentine, Charles Mingus, Throbbing Gristle, George Clinton, Coil, Caberet Volitare, Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, The Smiths, The Cocteau Twins, MC5, Tangerine Dream, The Residents, Beck, Marvin Gaye, Tomita, The Frank Chickens, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Ted Hawkins, Blondie, Boards Of Canada, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Laurie Anderson, James Brown, Vic Reeves, Tackhead Sound System, Led Zeppelin, Bolthrower, DJ Spooky, DJ Shadow, Jimi Hendrix, Jona Lewie, Supertramp, Laurel & Hardy, Lemon Jelly, DJ Steinski, The Fall, Julian Cope, Jean Michel Jarre, Jerry Lewis, Coldcut, Ween, Prince, Bob Marley, Underworld, John Barry, John Williams, Depeche Mode, Thomas Dolby, Public Enemy (and most old school hip hop), Kate Bush, M, The Sound, Stump, Cat Stevens, Talking Heads, The Human League, Heaven 17, The Stranglers, Ghost, Love & Rockets, Renegade Soundwave, Air, Hawkwind, The Clash, The Police, Lene Lovich, Jeff Wayne, The Goons, The Who, The Kinks, Cream, Arthur Rackham, Bill Laswell, Aubrey Beardsley, The Hubble Telescope photographs, Jah Wobble, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (and The Beat Poetry movement itself), Charles Bukowski, Dylan Thomas, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Lyman, Scott Walker, Sigur Ros, Scientist, Mr. Ben, Sun Ra, Buster Keaton, The Wombles, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Cluster, Johnny Cash, Meat Puppets, Elvis, Phil Spector, The The, Elton John, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Freddy and The Dreamers, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Normal, Interpol, Salvador Dali, Love, Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, Christopher Walken, Scooby Doo, Vangelis, Dr. Who, John Peel, Peter Gabriel (and early Genesis), Neu!, Nagarjuna, Leon Theremin, Tiswas, Sonic Youth, Black Sabbath, Nikoli Tesla, Tiny Tim, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Lee, Gerry Anderson, Miles Davis, The Clangers, Charlie Parker, Terence Mckenna, David Icke, Frank Herbert, Phillip K. Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, Norman Wisdom, Marc Chagall, Test Dept, David Lynch, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Mute/Some Bizarre/4AD Record labels, Spaghetti Westerns, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, DEVO, E.E.Cummings, Tom Dowd, Monty Python, Ornette Colman, Front 242, Frank Sidebottom, Shuggie Otis, John Wyndham, Soft Cell, Landscape, The Flaming Lips, Pet Shop Boys, Kiss, The Stranglers, Swans, Warner Brothers Cartoons (anything by Tex Avery and Chuck Jones) The genres of Science fiction/Horror/Fantasy (comics, films, books, toys and ideas) and finally but by no means least...Buddha.
Sounds Like: A multimensional envoy of electronic sound.
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Record Label: (SZR) Music
Type of Label: Indie
