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5th Plateau, the

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About Me

The 5th Plateau enjoy playing loud, strange, noisy, improvisational music with no limits on what can happen or change during the jam. That freedom makes each performance unique and dependent on the subtle, infinite psychological factors/interactions of the participating band members. Anything can happen, including: time warps, perception shifts, ambient drones, multiple polyrhythyms, buildups leading straight into meltdowns, clashing swirls of styles, moodswing mixtures, and generally a good dose of chaos, randomness, anarchy, and other dynamic relationships that would be near impossible to write or duplicate. Most of the time there's quite a few layers to disect: Patience and focus (drugs definitely help) will come in handy for full appreciation and enjoyment.Any music you hear on this site is simply a cut from much larger recordings with little to no post production, recorded with a usb microphone on a laptop computer using free software. Lo-fi quality is currently the best we got.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/14/2006
Band Website: this one
Band Members: Doug, Greg, Ryne, Justin, Luke
Influences: buckethead, mike patton, les claypool, tool, 13th Floor Elevators, the Doors, Mars Volta, Pink Ployd, radiohead, led zeppelin, bernie worrell, brain, john zorn, the melvins, dxm, butthole surfers, jesus lizard, Primus, don caballero, meshuggah, incubus, syd barrett, Sunn O))), Mr. Bungle, velvet underground, psilocibin, Fantomas, tomahawk, aphex twin, DPT, Beck, Nine Inch Nails, the beatles, deathcube k, john frusciante, timothy leary, frank zappa, captain beefheart, dave matthews band, 5-meO-AMT/DMT, soundgarden, King Crimson, roky erickson, 311, jefferson airplane, deftones, coricidin, jimi hendrix, 12/21/2012, sublime, THC, the Can, praxis, bob schneider, Tangerine dream, marilyn manson, dillinger escape plan, terrence mckenna, the Deli Creeps, depeche mode, Cream, autechre, 2c-t-2, Rage Against the Machine, adrian belew, Boredoms, Tortoise, squarepusher, team sleep, Lightning Bolt, 11:11, nirvana, salvia, john 5, the Scabs, venetian snares, gong, ravi shankar, film music, Carl Stalling, noise, etc...etc..
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Sounds Like: varying combinations of dreaming, dying, tripping, traveling through a wormhole, video-game worlds, having a psychotic episode, tranquilization, a bottomless pit, a river of sludge, a hall of mirrors, the void, robots, fireworks, and an extraterrestial science lab
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None