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Photophore

About Me


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ABOUT PHOTOPHORE:
Photophore was created to get out the odd, beautiful, and often politically incorrect ideas that Synth Fox and Viz Tech have brewing in their minds. The band started in 2000 creating odd sounds and experimental music on an old 4 track, through the years have honed their skills into a biolightstorm. Photophore with the help of their homemade cyber robot- Robot 63000 make electro-synth music that is bootylicious and inspired by all things synthetic and loved by all things organic (although they have a large robotic following as well). From tales of cyber-robotic heartbreak, to pornographic hymns of hope and triumph. Like the bioluminescent lifeforms lighting up the deep seas, their sound reflects that music is a living organic lifeform, and like all lifeforms can have a dark side as well as a light.
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LINKS:
Photophore Merchandise
Wooden Technology
Nina
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VIDEOS:
"Luxurious Spacecraft"
"Time Release Video"
"The Message"
"This Thing"
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/07/2006
Band Members: BAND MEMBERS:

Viz Tech

Nina L'wren

INFLUENCES:

Stan Ridgway
Devo
Morcheeba
They Might Be Giants
The Handsome Family
Freezepop
The B-52's
Hyperbubbl
NES
SNES
all video games in general
The Cars
Fibonaccis
Hecates Angels
Gorillaz
Air
The Doors
Grateful Dead
Rammstein
Skye
Buckethead
Cornbugs
Bloodhound Gang
Meat Puppets
Sublime
Lipps Inc
Kraftwerk
Long Beach Dub All Stars
New Order, Men at Work
The Human League
Daft Punk
Alice in Chains
Weird Al
Megadeth
311
Beastie Boys
Blur
The Buggles
Primus
Drywall
Green Jelly
Group X
Shadowfax
Talking Heads
Nine Inch Nails
Depeche Mode
Fibonaccis
Mono Puff
John Linnel
Curt Kirkwood

EQUIPMENT:

GUITARS: Jay Turser, Alvarez, Ovation, Ernie Ball, Sunrise.
BASS: Alvarez, Jackson, Ibanez, Ernie Ball 5string.
DRUMS: KORG ElecTribe MX drum machine, Roland PSM TD-3 electronic kit, Tama Rockstar 8 piece acoustic kit.
KEYS: Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-505, Casio CTK-671 and CTK-558, Discovery II organ.
PEDALS BY: KORG Toneworks and DigiTech RP300.
AMPS BY: Hartke, Roland, Peavy, Johnson.
MIXER: ALESIS.
SYNTHESIZERS:
MicroKorg/Vocoder,
Korg KAOSSILATOR Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer

BANNERS:

none yet

RECORD LABEL:

Currently Seeking. Contact us if interested!
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Top 20 80’s Cartoons (and others)

With the exception of the 18 and under group we all lived through the 80’s. Having been born in 81 I caught a good portion of the 80’s in memory, and watched a shit-load of cartoons and o...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:00:00 GMT

My 20 Most Influential Albums

Music has influnced everyone in some way or another in their lives. Its there when your in your car, when your sad, happy, bored, inspired, and a whole mess of other emotions that fit in to the daily...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:31:00 GMT

Adding friends on myspace is fun for the whole family

You know, as I browse through myspace for "friends" or fans, whatever the word I find myself finding it funny to have to pick fans.  I go through and based mostly on looks (Hmmm does this person ...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:31:00 GMT

The Missing Ideas of Left Sock World.

You know, I dont know why it happens, although Im sure there are many reasons...My ideas go to the place where the legendary left socks hang out (my guitar picks are there too I assume).  So I im...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:43:00 GMT

Video Game top 15 list!!

There really arent enough really awesome unique video games out there.  Like most movies, they try to sell something that everyone will like which makes it likeable to everyone, but not a really ...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:10:00 GMT

Live show, equipment, and marmalade

You know, equipment is expensive.  Yes, its true.  Unless of course you have that new model of paper and used chewing gum synthesizer that is now and the market and I gotta be truthful with ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:43:00 GMT

Bands, Members, and Ticks

We aren't just musicians, we are avid music listners as well.  Everyday at work I listen to 8 hours of whatever falls into my ipod (usually music, sometimes on rare occasions its stuffed animals ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:27:00 GMT

Live Music for Photophore

Photophore is in the studio, but this time we aren't recording.  Thats right, we're practicing to do some live stuff.  We have been hidden away too long and now want to be heard by the masse...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:56:00 GMT

What do people do?

Ive gotten 43 views on my blog this week, which in my mind is 41 more than I was expecting.  Cool, well at least 1/40 of our fans want to listen to me talk about my thoughts. That said, I wonder ...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:21:00 GMT

Music, video games, and books

The writing process for me has always been an interesting thing.  The way I write songs has changed over the years, but one thing still remains... I write them (in most songwriters terms) pretty ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:51:00 GMT