At 11:54 PM -0500 3/4/03,
jwbarlow@... wrote:
>I've been enjoying this thread as I always do when we start drifting
>off towards music since I always learn something. And I always enjoy
>Mr. T's and Trenkel's stuff since they always have a bunch of things
>which I recognize and like, and a bunch of stuff which I haven't
>heard before.
>
>I was just listening to a CD by Gong today and I started thinking
>how few bands have done a harder edge rock with electronics (and I'm
>not thinking of Uriah Heep). I guess I'm thinking less prog and more
>hard rock, and more noisy than "keyboardy" -- Crimson, Gong, Pere
>Ubu, Bowie (Low through Scary Monsters), Talking Heads (Remain in
>Light), Ornette Coleman's Prime Time (Of human Feelings), Zappa,
>Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society -- these all kind of hit
>the mark at least in some way.
Man, I saw both Prime Time and the Decoding Society in the
early-80's, definitely life-changing experiences!
One thing I found while doing the Minus disc was how good MOTM mixes
with heavy guitars, the timbres are really complementary, especially
the 440 filter. I've entertained fantasies about doing a
modular-heavy prog metal disc, along the lines of Meshuggah
(incredibly heavy and mathematically precise Swedish band) but with
modular synths mixed with the guitars. I think it'd be an awesome
sound!
The current thing I'm doing is leaning more towards early 70's fusion
(think Bitches Brew/Hancock's Sextant) mixed with hip hop and
breakbeats, and will definitely feature some of the MOTM. Disc is due
out this June.