SEEKING
Bass Guitar.ABOUT
Kind of hard to classify - electronic, dark pop, indie?
All kinds of influences, full songs (not instrumentals) produced in my bedroom studio. Now I am looking to bring the songs to the stage!
- Screen name:
- Minks_Sam
- Member since:
- May 06 2010
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years together:
- 1
- Tend to practice:
- 2-3 times per week
- Age:
- 44 years
Influences
Bjork, Kate Bush, Massive Attack, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Radiohead, plus lots of random 80s and 90s electropop (like Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, Snap, Capella, Lucid, Real McCoy, etc)
Members Of Band
Sam (myself) - writer, producer, engineer, vocalist, keyboardist.
~Live~
Ben - additional keys.
Owen - drums.
Rex - a very unreliable bassist that I want replaced ASAP.
EQUIPMENT
* Powerful laptop with lots of VSTs, self-built Reaktor instruments, samples, etc
* Behringher UMA25S MIDI Keyboard/Audio Interface (for laptop)
* Evolution 49-Key MIDI Keyboard (also for laptop, for double the VST power!)
* Yamaha P60 digital stage piano
* Korg MS2000R Synth
* Large Casio Home Keyboard
* Small Casiotone MT100
* Yamaha PSS-680 (kind of like a cut-down home DX7 - currently used as the controller for the MS2000R, but that could change)
* Fender Bass Guitar
* Drum Kit (don't know what make - it's Ben's, though Owen has a kit too and brings his cymbals as they're better)
* Boss DR5 Drum Machine (not actually used, as the laptop can handle all that and more)
* Alesis Nanoverb Multieffects Unit
* Behringer Dualfex Sound Enhancer (not used in the live setup as of yet)
* Delay Pedal
* Tascam Portastudio 414 (currently used as our mixing desk :( )
* Bassline Bass Amp
* Line 6 Guitar Amp (this is not a guitar-based band, but it has other uses)
MUSIC
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The Conclusion
The Conclusion Year: 2010 Genre: Electronic
If matter is deterministic, how can free will be real? Is all the richness of behaviour and the apparent randomness seen just down to chaos?
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Pure Ode
Pure Ode Year: 2010
About unwelcome, unproductive thoughts that infect your routine and make you wonder if you are simply damaged goods...
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Sugar Puppet
Sugar Puppet Year: 2009 Album: The Latecomer EP
Just a rant about a very, very sick, controlling, manipulative individual I used to live with.
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The Traveller
The Traveller Year: 2009 Album: The Latecomer EP
The musings of a visitor from the past, expecting all humanity's problems to be solved, but seeing instead that we're still just as fucked (even more so in ways) - despite being materially and technologically better off.
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No Reason
No Reason Year: 2009 Album: The Latecomer EP
A self-pitying diatribe about my own tendency to procrastinate.
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Overdue
Overdue Year: 2009 Album: The Latecomer EP
A rant about senseless violence and the useless, insecure, worthless dickheads that perpetrate it.
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Springboard
Springboard Year: 2009 Album: The Latecomer EP
Another rant (I do a lot of those) about some fool who fancies himself as a bigtime dance producer, but has no intrinsic musical talent, can't be arsed to put in the time and used to try and get me to prop him up. Also a complete sponge and sofa surfer.
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Editorial
Editorial Year: 2010
Rant about tabloids and celeb culture. From the point of view of a cynical editor who has no respect for his readership.
