MOTM

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.