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Mindflayer (band)
Mindflayer is a noise rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, made up of Brian Chippendale (of Lightning Bolt (band), Lightning Bolt) and Matt Brinkman, Mat Brinkmann (of Forcefield (art collective), Forcefield) which was formed out of Fort Thunder. Much of Mindflayer's identity, including the band name, are obscure Dungeons & Dragons references. The name of the band refers to psionic creatures in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, Illithids, commonly referred to as "mind flayers." The covers of ''Take Your Skin Off'' and ''Die & Mold Services'' also resemble the Illithid's squid-like faces. The title to the band's fourth album, ''Expedition to the Hairier Peaks'', plays on the popular Dungeons & Dragons module title, ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks''. Mat Brinkman uses a circuit bending, circuit bent analog synthesizer. Discography Self-released * ''Raise Your Tentacles and Yell!'' (released on official website) (2000) * ''Live CD-R'' (released on official website) (Bulb) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take Your Skin Off
''Take Your Skin Off'' is the second album by the noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise music, noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimal music, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, a ... band Mindflayer. Track listing #"Take Your Shoes Off" – 2:20 #"Head of State on a Plate Levitation" – 4:10 #"Drop Bass Not Bombs Leviathin" – 2:47 #"Awind War III" – 1:51 #"Everyone Dies (We Won Anyways), Pt. 2" – 6:09 #"Are You Fucked Up" – 1:42 #"Gold Lake Spiller" – 3:36 #"Bubble Trouble Lem in No Proble" – 0:58 #"Cat Kid's Dance Troupe" – 3:24 #"I Fell into a Pool of Crawling Chaos" – 2:25 #"Street Attack with Mongrels, Elephants, Glitter, Etc" – 1:57 #"Swallowed by the Earth" – 3:43 #"Spit Out by the Earth Wind Skin" – 3:08 #"You're Dead at the Bottom of a Dungeon, Deal With It (Medeley)" – 21:08 References 2003 albums Mindflayer ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RealPlayer
RealPlayer, formerly RealAudio Player, RealOne Player and RealPlayer G2, is a cross-platform media player app, developed by RealNetworks. The media player is compatible with numerous container file formats of the multimedia realm, including MP3, MP4, QuickTime File Format, Windows Media format, and the proprietary RealAudio and RealVideo formats. RealPlayer is also available for other operating systems; Linux, Unix, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian versions have been released. The program is powered by an underlying open-source media engine called Helix. History The first version of RealPlayer was introduced on April 3, 1995 as "RealAudio Player" and was one of the first media players capable of streaming media over the Internet. Then, version 4.01 of RealPlayer was included as a selectable Internet tool in Windows 98's installation package. Subsequent versions of the software were titled "RealPlayer G2" (version 6) and "RealOne Player" (version 9), while free "Basic" v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Jew
Deep or The Deep may refer to: Places United States * Deep Creek (Appomattox River tributary), Virginia * Deep Creek (Great Salt Lake), Idaho and Utah * Deep Creek (Mahantango Creek tributary), Pennsylvania * Deep Creek (Mojave River tributary), California * Deep Creek (Pine Creek tributary), Pennsylvania * Deep Creek (Soque River tributary), Georgia * Deep Creek (Texas), a tributary of the Colorado River * Deep Creek (Washington), a tributary of the Spokane River * Deep River (Indiana), a tributary of the Little Calumet River * Deep River (Iowa), a minor tributary of the English River * Deep River (North Carolina) * Deep River (Washington), a minor tributary of the Columbia River * Deep Voll Brook, New Jersey, also known as Deep Brook Elsewhere * Deep Creek (Bahamas) * Deep Creek (Melbourne, Victoria), Australia, a tributary of the Maribyrnong River * Deep River (Western Australia) People * Deep (given name) * Deep (rapper), Punjabi rapper from Houston, Texas * Ravi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prurient
Ian Dominick Fernow is an American experimental musician, poet and multimedia artist. He is best known for extreme music released under the stage name Prurient, as well as numerous other aliases including Vatican Shadow and Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement. His first releases date back to 1998, the same year in which he founded the record label Hospital Productions. Life Fernow was born into a Roman Catholic household, and was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. He recounts his entrance into public school and his exposure to death metal and tape trading as early sources of musical interest. In particular, Fernow cites the death metal band Deicide's album ''Once upon the Cross'' as, "frightening ... A huge record for me, still to this day." Fernow has resided in Providence, New York City, Los Angeles, and Berlin, and runs the labels Hospital Productions and Bed of Nails. Career In his early work as Prurient, Fernow worked primarily with a microphone and amplifier, and sometimes dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Always 1999
''It's Always 1999'' is the first album by the noise rock Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise music, noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimal music, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, a ... band Mindflayer. It was released as a CD-R in 2001 before being released by Load Records in 2004. Front cover artwork and title by Miles Larson. Track listing #"Worm is Coming" – 2:22 #"Repeating Tiger Fist and G Flury" – 2:35 #"Destructed but Bits Rush (Let's Grow)" – 6:10 #"Argamnimals" – 3:21 #"5 Minutes of Sporadic Beats" – 4:15 #"Legiomnomein and G Furry" (Legos) – 1:27 #"Wind War Wind Blast Army" – 2:14 #"Afterwarwards" – 0:51 #"Revenge of Whales/Whale War" – 6:40 #"Legiomnomein and Jumbinube Oboplex Company Marches" – 2:53 #"Cyclone Ride to Animal Town" – 3:38 #"Psychic Fields of Animal Town" – 6:10 #"Mud Lazer Lazy Lazers" – 2:04 #"Azaglia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Synthesizer
An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically. The earliest analog synthesizers in the 1920s and 1930s, such as the Trautonium, were built with a variety of vacuum-tube (thermionic valve) and electro-mechanical technologies. After the 1960s, analog synthesizers were built using operational amplifier (op-amp) integrated circuits, and used potentiometers (pots, or variable resistors) to adjust the sound parameters. Analog synthesizers also use low-pass filters and high-pass filters to modify the sound. While 1960s-era analog synthesizers such as the Moog used a number of independent electronic modules connected by patch cables, later analog synthesizers such as the Minimoog integrated them into single units, eliminating patch cords in favour of integrated signal routing systems. History 1900–1920 The earliest mention of a "synthetic harmoniser" using electricity appears to be in 1906, cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circuit Bending
Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low-voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators. Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments. Circuit bending usually involves dismantling the machine and adding components such as switches and potentiometers that alter the circuit. Experimental process The process of circuit bending involves experimenting with inexpensive second-hand electronics that produce sounds, such as keyboards, drum machines, and electronic learning products. According to ''Electronic Musician'', innovators should only experiment with battery-powered devices, because there is a danger of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expedition To The Barrier Peaks
''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'' is a 1980 adventure module for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game written by Gary Gygax. While ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science fiction, and thus belongs to the science fantasy genre. It takes place on a downed spaceship; the ship's crew has died of an unspecified disease, but functioning robots and strange creatures still inhabit the ship. The player characters fight monsters and robots, and gather the futuristic weapons and colored access cards that are necessary for advancing the story. ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'' was first played at the Origins II convention in 1976, where it was used to introduce ''Dungeons & Dragons'' players to the science fiction game ''Metamorphosis Alpha''. In 1980, TSR published the adventure, updated for first edition ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' rules. The adventure was not updated for later rules systems, but a Wizards.c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expedition To The Hairier Peaks
''Expedition to the Hairier Peaks'' is the fourth album by the noise rock band Mindflayer. The album's title is a play on words to a Dungeons & Dragons module book ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'' is a 1980 adventure module for the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game written by Gary Gygax. While ''Dungeons & Dragons'' (''D&D'') is typically a fantasy game, the adventure includes elements of science ...''. Track listing #"Rally for a Wind War: Whirlwind Dervish/Cracking the Barrier Riffs" – 10:56 #"Getting our Hair Done" – 1:04 #"Netherworld Bike Patrol C.H.A.O.S." – 6:58 #"Time Tunnel/Cosmic Crypt Chronoscape Collision Course" – 6:31 #"Each to their own Dark Path" – 12:33 #"Mind Mirror Maze/Grow Horns" – 7:39 #"Let's Play Holy War Fuckers" – 5:59 #"Gore Gone Wild" – 5:02 #"Nasty Meeting at Peak Park/Exploding Remains" – 14:07 #"Caverns of the Hairiest Peak" – 8:05 References 2006 albums Mindflayer (band) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
