roots..
that is.
age 5. first earliest memory, i was wearing silver makeup over one eye and
dancing around to the stage rock act KISS. i thought they were the shit.
at the same time, i was really, really scared of queen (because of the bleeding
robot inside the cover) but i really like the song "we are the champions," etc.
BTW: i also thought i was luke skywalker, and i wanted to be either an
astronaut or an artist for the rest of my life. STAR WARS was on my mind 24-7.
age 8, i think this is when the styx song came out, with the robot voice, which
i also enjoyed..
the first electronic stuff i really really got into was when i started
breakdancing. Newcleus'- "Jam on It," Run DMC, Whodini's-"Five Minutes of
Funk," and some band that went by the _art of noise_ did this song called "beat
box." that was what hooked me.
later on, i heard kraftwerk, then, in 1987 i went out on a limb and bought
cleanse, fold, and manipulate by skinny puppy. i also had purchased big black's
"racer x" EP and i found out that big black had done their show weeks before i
bought the tape in oberlin, oh. that was the last you saw of them. and big
black used an 808.
aside from that, i saw 808 state on MTV's 120 minutes with their special about
manchester. i was drooling whenever i heard cubik and pacific. so, i bugged the
little store of kamms to get the 808 state album as soon as it got released.
i also really enjoyed sonic youth, band of susans, the 4ad scene sans xymox and
coloubox (ugh!) and some band that made their own instruments called
EINSTUERZENDE NEUBATEN. i loved that band. ahh.
during all of the stuff since skinny puppy, i did a fanzine on bikes and
skateboards called local action. i then did a zine called visual razorblade. i
interviewed lush, pigface, rudy vanderlans of emigre, FACT 22, 808 state, the
orb, dj massive, zoviet france, chris and cosey, LFO, northside, king missile,
and wreck. too bad i never had enough money to tget it off the ground.
sines
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