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Bands with interesting lineups.
StoreTags: Playing live, mad instruments
Author: Beedub on May 19 2007
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--> Lately i've been getting a bit tired of all this fiddling with samples and programming synths without a keyboard. I'd like to get into some more interesting live stuff.

Can anyone point me towards some exciting live acts. The madder the instrumentation etc the better!!
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Live?

Caribou is pretty cool - two drummers + samples + guitar, and it gets all mixed up.

*Not electronic music* but I like Hanged Up which is viola and drums.

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well, raving stones or whatever they're called... they use guitras! GUTIARS!!!!

beedub said: "i'd like to get into some more interesting live stuff."


well, be creative. set up a microphone. fart into it. use a guinea pig, they make funny noises. or a dolphin. live on stage. or spoons. maybe "jack lalanes power juicer". kids toys, submarines, bb guns. record the noise of grass groing. nightingales have kids running around on stage with microfones they swallowed. violins played by monkeys. an anvil with a hammer you pound on it (etc)..........

jetsom: the previews on last fm sound really good.cheers for that.

tylth: nice!!

i saw a group called Cascade in Glasgow at the end of last year.
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sitars, concertina, saxophone, tablas

they were awesome live.

they had this guy playing the concertina
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my mind snapped

Liger ;)

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yeah!! this is what i'm after.

the combination of instruments that cascade uses works so well. It slightly reminds me of that album of Moondog covers.

cheers all of you. top suggestions.

yessssssssssssss HANGED UP

they are borken up now, but talk talk. sprit of eden and laughing stock (albums). zanf will confirm.

yeah, i'm going to investigate them.

confirmed.

estradasphere
sleepytime gorilla museum
secret chiefs 3
dead can dance

Add n to (X) stuff ('avant hard' album) showed how heavy you can be with just vintage synths.
They basically sound like black sabbath, but entirely analogue (except the drummer)

a band called SAY we put on at our club night had bleeping noises from a LanguageMaster. kind of tape card things: mint. And a ukelele.

I like th instrument known as "pirate Organ", that reed organ wind instrument that (melodica?) that sometimes get on dub tunes.

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