going to pick up where my last piece left off, and also become more impulsive and spontaneous, and live.

I have many many influences and agree that it is important to listen to LOTS of music.

my main influences

Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Autechre, download/skinny puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Scorn, Kid 606, DJ Krush, the Melvins, Nels cline (as member of jazz groups, not Wilco), Sun Ra, Miles Davis bitches brew era, King Crimson, Rush, John Zorn, Justin K Broaderick (godflesh/jesu/techno animal), Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, the Herbaliser, MF Doom, Kool Keith, there are probably some others I'm forgetting but that's off the top of my head and doesn't even include my metalhead influences.

to a lesser extent: NIN, Ministry, Orbital were acts in the nineties that really made me want to make music as a younger guy. I still love that stuff, but it doesn't really affect my music making that much now (although I still covet some of the production abilities all those guys have!). I also really like Rob Crow related projects, especially his earlier stuff, which has been some of my more listened to tracks in my library (thingy, heavy vegetable, older pinback). the first two major chemical bros releases were also inspirations to get into electronic music. also I had a couple of friends in high school that got me into music; and my older sister was an influence since she had a lot of music, and took me to a college to see the production dept and mics, tape recorders etc, in the late 80s.

this makes me feel old, but I think it was Larry Lalonde (Primus guitarist) and Tommy Victor (Prong) who made me want to play guitar when I was 17. still two of my favorite guitarists.

(in reverse chronological order)
hammock - 'stranded under endless sky' and 'longest year' (as go to bed albums)

(and on shuffle)
sonic youth
richard devine
oranssi pazuzu
sepultura
gridlock
skywave
gigan
ghost (japan)
ruins
my bloody valentine
immolation
decapitated
nirvana rarities
lilys
heavy vegeatable
rotten sound
loincloth (favorite album of 2012 so far)
brutal truth
autechre
scorn
jazzanova
tipsy
cheer accident
american heritage
upsilon acrux
mf doom
dub trio

this is kind of how I feel about my piece as well

uploaded something that is 1 beat per second

sorry guys, when I did a search for your name on here, only one track popped up for whatever reason. I'll change that.

I haven't even started my piece yet, not really sure what I'll do. it's been a weird week from hell, hopefully will be interesting.