Residents, Eno, Devo, Kraftwerk, Fantômas, The Beatles, Can, Chrome, Guided By Voices, Melvins, Led Zeppelin, Robert Fripp/King Crimson, Beefheart, Mothers of Invention, Gong, Neu!, Pere Ubu, Raymond Scott, Hawkwind, Les Baxter, Aphex Twin, The Who, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Harmonia, Cluster, Ennio Morricone, Amon Duul II, Ramones, Throbbing Gristle, Velvet Underground, Martin Denny, Ash Ra Tempel, krautrock, 60s psych, prog rock, 70s punk and new wave, dub, free jazz, old comic books/strips and science fiction, postmodern literature, psychotronic films and soundtracks, 30s and 40s cartoons, pseudoscience.
Sounds Like
"...a fascinating and very listenable journey into some strange, beautiful, often very alien, and yes, definitely abstract electronic realms."
--Aural Innovations
“This is delightfully quirky, downright subversive, retro-futuristic synthesizer music, an off-the-wall hybrid of early '60s analog sounds, synthesizer "cool" weirdness and tonalities and current-day engineering and beats. Putting it bluntly, this is flat out a helluva lot of fun.”
--Wind and Wire
“Very odd, very disturbing, and never repetitious or jaded. This is definitely boundary dissolving electronic music, sometimes cinematic in scope, and at other times wildly eclectic in its persistent attempt to evade the characteristic monotony that often plagues even the best artists who consistently work in this genre. If you’re looking for something left of center, The Condition of Music certainly won’t disappoint the Dadaist in you.”
--Aural Innovations
“…strange and beautiful synthesizer soundscapes.”
--New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
Enemy From Space is the sobriquet taken up by drummer Kelly Shane for his electronic music works. The EFS project began in 1995 when Shane purchased an 8-track recorder and started to create what he called "lo-fi sci-fi music". Over the course of the last decade plus, he has recorded many hours of noodlings, developing the sound toward middle and even moderately hi-fi sci-fi, a sweet head candy with hard covering and chewy center.
