Bio:

Fun Machine is a band that appropriates from many places but is ultimately too quirky to fall completely into any of the bowls they’ve dipped their fingers in. Their twin guitar lines, provided by Renee Maskin and Andrew Wetzel, carry a hint of surf-rock exuberance. John Piatkowski’s wall-o-synths provides driving arpeggios and an epic flavor. The sharp turns and polyrhythms provided by Colin Ryan on percussion and Michael Liska on the low end might be described as progressive rock if the songs didn’t careen forwards with a breakneck, punk-rock sense of abandon. Fun Machine explodes, lurches, stumbles, and sometimes even falls into a light jog through some strange sonic landscapes.

They hail from the post-industrial, nearly post-apocalyptic world of central New Jersey, which gives the band their playful, anything-goes sense of post-modernism. Ultimately, the best way to describe their sound would be to imagine yourself a stupefied alien, nestled in your flying saucer high above the earth, flipping through channels of earth-music and digging the scene down there.

The band has put out one full-length (Sonnenhuhn, BNS Sessions 2008), and are currently promoting their entry into the ever-popular category of the “covers EP”, containing arrangements of Beethoven themes (Beef Oven, BNS Sessions 2010), originally recorded for a local stage production of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange. In 2010, they began work on their next full-length album, which promises to yield further developments to their mutating sound.

You can buy the album Sonnenhuhn online at iTunes, Rhapsody, and Amazon .

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Fun Machine

Beef Oven EP

Fun Machine's new EP Beef Oven is now available to order via BandCamp.com digitally and physically along with the 2008 LP Sonnenhuhn.

Beef Oven is Fun Machine's take on various themes composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.

The music was originally featured in a recent stage adaptation of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange by Alex Dawson.

A Clockwork Orange Play Blogspot

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Beef Oven is available digitally here iTunes and here Amazon .

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Beef Oven

$5.00 (includes shipping):

Buy Beef Oven CD.

Sonnenhuhn

$10.00 (includes shipping)

Buy Sonnenhuhn CD.

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Members:

Johnny Piatkowski: Keyboards, Vocals

Andrew Wetzel: Guitar, Vocals

Renee Maskin: Guitar, Vocals

Michael Liska: Bass, Vocals

Colin Ryan: Drums, Percussion

Contact:

..Daniel Schlett, manager

..Shawn Butler, BNS Sessions

..General info

Influences:

Watching:

Live at the Princeton TV Megathon

Megathon 09, Fun Machine from Princeton Community Television on Vimeo.

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Booking:

..E-Mail Booking

Twitter:

Fun Machine Twitter Page

Facebook:

Fun Machine Facebook

BNS Sessions:

http://bnssessions.blogspot.com/

E-Mail List:

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