Sun Ra, Flipper, Guru Guru, The Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Throbbing Gristle, Pink Floyd, Don Ellis, Iceburn Collective, GONG, Led Zeppelin, Caroliner Rainbow, Sun City Girls, John Cage, Phish, Ween, & simple creativity.
Sounds Like
imagine if FLIPPER had a baby with The Grateful Dead.. and it was raised in the 1980's and 90's by Sun Ra and Ween...
LOW END jam based garage jazz.. sluggish and odd.. dynamic and everchanging.. bass driven punk fusion....
INSTAGON started in concept on Feb. 2 1993 in Fullerton, CA as a project started by members of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY) at the TOPY Access point called BABYLON. (www.topy.net)... the core member of this project was LOB, a.k.a. Coyote 139, a.k.a. Thee Lamb Ov Instagon, a.k.a. Thee Mystic Master ov Space & Time... and thus far, remains to be such.
INSTAGON actually manifested and appeared later that year once in May at Lob's apartment behind Vinyl Solution, and then again for the LIVE debut at OLD WORLD in Huntington Beach,CA in June of 1993. This show was billed as a live audio tribute to David Koresh and the Waco Massacre, and featured a band of over 13 performers, plus random members of the audience as well... and hence INSTAGON was born into the world... and audio deamon invoked by mulitiple participants, aware or not.
INSTAGON is a term coined to describe the SPONTANEOUS FACTOR, the essence of Chaos Theory... everything that happens in this universe changes instantaneously upon its creation... nothing stays the same... everything changes, and is gone in an instant... hence INSTAGON. INSTAGON has performed LIVE, unrehearsed, no practice, fresh on the stage... just as much an experience for the BAND, as well as the AUDIENCE... for over 400 shows in the past 12 years, and has NEVER been the same group of people, or ensamble on stage ever.. NEVER repeating... always changing... once it happens it is GONE... yesh, INSTAGON
INSTAGON in the early years of 1993 and 1994 was more or less a drum circle with electric instruments added at random... very tribal and hard to control...it was fun, and very chaotic... sometimes too chaotic.. but we lived thru it. . Once during a performance celebrating the death of Richard Nixon, at a venue called OUR HOUSE (rip) in Costa Mesa, CA...someone lit the bathroom on fire... the Fire Department had to be called, hence ending our set early and causing the entire venue to be evacuated and closed... but thats a sample of what it was like... lots of drums and lots of chaos... many things happening at once. Into 1995 and 1996, INSTAGON took more of a minimalist approach to our sound and began experimenting more with dynamics and NOISE... more ambient sets were performed.. still with the same group chaos dynamic... but, quieter than with live drums. In late 1996 that changed and INSTAGON added the dynamic of the live drummer with a kit... thus began the birth of GARAGE JAZZ.. a free form improvisational approach to playing Psychedelic/Jam based garage rock, with an emphasis on "riffing" and musical interplay.. playing the lead with the bass guitar, LOB started to find it easy to direct the players to follow him into new territory and deep dimensions within the riff of the moment.
INSTAGON continued on playing and changing on the concept of GARAGE JAZZ and Improvisational jam music thru the rest of the 1990's and into the early 2000's. In 2002, Lob started booking shows for a bar in Huntington Beach called the LIQUID DEN (rip) and Instagon gained a regular gig. INSTAGON played the longest series of its career performing EVERY Sunday night at the Liquid Den for 18 months... The weekly gig gave Lob and Instagon the opportunity to REALLY explore the live band concept and performances became quite exciting and interactive... attracting players like RIKK AGNEW(Adolescents), JIM KAA (the Crowd) and GREG GINN(Black Flag) .. INSTAGON began to gather a name with the older punks... "its like if Flipper were trying to be the Grateful Dead... this was fun times and INSTAGON's repuatation grew. The OC WEEKLY named their "129 BEST Bands In Orange County History and INSTAGON was ranked ...13, above NO DOUBT, THE OFFSPRING, DICK DALE, even TSOL...and the legend of INSTAGON grew even more..
In early 2005, LOB packed his bags and moved away from Orange County and the OC life... and headed north to SACRAMENTO, CA... and this is where INSTAGON is today... 2005 has found INSTAGON returning to the NOISE based sounds of 10 years ago... and re-introducing them into the aspect of the GARAGE JAZZ band concept that has been so re-defined and polished over the last few years.. Today INSTAGON invokes that subtle confusion of the unknown... you really dont have any idea what sort of performnace you are about to see when you go to see INSTAGON perform live (which by the way, if you missed it, is bascily ALL that Instagon does is perform LIVE.. studio happenings are very very rare).. you may see a BAND play, with other people you recognize IN the band... you may see a noise performance, you may experince accapella sound interaction... you may see people hitting metal with other pieces of metal... you might hear grunts, screams, kazoo's, saxophones, drums, guitars, keyboards, theremins, juice harps, [enter other instrument here], but you for sure will hear the rumbling bass guitar ov Thee Lamb ov Instagon, LOB.
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"I never tried to prove nothing, just wanted to give a good show. My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people." -- Luis Armstrong
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i've just uploaded a new track to my page - "political soundscape" - further details about it may be found in my latest myspace blog post. i'm warning you - this is not an easy listening - personally i call this musical genre "A Huttu-Tutsi style ethnobeat-noise"
you are invited to listen, and if you feel like it, i'd like you to leave your opinion as a comment, even if you think it's a crappy one.
Hello! check out the new release on Record Label Records, Fluorescent Grey's Gaseous Opal Orbs 'Wildly experimental in its construction, it carves an off-kilter yet hypnotically melodic soundscape which never sounds abrasive, unbalanced or directionless' - experimusic.com listen to CD here
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