J M Jarre
Squarepusher
Kraftwerk
Vangelis
Jellyfish
Interpol
Eels
Yes
Genesis
Slade
The Beatles
Roy Wood
ELO
Jeff Lynne
Motley Crue
Black Sabbath
Flaming Lips
Autechre
Jason Falkner
Andy Strurmer
Roger Manning jr
TV Eyes
Aphex Twin
Prince
Beck
Dean Cook has always had a soft spot for electronica and the likes of Kraftwerk, J M Jarre and Vangelis. He has been creating his own electronic music under the Machine Boy guise for many years and has had material placed & used in many tv programs & films. After having met Lorian Tamara Elbert thru a film project, the pair decided to collaborate on a new project called MACHINE BOY featuring Lorian Elbert.
UK Birmingham label Incubater Records released the first fruits of this collaboration in 2005 under the title of the DEPRESSION EP, it's a four track affair featuring Machine Boy minimal soundscapes with Lorian Elbert's voice and lyrics/poems.
The tracks, Depression & Sleepless especially, started picking up interest including MTV Real World and airplay from the late great (Genius) that was John Peel on BBC radio One in the UK.
Various songs been called in the press electro low-fi poems and the first ep was followed up in 2007 with the full album called MORE SONIC ADVENTURES FROM MACHINE BOY FEATURING LORIAN ELBERT again featuring lots more catchy if somewhat minimal experimental electronica, with lots of creative interesting retrospective/dark wordplay from Lorian.
More recently Machine Boy mainman Dean has created a animated short (animation being another of Dean's passions) for the track "Depression" which has also picked up a lot of airplay thru MTV, MTV2 etc plus he has created a short animated film called "OK Komputer" featuring a the cartoon characters Machine Boy & Lorian.
Sadly in late 2007 Lorian passed away, leaving just one album of songs, many many amazing pieces of artwork, some brilliantly made documentaries about the plight of the homeless (something very close to her heart & life!) plus many wonderfull poems, a very sad end to a totally decent, wonderfull human being, if only we could all try and make a difference in the way Lorian did, she is very sadly missed by everybody who came into contact with her in her short life.
Machine Boy have more recently released the album 'Building A Better Boy' and the singles 'Action Figures' & 'Building A Better Boy' to TOP airplay & reviews and the very latest release's are the album 'The Good Machine' and the single/animated video 'Jamie' all now available from iTunes
MACHINE BOY featuring Lorian Elbert's Friend Space (Top 32)
MACHINE BOY featuring Lorian Elbert has 201 friends.
Pending the new release "Melotonine" (release date coming soon), i decided to offer you a part of my best recent works in a free EP, "Cupboard Replacement", downloadable in all numeric formats with special graphic art works by Flint on Music AutOmatiK's Website :
We can stay in contact on facebook now... Thanks for your support !
Hi MACHINE BOY featuring Lorian Elbert, thanks for continuing to be a friend of Electroflex.
Some important news!
Electroflex have been back in the studio following a break from gigging and recording with new track ‘Computer Virus’.
This is the first of a series of new releases for 2009, and what better day to start on than Liz’s Birthday!
‘Computer Virus’ is a live favourite. Anyone forced to work with computers will know how evil they are and this track is Electroflex’s response to Kraftwerk’s ‘Its More Fun to Compute’. It is a bouncy number with a serious bassline, sing-along chorus and a selection of curious samples.
The track will only be up on Myspace in full for a short time. Alternatively, visit our Facebook and iLike pages where you can add the song to you playlists
This album, officially the first one for MOP Cortex, is a collection of tracks composed between 2006 and 2008, characterized by glitchy and granular sonorities, restless and nervous rhythmics, obscure, tense and rarefied melodic lines, mowed, squeezed and reassembled samples, broken and subdued structures, disseminate of sonic convulsions, and rhythmic cramps. The tracks leads to places apparently without humanity, populated by bodiless scraps on collision course. Nothing safe here.
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