Curve / Swans / Jo Stapleton / Al Neilson / Nigel Barrat / Beth Rettig / Ade Bordicott / Talk Talk / The Chameleons / Kate Bush / Siouxsie & the Banshees / Public Image Limited / Joy Division / Scorn / Massive Attack / The Sneaker Pimps / Magazine / Wire / The Sex Pistols / Killing Joke / Hawkwind / Can / The Cure / Techno Animal / Carthage / Godflesh / Jesu / Autechre / Tool / The Cure / Stray Dog City / Cranes / Tricky / BBC Radiophonic Workshop / Richey Manic / Sapphire & Steel / Cocteau Twins / Scott Walker / Garbage / Throbbing Gristle / Main / Talking Heads / Patti Smith / PJ Harvey / My Bloody Valentine / Bill Hicks / Nine Inch Nails / Twin Peaks / Ivor Cutler / The Fall / The Manic Street Preachers / Leftfield / Underworld / The Smiths / The Ink Spots / Swans / Laika / Psychedelic Furs / Zoviet France / The Lines / Fennesz / Gurdjieff / Ouspensky / Whitley Strieber / Depeche Mode / Scott Walker / Meat Beat Manifesto / Nina Simone / Portishead / Tom Waits / The Walker Brothers: Night Flights / Jon Hassell / David Sylvian / Seefeel.
Sounds Like
The Mekano Set. "Bass-heavy 80's Noise". Seedy, "filthy electro-rock". Noise, sound, music. Post-rock. "Gothic not Goth". Reverse reverb, live guitar loops, drum machines, feedback, guitar-synths, fuzz-guitar, drones, grooves, bass riffs, white noise.
According to You, We Sounds Like: Curve, Placebo, Cranes, Sneaker Pimps, Echo & The Bunnymen, Joy Division, Massive Attack, The Sisters of Mercy, PiL, Killing Joke, Talk Talk, Meat Beat Manifesto, Kate Bush, The Chameleons, Breakbeat Era, Ruby, Tricky, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Phil Spector through a fuzz box, etc.
"Slick spiky electronic rock that screams darkness beneath a seemingly delicate exterior." Natasha Scharf, Metal Hammer.
"The Mekano Set get us all worked up with the promise of a song called 'Dirty Hand Job', and then totally spoil the mood by being goths... about as menacing as a Crow soundtrack." Emily Mackay, NME.
EXHIBIT A: The Brave Exhibitions Podcast, Number 4.
We asked installation artist Paul Kindersley to guest programme this episode of Exhibit A. Paul Kindersley is a graduate of the Chelsea College of Art and has participated in group exhibitions at galleries across London. His first solo exhibition will be taking place at Transition Gallery. The details of that are here:http://www.transitiongallery.co.uk/htmlpages/paul_k.htm And visit our myspace blog for the link to his NDW 8-bit haus podcast!
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