James Beal - Bass, Guitars
Steve White - Bass, Guitars
Byron Jackson - Guitars, Vox
James Messenger - Guitars, Bass
Dan Davis - Drums
Nick Keech - Guitars
Influences
Telescopes
Spacemen 3
Faust
Girls Against Boys
Talk Talk
Fall
Shellac
Joy Division
Jesus Lizard
Yo La Tengo
CAN
Drive Like Jehu
Do Make Say Think
Throbbing Gristle
Loop
My Bloody Valentine
Hot Snakes
Suicide
Sonic Youth
BJM
Sounds Like
One Unique Signal play with the ferocious detachment of men so far gone in possession that everything else has become irrelevant. Their angular, jagged rock gives the impression that each instrument is attacking every other; the drums played with the clockwork regularity of the inevitable while the guitars siren and howl and the drummer sings with an casual deadpan intent. The music never does what you expect, all sudden rises and falls littered with mood and tempo changes. Its intense and exciting stuff, the kind of music which sucks you in more and more over the duration of the set as the absorption of the band in their music begins to translate itself into the mind of the audience, and as you realise exactly how unusual their sound is. ______DROWNED IN SOUND_____
Drawn out bouts of feedback dissolve then erupt into mangled guitar lines, scrawling all over the just audible melodies with disregard and contempt like a moody child deliberately going outside the lines of their colouring book. At their most basic One Unique Signal are like a Math Rock Interpol, the drummer adding icy cold monotone vocals to the complex yet precision guitar attack, but at their most experimental are like not much else out there right now.
______GOD IS IN THE TV_____
One Unique Signal seem the biggest draw, and it's easy to see why. Drone rock. Spacemen 3-Stooges axis. Difficult to get something fresh from such a well-tapped vein, but they do exactly that with panache. And a singing drummer, which is inexplicably cool. The three guys in front of him play with heads-down conviction and create a pile-driving noise like Hawkwind vs. 2005-era Fall; sleek, minimal and charred black, shot with ribbons of echo and scissoring feedback. They could get by on hypnotic insistence alone, but it helps that the tunes are great too.
____ROBOTS + ELECTRIC BRAINS____
Spurring forward a change in direction which is both new and familiar, One Unique Signal will finish out 2007 by committing to tape their very latest sonic emissions which will show the band returning to their slow-burning drone rock roots, while still utilising the grinding repetition for which they made their name as a formidable live outfit.
The story begins in 2000 with the name Windomn Chikkarah, Tremolo for drums and feedback filling the void of lead guitar made absent. Referencing late 80’s British guitar bands like The Telescopes, Spacemen 3, MBV & Loop, the concept evolved to offer an alternative to the burgeoning Post / Math Rock scene.
The tremolo’s were in turn replaced by drums with the arrival of Lee Barber who stepped up with balls to introduce Vocals to the sound which, in itself had become more structured, edging away from drones and ambience and encompassing a more repetitious bass driven feel.
It was during this time that One Unique Signal found their feet as a live outfit, as Drowned in Sound put it back in 2005; “One Unique Signal play with the ferocious detachment of men so far gone in possession that everything else has become irrelevant.”
The release of Lowry in August 2003 began a relationship between Genepool Records and One Unique Signal which led to the release of a full length album almost four years later. Tribe, Castle and Nation was plagued with mixing problems and survived two major hard drive crashes, but by the time of its release, two of the band members (Ed Harding & Lee Barber) had decided to call it quits.
Taking some time out to amass new influences and find their feet as they evolved into the current 5 piece line up, One Unique Signal are now sounding larger than ever. Along with the new faces came a new dynamic in the song crafting process. More of a natural evolution rather than a drastic re-think, the new material prefers to think of standard rock influences as a point of reference rather than a blueprint. Repetitious drums sit alongside wall of noise guitars, feedback, tremolos and ear piercing wah. Taking obscene levels of noise and accommodating them into recognisable forms, the music seems at once both malevolent and comforting.
Website - www.oneuniquesignal.com
Label - www.genepoolrecords.com
Bookings & Info - info@oneuniquesignal.com
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Not For Resale’s July mix has arrived and it’s a very special one indeed. We have reached number twelve in our series of free monthly downloads and to celebrate we are presenting the very best of the bands and artists featured over the last year of our mixes.
YOU ARE ON IT!!!
Thanks to you for being our friend, and a proper one too.
It wasn’t possible to fit all the incredible music we’ve heard on to one mix and be satisfied that we were really presenting the best of Not For Resale, so we have produced TWO for you with over 30 bands and artists spread across 140 minutes of unbridled demo and underground label mayhem including all these peoples…..
-A+M / Action Beat…The Noise Band From Bletchley / Awesome Wells / Bearhead / Bucks & Gallants / Candy Sniper / Comradedown / Cottonmouth Rocks / Curtis / Deliberate / Everyone To The Anderson / Fenech-Soler / The Flesh Happening / Foxes! / Hotel Wrecking City Traders / Kontakte / Kotki Dwa / Lonely Ghosts / The Middle Computer / Milk / The Miserable Rich / Monsters Build Mean Robots / Old Mayor / One Unique Signal / Plastic Passion / Power Up! / Pseudo Nippon / Quiznight / Revenge Of Shinobi / Sharing Sheaths / Turbowölf / Yuchi / Zettasaur….
"They were wary of my "sh1t in the hand" weaponry so put the handcuffs on me and that was that. Taxi'd me to their pen, took my details, locked me up for the night. Gave me a bowl of salted peanuts and a banana.."
Way ahead of you. Already downloaded the tracks. And I can think of nothing better than doing some visuals for you guys. I'm thinking dark, surrealist/abstract, and slightly overwhelming...
haha...yeah, could you leave them behind for the whole weekend next time - there's probably two Meatbreak albums waiting inside those!
We've got Iron Pirate playing for us in August - long way off, but well worth waiting for - looky look! www. myspace. com/ironpirat. He has to be heard to be believed!
Thank you very much...we try to check on everyones interest's or the sounds they enjoy,..We like what you had going on your page...and figured we would take the chance, you would like what we enjoy the most...and thats make music...but for the most part... now that we got that horrible and cheesy statement out of the way....this looks like another typical, but somewhat long band comment... But heck at least its a comment... Right?
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