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Spencer Owen
Pop / Indie / Experimental

"Elevator music for the best elevator ever."

Berkeley, California
United States

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Member Since3/29/2005
Band Websitemog.com/spencer_owen
InfluencesThe 6ths, A Tribe Called Quest, After Dinner, Air, the air kick pigeon band, Albert Ayler (mainly Spiritual Unity), Animal Collective, Aphex Twin (particularly Drukqs), Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Arrested Development, Asa-Chang & Junray, Beck, Bjork, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blonde Redhead, Bob Dylan (up to the mid 70's), The Books, BOREDOMS, BRIAN WILSON (SMiLE), Br. Danielson & the Danielson Famile, Buffalo Daughter, Busta Rhymes, Café Tacuba, Captain Beefheart, Carl Stalling, Charles Ives, The Cockerel Boys (& most other Soweto music), Cornelius, Cornershop (particularly When I Was Born for the 7th Time), Daft Punk, Daniel Johnston, DAVID BOWIE, David Byrne, David Grubbs, Deerhoof, DIBLO DIBALA (& most other Soukous music), The Divine Comedy, Dr. Dooom, Dr. Octagon, Ellsworth Forrester, ELVIS COSTELLO, The English Beat, Eric Dolphy (mainly Out to Lunch), EYE YAMATSUKA, The Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac (mainly the songs written by Lindsey Buckingham), Flying Testicle, France Gall, Gary Wilson, Genesis (with Peter Gabriel), Ghost, GOODBYE THE BAND, Half-Handed Cloud, Hanatarash, Hella, His Name Is Alive, hollAnd, Iggy Pop (his first three albums), Isotope 217 (mainly Who Stole the I Walkman?), The Jam, Jaylib, Jim O'Rourke, Joan of Arc, Johann Sebastian Bach (particularly Brandenburg Concerto 3), JOHN CAGE, John Coltrane, John Lennon, JOHN LINNELL, John Vanderslice, John Zorn, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (mainly Now I Got Worry), Joni Mitchell (particularly COURT AND SPARK), Kate Bush, Kool Keith (particularly BLACK ELVIS/LOST IN SPACE), Kraftwerk (particularly Computer World), LAURIE ANDERSON, Liars, Lightning Bolt, LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, Lou Reed (particularly NEW YORK), Madonna (mainly Like a Virgin), Madvillain, The Magnetic Fields, Mano Negra/MANU CHAO, Masonna, Matmos, MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse, Melt-Banana, Meredith Monk, Merzbow, MF Doom, Mice Parade, Michael Nyman (mainly his Greenaway scores), The Microphones, The Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Monks, Moondog, Moreno Veloso, MORRISSEY, Mount Eerie, Naked City, Nobukazu Takemura, Of Montreal, Omoide Hatoba, OOIOO, Optiganally Yours, Otomo Yoshihide, OutKast, Oval (particularly 94 Diskont), PAUL SIMON, Peter Gabriel, Pinback, Pixies, The Police, Prince, Q-Tip, QUASIMOTO, Radiohead, Raymond Scott, THE RESIDENTS, Ruins, Sachiko M, Sam Prekop, The Sea & Cake, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, Simon & Garfunkel (particularly BOOKENDS), THE SMITHS, Snakefinger (particularly Greener Postures), Solex, Sonic Youth, Sonny Sharrock, Soul Coughing, Spiritualized, Squarepusher, STEREOLAB, Steve Reich, The Streets, SUFJAN STEVENS, TALKING HEADS, The The, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, Throwing Muses, Tim Hecker, Tortoise, The Velvet Underground, Viktor Vaughn, Ween, Yann Tiersen, Yoko Ono, YOSHIMI P-WE.
Sounds LikeWoody Allen, Wes Anderson, Matthew Barney, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, JEAN-LUC GODARD, Werner Herzog, Harmony Korine (mainly julien donkey-boy), Stanley Kubrick, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Steven Soderbergh (particularly Schizopolis).
Record LabelGnome Life Records
Type of LabelNone




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   About Spencer Owen
I play all the instruments on this music, and I record it. Go to archive.org and search for my name. You can download (for free!) several of my albums, including the 70-minute masterwork Meredith. Buy the album that some people still can't get over, 18" x 2000'/Ribcage, here at CDBaby. I have a new one; it's called E.T.R. (Electric 3rd R-Word) and it will be available at whatever shows I play in the near future, as well as from me at any other time, and here at CDBaby.

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Spencer Owen's Friends Comments
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Spelunk Oddishes.





Jun 26 2008 12:28 PM

thanks for the add. I like Experimental Prototype Son.
LOL
The Professor





Jun 14 2008 4:21 PM

hey spencer,
i love the new album. thanks for all the free great music...keep it up.

ALL OF YOUR CHILDREN ARE POOR UNFORTUNATE VICTIMS OF LIES YOU BELIEVE
Morgan





May 14 2008 8:48 PM

I present:
Google's own Meng with some Brazilian guy
..
Morgan





Apr 3 2008 12:13 PM

THAT NEW SONG SOUNDS FAMILIAR, SPENCER
katie for days





Feb 28 2008 10:33 AM

hey i was just thinking about the time we worked together at that horrible movie theater and you made me a pile of comp cds. and thereby introduced me to a good percentage of the music i love and adore to this very day. not least of which is magnetic fields who i am seeing tomorrow! are you going? hope you're doing great!!
jeff eliassen





Feb 19 2008 8:41 AM

Good brother. GOod and bad news - good news is, I finally bought a house! bad news is i don't have any more $ to get to the west coast. will be there within the next handful of months though, so, until then...
kerry mao





Feb 8 2008 1:33 PM

furthermore, "in the stream".
spencer owen by spencer owen is my go-to album. i don't know how else to put it. can you tell that i miss you a lot by the amout of comments i have been leaving lately?
Singing Bicycle





Feb 7 2008 10:11 PM

Last night @ du Nord was awesome!!!! Thanx--RW from 415
kerry mao





Feb 4 2008 7:05 PM

here's what i've got stuck in my hear and i won't lie to you, circa your sophomore year of college, "the jack"
give me some more of THAT! what a track.
kerry mao





Feb 3 2008 4:57 PM

you're damn right i haven't heard it and that's just not cool! i seriously love the comic book guy and the quik e mart was a nerdy mecca experience for me and the rest of dallas.
i can't even deal with it, spencer! i WILL see there will be blood. oh yes, i will!!!!
Kate





Feb 3 2008 3:36 PM

Can I just register once again how much Vampire Weekend annoys me?
Also- I will be in SF from the 6-8 so i'll try my damndest to make it to your show.
Kudos on the Epcot image, btw.
Morgan





Feb 3 2008 1:55 PM

packing boxes with heat

...and fudge
kerry mao





Feb 3 2008 9:24 AM

AHHHHHHHH new music!!!!!!!
Morgan





Jan 21 2008 4:06 PM

i was dead wrong:
royal scam is entirely bernard except don't take me alive is rick, and the fez is porcaro
steve gadd is all of gaucho except the two rick tracks and the title track, porcaro
Morgan





Jan 14 2008 10:23 AM

Don't go for that cotton candy!
Jamie Burkart





Dec 24 2007 7:47 PM

Shop Kitchen
Morgan





Dec 7 2007 1:55 AM

OUR INSTRUMENTS ARE YOU IN TRUNK
Dean





Nov 17 2007 2:56 AM

I stumbled across your music from a link on a John Maus forum. Still keep coming back to listen to more of your stuff. Malheur Ln. is ridiculously good. Be well!
Ben





Nov 15 2007 5:18 AM

jackie-o motherfucker...wow. he's making it--big time--

i just realized that you're online, and that, in a stranger turn of events, i am too. at 5 am. with work to do tomorrow. you get curtis, me and morgan will snag the first few bill withers albums.
Ben





Nov 13 2007 9:30 PM

yo--we got your waterfall postcard surprise! cause for vigor! to hear you were dug in spain. to hear you were clean in sweden. to drive with you one day under scandinavian weather. luck/missyou/cheers from yerrr three buys at 45th & West.
kerry mao





Nov 12 2007 10:08 AM

holy cow i got your postcard!!!!
takk fyrir, thats all i can say. if i remembered that correctly...
birds fled from me





Oct 31 2007 10:37 AM

damn tyler for not giving you a copy of my 45 20 track "compliments of a woman" tell G i say hey and i'm comin her way some day....whoa
Goodbye the Band





Oct 30 2007 6:38 PM

Eternal Sky Logic World Tour 2007 Press Photo
cholita





Oct 30 2007 1:53 PM

WHAT'S UP IN ICELAND !????? got enough ice over there or what?






Oct 27 2007 3:04 PM

AHH SPENCER YOU'RE KILLING ME

I have to be in New Haven all tomorrow otherwise I'd be at your show
Omck





Oct 25 2007 11:21 AM

OMG Spencer email it to us!!

Omckband@gmail.com

We gotta hear it. Thank you so much for last night, we had so much fun. We can't wait to "go" on tour with you though we will miss you very much!!
The Professor





Oct 17 2007 4:22 PM

wowzas, your playing a gig on my birthday....its times like this when i wish i lived in the bay area.

when are you going to come to ny and play?
Morgan





Oct 11 2007 12:17 AM

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD
Bird By Snow





Sep 28 2007 11:13 PM


"Logic" by Spencer Owen


This new cover looks great dude!


It's gonna be tough to get that sparkle effect on the record, but we'll try
for it. Also that "Tweety talk" is really witty, it was a great idea
to add it, kudos.

Sir John Reid Hatchporch





Sep 19 2007 2:36 AM

This song is lovely.
cholita





Sep 18 2007 9:50 PM

to add to YABTZ's comment...your music is also thizzzzin
cholita





Sep 18 2007 9:49 PM

i missed the show. i am a loohser ;[
Yabtkoczniki





Sep 16 2007 5:00 AM

yeah, i suggest you just put hyphy as the genre and let your music prove that it is in fact, hyper and fly.
WONDER WHEEL





Sep 12 2007 3:05 PM

etr is fantastic. i just got it in the mail today.

good job!
kerry mao





Aug 15 2007 6:12 PM

you bet your ass i added the song.
logic i am loving.
Morgan





Aug 10 2007 2:21 AM

is it natural for me to cringe slightly upon seeing the word "indie" listed as your subgenre?
barry





Aug 7 2007 12:33 PM

IM AT UR KONCERT ROKIN 2 UR TUNEZ


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kerry mao





Aug 6 2007 6:04 AM

SWEET! an update!!
MOUNTAINHOOD





Aug 2 2007 7:42 PM

hey same to you. your work a landscape unto itself.
cholita





Aug 1 2007 2:25 AM

my official away message when I'm at work: "It werk"..... a lil take on your hit
cholita





Jul 29 2007 12:28 PM

REMEMBER THIS?!
Nathalie





Jul 27 2007 6:09 PM

As a matter of fact I *did* read that from Moody's. Julie Allison says "hi" BTW.

I was humming "It Work" all day today.
Nathalie





Jul 25 2007 6:57 PM

Erotic City... Oh My God
Morgan





Jul 19 2007 5:19 PM