Jeff Till, Dave Grant, Brent Oberlin, D. Austen Nash, Kevin Banks, Chris Beck, Xavier Siemens, Michelle Graf, Chris Bryers, Mandy Neubacker, Natalie Beversluis, Charles Bradford, Craig Verity, Matt Sahlgren, Colin Bradford, Mike Roche
Influences
Elvis Costello, My Bloody Valentine, Frank Sinatra, All, Decedents, Nomeansno, Mr. Bungle, Fiona Apple, David Gray, The Victims Family, Shostokovich, The Thought Industry, Chris Bryers, King Tammy, Black Spring and all the other fine Kalamazoo comtemporaries, Queen, more....
Sounds Like
Decendents meet Nomeansno, Mr. Bungle meets They Might Be Giants, Sesame Street meets the devil, Tori Amos meets Rollinghead, Queen meet a whiskey bottle.
TASM Lab is Jeff Till's veil of a production company creating bully music and artwork, created by the fun time bands Overman, Screwtape, the Hudson Debacle, through Till-lead joint projects such as Thing and Nothing and The Essential Cubicle Nosepicker, helped by the likes of Brent Oberlin of Thought Industry, Chris Bryers of Twitch and Sleet, Colin Bradford of Doxie, Michelle Graf of Blue Dahlia, Dave Grant of Rollinghead, Craig Verity, Chris Beck, Xavier Siemens, D. Austin Nash, Kevin Banks and other remarkable fellows.
TASM Lab number seven, tentatively titled "The Attack Dogs of Compassion" is well on its way and could be released in 2007.
Musically, TASM Lab is somewhat diverse. The six projects are as follows:
Overman: Popish punk in the vien of the Decendents progressing towards Nomeansno. Could pass for hundreds of hardcoreish punk bands that are popular today.
Screwtape: Manic, crazy progressive punkish metal artfag ADD theatrical neat rock music. Mr. Bungle meets Oingo Boingo meets Rush?
Thing and Nothing: Midi orchestra manic cyber opera. Dinstinctivly insane, character-driven, high-intensity madness about technology, sex and murder. "Anything Goes" meets John Zorn with more killing and fucking.
Penisgeek Chrestomathy: The essential cubicle nosepicker: Piano opera with a man and woman singing of adulty stuff like work, life and love.
The Hudson Debacle: Rockmen to a Far Away Nowhere: Fun party rock and roll in the vien of the Replacements, Camper Van Beethoven, or maybe Dead Milkmen. Maybe even a little Queen.
The Hudson Debacle: Return of the Rockmen - Into the Monkey Oven: More of the above.
