Rice crispy cakes, Japan/Russia/India/Sweden, lowbrow art, smell of old paper, all things electrical, paint, stealing coats
If you’re in Carmarthen drop by the Tangled Parrot, we got music, tea & dodgy brown paper bags.
Music
First love was Reggae/Dancehall - (Augustus Pablo, Lee Perry, I Roy, Monkey Mafia, Blackbeard, Macca B, Gentleman, Dillinger, The Congos, Horace Andy, Culture, Scientist, Yellowman, Richie Spice, The Bug, Fat Eyes, Sister Nancy, Tippa Irie, Aba Shanti-I, Delroy Wilson, Willie Williams)
Love Motown/Soul/Jazz/Funk/Afrobeat & Hip-hop, especially Def Jux stuff (Cannibal-Ox/Vast Aire, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr Lif) Company Flow, Big L, RZA, DJ Screw, DJ Shadow, MF Doom, Jedi Mind Tricks, J-Live, Gangstarr, De La Soul, Souls of Mischief, Tribe Called Quest, J5, Dizzee Rascal, DJ-H2, Herbie Hancock, Black Moon, KRS1, Roots Manuva, Otis Reading, Kool and the Gang, Hip HQ, Busdriver, James Brown, Buddy Rich, Robert Johnson, Abe Lyman, George Clinton & Parliament, Notorious B.I.G., Fela Kuti, big Kool Keith/Ultramagnetic's fan.
Dubstep/UK Bass - (Bass Clef, Artwork, Digital Mystikz, Borg, Dubchild, Sunka, Venez, Goth-Trad, Gravious, Suspicious Stench, Skream, Heavy Artillery recs, Sub Version, Skull Disco, Toasty Boy, Soundproof/DJ Kudos, 2562, Sunka, Grapes & Heavy Pressure Recs. Caspa & The Dub Police, D1, Search & Destroy, Plastician, El-B, Kode 9, Burial, Luke.Envoy, Audiotoxin, Bambam Babylon Bajasch, Magnetic Man, Distance, Emalkay, Zomby, Matty G, The Headhunters, Loefah, N-Type, Clue Kid, Cotti, Vex'd, Clouds, Peverelist & Punch Drunk recs.)
Punk/rock/folk - (Public Image Ltd, Bad Brains, Television Personalities, Erase Errata, Pissed Jeans, The Akron/Family, Sonic Youth, MDC, Modest Mouse, The Crucifucks, Instant Automatons, Scout Niblett, The Fall, Joy Division, Black Eye Riot, Minutemen, The Jeffrey Lewis Band, Black Flag, QotSA, Dead Milkmen, Eagles of Death Metal, Adam Green/Moldy Peaches, Devo, Primus/Les Claypool, Battalion Of Saints, Johnny Cash, Crass, Breakdown, Minor Threat/Fugazi, Misfits, Devendra Banhart, Neil Young, The Saints, The Boredoms, Butthole Surfers, The Bees, Happy Mondays, Half Man Half Biscuit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Alternative TV, The Germs, Circle Jerks, Hot Chip, White Zombie, Daear, Poison Idea, Dead Kennedys, The Beta Band, Iggy Pop, The Beatles, Lightning Bolt, Bonnie Prince Billy, Gruff Rhys/SFA, Sun Kill Moon, Klaxons, Bowie, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Alice in Chains, CAN, Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Nouvelle Vague, Jimi Hendrix, Mogwai, The Broken Family Band, The Rolling Stones, Joanna Newsom, The Datsuns, Pig Destroyer, The Locust, The Evens, Ween, Boris, Godspeed You Black Emperor!)
Electro/tech/D&B - (DuranDuranDuran, Ceephax Acid Crew, Monkey Steak, Secondo, T++, Aphex Twin, Fanu, Remarc, Boards of Canada, Cabaret Voltaire, Prefuse 73, ADULT, Mordant Music, Photek, Schneider TM, Alec Empire (old stuff), Venetian Snares, Cinematic Orchestra, Peaches, Enduser, Ladyscraper, Baseck, Drop The Lime, General Levy, Squarepusher, Ricardo Villalobos, The Knife, Richie Hawtin, Pigface, Fila Brazillia, Neil Landstrumm, Kid606, Knifehandchop, Luke Vibert, The KLF, Shy FX, Cutty Ranks, DJ Floorclearer, Boxcutter, µ-ziq, Judith Priest, LFO, Various Production, lots of old Jungle/rave & Detroit tech)
Noise/other - (Grey Wolves, Harry Pussy, ~hacker (Aidan to us Welsh folk), Merzbow/Masami Akita, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Magik Markers, Reynols, Acid Mothers Temple, Black Dice, Killer Bug, Wolf Eyes, Sunn O))), Stockhausen, Lustmord, To Live and Shave in LA, Nurse With Wound, Hair Police, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Family Underground, Burning Star Core, Throbbing Gristle, Filthy Turd, Smegma, 7MON, Mindflayer, Arve Henriksen, 16 Bitch Pile Up, Hafler Trio,
...It never ends
Burroughs - Commissioner of Sewers
Lightning Bolt - "The Power of Salad & Milkshakes"
Magik Markers - "Taste"
Movies
In Bruges, The Machine Girl, The Madness of King George, My Wrongs, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Taxidermia, Porco Rosso, The Name of the Rose, Catholic High School Girls in Trouble, Cyber City OEDO 808, THX 1138, The Salton Sea, El Topo, The Thing, Akira, Baraka, Gummo, Blade Runner, Powder, Chopper, The Life Aquatic, Buffalo '66, Dark Days, Wave Twisters, Escape From New York, Fearless Vampire Killers, Slacker, Ghost Dog, Style Wars, The Blues Brothers, Caravaggio, Office Space, Brazil, The Holy Mountain, Blood the Last Vampire, Big Lebowski, The Great Silence, Sling Blade, Begotten, Bad Boy Bubby, Toxic Avenger, In Diana Jones and the Temple of Poon, Killer Tomatoes, Monsters of Art, Thank You for Smoking, Evil Dead, Kings Destroy, American History X, Labyrinth, Pi, 24 Hour Party People, The Warriors, Dead Mans Shoes, Lightning Bolt - The Power of Salad, Videodrome, Clerks, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Young Frankenstein, Ghost in the Shell, Naked Lunch, Natural Born Killers, Fargo, Willow, The Ipcress File, Zura Keiji, The Fifth Element, O Brother Where Art Thou?
Television
Lazytown, Wonder Showzen, Superjail
Books
Iain Banks, Masamune Shirow, P. K. Dick, Brian Azzarello, Joseph Heller, Lovecraft, Chomsky, Zamyatin, Terry Pratchet, Naomi Klein, Garth Ennis, William Gibson, J G Ballard, Orwell, Jim Carroll, Spike Milligan, Burroughs, The "Rapid Eye" & "Re/Search" series ... Lots of Graphic Novels & Art books - R. Crumb, Tank Girl, 100 Bullets, I am Ledgend, 2000 AD, Preacher, Sin City, The Maxx, Concrete, Guyver, Sandman, The Viz. loads more...
About me: I'm Ben, live in the Black Mountains, I get paid to draw stuff & listen to records, which is nice.
A friend recently introduced me to Processing which eats most of my spare time, so dont be offended if I dont answer any messages or posts.
It's free, so give it a try
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im there dude, im currently bulleting and commenting the poster on his behalf aswell, try and get a few more mothers to the show!! Any posters for carmarthen stuff message or comment them to me and ill forward them!! Tidy darts Ach x
Thanks a lot mate:-)
No i only use Reason where i do my own sounddesign. Eivind has done his aswell on the guitarside, which always amazes me:-)
Your wide music interest impresses me
Thanks
Carsten