whiteymuseum Posted July 3, 2005 Report Share Posted July 3, 2005 For Immediate Release: GOA Sunday July 10th @ Casbah 306 King St W @ Queen St, downtown Hamilton http://www.casbah.ca 8PM :: with OFFENSIVE ORANGE, and THE VULCAN DUB SQUAD “Recording this album has been a strange process,” says Goa (formerly Goa Gajah) main-man Monstre. He means it. Monstre is one of a new breed of electronically equipped musicians, a mix of gearhead and madman, who likes everything to be as raw, discombobulated and mangled as possible. “This recording has taken one full year and for a long time I’ve just been mixing it, cutting it. I bounced some tracks to four-track then bounced them back. I fucked with my vocals so many times. I hate sequencing and programming, so it’s all played live,” he says On stage, Goa is all energy. Monstre fronts the group with his “screaming baby vocals,” which he pumps into a sampler, then sends back out in random snippets of jive/child speak. Two synth players (Jrobot and Alex Moskov) and two drummers (Will Glass and Alex Macsween) play hectic/melodic pulsing rhythms behind him. The result is repetitious mayhem, a hypnotic mess. Kind of like Can when Damo Suzuki was doing vocals. “Can meets the Boredoms is what someone put on our poster once,” says Monstre. “When I first saw the Boredoms at Lollapalooza, that’s when I decided never to sing normally again. It was amazing, two drummers, two vocalists going crazy, all this electronic noise everywhere.” But why the name, with its obvious crappy-trance dance connotations? Web Sites: http://www.monstre.org http://www.vulcandubsquad.com http://www.myspace.com/offensiveorange MP3s: http://www.monstre.org/audio/goa_bimbicha.mp3 http://monstre.org/audio/crystaldamage/GOA_Lazer%20Elephants.mp3 http://monstre.org/audio/crystaldamage/GOA_Savage%20Trance.mp3 Links to GOA interviews : http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2002/082202/music3.html http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/goa/goa.shtml http://www.wavelengthtoronto.com/back_issues/02_04.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteymuseum Posted July 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 4, 2005 Did I mention, featuring members of Fly Pan Am, The Unireverse, Detention, Bionic, Godspeed You Black Emperor! ?? hmm, hmm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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