Thanks! Very astute observations; I'm very keen on all of the above, with the exception of Zombi... I've not heard any of that, I'll have to check it out. While we're on the topic of influences I may as well do a list of all of the artists that I love:

John Coltrane
Tori Amos
Devin Townsend
Meshuggah
The Beatles
Nine Inch Nails
Massive Attack
Muse
Autechre
Nat King Cole
Alicia Keys
Opeth
Public Enemy
Emperor
The Mars Volta
Tool
Charles Mingus
Frank Sinatra
Monster Magnet
Neurosis
David Bowie
Cypress Hill
Goldfrapp
Secret Chiefs 3
Mr Bungle
Jeff Buckley
Shadow Huntaz
The Beach Boys
Isis
Thelonius Monk
Harold Budd
Mozart
Christina Aguilera
Portishead
Prince
Alchemist
Sade
The Roots
Ravi Shankar
Frank Zappa
Peter Gabriel
John Lennon
Bill Laswell
Dead Can Dance
Amon Tobin
Björk
Susumu Yokota
Colder
Billie Holiday
A Tribe Called Quest
Syd Barrett
Aloke Dutta
Charles Ives
Sigur Rós
John MacLaughlin
Blur
Amorphis
Radiohead
Sun Ra
Melvins
Joe Hisaishi
Ministry
Bob Dylan
King Crimson
Hawkwind
Diamanda Galàs
Electric Prunes
George Harrison
The Rolling Stones
Faun Fables
Devendra Banhart
Velvet Underground
13th Foor Elevators
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Morbid Angel
The Eagles
Yes
Pink Floyd
Headcoat
Murcof
Coldplay
Decapitated
Miles Davis
Fantômas
A Perfect Circle
Whitehouse
Keiji Heino
The Chocolate Watchband
Belle and Sebastian
Squarepusher
Godflesh
Shpongle
Olivier Messiaen
Ornette Coleman
HP Lovecraft
cLOUDDEAD
Jesu
Damien Rice
Captain Beefheart
Deutsch Nepal
Bill Evans
Slayer
Incubus
Olivia Tremor Control
Prodigy
Marvin Gaye
Lustmord
Sleepytime Gorrilla Museum
The Stooges
Acid Mothers Temple
Talib Kwali
sQwurm
John Zorn
Scott Walker
Sonny Rollins
Tom Waits
Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn
Coil
Boom Bip
Dose One
Cecil Taylor
Ali Akbar Kahn
The Seeds
Holly Golightly
Debussy

and I'm sure there are plenty I've missed, but that should give you a good indication of why I like to make every form of music known to man, and why my music blends so many styles.

Hey guys

It's been a while; I've been very busy with all of the projects and am now doing a Bachelor of Music at uni, majoring in production. yay! I'm in my second week and have already met a stack of amazing musos to do stuff with so stay tuned for that business.

The real reason for this update is to let you guys know that next week I will do a rather major overaul of the soundclick site so if there is anything you wanted to download off it then you should do that soon. I'm going to replace most of the material on there with fresh stuff as my production has gotten far better and I've written tons of new stuff that I'm excited about. I just have to choose what to put up!

Either way I hope everything in life is as exciting for you guys as it is for me these days. The more music I listen to (and I have been expanding my horizons further still) the more inspired I become and the more new things I want to try. I can't wait to get this new music to you all!

Best

Greg

ooh, the Suicide cover is really good, i'm going to listen to the rest of this later on.

Goodie, can't wait to hear some of the new stuff

Hi all

Thanks for your patience. I'm a true slacker and have been well busy with uni and creating new material, so the combination of this means that it has taken me this bloody long to update my Soundclick account... but update it I have. It is a many varied beast, as per usual, and this time I have selected particularly trying tracks that highlight the extremities of my musical output. Those of you who appreciated the complexity of my music need not fear, there is much of that in the works that will be revealed at a later date. For this moment I want to focus on texture and intricacy. Here are the details:




I vs I - Infinity (demo)

This is the demo version of track two from the forthcoming I vs I EP. I estimate that the EP will be completed by July and available by August. The track is a blend of Asian music, IDM, jazz, death metal and ambience. A lot of Charles Mingus in this one, not that you can really hear it.




777 - Sstm Flyr

A track from an album that is a long way off yet, Inorganic Beings. I have no idea when that platter will be delivered so I figure I may as well let this one out for the time being and allow those of you with much imagination and much patience to experience the depths of electronic hypnotism.




777 - Stir

Track six from the forthcoming album Music for Dreaming. I estimate this album to be finished by June also and probably unleashed September or October... This one is going to be released by Miette Records, which is run by a friend of mine and will be relying on his financial abilities for it's pressing and distribution, so here's hoping... This track is a long, slow moving ambient piece that works to a nice, dense peak. Not for those with short attention spans.




777 - To Touch

Track eleven from Music for Dreaming. A shorter piece, ambient also but with a much brighter colour than "Stir". I'm interested to see how people take this one.




777 - Amongst the Stars

The first track off the very-nearly-complete Beneath the Skyline Steel. This one will be shopped around to various independant experimental labels and possibly self-released if I'm not satisfied with what I am offered. Either way the album will be finished within a week and explores space and depth in many different ways, which I am expressing within the context of a guitar-only record.




Greg Reason - Complicated

This one has been up for quite some time already but I figure that it is worth the reprisal. It's probably the catchiest track form the album My Neuroses and only God knows when that album will be released... This is an updated mix and sounds very close to what the finished product will be. I think I'll just redo the vocals and do some slight tinkering in the mic and this one is set.




Greg Reason - Pastel Shades

This is a unique one. A very rough around the edges recording, this was done in an hour at five in the morning as a gift for Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons and given to him later that day. I wrote and recorded it especially for him and probably won't keep it online for very long, I just thought that some of you might be interested in it. It's more of a bleeding heart track and deliberately wounded sounding; one of the more sparse recordings I have made. Enjoy.




Greg Reason - Chemical Plant Zone

I'm sure that many of you played Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in your younger days... Well, this track could possibly bring bad memories to the surface, memories that will most likey involve falling into vast depths of pink chemicals and being unable to make it back up for air in time... dammit!

ps the cover of 'Suicide' is now available at http://www.hevydevy.com

Thank you!

Hiya

I've posted the cover of "Vampira" that Torniojaws and myself did onto my Soundclick page with the rest of the stuff. Torniojaws just decided to do the cover and he recorded the entire backing then I did the singing and the two guitar solos. I decided to be as cheesy as possible because the osng seemed to beg for it so here ya go...

Lots of diverse stuff, To Touch and the Infinity demo caught my attention. Nice ones!

I'm glad you dig "To Touch", I'm very happy with that one but I didn't know how many people would be keen

Thanks for checkin!