Forcefield are the world's punkest fucking band right now

ring modulator  ----- envelope filter ----- phase shifter
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       |                                    distortion
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       ---------------------------------------chorus
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                                             amplifier or more effects

Instant fun!

Meerk Puffy's LP on Animal Disguise is absolutely amazing. Psychdelic oscillator and thump thump weird stuff. Locked grooves for additional stoned confusion.

forcefield used to just be two people, brinkman and p.lobe--they were, i think, the only ones on the early CDRs. they're definitely the only ones on lord of the ring modulator.

what does Forcefield actually sound like? I tinker with CoolEdit just like the next guy but I don't how to decipher Jon's diagram.

they sound like muppets in a garage disposal...that is, awesome.

http://www.fortthunder.org/music/ff/

There's earlier stuff there and...

http://www.loadrecords.com/bands/forcefield.html

newer stuff there.

Ian's post now has me researching freakzone.

Oh! There's a Real Slow Radio mp3 here:

http://www.bulbrecords.com/MP3.html

I poked at Armageddon's web site ( http://www.armageddonshop.com/ ) but didn't find any Thunder stuff.

Off Topic: Hey look, spot the ILXer here!
http://www.animaldisguise.com/bands.htm

A live document of a spur-of-the-moment collaboration between NEIL BURKE (MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT), MR. BRINKMAN (FORCEFIELD and MINDFLAYER), and FAST FORWARD, captured July 7th, 2002 at the Common Ground--Battleboro, Vermont's 30-year-old hippie collective restaurant and bar. Upon arrival at the club the artists discovered no promotion had been done and the house P.A. was locked up in the manager's office--who naturally had left for the night. Subsequently, the performers broke into the office, freed the P.A., and joined forces in a punishing assault of pure noise freakout--delivered with an arsenal of analog sound devices, over-effected guitar, and vocal body slams--performed to a horrified audience of a handful of hippie transients. When life hands you lemons, hippies get hurt.

Pretty fun listen.

The trick is to make a LINK to his website (or mindflayer or laserbeast) and then click it from the thread. BAMF!

new haven for berkeley refugees

HEY LOOK! IT'S IAN, DAVE AND BALDING JON!
http://www.cca.org/dave/images/draper-dave.jpg

i don't think mindflayer are touring anytime soon! if they are, i haven't heard about it.

since i posted about cdrs with rekkid grooves, i got the nautical 'we want war' tour cdr which is like that. it's crazzzzy.

are you EVER going to get your computer back?

re: KRAP- i am ripping this now for Nate. It's a pretty good record, but in general I'd rather listen to Brinkman's solo stuff, as I'm not a big fan of Neil Burke (as either Sinking Body or Man's Recovery Project) or Fast Forward. I think this was recorded during that short tour the three of them did around the time of Tin Can Full of Dreams--they all three played in Providence after the fest one day, and I think left on tour? dave correct me if i'm wrong, pls.

^ forcefield has gone off in new directions

Or a drunkenly scrawled straight-edge X?

the mindflayer reissue... eh. that one isn't as good as the one on Bulb, it's true.

forcefield are still the punkest band eva.

whoa!

I just picked this up for $3. Supposedly it is Matt Brinkman attacking the Wolf Eyes discography. Track 3 is perhaps the most brutal remix I have ever heard. Let me set the scene for you:

It is 800 AD. You are a druid on a misty moor. A UFO touches down during your pagan ritual, and the aliens mind meld you to teach you the secrets of advanced civilization. Your brain is full of terrible scorching magnesium lights. Magnetic lines are burned into the earth. The ground is scorched by radiation. The Elder Gods do not relent in filling your primitive mind with their secrets. Their spaceship hums.