Math Rock/ Mathcore/ Post-Rock Bassists Club!

[Getaway Driver]

Count me in, nothin like tryin to keep up with tomas haake's drums from meshuggah... Oh and cant forget Rosetta, Pelican, or Cult of Luna either.

how could I forget Pelican?

Just ordered both of Russian Circle's CD's the other day... Can't wait to get 'em.

 

[blockopastorius]

im totally in for that

 

[Deathwatch]

Count me in!!!! Pelican would be my favorite haha!!!!

 

[Gojiras_Hejira]

I saw a Japanese band called LITE open for Mike Watt. They were fantastic but you have to see them live. Recordings don't catch it (they've played all of 9 US shows, so far).

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[joshmickelson]

not to be difficult, but what do math rock and post rock have to do with each other? none of the bands mentioned in the OP sound anything alike.

 

[Getaway Driver]

not to be difficult, but what do math rock and post rock have to do with each other? none of the bands mentioned in the OP sound anything alike.

i do have to agree with that... Post rock is a totally different animal. They do share some technical ideas, but the bands, side-by-side, sound nothing alike.

 

[baalroo]

yeah, post rock and math rock have very little in common.

math rock =

I do love both genres though.

 

[thombo]

i think that there is overlap- a focus on using odd times, creating textures, fairly structured arrangements, etc. I am not arguing that they are the same, just similar.

imo bands like don caballero, sleeping people, and slint fit into both camps... tortoise, godspeed you black emperor, mogwai- obviously post-rock
hella, jawbox, no knife- math-rock

i really like that all of these bands are lumped together- it represents the majority of what i listen too.

 

[RandomBass90]

Id love a number! What little bits of math/post rock i know of i really quite enjoy, and my band writes a lot of math/prog jams, recently one in 13/8 writen in combo 7/8 - 6/8.

Would you guys consider Oceansize to be math rock? They deffinitly have elements of math rock, but i dunno if they fit under that category outright.

 

[SnakeAnthony]

I'm not big on the clubs thing, but I'll definitely show my love for Post-Rock, Math Rock, and Mathcore. Botch was what got me into heavy music, and I'm a huge fan of Brian's in his later work (TAAS, Russian Circles).

I'm actually starting up a Post-Rock project right now. I'm hoping it ends up something like a more bass-driven Explosions In The Sky meets Saxon Shore. We'll see.

 

[SnakeAnthony]

yeah, post rock and math rock have very little in common.

If anything they have fans in common. I know very few people who appreciate one and not the other.

That and a heavy focus on instrumentation. Most bands in both genres are strictly instrumental bands 90% of the time. And even in the clip of 40 Rods there is a heavy emphasis on ambiance (peep the middle section starting around 1:56). And a real dependence on structure. For either genre to work the musicians must know every note and rhythm like the back of their hands, and there isn't much room for on the spot improvisation a lot of the time.

Not brothers, but cousins at least.

 

[the_thriller]

Unfortunately I don't have anyone to play Math-rock or post rock stuff with in town

BUT! This music is primarily what I listen to!!!! SUBSCRIBED!!!

 

[the_thriller]

I saw a Japanese band called LITE open for Mike Watt. They were fantastic but you have to see them live. Recordings don't catch it (they've played all of 9 US shows, so far).

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[thombo]

i saw Fang Island/Caspian/Red Sparowes show on Monday- Fang Island was cool, but a little over hyped by my NYC friends and a few blogs i frequent. Caspian & Red Sparowes killed it!
Caspian was impressive... I'd only heard their myspace. they had a heavy, shoegazer sound; very dynamic, everything is distorted and soaked in reverb. this made the drummer really stand out, and he slayed!
RS was everything that I hoped for- 5 musicians going for broke. I didn't know that they used a Fender Rhodes as well- very cool! Not all of the slide guitar comes from pedal steal either, sometimes it is the guitarists just playing w/ a slide. Their new stuff was more dynamic, which i like. they really had a lot of depth as a band- I dug it!

 

[tk421]

so where would a band like Hum fit in? i always considered them the forerunners of the Math Rock movement ... among other, vaguely similar bands.

 

[baalroo]

so where would a band like Hum fit in? i always considered them the forerunners of the Math Rock movement ... among other, vaguely similar bands.

Aren't they part of the "shoegaze" thing? Another cousin of post-rock.

 

[champbassist]

Hopping aboard. With my current obsession with Jeff Caxide and perpetual love for bizzare polyrhythms, I'd be the quintessential member. (currently writing a disorienting 4/4+7/5 piece... and yes, I do mean 7/5 ). I'll explain if you ask...

 

[tk421]

Aren't they part of the "shoegaze" thing? Another cousin of post-rock.

they were a bit heavy for the showgaze genre. and a wee bit to technical. i think they might have been the first signs of evolution out of shoegaze-y-ness ...

still, being in sw ohio, and them being from the champaign/urbana area, they were pretty much local. "so you'd prefer an astronaut" is still in heavy rotation in the radio station in my mind.

 

[julieslick]

To me, post-rock seems tastier, and more lush... I like and play both though...

 

[Din Of Win]

Yep, i also love me some post/math-rock/core. Playing it and writing it gives me a headache though, and i tend to enjoy writing and playing more spazzy bass lines than mathy.

But yeah, my room mate is a HUGEEEE math rock fan... bands like Maps and Atlases, Tera Melos, and Hella. So i hear noodly guitar stuff all... day... long.