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Math Rock/ Mathcore/ Post-Rock Bassists Club!

#41
I'll take a number too. And it's my first club! haha

some of my fave bands are def minus the bear and maps and atlases.

There's this localish band called Pessoa. I'll try to find their link to one of their free eps.

And an Indianapolis band Olympians is amazing. If i remember correctly they have some sweet tapping on both bass and guitar, along with some of the odd timing in a few places. To me it is like Dignan, but with slightly more choppy and angular riffs in a few places.
 
#42
mrviking said:
I'll take a number too. And it's my first club! haha

some of my fave bands are def minus the bear and maps and atlases.

There's this localish band called Pessoa. I'll try to find their link to one of their free eps.

And an Indianapolis band Olympians is amazing. If i remember correctly they have some sweet tapping on both bass and guitar, along with some of the odd timing in a few places. To me it is like Dignan, but with slightly more choppy and angular riffs in a few places.
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Definitely send along some links!
 
#43
I'm currently playing with a band called Armenian Space Station, which has a song in 23/8 time. That's something I would definitely call math rock since I heretofore ate, slept and dreamed in either 4/4 or 6/8. It definitely has an off-kilter edge that is jolting in a good, hard-hitting way.

To hear it, go to Link Removed and click on "Fire in the Sky" in the music player. (The other songs are pretty proggy too.) Play along if you want, but warning: math riffs are highly addictive once you get your head around them! :bassist:
 
#44
Count me in :hyper:
All my bands im playing with are math oriented to a great extent..but v dont get into very very odd time sigs..very odd sigs not only sound forced, but also unmusical.
We stick to 3/8, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4 etc...but nothing weird like 23/24 or 31/32...those are very subtle and sound like mistakes :P
 
#45
suraj said:
Count me in :hyper:
All my bands im playing with are math oriented to a great extent..but v dont get into very very odd time sigs..very odd sigs not only sound forced, but also unmusical.
We stick to 3/8, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4 etc...but nothing weird like 23/24 or 31/32...those are very subtle and sound like mistakes :P
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I've never heard of 23/24 or 31/32, but I can assure you that unusual time signatures can be just as musical-sounding as more established ones if the phrasing within those signatures makes sense.

Even when it doesn't make sense, an abstract phrase may sound terrible to one person, but profound to another (much like a work of modern art). I'm not saying that one person's taste makes it good, just that with either art or music, one person's "worst" is another's "best"! Me, I've learned to like the weird stuff!;)
 
#46
suraj said:
Count me in :hyper:
All my bands im playing with are math oriented to a great extent..but v dont get into very very odd time sigs..very odd sigs not only sound forced, but also unmusical.
We stick to 3/8, 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 9/4 etc...but nothing weird like 23/24 or 31/32...those are very subtle and sound like mistakes :P
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Oh, and in my opinion, Eden makes the best 2 x 12" cab, even though it's actually a 1 x 12" :)
 
#50
the first hum album, electra 2000, is a little more mathy and screamy, you can really hear the slinty midwestern angst. by YPAA they were more of a space rock band iyam. great band though, saw them at the cat's cradle in NC when they were touring behind their final album and they were a lot of fun.

earlier minus the bear is great indie rock that borders on the mathier side of things but their last few albums have really disappointed me. "they make beer commercials..." and "menos el oso" are my two favorites. if you liked these records you might also like state route 522, which was the singer's old band, as well as kill sadie, which has the same rhythm section.

fans of slint might also like rodan, june of 44, the shipping news, and the for carnation (another david pajo project). i also feel compelled to mention unwound, chavez, and shiner.

spiderland is my favorite album of the 90's and it's really not close.

+1 also to tortoise, toe, don cab, godspeed, mogwai and pelican, all great bands.

a couple other post-rock bands i would mention are Do Make Say Think, Once We Were, Lakes of Russia, The Mercury Program, Ativin, etc.

i don't keep up as much with the current mathcore stuff but was heavy into all those subgenres in the 90's
 
#52
I saw Intronaut open for Mastodon. The singers/guitarists were cool, but didn't really stand out. Their rhythm section was sick though, esp. the bassist! He was rocking a Pedulla Pentabuzz 5 and was killing it! Great tone, great groove, great player!

Recently discovered And So I Watch You From Afar, a post-rock band from N. Ireland


Irepress and Caspian from Mass. are both rad!
 
#57
specialc said:
I've never heard of 23/24 or 31/32
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that is because the former does not exist in western notation and nobody uses the latter. The former could be seen as triplet 16ths, but nobody actually does stuff like that (and I challenge any person who uses the word "mathcore" to play/count out either of those times for a sustained period). People who talk about signatures like that tend to talk big but then mostly play stuff in 4/4 that just cycles past the bar line.

Just ime.
 
#58
I'd like to join! don cab - yes! love the bassist from Planets. there's also a 2-piece band I like called Buff Clout - insane. I used to be in a math rock band, broke up before any decent recordings happened. now I'm bummed that I'm just playing "regular rock" like rolling stones-style. empty feeling, y'know?
 
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