Math Rock/ Mathcore/ Post-Rock Bassists Club!

[Third Basser]

thought I'd volunteer to do this, y'know, to make it all official n' stuff. Let me know if I missed anyone, or feel free to edit and add yourself in if I did:

Yakob: 0
jmercer91: 1
Getaway Driver: 2
Spoonman: 3
Soundchaser: 4
wetzelman: 5
lurker: 6
ninepine: 7
PJMiDi: 8
blockopastorius: 9
Deathwatch: 10
RandomBass90: 11
the thriller: 12
Champbassist: 13
Din of Win: 14
mrviking: 15
suraj: 16
Dee Dee Vicious: 17
codeinedreams: 18
noisetherapy: 19
bassk81976: 20
Bassist24601: 21
Raymeous: 22
somegeezer: 23

 

[joshmickelson]

Just listened to some don cab today. American Don is so perfect.

 

[taphappy]

How clever. You know that you just said exactly the type of thing that everybody makes fun of "math rock musicians" for.

Nah. We weren't being arrogant. We were just having a little fun. And would let their brains go "...wot?" for a minute, then happily explain how it worked out that way if you looked at it sideways in a certain manner.

Never got made fun of for this style of playing, ever. Quite the opposite. As long as you're approachable about it. I'd sit down regularly and draw out how we went about the math side of our writing style to musicians and listeners alike. Many bar napkins were sacrificed towards this higher purpose. Which was cool, cause you could see it effect their music when they came out with new songs.

One time, the indie hip-hop/breaks producer and rapper neighbors knocked on our back door. Writer's block, frustrated, heads down, toes in the dirt when we were about to leave - we plopped them in a chair for about 30 minutes, played through most of a set we were working on - then they RAN back over to their studio. Came back over the next day with a very us-reminiscent math poly chorus, which rocks me sideways...but, maybe you'll like it:



I just posted the poly in comments for the sheer poop of it (as bugfu*r). Don't flame them if it ain't your thing, please

Sound quality's a bit off, but I love it, and the video. Then again, it's like listening to our sound at a 45 degree angle, very cool for me to hear it applied to breaks. And it's music from friends, awesome guys! Hard to be objective Additionally, hearing them writing and freestyling (Busse has an insane work ethic) for hours on end next door influenced our approach as well.

But we also tried to be very attentive to the musicality of our tunes, especially attentive where odd times were concerned.

 

[Deluge Of Sound]

Not my band, but the drummer and I went to high school together:
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[bassslater19876]

Hit me! Auto!Automatic!! is a local act around my area, American Football kind of started math rock for me, Algernon Cadwallader, Die Hoffnung, Snowing, Mono, Worlds End Girlfriend, GY!BE, Explosions in the Sky, Russian Circles, 65dos all influenced me as a "musician" as a whole, not so much a bassist albiet. I'm in.

 

[lukeave.]

tera ****ing melos!

 

[AmieLouHat]

Myself and the guitarist/vocalist in my current project both have a habit of writing in very odd time signatures. Sometimes things will be 4 bars of 6/8 and a bar of 5/8 or 2 bars of 4/4 and a bar of 3/4. I think it's partially as a result of both of our senses of phrasing.

 

[thombo]

Just listened to some don cab today. American Don is so perfect.

i am a huge don cab fan... one one frustration is the lack of diversity among ian williams' tone. for a guy who is such a tech freak, he needs to play with some tone altering pedals... even in battles, same tone from his guitar for everything. it'll be interesting to hear what they put out now that tyundai left the band.

 

[lovefist]

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That is my band...can I get a number?

 

[iembalm]

June of 44 and Shipping News, tasty bass all up and down all their stuff.

 

[Morgueasmic]

DEP fan.
Just found The Number 12 Looks Like You and was completely blown away.



Hmmm....maybe I need a mathcore club number too!

 

[NateS]

Number12 is so cool! Mathy noisy goodnessss

 

[the byronic man]

i'm in! my band does a fair amount of stuff that uses odd signatures or is either polymeter or polyrhythmic. we also have a few parts where we throw in some metric modulation. always fun.

 

[s_mcsleazy]

shellac, faraquet, medications, mogwai

good enough

plus i played in a band where the guitar player invented his own time sig

the only way to describe it was 8/16.5

 

[perfektspace6]

Math core? Math Rock? Just when I thought music couldn't be micro-categorized any more than it already is.

 

[NateS]

shellac, faraquet, medications, mogwai

good enough

plus i played in a band where the guitar player invented his own time sig

the only way to describe it was 8/16.5

I was in a band with a guitar player who played in 4.5/4

 

[Angus]

plus i played in a band where the guitar player invented his own time sig

the only way to describe it was 8/16.5

No, that just means the guitar player didn't know what he was doing OR talking about.

I was in a band with a guitar player who played in 4.5/4

We call that 9/8 in western music. Welcome to the party.

 

[NateS]

No, that just means the guitar player didn't know what he was doing OR talking about.

We call that 9/8 in western music. Welcome to the party.

I know 9/8, and that wasn't it. (classical background)

 

[iri5h_punk21]

OH PLEASE LET ME IN. lol. my favorite time signature is 7/4, and I love bands like, Tool, LITE, Russian Circles, Vessels, The Mars Volta, etc..

 

[WestOfBen]

Gotta be in this. My band will be kicking off from the beginning early this year. I aim to mix math/metal/post/prog with a healthy dose of groove and pop sensibilities. Really stuck on Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist lately, even though you wouldn't necessarily call them any of these categories. All manner of things will get thrown into the pot.

One of my favourite bands hailing from Australia - Ricaine. Sadly they are no longer. What would you guys call them? We all knew them as post-rock, Australia never really knew shoegaze or other things, we just knew these kinds of bands were different and good.