Music Manumit Punkcast - 016 - Re-post of Interview with The Descenters

The Descenters Audio mp3 audio | ogg audio | stream | torrent In this episode: We talk with Matthew Stoff of post-punk band The Descenters. Here are Doug's notes from the interview. https://soundcloud.com/the-descenters https://thedescenters.bandcamp.com/ http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/376671/the-descenters https://www.facebook.com/TheDescenters Tell us about your music and tell us what’s new! Funny story! Started as a band, but became a one-piece. He even plays live solo! Alternative rock, post-punk, goth. Electronic drums “WE’LL DO IT LIVE!” sorta. Still shakey in the promotion regard he says...but he’s here What software? I don’t see the image Tom does: Image link Ableton is ok for recording ProTools also What influences? nothing pure! melodic vocals: Placebo, Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Morrissey (The Smiths) Matthew overlooked Talking Heads much like Tom overlooked The Smiths “Burning Down the House” - Talking Heads “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” - REM New Album in February 2014 Intense couple of weeks! Did they kick you out of the city? moved from country to Melbourne. Lots of the cultural stuff happens in the south Much cooler in the south lots of songs about the rain Studio? All of it is self-recorded with Ableton. A selection of microphones digital manipulation is cool quick followup? Not as quick as release seems. EP recorded in 2012, but not released until there were CDs always working on new material “Creep” by Radiohead stories you don’t just show up in the study not sure what band he’s talking about. This one? http://www.choochootheband.com/ release set up takes a lot of time! project completely up to him! Artwork? Friends canvas pun! coffee talk Melbourne? post-graduate work now Giggings? not a lot of gigging yet, but going to try to get out more in next 6 months half an album recorded for comic book project Comic book? Robot Boy Destroys the Universe -- experimental electronic music experimental labels http://www.vuzhmusic.com/ deriv.cc “vaguely avant-garde” What drew you to Creative Commons? not much of a local way to get interesting ideas...except off the Internet potential for revolution in approach to culture. It’s a community thing as much as it is about individual expression Why lock down art? large numbers of people is liberating How did you hear about Creative Commons? Might have been in early 2000s “The first set of copyright licenses was released in December 2002.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviantArt Where did the project name originate? originally collaboration “an action of moving downward, dropping, or falling.” “a person who dissents.” Plushgoolash interview: link “Smuggly Biege” is the other Plushgoolash Who are some people you think we should try to get on the show (aka, who are the important people in Creative Commons music today)? Disappointing that there isn’t more in Australia Is there anything else you would like to say/tell us about? writes fiction Out going track: Waste You A hostile song! Going back to childhood Related articles Orxata Sound System - 130505 - Music Manumit Podcast C. Reider - 130526 - Music Manumit Podcast What Makes Your City Liveable?