From the farthest reaches of our solar system, Man From Uranus (also known as MFU) descended upon our more moderately tempered blue planet. Drawn to Earth by picked-up transmissions from early television and its weird electronic soundtracks, he put up his Moonbase in Cambridgeshire to produce his own unearthly ‘mixture of warbly immersive sounds, like a psychedelic trip in some strange soundtracked diving bell’ (Drowned in Sound).
B-movie, horror and guitar / drums mash up, with heavy bass-lines and witty samples. Musically Soda Scream is heavily influenced by Creature Feature, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, The Horrors and Wednesday 13.
Kumo came into existence in 1994 when Jono Podmore began work at Watershed Studios, London, UK and with Plink Plonk records, founding 2 sister labels to Plink Plonk: Autoi and Psychomat. He began to play the Theremin, developing new techniques for live performance of electronic music.
After a string of singles and remixes as Kumo, March 1997 saw the release of his first album Kaminari to significant critical acclaim. A series of live dates and international DJ commitments followed, including the Essential Music Festival, the Sonar festival, and the Graz Biennale.
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures. In over forty scores Bernard Herrmann[ enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles (Citizen Kane), Alfred Hitchcock (North By Northwest, Vertigo, Psycho, Marnie etc.), Francois Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451), and Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver). From his first film (Citizen Kane) to his last (Taxi Driver)...