BEASTMASTER is an Englishman living in Australia. He is a multi-instrumentalist, and his instrumental music is a really bizarre mixture hard to describe, with traces of grunge, shoegaze, jazz, pop, and psychedelic rock. He definitely doesn't sound like anyone else – and that's a big compliment.
"I have pissed around in all sorts of bands in the past, most notably (but also most embarassingly) a 3 piece electro-grindcore band that lasted from 2006-2007 called 'The Robot Ninja Dinosaur Bastards'. We wore masks and played Judas Priest style riffs over nintendo gameboy backing tracks and Gabba beats. It was pretty terrible but there was some kind of small market for it. We were the 'comedy' band at hardcore electronic nights and raves. Then I moved to Australia and started making more normal music under the pseudonym 'beastmaster'. I was playing the drums in another grungey shoegaze band at the time and borrowed their equipment to record the first few Beastmaster songs. They lent me a guitar and bass and I gathered together some fx pedals and thus; Beastmaster was born. I'm now back in the UK and I've got a new 7 track e.p that'll be finished within the next few months. I'm also slowly planning to get a live band together too. Influences: I won't mention bands so.....echoey noises, fuzziness, psychedelia, spacey songs, grungey guitars, music that doesn't take itself too seriously, music with no vocals."
BEASTMASTER: Goathead E.P.
(UK/AUSTRALIA 2010)
(mp3-zip, 3 tracks, 11:21 min, 27,1 MB, artwork incl.)
BEASTMASTER: Spectral Bullock E.P.
(UK/AUSTRALIA 2010)
(mp3-zip, 4 tracks, 15:20 min, 37 MB, artwork incl.)
Favourite track: Demented Grandson Goes to the Circus
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