The Strang Quartet
Eclectic, intelligent rock-driven tunes with big guitars and more than a hint of electronica give us a sound unlike any other band.
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Kulturekampf I - Flicker Battered Lantern Kulturekampf I - Flicker Battered Lantern
Kulturekampf II - Something of the South Kulturekampf II - Something of the South
Kulturekampf III - Flaws in the weave Kulturekampf III - Flaws in the weave
Kulturekampf IV - Sleeping Dolls Kulturekampf IV - Sleeping Dolls
Kulturekampf V - For those with eyes to see Kulturekampf V - For those with eyes to see
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The Strang Quartet formed (officially) in Cambridge UK in 2003, consisting of long-time friends Martin (guitars and vocals) and Julian (drums, keyboards, guitars and production).
Our mission statement: to make deep, meaningful, noisy sounds for the delectation of ourselves and others.Band/artist history
Martin and Julian met in the 1990s in Cambridge. At the time Julian was messing about with electronic music on a rather weedy computer setup, but Martin was impressed and they started making sounds together. After buying more second-hand keyboards and MIDI setup than he could afford, it all started coming together... until work dragged Julian away from Cambridge.
In 2003, he returned - now with a "proper" PC recording setup, and it's all flowed from that really. We've had an enjoyable and creative year or two, long may it continue.
Andy Mazur joined us for 5 songs in 2006 playing bass & backing vocals.
Amos Willbond joined us in September 2009 to play guitar and a bit of backing vox. He's got some wikkid metal chopz, innit?Your musical influences
In a phrase: progressive rock. Pink Floyd - bigtime! Hawkwind (trivia: Julian had guitar lessons from Huw-Lloyd Langton once!) Marillion; Tangerine Dream; Deep Purple; Porcupine Tree; Tool; Pain of Salvation; Ozric Tentacles; Jean-Michel Jarre; Patti Smith; Lou Reed; Cassandra Wilson; Jimi Hendrix (of course!); Stevie Ray Vaughan; Jimmy Page.What equipment do you use?
Hardware:
3.2GHz i7 Pentium PC, 6Gb DDR3 RAM, 1066MHz FSB mobo, 3x80Gb SATA HDD, CD/DVD R/W
M-Audio Delta-44 PCI sound module with breakout box.
Focusrite Liquid Mix 16 audio DSP.
External 500Gb USB HDD for backup.
Line 6 Pod XT Live for DI guitars
Line 6 Bass Pod Live XT
Fender Stratocaster guitar
Yamaha Pacifica guitar
Gibson Les Paul guitar
Roland V-Drums
Mapex M-birch Fusion acoustic kit / Samson mics
Shure SM58 mic
Behringer vocal processor
M-Audio studiophile monitor speakers
Adrenalinn II
Digitech whammy pedal
Ibanez Blazer Bass
Software:
Windows Vista 64 SP2
Cubase 5.x
Wavelab lite
Spectrasonics Trillian
Spectrasonics Triogy
Spectrasonics Atmosphere
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
oZone 4 mastering tools
TC-Helicon Voice processor
Steinberg Mastering plug-ins
BFD2 Drum Module
Adobe Audition 1.3 audio editor
All the half-decent free VST plugins I can find
Cambridge,
United Kingdom
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307642
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Top notch production, part VI !!!
Top notch production, part V !!!
Top notch production, part IV !!!
Top notch production, part III !!!
Top notch production, part II !!!
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