Cactus Fusion
359 plays
15,355 views
15,355 views
Cactus Fusion are a Norfolk based noise making collective,with no real direction. Fusing elements of experimental jazz, techno, ambient noise and country and western, the music on here is probably some of the strangest stuff you'll ever listen to.Band/artist history
A couple of years ago at college, the music department was dumping a load of old recording equipment and Martin (being the type who likes acquiring free items, legally of course) decided to claim them before they were sent to the metaphorical music equipment graveyard. Later, Martin and Alex claimed two double basses (temporarily) and Martin bought a cheap electric guitar. After a few years, all the recording equipment had been repaired by Martin, and thus the cactus fusion was formed (although not under that name, the original being 'the tired lemmings'). To date the group have recorded 3 tracks, called 'untitled 1', 'Oh my goat' and 'Where is your neck?', which sound quite terrible due to the state of the semi working four track recorder, but are due for a re-record on alex's new computer. There are also several songs in the pipeline, the first of which being 'Black peppercorn' which is almost complete.Have you performed in front of an audience?Unfortunately we haven't played live yet. Hopefully that will change soon though, if we ever write anything good that is..
Your musical influences
We havent really heard anything which sounds quite like our songs yet, there's elements of jazz, thrash metal, techno and some slightly experimental electronic noise type stuff as well.What equipment do you use?
PC running Cubase SX (demo), FL Studio, Shitloads of free plugins
Laptop (running the same stuff but twice as fast)
Fostex tape 4-track
Roland MC-09
Roland TR-707
Edirol PCR-30
Akai S-3000
Roland EM-10 (we like roland stuff because it's cheap)
Casio CA-100
Casio SA-8 (as circuit bent and broken by Martin)
Few oscillator circuits made by Martin
The Warbler (broken at the moment)
Marshall MG15DFX
Korg AX100G Multi FX
Danelectro Rocky Road Stompbox (still got no idea what it's supposed to do)
CRB Diamond 30 Organ
Hammond L122 Spinet
Turner Electric Guitar (dirt cheap strat copy)
Aria Acoustic Guitar
The 1-string guitar (limited edition, only 1 ever made)
Upright Bass
2 Small African Djembe's
Strange oboe-like instrument which Alex got while on holiday
Penny Whistle
Recorder
We used to have a Roland MC-303, but back then neither of us knew how it worked.Anything else?
Martin's brother, Dave, is soon going to be back from India, on a mission to collect strange ethnic instruments, so hopefully soon we'll have a load of new stuff to play with which none of us have ever heard of before. Not that we need it or anything.
359 plays
15,355 views
15,355 views
Admin
cactus
@cactusfusion
