I realized I never introduced myself

7 · Joined: Apr 04, 2004 Posts: 69

Hi, I'm Seven Graylands.

I've been writing/recording/playing music for years and years. I got my first taste of writing in a punk band in Seattle but quickly evolved into electronica. By 1990 I was pretty involved in the Seattle music scene. I had a small recording studio and was bringing people in. I was playing lots of shows and helping put on shows for mid size bands (plus rehashed bands like Blue Oyster Cult, David Leee Roth, etc. You know. Bands that in the 90's weren't so cool anymore but still managed to bring 1000+ people in). By 93 I decided I was spending more time involved in music and less time doing music,.. so I bailed from Seattle. I moved to the oregon coast and started writing again. (I've now left the coast.. too strange there.)

In the mid 80's I found myself involved in the Tic Tok Men which has seen several incarnations over the years. I've kept the project together and am still releasing music under this name. There are two new albums coming out. One is very old school electronic while the other is more fun with an electronic slant. I have another ambient album planned, but I haven't started work on it yet.

The Tic Tok Men project has had 3 past members (excluding myself) and now has two new people working on one of the albums -and one other working on the retro-electronic album. It is sort of cool how it evolved into a band with no real members. Everyone is transient which gives each album a different sound.

I also dabble in jazz, pop-ish sounding stuff and spoken word bits which I release under my name. I'm thinking of doing some ska tracks in the future as well.

Right now I'm working on the two Tic Tok Men albums, one "Seven" album plus I'm restoring 3 old albums from reel tapes which I plan on doing something with at last two of them. I'm also putting together a compilation CD which I'm considering releasing only on electro-music.

My studio is a hybred of analog and digital. I'm more of a hardware guy, but will use anything that sounds good or is functional in design. I've got a small army of synths and toys ( http://www.tictokmen.com/ttmc ) but recently I've been getting into sampling using Giga Sampler -by sampling I'm not taking about loops. I'm talking about bashing something with a mallet, messing with the sound, tuning it and playing it.

Um.. I think that's it.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 2:57 am Post subject:

Wow! Nice pictures! This is a great collection of tools!

elektro80 · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 2:59 am Post subject:

BTW: Did you check that shotgun footage with Michael Moore? Wink

mosc · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 8:08 am Post subject:

Seven, thanks for the introduction. I spent some time on your site, looking around and listening to tracks. Very diverse musical styles. Nice stuff.

Yes, you are obviously a gear head. Laughing

But that's OK.

zynthetix · Posted: Mon May 31, 2004 9:09 am Post subject:

I am listening to my formal copy of "Remote Control v2.0" right now...I bought this Tic Tok Men cd from mp3.com back in 1998(?) when I found ttm through the MonkeyPaw website (well, when it still existed). Good thing you introduced yourself because I have one of your cd's and didn't even know it. Laughing

Small (net) world, isn't it?

7 · Joined: Apr 04, 2004 Posts: 69

7 · Joined: Apr 04, 2004 Posts: 69

7 · Joined: Apr 04, 2004 Posts: 69