From the album ‘Booomboxxx’ (2008) • Pay what you want http://tndr.lv/drum-Machine
I’ve spent some time looking for
all the telling signs
and this ship is falling
so my love, I feel to stay
is a big mistake
given time
and the full reaching of the sea
we’ll all go under
I smell the rotting in the beams
I felt a crack in the seems
so come on now my love
before it’s too late
I know the water is calm
but we still shouldn’t wait
tell me what do you see
what am I missing
staring out at the blue surrounding you
and falling to sleep
then we sink
Finding no comfort in the trappings of any single genre, Boy Eats Drum Machine—the musical moniker of Portland, Oregon, native Jon Ragel—chose to create a sound flexible enough to incorporate everything he loved. When the project began, in 2001, that meant evoking the blips and bleeps of Pac Man and Metroid with a sampler and a four-track. But by 2005, it meant incorporating a turntable as Boy Eats Drum Machine’s primary rhythmic instrument and liberally adding layers of sound from there. His one-man-band approach is best seen in concert, where Ragel sings, spins, scratches, plays saxophone, and beats live drums behind an elaborate station of his own design. Oh, and he dances (really well!) the whole time. In the hands of a lesser musician, this all might come off as an impressive gimmick, but Boy Eats Drum Machine’s songs are as soulful and personal as they are technically impressive.
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