 | Beautiful Supermachines Shut Up (CD) |
Bio:
From The Onion's interview with David Williams of Beautiful Supermachines:
David Williams has had a Zelig-like presence in music, turning up in the background of some of its most epochal movements—and often just before its time.
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Media Links & Downloads:
"The War Against Cliche" (MP3)
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On The Web:
www.myspace.com/beautifulsupermachines
www.facebook.com/bsupermachines
www.twitter.com/bsupermachines
www.chickenranchrecords.com
www.myspace.com/chickenranch
www.facebook.com/pages/Chicken-Ranch-Records/12309225263
Bio (Continued):
Over a career that spans more than three decades, he’s been at the leading edge of various watershed moments of punk, post-punk, noise-rock, and hip-hop, rubbed elbows with Ice-T and Dr. Dre, played “the secret white dude” behind the scenes of The Jungle Brothers’ seminal J. Beez Wit The Remedy, and more recently settled into an in-demand role as a local producer. “I just like hooks,” Williams says of his Jackson Pollock-like palette. “A hook to me can be in a fucking [Karlheinz] Stockhausen piece.” While Williams’ blend of the avant-garde and bubblegum often makes for a good sound bite (Jeff Salamon at the Austin American-Statesman once noted that he was the only person who could “credibly write tracks for Terry Riley and Teddy Riley”), it makes it awfully difficult—and pointless—to delineate the myriad musical influences comprising Shut Up, the debut release from Williams’ new project, Beautiful Supermachines.
The Onion asked Williams—a voracious reader, avid gearhead, and deep thinker—to trace all the various technological, literary, and philosophical strands running through his career. Read the full article HERE.
"A life of mixed notes - In Austin, producer turned life around to once again make sound memorable." - The Austin-American Statesman interviews David Williams HERE.
Press Quotes:
"David Williams has built an impressive career out of dabbling, getting his start in late-70s punks The Vomit Pigs, graduating to hip-hop with Dallas Decadent Dub Team and The Jungle Brothers, and eventually working as a go-to sound engineer. He puts his vagabond years to good use in his new project Beautiful Supermachines: the groups recent Shut Up is a Technicolor mélange of fuzz-box fireworks and aloof pop hooks layered with a producers ear for those all-important minor details, and informed by Williams wildly diverse palette." - The Decider
"Recently, this unassuming 49-year-old with salt-and-pepper hair, an easy smile, and a world-class ability to yak about music‹from the composer Stockhausen to George Jones to Miles Davis to Elton John to Ultramagnetic MCs has been mixing bands now and then at Beerland. His sharp ears have turned a club with good bands and a controversial sonic reputation into a killer-sounding room that any band should be thrilled with. Last September, he put together a band so he could perform his new music live; their first gig was an opening slot at Emo's large room. The band added a few parts here and there to the record as well. The resulting album, Shut Up mixes Pavement-esque shattered-pop craft with the detailed layers of sound Williams applied to his Jungle Brothers productions." - Austin American Statesman
On The Web:
www.myspace.com/beautifulsupermachines
www.facebook.com/bsupermachines
www.twitter.com/bsupermachines
www.chickenranchrecords.com
www.myspace.com/chickenranch
www.facebook.com/pages/Chicken-Ranch-Records/12309225263