It's Friday! Today at the end of the work day we are having a company-wide celebration of the launch of 89.3. Until now, we've been too busy to do it. We've been on the air for 68 days and it seems like high time for a toast to the station.
Chris Roberts has an interesting local show planned for Sunday. He went to the Turf Club earlier this week, and, as he put it, "went trolling for requests" for his show. The resulting hour of radio will be on the air this Sunday, April 3rd, at 5:00 PM. Be sure to set your clocks for Daylight Savings Time so you won't miss it!
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play PlasmaticBrainSpasm, heres what The Funkstore had to say
Question. Mix one part psychedelic blues, throw in some hip-hop, Funkadelia, futuristic concept, slick 80s Minneapolis synth-funk grooves, real drums, spaced reggae and a dose of strong ambient trance-like vocalization and what do you get? A Plasmatic Brain Spasm.
This self-described multi-gendered rock/funk quintet does all of the above and then some on its self-titled debut CD. Axeman Ryan Branstner carves up some of the most shredded eargasm guitar rantings this side of Buckethead. He’s going for some incredible tones here, and oh yea, his unmistakable chops are oft turned waaaay up in the colorful, thick mélange of sounds thru 10 tracks that seamlessly segueway into one another.
Shawn Bachinski’s bubbling Bootsyesque bass thumping and Aaron Bellamy’s hard pounding skins to complete the searing rhythm section. Don’t know who is doing most of the synth effects but they are on the one. And then those funky, swangy vocals. Anna Marie (Pepper) Engstrom and Erica (Red) Shepard’s voices sound like they are lifted right off of an old Brides of Funkenstein album. Not satisfied by being simply funky, Plasmatic Brain Spasm has somn to say as well. Singing about stuff like the Illuminati and other zeep subject matter like "Asteroids & Jellybeans", lol. "Dancefloor Virus" is just a wicked, heavy, funky, polyrhythmic groove. And although I could use that description for all the tracks (ain’t no filler no where), each song truly has a personality of its own.
At times the band just builds up this full head of steam only to melt the groove down into a smoldering cauldron of sound, and then they come out of it right back on the one. It’s some rocked out funk all right. Whoever that is rapping over the blistering groove of "Squarewave Sucker" got his chops strait from Chuck D. The set closes with the jazzy, mid-tempo dreamy funk of "Supersize Afternoon". This is just another outstanding effort from some great musicians raised up at the foot of the Pee. And it goes into heavy rotation in my player. The future of funk music is now!!
Reviewed For TheFunkStore.com..By
Funk Journalist&Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Compiled For TheFunkStore.com..By:Tylard Tatt II
play PlasmaticBrainSpasm, heres what The Funkstore had to say
Question. Mix one part psychedelic blues, throw in some hip-hop, Funkadelia, futuristic concept, slick 80s Minneapolis synth-funk grooves, real drums, spaced reggae and a dose of strong ambient trance-like vocalization and what do you get? A Plasmatic Brain Spasm.
This self-described multi-gendered rock/funk quintet does all of the above and then some on its self-titled debut CD. Axeman Ryan Branstner carves up some of the most shredded eargasm guitar rantings this side of Buckethead. He’s going for some incredible tones here, and oh yea, his unmistakable chops are oft turned waaaay up in the colorful, thick mélange of sounds thru 10 tracks that seamlessly segueway into one another.
Shawn Bachinski’s bubbling Bootsyesque bass thumping and Aaron Bellamy’s hard pounding skins to complete the searing rhythm section. Don’t know who is doing most of the synth effects but they are on the one. And then those funky, swangy vocals. Anna Marie (Pepper) Engstrom and Erica (Red) Shepard’s voices sound like they are lifted right off of an old Brides of Funkenstein album. Not satisfied by being simply funky, Plasmatic Brain Spasm has somn to say as well. Singing about stuff like the Illuminati and other zeep subject matter like "Asteroids & Jellybeans", lol. "Dancefloor Virus" is just a wicked, heavy, funky, polyrhythmic groove. And although I could use that description for all the tracks (ain’t no filler no where), each song truly has a personality of its own.
At times the band just builds up this full head of steam only to melt the groove down into a smoldering cauldron of sound, and then they come out of it right back on the one. It’s some rocked out funk all right. Whoever that is rapping over the blistering groove of "Squarewave Sucker" got his chops strait from Chuck D. The set closes with the jazzy, mid-tempo dreamy funk of "Supersize Afternoon". This is just another outstanding effort from some great musicians raised up at the foot of the Pee. And it goes into heavy rotation in my player. The future of funk music is now!!
Posted by: Ira Engstrom at April 7, 2005 04:37 PMReviewed For TheFunkStore.com..By
Funk Journalist&Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Compiled For TheFunkStore.com..By:Tylard Tatt II