BOC & Tonto's Expanding Head Band?
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- TontoExpands
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BOC & Tonto's Expanding Head Band?
Anyone have any suggestions of other artists with some 70's synths and creepiness to it? Tonto's Expanding Head Band put out some early 70s stuff, which sounded ahead of it's time, but I'd like to find more that expands (pardon the pun) on their sound and adds some later 70's synth influence, sort of like the background music to this old tv show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-in6pIkUII
I don't really care for Krautrock and it's not easy to find stuff that sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mhOmPHHjc
Lastly, I know BOC have cited Incredible String Band as an influence, but they sound a lot more like Tonto's Expanding Head Band than the Incredible Strings. Has anyone heard any interviews where BOC mention Tonto?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-in6pIkUII
I don't really care for Krautrock and it's not easy to find stuff that sounds like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4mhOmPHHjc
Lastly, I know BOC have cited Incredible String Band as an influence, but they sound a lot more like Tonto's Expanding Head Band than the Incredible Strings. Has anyone heard any interviews where BOC mention Tonto?
- Distant Nebulus
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Re: BOC & Tonto's Expanding Head Band?
TontoExpands wrote:Anyone have any suggestions of other artists with some 70's synths and creepiness to it? Tonto's Expanding Head Band put out some early 70s stuff, which sounded ahead of it's time, but I'd like to find more that expands (pardon the pun) on their sound and adds some later 70's synth influence, sort of like the background music to this old tv show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-in6pIkUII
Really nice! Bibio seems to know about that intro
His song Vertical Helical Stan on that album sounds quite similar as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qum3UQ6yVpY
(couldn't find the whole song, but this video uses a part of it)
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As Distant Nebulus already said, TEHB have worked with Stevie Wonder quite a bit and BoC are big Stevie fans. They're on 6 of his albums (3 of his best imo: Music of My Mind, Talking Book & Innervisions) so I'd imagine BoC are into their stuff. I got to see TEHB (well, Virtual TONTO) live a few years back. Their set opened with a a short documentary about their work with Stevie talking about them and some studio clips. Great stuff.
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Re: BOC & Tonto's Expanding Head Band?
Scyye wrote:TontoExpands wrote:Anyone have any suggestions of other artists with some 70's synths and creepiness to it? Tonto's Expanding Head Band put out some early 70s stuff, which sounded ahead of it's time, but I'd like to find more that expands (pardon the pun) on their sound and adds some later 70's synth influence, sort of like the background music to this old tv show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-in6pIkUII
Really nice! Bibio seems to know about that intro![]()
His song Vertical Helical Stan on that album sounds quite similar as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qum3UQ6yVpY
(couldn't find the whole song, but this video uses a part of it)
Bibio actually sampled this bit, but I forget for which song. Pretentious maybe?
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