Jungle Monsta
A combination of electronica, progressive, world music, and rock influences. Trying a mashup of styles to see what can be created. I started this thing back when I discovered I could share music on Soundclick years ago. FYI the name has been changed a few times as Ive found the various names of the band avatar taken by someone. Going with Jungle Monsta after one of the songs for now.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
This music production started out as Mband a number years ago. After a couple years a number of other "Mband s" came out on the internet, so the name was changed to Ezy Axis in 2016 in honor of the original Easy Access band circa 1987. But I've since noticed that name was taken last year by a sporting goods company so now I've changed the name again to the name of one of my earlier songs, Jungle Monsta. The project is concerned with experiments in the electronica areas to see if some interesting mashups can be thought up to produce some new styles. Lofty goals, we'll see if they are achievable. The project has a main member (Jim) and some occasional contributors for samples, studio work, etc.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I have, but not recently. My most memorable gig was way back in 1982 or so where played an original punk/new wave band at the Lit Club in Hartford CT. The name of the band at the time was AKM.
Your musical influences
Jazz, Blues, Drum & Bass, Trance, Funk, Rock, Hip Hop, Reggae, Dub.
What equipment do you use?
Gibson SG, Fender Blues Junior, Reason, Recycle, CubeBase LE, Fender Squire Telecaster, Charvel Jackson, Fender Jazz Bass, R Molnar Custom Mr Sparkle Pedal, Classic Guitar Pedals, Fender Bassman head, Ibanez bass cab, Roland Bass Amp, Korg microkorg, Traktor 3, Behringer BCD 3000, Dynamic Mics: Shure SM-57, 58, Condensor Mics: MXL v67G, Studio Project C1. Ribbon Mics: Nady RSM-3, RSM-2, Preamps: Art Tube MP, Studio Projects VTB 1. Compressor: Presonus comp16. EMU 0202 interface. Used Korg d1200mkII on earlier recordings.
Anything else?
Check out some remixes here: MBand at CCMixter also lots of good cc remixes by lots of artists such as J. Lang, tkdsky, shagrugge, plurgid.
