Maurizio Bianchi, Test Dept., Der Blutharsch, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Irr. App. Ext., Prurient, Infernal Noise Brigade, T'chkung!, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Sunno))), Slicing Grandpa, Khanate, Throbbing Gristle, At Jenny Richie, Filastine, Whitehouse, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Asva, Climax Golden Twins, Sublime Frequencies, Sun City Girls, Black Sun, Door 64, Coil, Gruntsplatter, Taint, Turmoil, Nattefrost, Haemoth, Drop Dead, Extreme Noise Terror, Black Noise Cannon, Wolf Eyes, C.C.C.C., Aube, Merzbow, Ghost, Acid Mothers, Caroliner, Borbetomagus, Sutcliffe Jugend, Brighter Death Now, Bloodhag, Pho Bang, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Brutal SFX, Hototugisu, Double Leopards, The Coup, Dead Prez, Dred-I, Paris, Evan Parker, John Cage, Leviathan, Xasthur, Crawl Unit, Earth, Bastard Noise, Smegma, Dead Voices On Air, Muslimgauze, Vybz Kartel, Ms. Thing, Nocturnal Emissions, Swans/Michael Gira/Angels Of Light, Psychic TV, Autechre, Pain Jerk, Micose and the Mau Mau's, Spider Compass Good Crime Band, Broken Human Machine, Sudden Infant, Broken Penis Orchestra, Crash Worship, Albert Ayler, Negativland, Plunderphonics, People Like Us, Abattoir Kitschen, Patented Applicator, Miami Crack Machine, Rubber O Cement, Lashtal, L.A.Y.L.A.H., Korpses Katatonik, Sleep Chamber, Bunkur, Solid Eye, Death In June, Coltrane, Boris, Conflict, SPK, Pain Teens, Harry Partch, Carpathian Forest, Asunder, Tractor Sex Fatality, Die Todliche Doris, Sigillium S.
surrealism, utopian socialism, romanticism, Marx, Kristeva, Trickster, mythology, alchemy and ritual, noise, punk, industrial, janglepop, modern composition, electro, hip hop, post colonial independence movements, anti imperialism, the ultimate defeat of the WTO and the corporate state, protesting clowns, street actions, Harry Smith and the Lomaxes, field recordists such as Rob Millis and Alan Bishop, oddball music in obscure packaging, Independent Project Records and Press, Our beautiful wives, the sound of one hand clapping while a tree falls in the woods, beer, mys's, Gerald Vizenor, anything drenched in reverb........dub, subversiveness in all its forms. As for musical influences well.....shit. I personally don't like citing influences as I am much more in the habit of shooting for a sound and failing misearably. It has become a cliche but you know how they become cliches, becouse they are true but if you want to know what Sparkle Girl or at least half loves to listen to: Televisions playing but in rooms other from my own the many varied sounds from the chefs rack my wife humming letting me hear brief heartrending moments of her opera past singing in the shower, Nurse with Wound, Double Leopards, Wolf Eyes, Dead Machines, those lovely freaks in Skozey Fetisch (Sparkle Girl is buying the catalog), Infernal Noise Brigade, Climax Golden Twins, Sublime Frequencies (just buy everything, you won't regret it!), Sun City Girls (stop worrying about which one, just pick one!), Monster Defiance Headquarters R.I.P., Ffej, Monktail/Non Grata and whatever permutations develop, irr.app.(ext.) (M. Waldron will inspire on multiple levels, trust us!), New Blockaders, the Pigeons, Sea Donkeys, Savage Republic, 17 Pygmies, Fourwaycross, Human Hands, Red Temple Spirits, Drowning Pool (NO NOT THE NEW ONE THAT SUCKS, the COOL one that became Mumbles, For Against, At Jennie Richie (and not just cause we know her/him/it/what?), Tarentel, Lumen, anything on tUMULt Records (really, it's all freakin good), Zeitgeist (but mainly for just for "Wait For Time" it rocks so heavy and lovely), Freur, The Screamers, Clan of Xymox (early), Swans, And Siamese Urbain, Toys Don't Hate, Burning Giraffe, Light in August, Fela Kuti, Blo, belfegore, Xasthur, ABBA, Merzbow, Abatoir Kitschen, Candy Soul Rebellion, Tom Violence, Peking Spring, Crack Babies, Life After Lunch, Talk Talk (synth pop AND glacier jazz phases), Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, SUNN O))), Hair Police, Matthew Bower/Total/Hotogisu (reviews a comin on that 2xcd reissue), BORIS, the Zombies, The Byrds, Husker Du, the Posies, Cerberus Shoal, Earth, The Dead C, Zoviet France, Withdrawl Method, Photon Ghoul, MV & EE Medicine Show, Slicing Grandpa, SCARD, Dialing In, Black Boned Angel, Birchville Cat Motel, Die Kruezen, The Chameleons, This Heat, Felt, Cocteau Twins, I Sing the Hollow Body Electric, NA, Bill Horist, Sir Richard Bishop, Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Konono No1, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Thin Lizzy, Love, Dalek, Runny, Blind Dream, Cult With No Name, and oh so many more......
Power electronics, free jazz, psychedelia, Anthony Giddens, Bob Black, Anarchism, cassette culture, lo-lo-lo fi home recordings of a challenging and difficult nature, Nature, ethnography, Literary interpretation, street theatre, pranks, circus, carnival, masquerade, industrial music, seattle avant garde sound groups, seattle street art culture (stickers, flyers, graffitti), zines, mel lyman, japanese noise, cats, critical race theory, Native American Indian literature, alys Weinbaum, black metal, Angela Davis, surrealism, dada, art brut, Michael Hardt, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., V.Y. Mudimbe, field recording, archiving local resistant culture, Vinyl records, gift economies, punk, dark ambient, feminist theory, profanity, L'encephale, occultism, Robert Anton Wilson, Asymptotic functions, African poetry, distortion, feedback, and drones, doooooooooommmmmmm, gospel, infernal noise brigade, the seattle freak walk, zombiewalkers and pirate paraders, critical mass, confetti, Alfred Kroeber, Lewis Hyde, Psychick youth, New Blockaders, Organum, SPK, sociology, aktionism, situationism, H.L. Mencken and Bottle Caps candy.