Artist description King Rat cuts varied influences, including classical, seventies rock, trip hop, and early new wave and pastes them into a psychic/electronic film sountrack. Using traditional rock stylings and both vintage and modern equipment - along with a modern sensibility and approach to music composition, King Rat attempts to bring something unique to "Electronica". Fuzz pedals and vintage synth tones, old records and modern sequencing, drum machines and electric guitars, all lend support in creating a sophisticated narrative of bright euphoria, dark mystery, grit, groove, and melancholy. The latest album "Spiked Punch & Bedtime Stories" is avilable in its entirety on IUMA and will be soon here at MP3.com and UBL.com.

Music Style Electronic Rock

Musical Influences 60's and 70's rock, trip hop, punk and metal, 20's and 30's jazz, classical, 60's and 70's TV and Film music, funk, alternative and 70's glam.

Similar Artists Air, Pink Floyd, Fatboy Slim, early synth-pop, rock, trip-hop.

Artist History Beginning his electronic rock journey in 1995 as The Race of Rats, later morphing into the Ratman in 1998, KING RAT now takes the throne with his first full length release, "Spiked Punch & Bedtime Stories".

Group Members David Weiner has been playing music since the age of fifteen. He has played and sung covers, heavy metal, "grunge", punk, psychedelia, "prog", country, pseudo-jazz, experimental, and straight-up rock and roll. He currently plays in two groups - The Schoolbus Bullies and Toddy - as well as recording his own music.

Instruments An iMac computer, a couple of pawn shop guitars, some fuzz pedals, a Roland D-50 synth, an Alesis Nanosynth, a 50 watt Music Man 110 RD amplifier, a Roland Organ/Strings 09 synth, a Korg UNIVOX SR-120 drum machine, and Cubase 3.52 VST.

Albums Spiked Punch and Bedtime Stories

Press Reviews "Breakbeats lead into piercing guitar lines reminiscent of Lenny Kravitz or any number of '60s icons, while the King himself (Rat, that is) leads the whole operation with some provocative grunts. Other tunes take a mellower approach with down-tempo strings-and-guitar grooves."-LISTEN.COM

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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