'Watchtower (Rap Cover)' recorded on what would have been Jimi Hendrix's 70th birthday. A tribute to a true music legend.

Plecdrum.Inc's forthcoming album 'Jangled Nerves' coming this summer 2014

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Watchtower (Rap Cover)

Wain Higgins here from Northern California. Most of our music is in the category Playlist at the top. Then there's more if you dig for it. May your day find time for kindness to others and music to dance to. Build Compassion, not walls.

Thank you for taking the time to visit. All tracks here recorded live either studio or rough from front of house at gigs. This is a selection of some of the musical experiments I have led or been involved in over the past while. I am still playing and writing whilst learning how to play the instruments. I am always up for creative collaboration in music poetry and art generally.

Plecdrum.Inc are a five piece HipRock Band from Sunderland, representing the North East. They use an eclectic amalgamation of various styles, influences and genres using life's experience to insert creativity and imagination.

Biography...

Thanks to an ambitious coupling of searingly-honest song-writing with a visceral blend of Hip-hop, Rock, Dub-Step and Drum-n-Bass, Sunderland 5-piece Plecdrum.Inc are undoubtedly one of the north-easts freshest up-and-coming acts.

Founder members Adam Penman (rapper) and Lloyd Joyce (vocals and guitar) met on the 1st January 2012 at a New Years Eve party - “we started jamming along and Adam started rapping over my guitar, I think it was Stan by Eminem, and it worked, so we started to meet up more and more often, started writing our own songs, and we thought “this sounds great” so we headed over to Broadwater studios to record a few tracks and went from there” recounts Lloyd.

In October 2012, the duo released Love Monster, a desperately dark tale of a femme-fatale and her victim. The single proved an immediate hit on Youtube, racking up over 14,000 views and garnered considerable anticipation for their next single; Oh My Days. More songs and live shows followed with the band playing support slots at The Stadium of Light and Newcastle's O2 academy.

Over the course of 2014, Adam and Lloyd decided they needed to raise Plecdrum.Inc's game - “I thought imagine how much better it would be if we had something extra behind the guitar, some beats, some bass” said Lloyd in a recent interview. Thus Graeme Short (Bassist), Ben Walker (Beat-boxer / percussion) and Lauren Douglas (Vocals) were incorporated, rounding-out an already ambitious set-up.

To accompany the release of their self-released, debut-album; Jangled Nerves in July 2015, the band are hitting the road, starting out with another slot at Newcastle's O2 academy. Their recently written track It's our time is emblematic of the current spike in their career trajectory.

Greetings from Hamburg; Germany ... der Tobi

Grussli was born Norman Lizurek in Nuremberg in 1971 and lives with his wife and three children in Erlangen. As a teenager, he played with his first band "Lighthouse" in the school band of his high school. At the beginning of his studies in business administration, he bought his first synthesizer, a DX-7, which he used together with a Yamaha MU-80 tone generator and Cubase as a sequencer. After a long musical break, he started working with Ableton Live in mid-2022. Once a week he takes lessons with certified Ableton trainer Nils Hoffmann and since then has regularly released tracks in various genres. His main instruments are an electric piano and Ableton's Push midi controller. For Grussli, the fun of music and the positive effect of music are absolutely in the foreground.