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Laika (band)

Index Laika (band)

Laika is a British band founded in 1993 by Margaret Fiedler and John Frenett, both formerly of Moonshake, and producer and engineer Guy Fixsen. [1]

57 relations: Analog signal, Audio engineer, Barnsbury, Bass guitar, BBC, Bono, Britpop, Bruce Gilbert, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale – Music from the TV Series, Candle, Cello, Cookbook, Downtempo, Drum and bass, Drum kit, Dub music, Electronic music, Electronica, Flute, Good Looking Blues, Guitar, Guy Fixsen, HIV/AIDS, John Frenett, Krautrock, Laika, Lou Ciccotelli, Margaret Fiedler McGinnis, Mercury Prize, Moonshake, My Bloody Valentine (band), North London, Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip, Percussion instrument, PJ Harvey, Polyrhythm, Post-rock, Radiohead, Record producer, Red Hot Organization, Rhythm guitar, Rob Ellis (producer), Sampling (music), Saxophone, Silver Apples of the Moon (Laika album), Singing, SLAB!, Songwriter, Sounds of the Satellites, Splean, ..., Stereolab, Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, The Breeders, The Young Gods, Too Pure, Trip hop, Wire (band). Expand index (7 more) »

Analog signal

An analog signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature (variable) of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Barnsbury

Barnsbury is an area of north London in the London Borough of Islington, in the N1 postal district.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bono

Paul David Hewson, KBE OL (born 10 May 1960), known by his stage name Bono, is an Irish singer-songwriter, musician, venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Bruce Gilbert

Bruce Clifford Gilbert (born 18 May 1946) is an English musician.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale – Music from the TV Series

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Radio Sunnydale – Music from the TV Series is the second Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack album, following on from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Album.

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Candle

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Cookbook

A cookbook or cookery book is a kitchen reference containing recipes.

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Downtempo

Downtempo (sometimes used synonymously with "trip hop") is a genre of electronic music similar to ambient music, but with a greater emphasis on beats and a less "earthy" sound than trip hop.

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Drum and bass

Drum and bass (also written as "drum 'n' bass" or "drum & bass"; commonly abbreviated as "D&B", "DnB" or "D'n'B"), is a genre and branch of electronic music which emerged from rave and jungle scenes in Britain during the early 1990s.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Good Looking Blues

Good Looking Blues is the third studio album by British band Laika.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Guy Fixsen

Guy Fixsen (born 1968, Bath, Somerset, England) is a producer/engineer/musician based in London.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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John Frenett

John Frenett is an English bassist, best known for his slippery dub-style playing in the bands Moonshake and Laika in the 1990s.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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Laika

Laika (Лайка; c. 1954 – 3 November 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth.

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Lou Ciccotelli

Lou Ciccotelli is an English musician who served as a drummer for multiple bands, including God, Ice and Laika.

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Margaret Fiedler McGinnis

Margaret Fiedler McGinnis is a London-based American vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and noted guitarist.

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Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album released in the United Kingdom by a British or Irish act.

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Moonshake

Moonshake was a UK-based experimental rock/post-rock band existing between 1991 and 1997.

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My Bloody Valentine (band)

My Bloody Valentine are a rock band formed in Dublin in 1983.

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North London

North London is the northern part of London, England.

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Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip

Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip is a compilation album from the Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series produced by Paul Heck.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969) known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Red Hot Organization

Red Hot Organization (RHO) is a not-for-profit, 501(c) 3, international organization dedicated to fighting AIDS through pop culture.

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Rhythm guitar

In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drumkit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a chord is a group of notes played together.

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Rob Ellis (producer)

Robert Damian Ellis (born 13 February 1962, in Bristol, England) is a producer, arranger, instrumentalist and composer.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Silver Apples of the Moon (Laika album)

Silver Apples of the Moon is the debut studio album by British band Laika.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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SLAB!

SLAB! are an industrial music/alternative rock band initially active between the mid-1980s and early 1990s.

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Songwriter

A songwriter is a professional who is paid to write lyrics for singers and melodies for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music.

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Sounds of the Satellites

Sound of the Satellites is the second studio album by British band Laika.

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Splean

Splean (Сплин) is a popular Russian rock band.

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Stereolab

Stereolab were an English-French avant-pop band from London, formed in 1990 by Tim Gane (guitar/keyboards) and Lætitia Sadier (vocals/keyboards/guitar) who both remained at the songwriting helm across many line-up changes.

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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is the fifth studio album by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, released on 23 October 2000 by Island Records.

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The Breeders

The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1989 by Kim Deal of Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses.

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The Young Gods

The Young Gods are a Swiss industrial rock band from Fribourg.

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Too Pure

Too Pure is a London-based independent record label formed in 1990 by Richard Roberts and Paul Cox.

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Trip hop

Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol.

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Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar) and Robert Gotobed (drums).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika_(band)

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