Eric Laschinski

Bio:

E LaschBro, E LaschBro 2, Eric Laschinski grew up in Palatine, Illinois (a northwest suburb of Chicago) and was more of a visual artist until his 30s, but was very into music as a teenager and initiated an influence on his two brothers in the 1970's by taking a liking to Brian Eno's work and to New Wave. Within the same time period (1979-) his brothers, Mark and Paul, began buying more Punk and New Wave albums and singles from bands like Bauhaus and Joy Division, which Eric immediately loved. Eric has always been more of a "noise-maker" and liked bands like King Crimson prior to that time. His best friend, who he met in high school, Kris Piepenburg, introduced him to the German groups, Can and Kraftwerk, and is also a founding member of the former noise band, Non-Sequitur. Non-Sequitur was peopled in many forms, (Kurt and Kris Piepenburg, David Sommerfeld, and the rest [sorry]) and carried a much more Industrial influence for the most part, beginning around 1979, until its demise in the mid-1990s. Eric helped move equipment and projected silde shows, with self-drawn/painted slides, shown on the clothing of the performers of Non-Sequitur during performances in the late 1980s. After having played in a live performance with Non-Sequitur at the radio station at Northeastern Illinois University, WZRD, in 1992, Eric began to see the potential to piece together his own recording method through inexpensive items. Having no formal musical training, Eric began to experiment with cassette tapes by speeding them up, slowing them down, tape looping and layering sounds when recording. He bought two karaoke machines and patched the mini-plugs into the RCA plugs on his stereo cassette recorder for a final mix-down track. By using a Walkman, he split the sound source from mini out to split quarter inch patches into the karaoke machines for a mono track. Since the karaoke machines were also double cassette players, plus could have live microphones available in final mix-down, stereo tracks were also introduced, making for a wobbly multi-track recording experience, since the machines never ran at the same rate twice. Still, through this technique, unexpected results emerged, leading to more experimentation and refinement during the early to mid 1990s. During this time, Eric and Mark made several recordings using this recording method, (while drunk). By 1997, Eric had begun to purchase more sophisticated recording equipment, (a four-track cassette recording deck, for instance, and a drum machine soon afterwards) in effect, no more karaoke rigged recordings. Both he and his brother, Paul, lived in Chicago at this time and several years of (drunken) collaboration took place between 1997- 2000 in particular. After losing contact with his brothers shortly thereafter, as Mark and Paul moved away from the Chicago area, he continued to experiment and produce music on his own and with occasional samples and recordings taken from his brothers when visiting them. Unfortunately, this has been how things have had to continue to proceed for the most part, either because of separation due to distance or due to occupation. That is not to say that LaschBros' music isn't alive and well, because it IS! Eric has been involved with performances besides his ongoing work with the LaschBros' in recent years with his affiliation with the multi-arts performance group, Phoenix Worm. He has composed pieces for Phoenix Worm performances in 2003 and 2007 and performed along with friends: inventor/musician, Doug Jones (Jones MFG) and long time friend, former band-mate and percussionist, Kris Piepenburg, along with former co-workers from Columbia College Chicago, including: choreographer, Debra Levasseur-Lottman, poet/bass player, Luis H. Valadez, poet/performance artist, Steven Teref, Poet, Nicholas Ravnikar, Poet, David Arenas, among others. May the sounds of all sorts seek the senses of those among the masses who hear imagination. -Eric S. Laschinski 2007... ..

Member Since:

June 21, 2008

Members:

Eric Laschinski, David Arenas

Influences:

My musical interests, and influences on my music range from Psychedelic, primarily the 13th Floor Elevators, to anything weird and scary, like Screaming Lord Sutch or Roky Erickson, Goth, Surf, Black Metal, Glam, Garage, Punk/New Wave, Post-Punk... I like both noisy and quiet music, such as Progressive, King Crimson/ Robert Fripp, Yes, to Experimental and Ambient, CAN, Negativeland, NEU!, Steve Fisk, Faust, Cluster & Eno, Tangerine Dream, Aphex Twin, Fripp & Eno, Brian Eno. Other bands I like: David Bowie, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, Tones On Tail, Love & Rockets, Joy Division, The Doors, Pixies, The Cramps, Wire, Devo, Dead Kennedys, The Damned, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Japan, David Sylvian, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Iggy Pop, Killing Joke, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, The Music Machine, Ben Miller, Magazine, Loop, Farmers/Slink Moss, The Fall, Velvet Underground, Gang of Four, Guided By Voices, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Melvins, Meat Puppets, The Who, Kraftwerk, X-Mal Deutschland, Stranglers, Sonic Youth, The Birthday Party/Nick Cave, Replacements, Olivia Tremor Control, Non-Sequitur, Phoenix Worm, Sisters Of Mercy, Beatles, John Lennon, George Harrison, Neil Young, Echo & The Bunnymen, My Bloody Valentine, (early) The Wonder Stuff, The Mars Volta, Ultravox! (selective) U2 and Cure, (early) Genesis w/ Peter Gabriel & (early) Peter Gabriel. I also like other genres, such as plenty of "oldies" groups of different types: Cream, Blue Cheer, The Red Crayola, The Animals, The Byrds, The Seeds, CCR, MC5... many bands from 1950s-70s. I like some Country, spicifically, Rockabilly, (not modern country) Classical, perhaps others, but I'm selective.

Sounds Like:

Weird, loopy stuff.

Record Label:

Unsigned