My preferred musical genre is somewhere between punk rock and slightly strangely-tinged indie. Bands like Brand New, Rancid and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are the most inspiring for me, but a problem arises for me trying to emulate their styles: I can't play guitar. So many punk rock bands use keys solely as embellishments on the melody - background noise like organs or strings. Could anyone recommend any groups or songs that you think would pique my interest - so many other rock bands with synths are geared towards the industrial side of things which also doesn't quite do it for me
One trick I've found for just beefing up beeps and blips is using a fuzzbox with my machines - any other tricks out there for making good solid sounds? I'm most skilled with programming my microkorg and anything remotely agressive that comes out of it ends up a half-arsed detuned sawtooth like on any eurotrance song you'd care to name... Other equipment includes an electric organ, various circuit bent gadgets, a Casio CZ1000, kaoss pad and MPC2000.
Cheers!
