The Drumkit Meme

The other day I chatted through Skype with a few long-time friends and one of them, former bandmember now playing drums in a band called Ethereal Genocide, brought up that he was getting new cymbals, hihats and whatnot. He showed us a cool little program in the Sabian website that allows you to build your own drumkit, making things as wild as your imagination. We all three gave it a try and soon it devolved into a 'insane set' contest.

Of course it was gonna get silly anyway, why does the program let you add more than one chair, or as my friend calls it (he's drum-savvy), a ''throne''? So for the kicks, here's a drumkit where one has to spread his/her legs 180 degrees so be able to use both kick drums. Oh, and there's a seat on the other side, in case you get tired:

The Spreader:

My other friend made this rather hilarious literal interpretation of the drumset (don't ask how it's played):

Drumworld:

He was spewing ideas like crazy. He mentioned that it would be funny if this kind of silly crap caught on and became a meme. Although I doubt it ever will, it would be funny. His next idea was priceless:

Mr. Drums:

Feeling left behind, I cheated. Teehee, I did this. Of course, Sabian will never make a 4 feet hat like this... or maybe if you call them gay, they'll push up the ante. ''No we're not gay! Fine we'll do it!''

Uh, a Satellite Dish:

My now rival-in-drumkits came up with the temple of drums. He told me that it's no longer an aerial-view design, it's seen frontally (note: there aren't actual drums there but still):

Temple of Drums:

This will of course not catch on, but I asked my buddies what a 'snat' was... and then surprised them with this stupidity:

Yeah... ooh yeah:

Added features, a throne that covers both asscheeks for extra large people and a massive trigger pad that plays like a billion samples. I like the snats though, cutting a drum and a hat in half and glueing them together...

Sxip, you rock socks all over the world!

Sxip (pronounced 'skip') is a multi-instrumentalist genius who makes his own instruments out of stuff. He appeared in the goddarn weird but funny Insane Yeti Squirrel comic strip a while back.

At first it seemed like another crazy guy who does experimental stuff, but he's one of the few to do so compellingly, methinks.

Beatboxing, guitar playing, and weird sound effects, heck, I wonder, he does them all live yet I wonder how he gets all those sounds. Watching some of his stuff I initially thought he was playing along a backing track of sorts or using special effects!

So, without further ado, I present the one and only Sxip Shirey:

Moon In Her Belly (featuring the amazizing Adam Matta)



Pandora


In a song with Jason Webley (must check him out one day) - Days With You



Few people are able to do all these wildly different things with all kinds of people, have a blast and make awesome stuff... you heard me, Britney Spears- take note.

Now, you might not remember him by his music in that case (maybe by his mad scientist hairdo), but it's kickass music. I loved his new CD, Sonic New York. It sounds as if all the different grooves and melodies of the city that never sleeps had slept together and had a million babies. Truly some kind of thing that's not heard often. A bit Bowie-ish, Zappa-ish with everything in between! Will buy sometime :D