Hometown: Chicago, IL
Label: Turntabling Records
Website: www.paisleybabylon.net
Sounds Like: Coil, Brian Eno/John Cale, Nurse with Wound, Orbital, Legendary Pink Dots
Genre: Electronica
Paisley Babylon is a Chicago-based electronic act featuring a unique blend of Theremin, vintage analog synths, turntables, and 7 echo machines. Have gear, will travel. Get in touch to play shows with Paisley Babylon, which features a very strange, unsettling, and sometimes very sexy video display as part of the show.
“Chicago cinema-psyche group Paisley Babylon's Joe Wallace is a vinyl junkie, photographer, co-writer of the Hyperbubble songs "Vending Machine" and "Mom Dad Unit", as well as an Italian horror film fanatic. When we asked him for an Italo-ambient version of Teddy Bear Crime Wave that was a mix of Golem and Ennio Morricone, he said, "No problemo, bubbles".
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Jeff DeCuir/Hyperbubble - MySpace
“Arresting, compelling, creepy... Ambient trippy sample-laden psychedelia. If Funki Porcini is like 'shrooming, then Paisley Babylon is like spending several hours in a flotation tank after ingesting a couple of hash brownies.”
Erupture Magazine
"Warped, trance-inducing sounds..."
Bryan Stanchak - Uncle Buzz Records
“Texas is producing some of the best experimental work in the United States, which greatly shows in the release by Joe Wallace of Paisley Babylon on The Alpha Wave Variations...more strange sounds produced here that I haven't heard elsewhere...”
Kim Alexander - Last Sigh Magazine
"Straightforward electronic music with goth tinges to improvisational
ambient experiments."
Looper's Delight