Machine Love   -  Profile

Artist/Band Profile: Machine Love is a down-tempo electronica band from San Francisco. Their music has been described as ambient groove, sexy chill-out, and electronica soul. The Machine Love signature sound combines loops, samples, turntables, and a laptop with live electric guitar, keyboards, and vocals to create an atmosphere that you can either ease back and get into or get up and groove with.

Machine Love's influences include psychedelic, lounge, jazz, funk, and rock artists such as Fila Brazilia, Visit Venus, Air, Pink Floyd, Cocteau Twins, Herbie Hancock, Porcupine Tree, and Miles Davis. Here's what one reviewer had to say:

"...their imagination seems to know no bounds... they have a fantastic collection of ambient music...and every one is a gem of a production and flowing with creative ideas... I think these guy's are amazing writers of ambient music...." -- X-eption Radio

Similar Artists: Air, Cocteau Twins, Porcupine Tree, Visit Venus

Music Style: Down Tempo, Trip Hop, Space Rock, Progressive Rock, Acid Jazz, Illbient, Acid

Influences: Air, Cocteau Twins, Porcupine Tree, Visit Venus, Chameleons, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Beatles, Hendrix, Pink Floyd

Studio / Music Equipment: Laptops, Turntables, Guitars, Keyboards, Sound Modules, Virtual Synthesizers, Rhythm Production Machines, Samplers & Groove Boxes, Sequencers, Analog Synth Emulators, Videotapes, Vocalists and a Cat