The Total Camble Experience
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"Hungry Hearts, Oh No Thedore, Total Camble Experience @ Gus' Pub July 25th 2010"

I've never been much for instrumental bands. It's not that I don't appreciate the musicianship in music, it's that I prefer a collective mixing vocals with the instrumentation. I've never been able to fully connect with orchestral music for this reason. If, in advance, I'm aware a band is void of lyrics and relies solely on the music I am apprehensive and I don't tend to listen to bands without vocals anyway. I'm a lyrical guy and enjoy stories to be woven through music and without lyrics, how can this happen?

The Total Camble Experience surprised me. With a sound stemming from electronic-rock with elements of mid-90s, the band played a highly energetic show full of intense sound and dance-able beats. It had the air of nostalgia, hearkening to bands and sounds from my youth in an abstract way, no covers but it felt familiar and not in the "oh, this has been done before" way. Some guitar riffs reminded me of Sunny Day Real Estate's album Diary with its heavy, fast chords. Beyond that, The Total Camble Experience sounded like they were writing a soundtrack to an epic video game that has not yet been released; fitting, considering the guitarist was wearing a Mega Man t-shirt. They're in the same vein as Halifax's Nerd Army only they aren't covering ready-made video game soundtracks.

In this sense, The Total Camble Experience was able to stream a loose narrative without someone actively telling the story with words. When instrumental rock music works best is when it forces the audience to come up with the images in their own minds that they associate with the show; it becomes a pseudo-collaborative effort. The Total Camble Experience gets into its audience's head and it becomes a unique experience for each individual because, like most art, interpretation will never be the same for two different people. This band is a well-oiled machine that obviously loves the music it plays and this showmanship they demonstrate, the fact that the members of the band clearly believe in their music makes the experience that much more intimate.

While lyrics and prose in song will always be my go to, it would potentially hurt a band like The Total Camble Experience. I say potentially because there's no way to know unless they start to include it. But the spacey, techno-rock they produce is created smoothly and comfortably on stage that vocals are forgotten after the first couple songs when the audience slips into their own comfort zone with the show. I'm still not sure how well it would work for me on a set of headphones but The Total Camble Experience have at least given me reason to give it a shot. - Noiseography


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If The Total Camble Experience was an audio book they'd be a choose your own adventure with an attitude. It would only work in fast-forward with the volume turned way up and as the page flips you'd never know what you'll get next.

An eclectic mix of slow funk and fast punk, the Total Camble Experience is a progressive electro-rock movement with no vox but a lot to say. Five guys incorporating everything from guitars, drums, synths, noise machines and yes, even the new ipad, TTCE create a rolling soundscape that teeters on tension and release. Aimed at punching you squarely in the back of the neck when you're most emotionally vulnerable this is a ride that will take you way up and bring you straight back down in an instant, and rarely will it slow down to let you catch your breath.

A sound stemming from electronic-rock with elements of mid-90s and full of intense sound and dance-able beats, The Total Camble Experience have the air of nostalgia, hearkening to bands and sounds from your youth in an abstract way; no covers but it feels familiar. And not in the "oh, this has been done before" way. No, The Total Camble Experience sound more like they are writing a soundtrack to an epic video game that has not yet been released.

Fast, furious and has its own touch of groove... this might just be the closest thing you can get to having sex with an explosion... and strangely enough its all going to feel good!