Parody prog band - The Astral Platypus
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Topic: Parody prog band - The Astral Platypus
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Subject: Parody prog band - The Astral Platypus
Date Posted: November 30 2017 at 17:21
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La Resistencia Progresiva Argentina, a group of prog bands from Buenos Aires, released last week their first collective artistic projecto: The Astral Platypus, a parody prog band that "has been releasing albums since the '60, each following the sound of it's era", accompanied by a miniseries telling the story of the band. Episode 1 (spanish with english subtitles): With the first episode they released the first two albums of the bands discography: - La Marcha del Ornitorrinco Astral (1969), a parody to the fundational albums of the prog genre such as In the court... or The Yes Album https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/la-marcha-del-ornitorrinco-astral-1969" rel="nofollow - https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/la-marcha-del-ornitorrinco-astral-1969 - LSD (1967), a psychedelic proto prog album led by the tragic genious of Supernova. https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/last-sunday-dawn-1967" rel="nofollow - https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/last-sunday-dawn-1967 La Resistencia Progresiva Argentina are the organizers of Baires Prog Fest, one of Argentina's biggest prog festivals (it had 7 editions since 2016) and the 7/4 Awards to Argentine Prog, which gave Bubu the "Prog God" award in it's first edition in 2016 and will give El Reloj the same award this year. Kjjjjjjjjjj won Argentine Prog album of 2016. https://www.facebook.com/resistenciaprogresiva/" rel="nofollow - https://www.facebook.com/resistenciaprogresiva/ |
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: November 30 2017 at 23:39
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Anderson Anderson is crazy funny  ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 05:59
| Good thing to know, and worth checking out. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 06:29
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I’ve listened to the “1967” album. It’s good and the low quality of the sound is mimic of that age. It should have a place on PA ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: December 01 2017 at 15:12
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Episode 2 (Supernova is God) was just released! =D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5xlrtdODw&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5xlrtdODw&feature=youtu.be |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 03 2017 at 03:32
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Of course this band deserves a place on PA is fake-proto a subgenre ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 04 2017 at 06:56
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This project is great. I can't wait for the third episode and the albums from the 70s ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 09:05
  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ... ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: December 05 2017 at 23:24
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Long live Brian Pern! ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: December 06 2017 at 04:37
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This kicks the snot out of Brian Pern. Excellently done. Just a shame about the Spanish thing, will keep a lot of people at bay. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: Anesthetized
Date Posted: December 07 2017 at 15:43
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The Astral Platypus are great! It was crazy when news of this project started to appear on argentine prog media: the big blogs and radio shows (Cabeza de Mood, El Retorno del Gigante, Gigantes Gentiles, Los Especiales del Guardián de los Cielos, Mellotron, etc) started reposting a post about a band that was "deleted from the internet over a dispute with their record company". The actual post, made by la Resistencia Progresiva Argentina, was hilarious. Robert Lynch (bass player of the Astral Platypus) accused Edipus Records (now called Edipus Tampons, after leaving the music business un the 90's) of censorship, and denounced that it was a conspiracy against art itself, in an attempt to keep the population stupid in order to keep selling idiotic songs aboyt getting laid and big butts. Obviously the prog media was in on the joke but a lot of people on the comment sections didn't catch it and they thought it was real. To make things better La Resistencia Progresiva set up a fake Robert Lynch youtube account, where songs from different eras of the Platypus' discography started appearing. The first one was a prog number called Despertar, with fake vinyil sounds added. But shortly after songs from the psychedelic '60s or even the poppy '80s started popping out. The comment sections went insane, all in awe of the music of this "forbidden" band. Some even put it in the level of Crucis (!!!!). But the madness raised one level when all this songs dissapeared the next day, "taken down by Edipus Records for copyright enfringment". New songs replaced the older ones, but they continued to dissapear 24 hours after being posted. Prog media started intreviewing the members of the Astral Platypus (interviews so bizarre it was impossible they were true) And this game continued for a month, until la Resistencia Progresiva Argentina announces the fake documentary and revealed the truth. If any of you want I can look and translate some of this interviews, they are wonderful. |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: December 08 2017 at 15:20
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Episode 3 (the season finale) was just released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKL9KuyG4rM&feature=youtu.be |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 08 2017 at 16:03
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It's great and your songs are also good. Well done Rodrigo! ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: December 08 2017 at 17:11
| Thanks! |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: March 29 2018 at 15:37
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Both the first episode of Season 2, and a brand new album parodying Yes' Fragile has just been released =D https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/s-lido-1970" rel="nofollow - https://theastralplatypus.bandcamp.com/album/s-lido-1970 https://youtu.be/KJWlFcahWZM" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/KJWlFcahWZM |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: March 30 2018 at 16:23
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I think the Astral Platypus deserves a page on PA. It's a prog band, it's a project and even if it's a parody it's good music. Crossover? ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: March 30 2018 at 18:32
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We perform live as well ;D |
Posted By: Cag71
Date Posted: July 16 2018 at 05:44
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These albums are great - I look forward to any new releases. |
Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: August 22 2018 at 16:49
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The new album and episode were releasde last week! New album (a Close to the Edge/Tarkus/Foxtrot parody): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmuJtZE1do" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmuJtZE1do New episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWEh1krXc4" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReWEh1krXc4
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 26 2019 at 09:38
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I've just seen the live. I actually missed it. Remake of the 1971 live in Nueva Pompeya..... LOL ------------- Curiosity killed a cat, Schroedinger only half. My poor home recorded stuff at https://yellingxoanon.bandcamp.com |
Posted By: fronobulax
Date Posted: July 09 2019 at 09:40
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Hi all. You NEED to see this!!! There are so many in-jokes that only we would get! These folks have put an incredible amount of work into this project, and although I am reading the subtitles here in Canada, I laughed out loud many times. Every prog convention is spoofed from the Wendy/Walter Carlos thing to Wakeman/Sleepman...too funny. There is a line where a couple characters think they are getting some action until one of the girls puts on a AP album. The guy says something like "I could literally sense the girls' virginity regenerating..." Highly recommended: this is FOR US!!! Scott
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Posted By: AKDiamond
Date Posted: July 10 2019 at 08:25
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I'm into it, thanks.
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Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: July 31 2019 at 16:56
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Thank you for your support! We just uploaded a brand new cut from the Platypussongs 2 - Live In Consti, album. Here's Rägnärök from the 1971 album of the same name, performed by the Millennial lineup of The Astral Platypus: Stalked night and day by papparazzi, Dino Longobardi, legendary manager from the golden days of the band, stated while counting his money: "Yeah, f**k off. We have the same amount of original members that Yes currently has."
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Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: July 31 2019 at 22:42
| So theres very little info I can find on this band, are these are new albums with incorrect dates listed with them? I'm listening to Ragnarok, actually pretty interesting tbh. |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: August 01 2019 at 05:09
Yep. They spoofed it good. Spot on.
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fronobulax wrote:Posted By: Sanmartinphase7
Date Posted: August 12 2019 at 17:57
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Thank you! Yes, we are a parody prog band, and we emulate an archetypical discography, making albums that try to sound like the year they were supposedly released. With each album we make (we have 4 so far), we release an episode of the mockumentary that narrates the fictional story of the band. Everything can be found in this Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCsbp2WHP09KXBNrUjGTLOg" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCsbp2WHP09KXBNrUjGTLOg
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