The cassette is out, 9/15/17: Call Before You Dig
Sampler, 9/1/17: A new album will be released in September, in digital and also cassette form, from OTA Tapes in Portugal. Here's a sampler of what will be on the tape:
New album, 3/2/17: image filters and lower-case helvetica
This is the RPM Challenge project I was talking about. I may talk more about this further on in the thread, but I think I'll keep a running tally of the albums in this first post for easy reference.
ORIGINAL: My New Year's resolution for 2017 is to release more music, hopefully a lot of music, but at least more music than I have previous years. I've got a project cooking right now that's almost halfway done, so I'm confident of releasing it this January. There's also the RPM Challenge in February,
which ought to result in an album release. I'd like to keep that momentum and motivation going through the whole year. Will I make it? We'll see.
For now, though, I've decided to digitally release an old album, which was originally part of a cassette trading event over on a now-defunct noise music forum. For 6 years it's only been released as a limited edition of 12 cassettes; 12 bands were involved in the trade, each providing copies to the other bands, over the course of a year. So from January 2011, here is Quality Brand Name Magnetic Recording Media:
Warning: it's noise. Sometimes haunting and ethereal, but other times just loud non-melodic distorted screech. Each track of noise textures was bordered by very brief, interstitial audio collages, heard mostly at the ends of each digital track. It's interesting to me to note that it was recorded not in Reason, per se, but Record.
The original packaging of the cassette was meant to suggest that it was a "blank" cassette, and featured such things as promotional graphics and text, a spot on the j-card where one could write down track info, and sticky labels to put on the cassette. Even the cassette itself had hand-printed slip sheets inside the cassette to try and complete the illusion, such as it was.
Enjoy. Or don't!