Category: Cassettes

• The Core Is Getting Soft.18: SketchCassette

  My mother used to tell me she got a weird feeling when she walked into vintage clothing stores in the 1990’s. She said a lot of the clothes on display looked she things was used to seeing in the 1950’s when she was growing up. It was odd for her to see the time of […]

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  July 27, 2020

  Cassettes, Music, Production, The Core is Getting Soft

  Aberrant DSP, cassettes, Lo-Fi Lives, Plug Ins, SketchCassette, The Core is Getting Soft

• Gnawing on the Bone now available!

  

  The upcoming releases section of this website has felt a bit like a closet in need of cleaning out.  That load has lightened as of yesterday with the digital release on Bandcamp of Gnawing on the Bone.  This is an instrumental project that was written in Watertown MA in 2011 in one sitting as a […]

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  June 1, 2019

  Buddhism, Cassettes, Music, New Releases, Production, Shows and Events

  Alastair Galbraith, Australia, Blue Mountains, Glimmer, Gnawing on the Bone, GRM Tools, INA, Jacaszek, Kittisaro, Moa, Music, New Zealand, Scott Solter, Soniccouture, Thanissara, Treny, Upcoming Releases

• It’s Halloween Time

  I’m pleased to announce my participation in a seasonally tuned in lo fi compilation called It’s Halloween Time from Chthonic Records (US) and Almost Halloween Time Records (Italy).  It kicks off with a tune from C. Worth, whose instrumental guitar work I have been enjoying over the past year, and meanders through numerous fragmentary delights.  […]

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  October 11, 2018

  Cassettes, Music, New Releases

  Almost Halloween Time Records, C. Worth, Chthonic Records, It’s Halloween Time, Refrigerator

• Our record came out today

  I started writing these songs back in 2010.  7 and 3/4 years later they are out there, it’s pretty cool.  Early reviews from Ghettoblaster Magazine, With A Messy Head and Popdust.Com are already out with more to come from Magnet, Bandcamp, and others. Magnet premiered Contamination In the Grass last week, while The Big Takeover premiered […]

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  October 21, 2017

  Cassettes, John Davis and The Cicadas, Music, New Releases, Shows and Events, Site News

  Arbouse Recordings, Bandcamp, El Pulpo, Ghettoblaster Magazine, Inouï Distribution, Magnet, Midheaven, Pledge Music, Popdust.com, Revolver, Shrimper Records, With A Messy Head

• Bandcamp store now open

  Our new record El Pulpo comes out in the US on October 20th, October 14th if you buy the Shrimper Records tape version from a participating brick and mortar store on Cassette Store Day.  For the first time, I will be selling music through Bandcamp.  I’ve uploaded the new double album as the homepage, (download, […]

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  September 24, 2017

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Cassettes, Current Events, History, Migration, New Releases, Politics, Shrimper Records

  10K Strong, Bandcamp, Cassette Store Day 2017, Durham For All, El Pulpo, Mike Ladd, Nelson Denis, Notes On The Return To The Island, Omaha, Pledge Music, Seward, Shows and Events, Shrimper Records, Simon Joyner, War Against All Puerto Ricans

• New Cassette Released Today!

  If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day.  It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize.  The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures […]

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  November 8, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Cassettes, Music, New Releases, Shrimper Records, Site News

  Cassette Releases, Dennis Callaci, Lo-Fi Lives, Shrimper Records, Simon Joyner, Unread Records, We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize