Looking for Feedback on EP

Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand

(sorry)

Anyway, one note: I was yelled at for the noise level i created on NoI$e.

and thanks to everyone who has listened so far... I appreciate the comments...

Dasein: My recording technique is very close to the one which you described. I am on a cool label called cat jams (www.catjams.com). The packaging for my releases is duct tape covers inside old cassette cases... Anyway, thanks again for listening!

This track comprises the entire second side of his debut release, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis Your Mom, the first cassette released on Cat Jams (my cdr label). 30 copies were made, all duped over donated commercial tapes, so there's a real range of bleedthrough depending on which tape you got. To expound on his description of the artwork, each one is part of a large rectangular duct-tape collage cut into 30 cassette-cover-sized pieces.

In my opinion, Tape Store is doing some great stuff with the recontextualization and metacommentary revolving around the line of demarcation between pop music and outsider music. As a not-prodigally-cool junior-high student with a funny voice in a rural midwest college town living with his nonplussed family, he's in a unique and powerful position. I look forward to his future works and to the day when his works will be granted the benefit of the doubt -- hopefully he won't just get disillusioned and turn to being a full-time lush DFA79 fan.

Anyway, here's that track I like so much.

http://www.catjams.com/tapestore/sideB.mp3

does that need tags? http://www.catjams.com/tapestore/sideB.mp3

Something else to mention about the mp3 I posted: one of the elements of that live performance was a tape of a rewinding CD of him talking during his sole previous show. I thought that was a neat idea.

In other news, I just got the feedback joke. Man, I was playing Cremaster 5 on some TVs in my clothing shop just now, and some kids and parents walked by and got really offended.

"Yes, Uncle Tupelo did play live on KCOU. I'm sure the tapes are
around somewhere.
They even thank KCOU in the liner notes of their first record, "No Depression"."

Well I'll be!

Oh, and it took me a while to get that the J&MC reply was a joke, too...

Lastly, I think my brother has a talkboy, but it doesn't have batteries...

Achievements thus far:
-4th Place (out of 4) at my Junior High School Battle of the Bands
-a review in a Chicago zine (Lumpen) - the gist of it being "indescribable crap"

keep refining this and it'll be great in a couple of years. i dont really like the casio keyboard melody during the first couple minutes though

Personally, I don't often like talking-samples, but that's just me and if they are important to you, I think that's good.

I think the song you play closer to the end is potentially funny, because, at least in North America, it's probably the most depressing and unwelcome piece of music a person can play on a keyboard. It appears like a white flag of surrender that things have gone past the point of no more ideas. It could work as comedy, and maybe that's what you are working towards with the spoken parts, but as a joke, maybe it should be built up more, as if it's going to be the best song you have or something. It could also work as a half-joke, half-musical thing if you would work really hard at an arrangement where it can start to sound interesting - maybe avoid playing the left and right hand parts on the same keyboard at the same time, or change the rhythm or something. You will know when it starts to sound good.

I don't know if that will make sense, but it's my impression. Thanks for posting your music!

I really, really like your idea of changing what is the focus.. I honestly never really thought of that, and i will definetly fool around with that on my next recordings. I should also use more cd rewinding.. Actually, in a podcast I recently did, i had a song entirely based on rewinding/fast-forwarding Janet's "Together Again" and adding the piano intro from a Wilco song as the chorus. It lacked a beat, though.

Anyway, I hate talking samples, particularly when they are of me. Then again, I cringe everytime i hear my voice (probably like other people when they hear my voice). This is mostly because i have a speech impediment (if you couldn't already tell). This really sucks when I get called on to answer a question but the teacher can't understand.

That's beside the point. Yeah, the "Heart and Soul" is supposed to be somewhat of a joke, and i should build it up like it is my best song... An extremely solid, helpful post on your part. Thank you very much for listening/commenting.

I really like that Wilco track of yours as is. I swear after this next weekend I'll have a lot more spare time and will actually post everything again.

Note to those who listen: I'd recommend (no, actually, it is pretty important) that you skip the first seven minutes. In retrospective, I consider them a waste of time.

i like this a lot dude.

i really think you'd like this guy named Marxy... he's kind of in the same realm as you in terms of using media samples and cheap synths and shit. his one album (or at least the one i have) is more musically formed (like there is actual singing and stuff) but it isn't too far our from your stuff.

(here's this thing i wrote for stylus like last summer about him http://www.stylusmagazine.com/stypod/archives/539)

i could h00k u up with the album if you want...

this thread is like a conference call from Hell
-- Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, August 12, 2006 7:53 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

But thanks for the nice words! I'd love to hear some Marxy.

Right now, I'm in the middle of recording a split tape (one side Tape Store, the other side Castro Catastrophe (aka Tape Store: the band)...it's made with the same cheap instruments, but it sounds different from my old stuff.