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2007​-​2013 Beats

by Tom Moody

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    Hand-dubbed high bias cassette with minimal, "small business chic" label design.
    Two-sided, approx 29 min of music per side.

    Includes unlimited streaming of 2007-2013 Beats via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.
Congas of Doom I 03:08
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2.
Fade Series (Cyan) 05:41
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3.
Piskow Reassembly 01:59
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4.
Short Scratch Waltz 01:36
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5.
Shaker Dinette 01:49
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6.
Bluegrass Antimatter 02:07
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7.
Sunshine Stomp (Drum Solo) 01:17
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8.
Disco Volition 03:04
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9.
Kick Effects 01:30
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10.
Ambient March I 00:48
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11.
Scratch Demon 03:08
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12.
Compression Trance 01:48
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13.
Hog Heaven (Drum Solo) 00:53
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14.
Claves of Steel (Beats) 02:12
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15.
Tranced Even (Rhythm) 02:40
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16.
Congas of Doom II 01:20
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17.
Vector Repeater II 01:31
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18.
Turntable Turncoat 01:43
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19.
Digital Wrongs Management 02:10
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20.
The Rice Must Grow 01:30
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21.
Selectro One 02:03
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22.
Maze Moderne 01:05
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23.
Electro Groupie (Beats) 01:44
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24.
Logan's Fast Walk 03:52
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25.
Drone College 02:34
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26.
Space Segway 02:20
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27.
SQP Beatslicer 01:42
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about

National Audio Company's announcement that it was running out of chrome type II high bias tape was kind of a shock. Who knew there was a limited supply? Apparently no one is manufacturing it anymore -- the wisdom of the market. Possibly unrelated, many of the electronic music netlabels I've been following stopped releasing new music, or offering cassettes, around the same time.
I haven't lost interest in the medium but given my own limited supply of chrome blanks, my days of producing one-sided cassettes with only ten songs are clearly over!
With this release I "maxed out" a two-sided, one hour tape with beats I made in 2007-2013 (before coming to Bandcamp). Some of these percussion tracks were incorporated into later songs. Equipment/software used were Elektron Octatrack, Vermona DRM1 mk ii, LinPlug RMV, NI Battery/Kontakt, Reaktor grooveboxes, and MIDI sequencing in Cubase.
"SQP Beatslicer" is not shown on the "prototype" j-card depicted above; it has since been added to the card.

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released January 21, 2019

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Tom Moody New York, New York

"The sound world [in Melding Principle] is very finely calibrated; your ear for pairing the very pure and the klangorous has become remarkably deft. That makes it easy for the listener to latch onto the layered melodies. (Howl Din)

"[Y]our musical works exploit the aesthetic paradoxes of telecommunications and computer technologies and the social fantasies attached to them."
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