2007-2013 Beats, by Tom Moody

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.

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

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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