Nakasone - Orophocrinus

Label : EE Tapes - ET49

Country : Belgium

Year : 1997

Format : C60

Minimal ambient workouts. Hard to really split the tracks here as they all kinda meld together.

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Club Moral - Instruments Of Attraction (I. Cerebrale Pathologie)

Label : Kapellmeister Grammofon - KG 03

Country : Belgium

Year : 2003

Format : 10 inch

I'll leave this short. The first rip I'll post here working with new equipment. The turntable stays the same (Pro-ject Debut III) but with a different cartridge (AT95e) at the edge of the tonearm. Also snatched a used acrylic platter off of Amazon for the novelty of it all, I suppose. To tie things together I am using a Scarlett 2i2 to do the ripping. It's a very nice piece, certainly better than the line-in to an old laptop from the headphone jack method I had perfected.

Motor hum still present, an inevitability of Pro-ject systems. At least, from what I've read. Like the music I post, experimentation is key. And speaking of the music I post, I gather it is not too much of an issue that my rips be imperfect. But I'll try!

Anyhow, this is a record I've had for a while now. Can't really recall why I never posted it, other than the fact I didn't care all that much of it. A likely answer was that a rip was already floating around, a perfect excuse. I'll go with that, though the former still stands.

Very "installation" sounding exp. musik, like I'm missing half the picture. Certainly interesting, but nondescript within the realm of my own tastes. The booklet fleshes the whole thing out more, and I have it all scanned (with some words cut off due to the creasing spine of the paperbook making it hard) that I could host if requested. It's just that posting images outside of a vertical line downwards is a nightmare on this site.

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Selfs Without Shells - 5: The Number Of Communication

Label : EE Tapes - ET16

Country : Belgium

Year : 1993

Format : C60

Astute minds might notice something about today's post, that is the fact that it has been posted before. Well, apparently. Kinda. What the monumental tape-attack (which I'm glad was not shuttered after a few weeks without downloadability on the blog) posted was the IRRE iteration of this particular series of tapes. What we have here is not a failure to communication, but simply a small series of misunderstanding. numero cinq.

What's different? The tracklisting differs a little bit, though it shares the Birds of a Feather (apparently a separate group? I dunno, I wasn't there) side to a tee. The schism here, ironically, is the one that also shares a title with the other issue, that is 5: The Number of Communication side. Now, I don't know the significance of the number 5 and what it has to do with communication and magick and whatever but it seems to me that it comprises of various collaborations (probably via mail and elsewhere) between members of the Selfs with such incandescent figures as the Sack himself(s) and Del(eted) and autre un-unforgotten luminaries of the underground seen.

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I was not very confident in my ability to discern between different tracks on this one as I am usually, given the muffled aspects of it and my forgetful laziness. Seeing as the "Bofa Feather" side differs from mine on the Brains For Breakfast rip, only one of us can be wrong! Or both.

1m54 - All Breaks Loose, I Suppose

Label : Toothpick - TP08

Country : Belgium

Year : 1996

Format : C30

Ripped by OminousMafioso

Very personal and intimate, as lowfi cassettes are wont to be described. This is definitely worthy of such labels, as each sparse track flows along the hiss like some kind of metaphor which loses meaning when I extrapolate on it. It's nice, very nice. And I'd been looking for it for quite the while til I contacted the person who had so graciously gleamed me with a rip of it. The screen name above is someone to watch out for, he has a great collection of tapes and is a very cool guy on top of it. Cheers!

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Kreamy 'Lectric Santa / Asian Women On The Telephone - The Kreamy 'Lectric Santa Sample Library Vol. 1 / Untitled

Label : No Basement Is Deep Enough - NBIDE #16

Country : Belgium / Serbia

Year : 2012

Format : C50

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