The Back To School Tape, by Pressure Clown

The Back To School Tape

by Pressure Clown

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1.	The Dance of the Evangelical Mouse and His Victory 01:21	info	buy track
2.	Peace/In a Field 00:52		buy track
3.	Joy Bending 01:18		buy track
4.	Dark Rise 01:21		buy track
5.	Pop In the Head (Yeah Dude) 01:32		buy track
6.	Origin Way/End of the Line 03:17		buy track
7.	Blood Outta My Nose (With That Travis Kid) 03:22		buy track
8.	The Field of War 01:37		buy track
9.	Directional Void/Contemplating Unconciousness 02:11		buy track
10.	Marvelous (Orig.) 01:16		buy track
11.	Just Dead 01:14		buy track
12.	Grasshopper 01:29		buy track
13.	Perslipithetic Shakers/Sesame Creep 02:23		buy track
14.	Funny Little Man 01:05		buy track
15.	Elephant Walk 01:15		buy track
16.	Energy 02:00		buy track
17.	Fall 02:27		buy track
18.	Zombz 00:45		buy track
19.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 1 00:51		buy track
20.	Hell's Organ (only title I remember from then) 01:50		buy track
21.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 3/Smooth Jazz Demons 01:23		buy track
22.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 4/Chimes 00:57		buy track
23.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 5/Extended Psycho Beat 01:30		buy track
24.	Untitled - Last Part of Oldest Track 6/Gears of Time 00:38		buy track
25.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 7/Crusher 02:19		buy track
26.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 8/Halloween Trees 02:14		buy track
27.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 9/Horror Chase Scene 02:18		buy track
28.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 10/The Shift 02:13		buy track
29.	Untitled - Oldest Tracks 11/Dark Scene 02:48		buy track
30.	He Didn't Fly 01:42		buy track
31.	Jumbo Jelly Trampoline (Orig.) 01:06		buy track
32.	Funk Interlude 01:05		buy track
33.	Wackyness 00:21		buy track
34.	Oh No 01:17		buy track
35.	Spastic Run Out Of The Dark 02:25		buy track
36.	Zombie Island Loop 00:52		buy track
37.	Chill Bummer 00:53		buy track
38.	Going Mad 00:51		buy track
39.	Cheese 01:54		buy track

about

These recordings are the youngest of my beasts of sound. Artistically speaking. They are actually my very oldest. This is all from when I was a schoolboy. Some of it's tasty some of it's pretty juvenile. Most of it was recorded with a small microphone next to a Fender guitar amp with a little reverb hooked up to my computer and Fasttracker 2 on a Compaq Presario running Win 95/DOS. This is all early versions of songs, or THE ONLY recordings of many songs not on the archives. It's a weird ever changing musical noise adventure.

I made this as a huge compilation tape for my dad as a present for... I honestly don't remember if it was his birthday or Father's Day but this is the kind of thing I give when I really want to give them something but I'm a broke kid.

So I gave it to him in a hand painted red box and he really liked it. There's a lot I don't care about anymore here, but the novelty still stirs up a chuckle or amuses me.

Early sampling experiments with guitar and beating surfaces with random objects, vocal tones as instruments, samples drawn randomly from old films, TV shows, and radio. The results on some of those are great, like "Just Dead," "The Field Of War," and "Going Mad," and "He Didn't Fly," is one of my least favorites. But now I'm careful and more responsible with using only my own sound sources, or things obscurely unidentifiable or public, but it's all here for the sake of completeness and preservation.

Also noteworthy about this tape are the last remaining recordings of the very FIRST EVER tracks I sequenced, when I was a kid in sixth grade, maybe 1996. Some really weird pieces. Really weird. I made these often dark, minimal, horror soundtrackish music pieces on a beta .MOD sequencer for Mac called Meditor, that I downloaded from old school 1995 America Online back when they never stopped sending you those stupid installation CD-ROMs in the mail, on my mom's Macintosh Quadra 650 (she was an amazing graphic artist in the 80's and 90's so a Mac was the computer to have for that back then.) I taped them on a boombox next to the speaker so I could listen to them or show them to someone, and eventually the external hard drive that was a black magnetic tape cartridge completely crashed, and I lost everything but the bootleg I made. (TRACKS 19-29)

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released July 2, 2017

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Pressure Clown Toledo, Washington

Myweirdmusic is a thing I've been doing here and there off and on since I was a kid in 6th grade. It's sequenced on old DOS tracker programs and it's mostly derived from samples of sounds I made, older stuff samples films, the radio. One uses SEGA Genesis sounds for the beats. Guitar, kazoo, beat box, whatever I had to do to accomplish the idea.Thanks for supporting my mad scientist orchestrations ... more

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