“It is generally accepted that Rock, in its broadest term, finally died in 1984. The main culprits in this tragic demise have always been accepted as Capitalism, consumer brainwashing, and freely available easy to use technology. The almost criminal acceptance of MIDI as the tool for musical communication killed almost all relevant and exciting music stone dead overnight. […]”
Taped stories, cut-ups & slow listening.
tomwolf.be
SoundCloud
MixCloud
Bandcamp
For Mods only
(strictly limited cassette-only release/sold out)
super8trash: out-of-print full album reissued as free download-only release.
My Other Day Job • Ask me anything
Tom Wolf
“… how a friend described going to his door and hearing him ‘cursing, howling and singing’ over his new fugue; after a whole hour he at last came to the door, looking as if he had been fighting the devil, and having eaten nothing for 36 hours because his cook and parlour-maid had been away from his rage. That’s the sort of man to be.”
— (Wittgenstein talks about Beethoven.)
from Ray Monk’s ‘Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius’.
Grand cru mixtape. Every second of it.
Kassettefabriek
Announcements best made on Record Store Day: “Kassettefabriek”, newsletter subscription, promoting industrious plans.
“Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and their Generation. Wee have Harmonies which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds and lesser Slides of Sounds. Diverse Instruments of Musick likewise to you unknowne, some sweeter than any you have; Together with Bells and Rings that are dainty and sweet. Wee represent Small Sounds as Great and Deepe; Likewise Great Sounds, Extenuate and Sharpe; Wee make diverse Tremblings and Warblings of Sounds, which in their Originall are Entire. Wee represent and imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters, and the Voices and Notes of Beasts and Birds. Wee have certaine Helps, which sett to the Eare doe further the Hearing greatly. Wee have also diverse Strange and Artificiall Eccho’s, Reflecting the Voice many times, and as it were Tossing it; And some that give back the Voice Lowder then it came, some Shriller, and some Deeper; Yea, some rendring the Voice, Differing in the Letters or Articulate Sound, from that they receyve. Wee have also meanes to convey Sounds in Trunks and Pipes, in strange Lines, and Distances.”
— Francis Bacon, 1624.
Sketching ideas (fast draft-quality) while trying to penetrate Blue Hell’s experimental patches for Micro Modular (aka. Noodle Radio - http://www.iaf.nl/Users/BlueHell/). This is auto-generated music. The adventurous singer-songwriter’s band in a box?
Just favorited Decisively Lingering Mix (Le Berger) by LostChildrenNetLabel on Mixcloud
