Sunday, July 29, 2007

JOSEPH HAMMER-MARBLE LOBBIES, CDR, 2003, USA




71 unbroken minutes of queasy listening from a live radio broadcast by this L.A. Free Music Society legend, Solid Eye /Dinosaurs With Horns/ Points Of Friction/ Joe + Joe member and living master of monophonic reel-to-reel tape manipulated wooze. It's worth noting that Hammer cites his primary musical influence as being "an episode of Land Of The Giants in which the heroes used tape loops to fend off alien baddies". Herein, please find soupy slurries of floppy and slack rotors and belts wetly drag against each other and slowly swaddling you in viscous thickets of amorphous gloop. Pass the cough syrup and don't let the inertial drag pull you into the undertow! Note: in order to upload this 70+ minute solid block of audio, I had to drop the bit-rate for this title from my customary 256 to 192.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is wonderful. I love the sound of tape warbling.