Along
with two other releases from the Museum of Microcassette Art, I downloaded this
one and was left rather confused by the concept at first. I was under the impression that these would
be pieces of music for sale on microcassettes, and so if I bought a
microcassette player (my previous one busted) then I could listen to something
like a hundred different releases.
This
also made me wonder how these would be released because even in a series of ten
you’re talking about a thousand microcassettes which are, you know, harder to
come by these days (and more expensive than back when I was using them for interviews)
Then I
realized that this project is about musicians recording their music onto
microcassettes, sending them to a guy named Hal and then he posts them all up
here. So, no, they are not for sale in
a physical sense (Oh poo!) and this is basically a clever way for one guy to
own all these great releases by having the masters.
In
hindsight, I wish I’d thought of this and, hell, why not, if you want to send
me a microcassette I’d gladly upload it to the website here.
Moving
on, now that I’ve figured out what this is all about and how it is kind of the
reverse of what I thought, IF begins the first side of their microcassette with
an audio clip and then it turns into a guitar riff, which reminds me of the
opening of “School” by Nirvana.
The
flip side is like the first only it is a bit more drone, a tad slower and more
drawn out if you will than what you hear on the first. The
linear notes on Band Camp note that the creator, who we could call IF I
suppose, wanted this to sound like “a 13 year old in his room made it on a crappy
tape recorder in the late 80s”.
As a
thirteen year old experimenting with music (and the recording of it) in the
1990’s, I must say that this sounds a lot better than what I imagine kids of
that age could have done in that time period, but damn do I want this on
microcassette now.
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| Photo of actual microcassette from Band Camp Hal McGee has this, not me |
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