I will
begin listening to this tape by creating the impression in my mind that it was
recorded live onto cassette. These
days, when I think of cassettes it’s kind of funny because there is a recording
process that goes into them and I feel like most artists either record onto CD
or digitally before then putting the files onto a tape, but I remember being a
kid with a karaoke machine that let me record and putting my songs straight
onto my blank cassettes.
Granted,
I have a tape player that could be used for in person interviews and my old
karaoke machine (which needs work done) is in my parents’ attic, but there are
some more complex (and less complex) ways to record onto cassette, so I imagine
this somehow being rigged up through the sound system, yet still going onto a
master tape rather than how most songs are really just CDs copied onto
cassettes.
These
songs get pretty demonic at times. They
seem to either be very quiet, just that ambient type of noise, or blaringly
loud and in your face. A perfect
example of this contrast is at one point in time you can hear what I can only
describe as the sound of your soul being ripped from your body. Then, moments later… crickets.
What will
also probably stand out most to me about these songs is that they offer up a
nice clip of H.A.L. from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which in many ways is the
ultimate demonstration of man creating technology only to have technology turn
on him and destroy him. A lot of those
qualities- of having the thing which you love and created come back to
inevitably be your downfall- come out on this cassette in one way or another
and the whole full circle-ness of it is thus sheer brilliance.
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