Tien seward : Stars On Browser

I got this tape a half a year ago, and never got the chance
to review it for many a splendid reason, but i constantly listened
to it, it quickly became one of my favorite tapes,

the most basic why i would define this work,
would be as a audio collage, which is simple the
same way you would explain any field recording
tape, or any broader explanation of the genre itself,
but this is one of the first to have resonated
with me this strongly,

its a mix of telephones, answering machine
messages, supermarket banter, and poems
read through a text to speech maker,
plus a beautiful guitar loop that makes an
appearance on both sides of the tape,

the tape he mailed me
was accompanied by a zine put out
by die kung fu hund i believe tien is invloved
with the zine but not sure ?
www.myspace.com/diekungfuhund
the blog is down so not sure how active the zine is anymore?


get in touch send him trades send him money
www.myspace.com/stopsilentradio

Fair Conditioner :Meth

i received this project from Jonathan loja when it was entitled
Faith/lightspeed, he is now known as Fair Conditioner,

when i popped the cdr release into my
computer i first noticed it had seventeen tracks,
but only 7 where listed, the first track started out sounding
kind of jazzy with a repeating bassline and tambourine loop,
it gets noisier as it progresses with a mumble shouting vocal track,

track two starts out as a folk noise piece,
with arrhythmic drumming and a mellow
acoustic guitar riff, transitioning
to loops and hip hop samples and random noises,

track 7 (noons,newns,nooeunes,nunes)
sounds like a silent horror film
played in a suburban basement while
someone is cleaning up,


the whole album was created on a laptop
as an experiment and learning curve,
it is sporadic and laid out in bits
and fragments, leaving not much distinction
between tracks, but creating a greater whole,
than its individual parts and scraps,


the album feels like playing craps
while taking acid, just throwing the
dice and seeing what happens,
parts of it are great other parts I've heard
done better,



hit him up for a copy here >>>>
www.myspace.com/faithlightspeed
virb.com/fairconditioner