Scanning the AM dial, finger on the pause button, ready to go. You never know what you’re going to need to record.
Also on Soundcloud and Mixcloud
AM Bandscan Pause Button Collage #1
SCUMBAG BASTARD – I WANT A BIG TRUCK
I’m gonna park on that bridge.
Signal path:
Casio SK-1 > Eiki 7070 Cassette Recorder
Eiki 7070 Cassette > CD-R
CD-R on Eiki 7070 CD Player + MIC + ZOOM 505 > Eiki 7070 Cassette Recorder
No cassette tapes were harmed in the production of this track
Narcotic Loggins: Hart 2 Hart
This is Yacht Rock for when you’re laying on the deck after too much purple drank.
You got your vaporware in my plunderphonics.
Recorded live without overdubs using:
- GPX CAS337B Cassette Player, with variable speed modification
- Eiki 7070 Stereo CD Player and Cassette Recorder
- TC Electronic M100 multi-effects unit
- Tascam Model 12 mixer and multi-track recorder
- Sony DCR-PC1 miniDV camcorder
Dueling Tape Loops: They Don’t Write ‘Em
Maybe there’s a reason why they don’t write ’em like that anymore?
Dueling cassette tape loops:
Byron Statics KCS-315 AM/FM Cassette Recorder
Optimus SCR-96 AM/FM Cassette Recorder
Tuned to Charlie FM – KYCH-FM
Audio only:
Randumb Al X Jonze
At least he hates Q.
Or listen or download:
Composed with a Sansa Clip Jam MP3 player set to random.
Tributes: Is There Gas in the Car? • In the Air Tonight • Suckin’ on Chili Dogs
The Scumbag Radio Casio SK-1 got a workout recently, tackling classic rock warhorses.
Q: Is there gas in the car?
A:
Or just listen or download.
Q: Can you feel it coming, in the air tonight?
A: HOLD ON
Or just listen or download:
Q: What do you do behind the Tastee Freeze?
A: Suck on chili dogs.
Or just listen or download:
Scumbagatronics™: Glyphosate – Death to Weeds
Controlling the hardest to control weeds, looping the hardest to loop loops.
Now you have something to look at. Come for the sneezing guy, stay for the dusted dog.
Equipment Abused and Employed:
Monoprice Looper Pedal, Tivdio V115 Radio, TC Electronic M100, Mooer 015 Brown Sound Preamp, Jasmine by Takamine Acoustic Guitar, Reverend Electric Guitar, Blue Encore 300 Condenser Microphone, Deadbeat Delay Lay Lay pedal, Electroharmonix Hot Tubes Overdrive, Tascam Model 12 Mixer / Multitrack recorder
Scumbagatronics™: Volvo Acid Trip
Distant radio DJ remembers an acid trip in a Volvo. Bums were in the Swedish.
Aircheck audio collage and ambient guitar, combined with your great aunt’s home movies. She worked for NHTSA.
Scumbagatronics™: Delayed Gratification
Good things come to those who can wait for the delay.
When all the delays come together just right….
Ambient guitar for anxious times.
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