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Cumulus 2266 plays of 5 songs --> tapegerm home 
A long time ago the universe was without form. Hot gases cooled, coalesced, and formed stars and planets.

Then the dinosaurs came but they got too fat and died.

Small rodents came out of hiding and evolved into Homo Sapiens, one of which started making experimental music in the 1980's using found objects, second-hand insturments, and toys.
After many years in bands playing everything from folk-rock to psychedlia he is back to playing with toys and junk and posting it for the world to hear.
Cumulus Top 10 This Week : -137- Dirty White Noise (7) -143- Agnostic Imsoniac (7) -335- Too Little is Known (5) -355- Swirly Up (short version) (5) -426- Four Second Chances (4)

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Swirly Up (short version)
659 plays
03:56
Genre: Put Your Pants Back On
Album: default

On this song I used Mattell Synsonics drums, a Casio SK-1, a Gameboy running Nanoloop1.3, a circuit-bent Speak and Spell, a Leapfrog Alphabet Desk, a Brats keybord/drum machine toy, and of course, a couple of the loops from the Tapegerm Free Starter Pack. Credits: free loop sample pack loops by Hebephrenic and Heuristics Inc.

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Too Little is Known
388 plays
06:11
Genre: Abstract
Album: default

This song reminds me of falling asleep with the TV on and having strange dreams.

Special guest Gary Spring plays guitar, courtesy of some 20-year-old cassette tapes I had lying around running through a Peavey digital delay. I also recycled some SK-1 snippets from the same era.

A Big Briar Etherwave theremin running through an ART SGX-2000 processer brings some haunting sounds to this piece.

There are sounds of electronic baby dolls and real babies crying as well as my wife and son laughing and my dog barking.

I also used some audio from some public-domain films I dug up.

The films are "National Drinking Game", "Keep Off the Grass", "Medical Quackery", and some drive-in theater advertisements.

These can all be found at at http://www.archive.org/details/movies.
Credits: David Fuglewicz open loops

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Dirty White Noise
413 plays
06:39
Genre: Love
Album: default

For this one I used my TR-808 and TR-606 drum machines, Big Briar Etherwave theremin, and Casio SK-1.

I used a Sony IC Digital Recorder to capture some trains in Germany, an elevator in Winter Park, Colorado, and some household sounds, including a malfunctioning toilet that sounded just like the Heuristics trumpet loop to me.

There is also some choppy audio with intermittent static from some public-domain porn posted on the internet. Credits: Hal McGee open loops, Heuristics Inc. open loops

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Four Second Chances
370 plays
06:59
Genre: Improvisational
Album: default

This is the first song where the Tapegerm loops were the basis for the piece. I set up the loops first-running them through my Zoom 508 4 second delay.

I then layered TR-606, bass, Yamaha CS-50, Etherwave theremin, 1920's era RCA Victrola, and neghborhood Fourth of July sound effects. Credits: Anti-Gravity Workshop open loops, Arthur Loves Plastic open loops, Hebephrenic open loops

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Agnostic Imsoniac
436 plays
04:22
Genre: Gospel
Album: default

An open window.

Frogs.

A TV left on in the Summertime.

Time for sleep.


Credits: Hal McGee open loops

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Hand-Crafted Experimental Ectronica featuring old-timey drum machines, glitching electronics, answereing machine messages, found sounds, anaolog synths, theremins, pissed-off ex-girlfriends, and cats meowing.

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Recent feedback...

Swirly Up (short version)
"This is some amazing stuff. I love how you incorporate 'garage sale goodies' into a mix that has such a rhythmic melody. "
-- evelynzzeeb (on 04/08/09 00:28:39)

Agnostic Imsoniac
"I just bought a new deer call that I can vary in pitch, which I plan to include in my battery of instrumentation for a show I'm doing with River Cow Orchestra this Saturday night. This "Imsoniac" makes for a perfect bit of audio to jam along with for developing my deer call chops. I wonder if the gods are insomniacs? Thanks for sharing this, nice work. C. Goff III"
-- padukem (on 11/19/08 11:50:40)

Agnostic Imsoniac
"This is another great composistion, well done."
-- davefuglewicz (on 11/19/08 08:58:41)

Agnostic Imsoniac
"I love this mix, very very surreal! Hypnotizing all the way through. Excellent work in my opinion."
-- Mental Anguish (on 11/19/08 05:54:24)

Four Second Chances
"This is a really great mix in my opinion. Great use of the loops & excellent structure the whole way through, very eerie & mellow & ear goggle friendly."
-- Mental Anguish (on 07/16/08 05:52:43)


SPOTLIGHT TRACK

Swirly Up (short version)

On this song I used Mattell Synsonics drums, a Casio SK-1, a Gameboy running Nanoloop1.3, a circuit-bent Speak and Spell, a Leapfrog Alphabet Desk, a Brats keybord/drum machine toy, and of course, a couple of the loops from the Tapegerm Free Starter Pack. Credits: free loop sample pack loops by Hebephrenic and Heuristics Inc..


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