Master III
I’d like to send that shout to Mister Popa Momma Mo Phillipino down there in Oz-stralia for sending me this sweet blastfromthepast. I recorded it before we went to india together and attempted to share a girlfriend. Ahh what fun we had my friend. And I hear she’s stuck out on Long Island being psychologically abused by a gumba club promoter.
I digress. Master III is a tape of songs recorded on an old 4 track tascam. This recording was probably recorded at the “alice” household way out Barbur Blvd in Portland Oregon circa 1996. It is called master III because it is the 3rd mastering of that material and the only one left in existence that I know of. And It was the only tape of original music that I had when I went to the subcontinent with 25 other young minds. I think the tape made the rounds through everyone's walkman on that trip and I recieved some positive feedback that probably helped to fuel more solo recordings to come. I love that it is a very innocent if postured attempt at love song writing, captured before my head really cracked wide open into total paranoia and then finally retreated into apathy.
A note on the “mastering”... and the lazy leslie doppler effect; I borrowed a tape deck from Buster and sent the stereo tracks one at a time over to digital in order to creat MP3s of these recordings. First the left then the right and then realigned them using DIGITAL drag and drop technology. The problem being the tape deck seemed to be basing it’s speed on the deeply inconsistent power levels supplied in my 1828 brooklyn building. Left may be moving a little faster than right or vice versa. I don’t have the time nor inclination to correct this issue and feel it is actually an amazing new technique that puts the listeners head into a slowly rotating glass chamber. It’s actually quite subtle... more noticable with headphones. I thereby dub this revolution in mastering technique ‘the lazy leslie doppler effect.”