Showing posts with label Handmedown Satellites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handmedown Satellites. Show all posts

11.14.2013

Handmedown Satellites - Fossil Flues: 1997-2001



Crazy-quilt compilation of tracks from the earliest-ever Handmedown Satellites tapes, recorded in various Normal, IL bedrooms on a small Tascam 4 track cassette recorder with 3 functional tracks, which was given to me by my buddy Paul Schmidt. The first HMDS releases were usually given away to friends and confused-to-horrified strangers at shows, or left anonymously in record or book store free piles in quantities of 1 to 5, and tended to change sequence and content drastically from copy to copy. Some of the songs here were supposed to have been released on a tape label out of Florida as "Peg & Awl", but I'm not sure if that ever actually happened or not.

Some old old old bullshit

9.21.2009

Handmedown Satellites - Skeletons


Brand-new HMDS thinger, recorded over the last month or so...

SKELETAL

5.10.2009

Handmedown Satellites - Bedsores An Audiodrama CS



Hissss-drenched basement drums & ancient air organ songs from late 2003.
Absolutely indecipherable lyric sheet included for laffs.

Bedsores



8.01.2008

5.14.2008

Handmedown Satellites - Clumps

This is the newest HMDS album, Clumps. Reposted for the approximately 5 people who see this that do not frequent the S&S message board, and to stall for time whilst lazily readying future jams, of which there should be several very soon.

4.28.2008

Handmedown Satellites - Two EP's Plus (new link)




Gonna start with 2 EP's and a couple of songs that had nowhere else to go at the time.

Bobagemma was recorded in spring and early summer of 2005. Only around 10 or 12 cassette copies were made before the original mixdown somehow got hopelessly wrapped up inside of itself. Two & a half years and several 4-track mishaps later (a theme we could be returning to often in these pages), I finally got around to remastering this bit of neo kraut cheese funk. 3 string banjo borrowed from Andy Herald. (Remember that name, kiddies! So much foreshadowing here)

The other EP is more recent(aww don't ask me when) and is a contribution to the taken-all-together LOONY 4 side split 2x C-34 on Green Tape. That was originally concieved to be an all solo songwriter type affair, and lord knows ah tried, but I wasn't catching the vibe so well then. Zippen even loaned me his 424 to record it and in his limitless benevolence did not dis-friend me when I turned in this Kraftwerk-goes-carnival (in yer dreams, pal) pile o' goo. Appearing here in slightly remixed, extended form. So many thanks to Zach!

The two Homeless tracks are from around the same time as the Greentape and both stem from some late late night "treated" guitar meanderings--okay, really just a broken hi-hat cymbal wedged in near the pickups. Hey, you gotta do something if you can't sleep, says newly christened blogger at 4:25am.

Thanks for reading and listening