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Dark Cave
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A rough sketch from the Summer of '87 which I recently ran into and realized it would fit the theme of the Dreamsville Summer project
rock acoustic ambient blues comedy philosophical indietronic highly experimental
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Highly ExperiMental, Rock, Blues, Electronica, Ambient, Acoustic, Comedy, Philosophical...
Richard "Cool-as-Hell" Sinclair and Michael "Punslinger" Honsinger have been making spontaneously original music together since soon after they first met in 1985. After a jam or two, the Punslinger lent Richard his Fostex X-15 4-track cassette recorder; Richard impressed him so much by writing the song "Forwards in Time" that the Punman joined forces and the dynamic duo soon morphed into Quantum Mechanix by combining musical gear, ideas, and jokes; and taking cassette 4-tracks to their very limits... and beyond! The first few years were extremely experimental! Combining Rock, Pop, Electronica and Beyond together, they blazed their own trail through the underground of the Olympia Underground music scene (unseen by K records, Steve Fiske, Bakini Kill, Marcy Playground, the Melvins, Nirvana, Bratmobile and many others). They should have called themselves Secret Identity! Afraid to share their music with anyone, they languished in obscurity which fueled even more inspired songs of worth! They have released one album: Quantum Mechanix '88 (11 years after Talking Heads '77) There were only 50 cassettes produced. They later joined forces with drummer Patrick Padovan (who played at their first 2 jams) and transformed into Art Official... recently they have been known to call themselves Triple Dog Dare.
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Peak #196
Peak in subgenre #37
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Michael Honsinger
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2007
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August 14, 2007
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MP3 2.2 MB 128 kbps 2:21
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Recorded on Tascam 4-track. The main vocals and all the music (except the guitar) are on one track; which I've attempted to stereo-ize. I redid the backing vocals because the source tape one's were in bad shape. The drums are pretty sloppy (I'm not a drummer) but hopefully are passable. When I recorded the vocals, the only lyrics that I had were "It's too nice of a day to be in this dark cave" (which came to mind because the music was very cave-like and I had been spending so much time in the studio while the sun was blazing away)... the rest of the lyrics were totally spontaneous and were done in one take. This is one of those recordings which would be very difficult to redo and still capture the "magic" of it.
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