Artist description D.I.Y. artsy fartsy crap

Music Style D.I.Y. artsy fartsy crap

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Press Reviews NEWTON: Stain cassette (BREATHMINT) I got this cassette direct from the man himself (Newton) at a show he played at Omaha's Gunboat venue just a few weeks ago. Newton is a guy from the Philadelphia area named Mat and he's a FREAK, okay? Freaky in a good way, of course of course, via intelligence, energy, and good humor. One way he uses those characteristics is by dressing up as a giant bumblebee with guitar pedals duct-taped to his chest and playing broken toy keyboards while writhing around, screaming into mics through distorted guitar amps, etc. He and his bandmate (wearing a green orderly jumpsuit and a labcoat) did this at Gunboat, and after the show Mat went outside, right there on 38th Avenue & Farnam, and started lighting off all varieties of fireworks he had bought earlier that day in illegal-firework mecca Missouri. This was quite a blast in several ways, and it made neighbors come outside and the cops even showed up and the kindly Mr. Newton gave them all of the rest of his illegal fireworks, no questions asked. And anyway sometime between the rock and the fireworks he gave me a copy of this cassette which he's selling on tour. The flip side of it has a little message sticker that says "WARNING: Never attempt to insert cassette this side up. Turn over before using." Newton was very adamant that I heed this warning or there would be trouble. Someone else looked at it and said, "Oh, that's an answering machine tape. It's probably just a loop of about 30 seconds of music." That wasn't as fun and mysterious as Newton's warnings. The next day, I played it in my car, right side up, and heard some very nice beeping and crashing sounds, not unlike the show I'd seen the night before, except coated in that glistening room ambience that always sounds so good in my car. Funny song titles too, like "Star Spelled Backwards Scares Me." I couldn't tell if it was looping back to the start every thirty seconds or not; the sounds were all real similar but they seemed to be changing in unpredictable ways. I wanted to be sure I'd heard the last song, "I own the Black Dice 10 inch where they use that An Oxygen Auction drum beat," and after about six or seven minutes of the same stuff I'd decided that the music was definitely looping every 15-30 seconds and I'd probably, you know, heard it. It reminded me of Vigilance! by Harry Pussy. Great sounds, though, I wish it really was a full-length tape. With this kind of shit, 20 or even 10 minutes qualifies as a full-length, so it's not that hard to do. Why you noise-scene jokers, I orta.... I still haven't had the guts to put it in my tape deck WARNING side up.--Blastitude zine

Location Philadelphia, PA - USA

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