Tuesday 14 October 2008

( seksvirOlli ) - vandag se waarheid?190498

COMPILATION OF SOME OF MY EARLY 90'S EXPERIMENTAL/AMBIENT STUFF, REVISITED IN 1998 - DOWNLOAD AND ENJOY


(unreleased). 1998 (1992-3)

I've no idea why I named it in afrikaans. I used to record under the name Sex For Ollie, but must have decided on a slight name change when I revisited these earlyish tracks back in 1998. Who knows why...? Man, what a crazy kid. I think the title roughly translates as 'Today's value?"

All these tracks were recorded on my Fostex X30 four track cassette deck, using nothing more sophisticated than a cd player, 2 cassette decks, locked vinyl grooves (2p coins placed onto records to knock the stylus back on every revolution), a reverb box of some sort and a 1.2 second guitar digital delay pedal. I was making cassette loops at the time as well, and I think I use a couple on lisscom. That involved taking a cassette apart, chopping little bits of the tape and sticking the ends together to form a loop, and some kind of spring with cotton wool to keep it tensioned so it wouldn't just slip on the spools. Quite a haphazard, messy business, but I think they turned out alright.

I was always more creative when faced with the challenge of having so little kit to play with.

01 dphemst (18:26) - recorded 28.02.93
02 lisscom (23:43) - recorded 10.11.92
03 eleth (19:03) - recorded 26.11.92
04 exfremx (4:24) - recorded 18.11.92

Download it here if you so desire. If you like it, please say so. Thanks.

6 comments:

lucianociv said...

hello, just now (maybe a bit too late ??!!) I arrived here, after I heard a compilation on Duck in a Tree.
The track from sexvirollie was absolutely stunning & wonderful, but obviously no chance to get a download now, after 5 years from the upload...
any chance to get this stuff somewhere?
thanks in advance
luciano

poodle said...

glad you like it. i'll dig it out and re-up

lucianociv said...

you were just behind the door ????
thanks, thanks and THANKS
luciano

poodle said...

here you go:

https://soundcloud.com/poodlebra/sets/seksvirolli-vandag-se-waarheid

lucianociv said...

THANKS again
I just grabbed (and listened to) the 4 tracks
as I was sure, I liked them a lot....
in these troubled times, are you maybe on the web with some blog or new your own music works?
thanks
luciano

poodle said...

alas i have been very quiet musically for the last 10-12 years. inspiration may hit again. you never know. glad you like it.