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Limited edition LP of 100 copies with special folded cover. Less a tapestry than an errant strand of lunatic fringe, Hotel 10KM pulls listeners through a jungle of abandoned airwaves, smoky jazz clubs, and lost VHS tape with the guiding hand of Yado Tasu's distinct brand of kitchen-sink bedroom-funk. Imagine a soundtrack Richie Unterberger might dream up for his conversation pit and you're almost there. More than just record-collector music, Hotel 10KM is the groggy stirring of a record collection awakened. "Hotel 10KM was made in spare and forced moments with a Tascam four-track cassette recorder and a laptop in storage units, closets, bedrooms, a church, and a classroom from 2020-2023. It is maybe some or all of the following: a confused love letter to my family, a concept album about death, a stay-at-home parent's descent into madness, and/or a clumsy mélange of too many inspirations." Performing, digging, recording, and mixing by Yado Tasu. Lovingly mastered by Chris Cline.
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The History of Unheard Music hail from lower Manhattan and were founded at the absolute dawn of the 1980s. The founders, Books Williams, Charlie Mendoza, and Beo Morales combined their individual and common interests in music from all periods of all cultures, active analytic listening, state-of-the-art music technology and low-tech devices. These interests were applied to highly developed composition and raw free-form improvisation. Access to the then-nascent computer aided compositional tools of sampling and synthesis, pre-and-post MIDI sequencing and a fearless appetite for sound-as-event, synthesizing historical styles, formats, sonic triggers, and traditions allowed them to strike a nerve in the listener resulting in responses ranging from confusion and bewilderment to appreciation and inspiration and beyond. A neutral response to the music or the live performances was not an option. Here is an unheard selection of some works of that mind-boggling New York band. All tracks selected from the '84-'85 hidden tapes and LPs: History of Unheard Music on Staatplat, Drop it on Harmonic Ranch, and Chapter One on Rockgarage Records. Music that ranges exclusively in the absurd. Art-rock, grotesque comedian pop, bouncing sounds from post-world influences and electronic proto dance music, pure avant-garde. Here Us Again for Whatever Reason touches hidden chords in a decomposed and critical message towards a dimensional state of total disorientation against the established order.
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