Charlie is South Carolina's madman genius bastard... spewing out the goo of sound sticky coating your ears.. strumming guitars, banjos, and ukuleles.. banging out inspirational songs on assortments of noisemakers and such... last summer the bastard came out to play some music, drink alot of beer, and sleep on our couch.. this tape was sent to us soon after... this tape encompasses a range of Charlie's skills in song craft and experimental tape manipulation.. definitely worth yr. listenin' ears!!!

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Although we recommend listening to them at least once at high volume, these recordings may be enjoyed with or without headphones, through any modern playing device, at any preferred decibel, or not at all.
Some recorded on site, much remixed live in the Plastic Duck studios with Ricardo Wang... a wonderful tape of mystique concrete, electronic keyboard soundscapes and otherwise... we survived through both an earthquake and angry college administrators making this one for you so pick it up ok

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The favorite sons of Mason County entertain you with two tales of backwoods discovery... spirits both malevolent and benevolent dance a jittery jig together and find more geography to write maps about... a young girl finds out secrets of drinking piss, floating houses, and livin' in a grass pile... whilst a drinker finds way thru to an island after consumin' a wretched ol' nordwich potion.. sit down a spell at the breezy skyway lounge.. they'll serve you rotten cabbage there for sure.

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This is a tape split between two old ex-mason county-ites Aerick and Jeff.
Aerick, as the twang operation "the early morning initials"... offers up reminiscent memories of his old backwoods micro middle school in Grapeview, Washington... songs tell stories of recess rituals, bear obsessed dandruff children, an insane brush picker, dirt bike trails, and being caught with pornography... also accentuated with early organ experiments....

Jeff's side.. as the too much time nothing to do in Texas project "demon attack".. pounces on you slowly with multi layered 4track doodles.. cheap keyboard loops and sunk treasure ship of vocals under a sea of sonic interest... pass through the juggler's test to find that secret haystack with a shutterbug hidden!! we'll find out soon enough why those calculators are crying.

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Super Duo is a magnificent all girl band from Olympia, WA who play a variety of instruments.. such as ukeleles, violins, banjos, avacado shakers, xylophones, casio keyboards, accordians, guitars, & home made drum kits.
this tape is full of lovin' co-released by the two oly lo-fi lovin' labels plastic duck and mayonaise recordings.

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A compilation that featured music by Noggin, Jason Morphew, Kid Jupiter, V. Map, Yak Brigade, Early Morning Initials, Jason O'D Traeger, Spork Stigmata, Charlie McAlister, Mirah, Yom Tov Zeitlyn, Wood Paneling, Super Duo, Harpin' W/ Corey, Martin Way, Cuppa' Joe, Brambleram, Frezdak Water, Arrington De Diyonyso, Demon Attack, and other secret sounds... Every tape was lovingly hand crafted with a zine/booklet enclosed to accompany the music.

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So there was the devil, sitting in his rickety chair...between his teeth...grinding the lusciousness of half molded teabags.. his gaze meets the expanse of the hardwood floors.. thru windows four moonbeams cast shadows into the smouldering lodge. Memories of Baghdad and Mürnich were left to him...the devil..he had questioned the woodchuck but could only hear the dull cry of a moose's drone...the fixtures have all been blown out and in the corner of the hall one may see the mineworker...curled up and shivering...the devil now plays his wicked phonomachine curdling the din of music...made for documentaries about rotting trailer park tragedies "this is the satisfying sound of wood paneling" cooed the devil as he now fades into the room with red and black carpeting...the old curtains are drawn and the lamp misses its biggest bulb...the musicians now enter the carpeted cabin room from the depths of the wicked phonomachine..."may I kiss the inspiration of my forgotten trudge into you?" the devil asks...a pact is then made and before their eyes unfolds the dead book of dewatto...the warbler now spitting back his tea to the shady forest.

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The beauty and rapture of being pounded in the ears by a full blown train wreck of noise and texture...Violin and guitar digging deep holes to uncover hidden treasure...on this tape noggin serve up two shows worth of sound...the first side was recorded at Olympia's very own strange music festival with special guest violinist Jessie Ai Breznau...the second side pounds thru the walls of the show off gallery with Behead the Prophet's Jordan Rain on the drums...music made standing up in a head rush flow of blood.
the plastic duck tape that started it all!!!... if you have any interest in noise this tape is definately something you should be wrapping yr. hands around... masterful furious sound that just may cure your headache.

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