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Biography:
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‘oh my goodness I am in love.’
After many months of sourcing recordings and samples of tape hiss, static, interference and feedback with expensive mics and stuff in an attempt to lend his songs an appropriate level of 'graininess', hometaping abandoned these efforts and instead commissioned a huge machine to be built and programmed with tons of matrices and logorhythms, all designed to synthesise the 'realest' rough edges ever known.
To the casual listener, hometaping's methods could be mistaken for being 'lo-fi' - amateurish, even. In actual fact, nothing could be further from the truth. A lot of time, effort and money has gone into perfecting the imperfections on these songs. Any tinny beats, crunchy noises or faulty flows on his records are entirely meant to be there and ought to be appreciated fully. Please do not take the mistakes on his music for granted, but instead appreciate the poignantly flawed crystalline beauty of these songs in the same way you would a scratched John Michel Jarre LP or a model with scars or something
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Releases::
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The Palace Mansions EP (emp012)
Download: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Stream: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Download: Cover Art - Disc Art
Tracklisting:
The Palace Mansions @ The Internet Archive
The Palace Mansions @ Last.fm
A glorious 5 track ep of broken beats and pure joy
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The Summer Wreath EP (emp022)
Download: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Stream: Hi-Fi - Lo-Fi :: Download: Cover Art - Disc Art
Tracklisting:
The Summer Wreath ep @ The Internet Archive
The Summer Wreath ep @ Last.fm
As we drift slowly into autumn earth monkey brings you a new hometaping ep to brighten your day. The Summer Wreath ep gives you 4 beautiful tracks to remind you of the long hot summer just passed.....
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Reviews:
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‘Earth Monkey Productions have done it again! What a fab net label... This time is crazy broken beat electronica from Hometaping :: I have just discovered their EP The Palace Mansions and am loving it. Reminds me of fourtet or a 33rpm Boards of Canada album played a 45rpm. The samples are wonderfully eclectic... as if they've raided the BOC's trash. Love it... Check it out... its another fab free download of bleeding edge music!’ - Review for The Palace Mansions ep at Headphonaught's Nanolog
‘Great!!! love these tracks. They sound wonderful! I especially like the bits with the children’s voices in, sounds excellent. :-) Good job, very well done.’ - Review of The Summer Wreath ep on The Internet Archive (5/5)
‘oh my goodness I am in love.’ - Artivism