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Quality of all original recordings vary greatly, each recording has been mixed to achieve the best sound quality possible
Maybe Mental
Over Dark Harbors - 8 - tracks - The first original cassette only release by Maybe Mental - edition of approximately 50 copies. Members: W. David Oliphant, Doug Clark, Alan Bishop - 30.00min recorded Oct 1982. Recorded on a 4-track reel-to-reel. Mix of found sounds, tape loops, synth, drum machine, treatments, guitar, voice, home-made odd's and ends. Range of styles from early 80's quirky pop, to progressive, ambient noise, pulses, screeches..
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Animism - 13 - tracks - The second cassette only release by Maybe Mental - edition of approximately 50 copies. Members: W. David Oliphant, Donna Anadrillo- 66 min recorded late 1982 - 1984. Continuation of the first tape.. 4 track reel-to-reel recording, found sounds, field recordings, synth, drum machine, treatments, pseudo pop, darker, hard rhythmic loop noise, harsh and ambient, some previous unreleased
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To Cease Burning - 10 - tracks - The third cassette only release by Maybe Mental - edition of approximately 200 copies. Members: W. David Oliphant, Donna Anadrillo, Ron Rexless- 73 min recorded Spring - Summer 1985. First real electro-acoustic work, not just field recordings and found sound s... lots of horns, breaking plate glass windows, misc junk, guitar, bowed and plucked bass, powerful electronic excursions, precursor to later tribal ethnic elctro-acoustic noise, contains none of the previous recordings 'pop' music, lots of loops, short wave radio..
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Detox - 9 - tracks - The fourth cassette only release by Maybe Mental - edition of - never actually released. Members: W. David Oliphant, Ron Rexless- 57 min recorded fall 1985. Dark and brooding live in the studio recordings done under the idea of what noise music might the 'dadaist' of the early 20th century have made with circa 1985 lo-fi electronics. Lots of field recordings, bowed and plucked bass, guitar, minimal voice, synth, loops, electronics, tapes, drum machine, piano
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Live 1985 - 8 - tracks - The fith cassette only release by Maybe Mental - edition of - never actually released, compainion music from live public performances to Detox. Members: W. David Oliphant, Ron Rexless- 50 min recorded summer - fall 1985. Dark and intense live recordings done under the idea of what noise music might the 'dadaist' of the early 20th century have made with circa 1985 lo-fi electronics. Lots of field recordings, bowed and plucked bass, guitar, minimal voice, synth, loops, electronics, tapes, drum machine
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