♻_Each disc is enclosed in a black sleeve made out of recycled cardboard.
_The cover artwork is affixed to the frontside of the sleeve with a high-gloss full-color vinyl sticker. (Printed by PrintRunner)
_The additional information/art is directly applied with non-toxic matte paint and metallic paint on the backside of the sleeve and on top of the disc label.
⚠_Each copy comes with:
➕ an arcade-style ticket to Hell,
➕ a glitchy-printed message,
➕ and a noise-note!
✂_A snip of ferric microcassette tape is affixed to the cardboard sleeve, as a reminder of how this beautiful, noisy album was originally recorded!
The songs that are burned onto each CDr are the direct tape rip WAV files! Same as the streaming shhtuff here on Bandclamp!
HANDMADE, BURNED, AND ASSEMBLED BY:
He-who-makes-noise in
THE BASSMAN's PSYCHEDELIC NOISE
⭐Each copy has the same format, but has SOME SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VARIATIONS. They might look similar, but NO 2 COPIES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.⭐
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Always NEVER MICROCASSETTE
Cassette + Digital Album
⚠These are MICROCASSETTES. They can ONLY be played on MICROCASSETTE players such as: old-school dictaphones and answering machines.⚠
_The music is dubbed onto clear Realistic-brand microcassettes.
_Each microcassette is dubbed in real-time from a direct tape rip digital source.
_Each microcassette is dressed with a custom cardstock c-card and is housed in a soft microcassette case.
_The alternative cover artwork is manually copied in a lo-fi black-and-white fashion and is affixed to the frontside of the c-card.
_The original cover artwork is affixed to the frontside of the cassette mailer box with a high-gloss full-color vinyl sticker. (Printed by PrintRunner)
_The additional information is directly applied with a black ballpoint pen onto the c-card.
⚠_Each copy comes with:
➕ an arcade-style ticket to Hell,
➕ a black velvet pouch,
➕ a glitchy-printed message,
➕ a noise-note,
➕ a mixed-media trash art collage poster,
➕ and a cassette mailer box!
HANDMADE, DUBBED, AND ASSEMBLED BY:
He-who-makes-noise in
THE BASSMAN's PSYCHEDELIC NOISE
⭐Each copy has the same format, but has SOME SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VARIATIONS. They might look similar, but NO 2 COPIES ARE EXACTLY THE SAME.⭐
Yes, there are lyrics to this song, but I'll just let my MUSIC/ART speak for itself....
GOOD LUCK deciphering my noises
AND SHHTUFF!!
"Always" explore! "NEVER" give up!!
Pots of love,
THE BASSMAN's PSYCHEDELIC NOISE
Yes, there are lyrics to this song, but I'll just let my MUSIC/ART speak for itself....
GOOD LUCK deciphering my noises
AND SHHTUFF!!
"Always" explore! "NEVER" give up!!
Pots of love,
THE BASSMAN's PSYCHEDELIC NOISE
about
**Listen to this album with the volume BLASTED and with LOUD SPEAKERS!!!!!!
**WARNING: This album is VERY LOUD and distorted!!!!!! DON'T listen to it with headphones/earbuds!!!!!! It's your own fault if you get a headache or your ears start ringing; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!!!!**
There's all kinds of noises on this album, but I'll list a few of 'em here just to give ya a taste! Such noisey, sonic sources include: glitchy Web Shortwave Defined Radio synthesizers, toy amplifier feedback squeals, vinyl record surface noises, zombie moans, comb-and-paper, manipulated lo-fi voice loops, marijuana joint inflammation/inhalation/&/exhalation, soothing real-time field recordings, reverb-y grand piano, the mechanical noises of inserting-&-playing a cassette tape, cut-up humorous dialog, dark-perverse-yet-catchy lyrics, and OF COURSE, some heavy stringed-instrument riffs!!
REMEMBER, this is just SOME of the noises that you can expect to experience on this album!!!!!!
"This album sounds like a lo-fi radio from Hell!!!!!! It's just constantly fading in and out of focus, fidelity, and volume...
It's trash, but it's GOOD TRASH! Nobody asked for it, but everybody deserves it!!!!!! Take your musical punishment like a man; complaining the entire time!!!!!!"
------*A review from Satan himself*
In order to retain the lo-fi production quality, a private master microcassette was converted and then uploaded to Bandcamp. The shell of the microcassette is clear.
Always NEVER,
is dedicated to:
Crank Sturgeon, id m theft able, Hal McGee, Cristopher Cisneros, Pink Floyd, my mom, my dad, The Beatles, Lou Reed, Rachel Bonch-Bruevich, Daniel Johnston, Kurt Cobain, Nels Cline, Simon The Magpie, Hainbach, Grinderman, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Rob Zombie, TRIGGER CUT, The Mummies, Dinosaur Jr., Fred Cracklin, Social Suicide, CREPITUS, Robert Johnson, Hellhammer, Ghost, AIDS Wolf, Captain Beefheart, Signalstoerung, The Fall, Throbbing Gristle, Jimi Hendrix, Cheech & Chong, Tera Melos, METZ, My Bloody Valentine, The Wound, Monty Python, Mayhem, Drenge, Einstürzende Neubauten, Merzbow, DEATH GRIPS, Holy Grinder, The Melvins, The Mentally Ill, The Weirdos, The Ramones, Darkthrone, SUNN O))), Black Sabbath, Sleep, Sonic Youth, GG Allin, and Charles Manson!!
Thanks for inspiring me and helping me with my art/music!!!!!!
credits
released November 6, 2020
Artistic direction and album concept by:
Teddy Lobato THE BASSMAN and Cristopher Cisneros
Both of the songs are written and recorded by:
Teddy Lobato THE BASSMAN.
All of the artwork comes from the weird mind and tinkering hands of: Teddy Lobato THE BASSMAN.
This little microcassette album was recorded smear and there throughout October 2020, at Acid RainDrop (le lo-fi studio).
Official physical format release DATES:
CDr_s = March 5th, 2021
MICROCASSETTES = April 2nd, 2021
CASSETTES = June 6th, 2021
*edition of 3 COMPLETELY OUT OF STOCK*
Official digital format release date (Bandcamp streaming): November 6th, 2020
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