Well before I started up Baked Tapes back in November of 2007, Josh and I made our first venture into the record makin’ business with Shut Up! I Love You Records. I recently stumbled upon a box of our landmark (and completely under-promoted) compilation Remember The Alamode, featuring exclusive tracks from the likes of Lucky Dragons, Captain Ahab, Nat Baldwin, Narwhalz, Mike Dixon and 15 others (see below).
Anywho, being as though i have like seriously, 150 - 200 of these guys taking up room in my closet, I’ll pretend I have readers and make some sort of blow out sale out of it. $4ppd to bakedtapes[at]gmail will have all these wonderful (and eclectic mix of) tracks delivered right to your door. Real CD, no cdr bullshit. Available in pink, green, red, blue AND yellow!
1. Mas Y Mas – Virginia State Anthem | 2. Thee Moths – //////fragment////// | 3. Rapscallionz – King of The World | 4. Vollmar – Tell The Dirt | 5. Lucky Dragons – All The Best, William | 6. Justin Clifford Rhody – Preparation for a Three-Piece | 7. Nat Baldwin – Look She Said | 8. Specific Pacific – The Last Dime I’ll Ever Spend On You | 9. Tiger Piss – Drippy as Arseholes | 10. OCDJ – Pele Would Never Do That | 11. Sweet Potatoes – Layers | 12. Basilica – Part VII | 13. Captain Ahab – Crunk As Dick | 14. Narwhalz – Rupies Vs. Crystals | 15. Height w/ Bow ‘N Arrow – Did We Do Our Thing? (yes) | 16. Werewolf Unit – Betula Alleghaniensis | 17. Normanoak – Run Away From Home | 18. Mike Dixon – Good Luck Street Smarts | 19. The Encyclopedias – Stretch of Trees | 20. Bad Brother – Trailer Park
Anyway, here’s my contribution to the comp, a lowly blown-out lofi ballad called “The Last Dime I’ll Ever Spend on You (will be for the phone call from prison to your parents to say it was worth it)”, from my ill-fated songwriting project right before my descent into noise, Specific Pacific.
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Here’s the official blurb from 2006:
“Remember The Alamode (or Remem’er The Alamode as we affectionately call it) is a mixtape of old friends, new friends and the people we look up to. Jumping continents and genres like a skipping record, this 20 track testament to an extreme case of musical A.D.D. is a volatile crash course in mismatched scenes–ranging from hiphop to grindcore noise, singer/songwriter to gameboy dance freakouts and just about everything in between. A little something for everybody or rather, everything for anyone. Almost all of the tunes included here are exclusive to this compilation, from a terrifying hardcore crunk track by Captain Ahab (winners of the Snakes on a Plane Soundtrack Contest), to a pensive electric lullaby by Lucky Dragons; the floating harmonies and upright bass drones of Nat Baldwin (of the Dirty Projectors) to all out glitchy folk tunes by Thee Moths and Tiger Piss from the UK. Even an iconoclastic Virginia anthem by Mas Y Mas and an old school rap tune by Height and Bow ‘N Arrow find good company amongst the 20 artists featured here. Hand assembled, stamped and numbered. 500 copies, CD.”
Tags: compilation, specific pacific, su!ily
Originally intended for a John Coltrane noise tribute compilation (yeah, you might want to reread that again) that i think got scratched, Return to the Cosmic Uterus was a jam inspired by J.C.’s ‘Central Park West’ (spot the head being played in these four and a half minutes, it’s there a few times!!) and features mixed instrumentation of EVI, trumpet, oscillators, theremin, drum machine and roor thru minimal electronics. It was later repurposed for Nursing Home Record’s second volume of the ‘Every Day is Halloween’ compilation series (aptly titled “