tar xzvf - mini-album no. 1
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:17 pm
Pretentious introduction:
Known primarily for being used to making overtly musical or sometimes naive or bubbly tracks by teenagers and young adults on their computers in the 90s, and on the other side of things hardcore and later breakcore tracks that were sample-heavy, "trackers" are programs that are a combination of sampler and sequencer with distinctive, simple effects that could be used to make music. They came from the 80s on the Amiga computer. But usually there's something usually very analog about noise; the ambiguity and entropy in analog music makes it attractive to those who like the "sex and death" type of experience of art, with its amorality that most people kind of hide from.
This is different; we come from a generation of people who grew up around digital electronics, the first generation to do so, and so we have a sense of the permanence of digital life. But there is just as much horror to be had in the digital world as in nature, something that's inhuman because it's not as blatantly subject to the laws of nature in our experience of it. Computers do everything they're told without compunction and shed not one tear even more so than the coldest psychopath. So what did we do? We took computer program files, pretended they were audio, and sliced and diced the inhuman noise and made samples from it, then put it into trackers to make harsh noise in a digital manner. This is the sound of humans messing with the sound of computer code. We're two friends who enjoyed making an album with old school-like trackers like MilkyTracker and FastTracker II Clone. We are 'tar xzvf'. Hope you enjoy our noise.
Known primarily for being used to making overtly musical or sometimes naive or bubbly tracks by teenagers and young adults on their computers in the 90s, and on the other side of things hardcore and later breakcore tracks that were sample-heavy, "trackers" are programs that are a combination of sampler and sequencer with distinctive, simple effects that could be used to make music. They came from the 80s on the Amiga computer. But usually there's something usually very analog about noise; the ambiguity and entropy in analog music makes it attractive to those who like the "sex and death" type of experience of art, with its amorality that most people kind of hide from.
This is different; we come from a generation of people who grew up around digital electronics, the first generation to do so, and so we have a sense of the permanence of digital life. But there is just as much horror to be had in the digital world as in nature, something that's inhuman because it's not as blatantly subject to the laws of nature in our experience of it. Computers do everything they're told without compunction and shed not one tear even more so than the coldest psychopath. So what did we do? We took computer program files, pretended they were audio, and sliced and diced the inhuman noise and made samples from it, then put it into trackers to make harsh noise in a digital manner. This is the sound of humans messing with the sound of computer code. We're two friends who enjoyed making an album with old school-like trackers like MilkyTracker and FastTracker II Clone. We are 'tar xzvf'. Hope you enjoy our noise.