This set consists of recordings from 1985-1996, for the most part unreleased in these original versions until this post. Some of these tracks later became source material for dadala or other collaborative projects, others have been remixed and released later as new tracks with new names or new versions of pieces with the same name. More detailed info can be found in the individual track notes.

These were all sourced from stereo cassette tapes. They are the original digital copies that were made from these cassettes around the turn of the millennium (sometime before 2004). Other than a light touch of analog parametric EQ (from a high-end stereo component physically inserted between the tape deck and the computer) used to support the lowest and highest frequencies when transferring to the broader headroom of digital, these all remain just as they were in 1996 with no additional mastering, processing, or editing.

The earliest of these sessions were recorded directly to stereo cassette, with overdubs performed on the fly while bouncing from one cassette deck to another. Later they were recorded to 4-track, and ultimately 8-track cassette "portastudios" with MIDI sequencers also employed to include virtual tracks input from synths and sound modules during mix-down to stereo cassette.*

*The cassette release "Tales from the Vinyetvin Nagret" (1992) was originally recorded to 8-track cassette and MIDI sequencer. These tracks were mixed down to a DAT stereo master (early digital tape) which was used to make 100 cassette copies that were originally released in 1992-93. All digital copies of Vinyetvin Nagret tracks that have currently been officially released online have come from production cassette copies. The full album version currently posted in this playlist is not remastered, and was copied from a cassette "from the wild" (many thanks to Mark Griffey - ultravillage.com/about -  for making a digital copy of his full tape for me). The selected single tracks available in another playlist here have been remastered (2005) and were copied from my own new cassette back when I transferred all this cassette material to digital some time before 2004.

RDunlap Archive (from cassette tapes by RD & friends 1985-1996)

audience recording, 1 May 2013, Cuers (France).

Henry Koek - sax, singing bowls
André D. - bass

thanks a lot to Henry for this very pleasant session, please visit his page at http://soundcloud.com/henry-koek

Henry Koek & André Darius [free-improvisation]

RDunlap original cassette release 1992
(thanks to Mark Griffey - ultravillage.com/about - for making this digital copy of the cassette he collected)
side 1
Overture to The Vinyetvin Nagret - 7:50
When Which Path Mattered Much - 2:35
Two Moon Night - 3:42
Meetings at the Market - 2:39
And Then What Happened - 1:57
The Stranger's Tale - 5:35
Cavern of Forgetting - 3:42
side 2
That Piece of Glass - 4:37
Desert Rain - 4:09
Canyon of Ghosts - 3:59
19 Hills - 2:11
Sea Song - 4:00
Finale at the Thirteenth Gate - 9:40

RDunlap (as Vinyetvin Nagret) - Tales from the Vinyetvin Nagret full album (1992)

RDunlap (as Sped Blavio) - Samba del Fuego

1992
Later became source material used in "try again" by dadala ("continues" album).

RDunlap - Fragile Angel

1991
Later became source material used in "dawn make me do that" by dadala ("summertime with Billy Shaw" album).

RDunlap (as Sped Blavio) - First Light

original composition 1991
2005/2007 remixed version called "Falling Upstream" also exists.

RDunlap - Chips Falling Where They May

original composition circa mid-90's
2005 remixed version called "September Cycle" also exists.

RDunlap - Autumn Segues

Title track to the album !SASSY! originally released in 1993 and re-released with digital re-mastering in 2005.

Sassy

First track from "Fire A Go Go", Shovin Sunshine's second album, released 1994, following the release of "Death Jazz". I play the tenor sax here.

WadeManRag

original track see: https://soundcloud.com/brass-lines/conversation

Uwe Juchum - tenor saxophone
Frank Wilke - trombone

recorded at SUBSOL, Duesseldorf-Flingern at March 30, 2014

EVE TRAP - ebass 
recorded @ spacestudio in Aosta

guaranteed no overdubs

"Conversazione" Uwe Juchum - Frank Wilke - Eve Trap

Dark Chambers of the Night

Reciprocal Tension

Abandon

Pamaan is a track from ep "outsiders", that album is a bunch of short and concise solo/duo/trio performances made by Paul Mimlitsch (bass clarinet) André Darius (eub) Martin Pozdrowicz (drums).
feel like hearing and downloading the full album for free ?
go for it. h-a-z-e.org/archives/3901

Mimlitsch/Pozdrowicz/Darius [Pamaan] full album for free-see description

"Theatre d'ombre" LP - Free download at nosnamajs.bandcamp.com/album/th-tre-dombre

First track from our 2nd album "theatre d'ombre" Get for free this LP (read description)

03252017 Basic Nature (Rhythm Elements) SET 6

electric dadalaland

"SOCIALLY DISTANT since 2004"

Free-Fusion Avant-Ambient Glitch-Jazz Post-Post-Rock Electro-Acoustic Improv-Collage.

Since 2009 dadala has been a long-distance ensemble blending improvisation with digital alchemy, collage and serendipity. 

RDunlap produces, edits, arranges/mixes/remixes recordings from members @loopy-c @Erocnet @r369improv with past members and contributors including @darius-improvise @brass-lines @johann-meier-471100500 @michael-chocholak and RDunlap's brother Frank Dunlap.

Earlier dadala (2004-2008) was more specifically a remix project using already-existing recordings from an eclectic assortment of internet artists and RDunlap's own archive from 1985-1996 (solo and with friends/brother).

RDunlap (as Sped Blavio) - Samba del Fuego

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