A quick interlude I recorded to flesh out a friend's album. Synths, guitars, and live drums - my favorite combination.

Recorded on 1/2″ 4-track tape.

Trans-Human Kiss Interlude 1

A Sheila E cover to celebrate the Purple Passing.

Recorded on 1/2" 4-track tape.

A Love Bizarre

A solid riot of danceable drums, percussion and vocoder, plus a moment or two of severely blown out guitar - if that’s your thing.

Recorded on 1/2″ 4-track tape.

Death Has Won

A 2nd instrumental interlude version of a friend's song to flesh out his album.

Recorded on 1/2″ 4-track tape.

Trans-Human Kiss Interlude 2

Sci-fi electro funk-rock man-machine.

Beginning as an experiment in making a live drum track play the sequencer on a synth via control voltage, I was so stoked on the very human way that ended up sounding that I further fleshed out the song with 7 tracks spread over two half-inch 4-track tape machines, then manually kept those in sync when mixing.

Wingless Lust

A second experiment in making a live drum track play a synth via control voltage, this time on a 4 minute Hawkwind meets d-beat meets krautrock spaced out synthesizer rocket ride. Two 1/2" 4-track tape machines were manually synced up for the final mix.

Ecstatically Static

Recorded on 1/2" 4-track tape by Capt. Tripps Ballsington at High Command in Olympia, Washington.

Closer Nerves

Missing my bandmates, I recorded some drums, then used those to play a synth via control voltage, and some FX as well. This left a lot to chance, which made the drum-controlled chord progression repeat in a strange non-logical manner. A bit of a soundtrack-y feel. Maybe someone will use it as such at some point!
Recorded to 1/2" 4-track tape at High Command, Olympia, WA.

Wildings and Whippets

Solo tracks recorded in a 1/2" 4-track studio in Olympia, WA, usually with a hybridized electro-rock man-machine twist.
My more publicly performed rock'n'roll can be found in the links below.

Dave Harvey

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