AVANT GARDE | GUTTER PROG | GARAGE JAZZ

Some of our art is made on computers, some of it is made by hand. We are particularly interested in that gray area in between where you cant really tell. All of what we create here is one work laid out in segments, all connected. The Mystic Tape Deck universe is vast and explores all manner of adding meaning to our lives, while pondering meaninglessness.

Please consider supporting our project and helping us complete the work. We make books and cds that go with them. We also have a graphic novel and a custom oracle deck in the works. All part of the story.

A Multimedia Puzzle-Story Of An Immortal Being's Struggle To Define And Exert Their Will Upon A Wholly Deterministic And Ambivalent Multiverse, And The Strange Cult Who Loves Them.

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Greetings to you: readers, beaders, seekers, wanderers, wonderers, outsiders, rebels, fantasy gamers, freaks, mythologists, philosophers, appreciators, creators, perpetuators of beauty, coveters of mysterious objects, collectors of counter culture, the curious, the questioners, the unusual, the unique, the star children, the light workers, shadow integrators, diviners, alchemists, hermits, monks and popes, the saviors and prophets, the builders and destroyers of worlds, the old ones, the young ones, the rollers of boulders, the sun orbiters, the morning star dewdrops and twinkle toed dreamers of dreams, you mystic shining beacons, you crossers and denizens of the void, reality shapers, universe makers and underworld freaks.

"A prominent feature of avant-garde music is to break through various rules and regulations of traditional culture, in order to transcend established creative principles and appreciation habits. Avant-garde music pursues novelty in musical form and style, insisting that art is above everything else; thus, it creates a transcendental and mysterious sound world. Hint, metaphor, symbol, association, imagery, synesthesia and perception are widely used in avant-garde music techniques to excavate the mystery of human heart and the flow of consciousness, so that many seemingly unrelated but essentially very important events interweave into multi-level structures and forms."

If Butt-Head ditched Beavis to make an album, it might sound like this...

I make hard-hitting, bass-heavy, dark-electro, industrial synthpop

In the late 90's I teamed up with Will Balderston to form a group called "The Sandbenders", taken from William Gibson book, "Idoru."  Soon we found out there was already a band with that name, so we change our moniker to "Slitscan" Will and I produced several tracks together, which his contribution can be heard in every track I've put up here. Bare in mind that I used to live my life very differently, back them, so most of the details are quite foggy or absent. this is as accurate as I can get.

At some point in 2000, I think, Will left Slitscan for personal reasons and I started working more closely with DJ Patchbay from Oranj Plus Records, in Seattle, and they published some of my music. After laying a show in SLC with other people from Oranj Plus during the 2002 Winter Olympics, for reasons of my own, I rarely made any new music, though I still continued to play shows locally. In 2006 I changed "Slitscan" to "Robot Hospital." After playing a few shows under that name, I stopped music all together. This was part of a dramatic shift in my mentality. Being that all the necessary elements are in place for Robot Hospital to exist, I've dabbled a little in the last few years, creating parts of tracks here and there, but never finishing anything. My focus has been in other areas. It is my intention to once again revisit Robot Hospital, in the near future.

Based in Boise, Idaho.  I do bedroom studio recordings of instrumental indie, dub, electronic, ect.

Doing what I can, with what I got. My friend Paul recorded these for me and plays some guitar and bass.

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