Chris Decato remembers 1988 in Portsmouth by the private hours he spent over a Tascam 234 stacking layers of guitar and pulsing synth on tape. The recordings from these sessions, Transmissions, are now available to the public via Astro Nautico on cassette and digital formats for the first time.

Mazing through clouds of arpeggiated guitar (“Spectral Interference”) and foggy Roland D-50 pads, Transmissions soothes and coaxes with youthful romanticism (“A Promise”) and somber mystery (“The Call”). Decato wrote the music as a 17-year-old living with his brother in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Decato says his tape experiments sounded like “fairy princess music” in comparison with the hard rock popular in the region at the time, so he mostly kept it to himself.

“This was stuff that I never ever thought anyone would want to listen to,” Decato said. “It was this hidden side of myself that no one knew about.”

For years, the only people who had heard Transmissions were a handful of family members, friends, and a small group of commercial video producers to whom Decato had sent his demos. When Astro Nautico’s Sam O.B. heard the recordings on a visit to Lake Mascoma in New Hampshire (as seen in the artwork of Transmissions)...  more
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released April 9, 2021

Written & recorded by Chris Decato in Portsmouth, NH 1988 to 1/8" cassette tape using the Tascam 234 4-track recorder

Chris Decato:

83 Gibson Les Paul
Digitech PDS 1002
Roland D-50 Synthesizer
Yamaha DX9 Synthesizer

Artwork by Paul Jones + Sam Obey

Ending Transmission

This song is the result of a game of 'musical round robin'. Musical Round Robin is a game where each player takes turns adding stems to a track. We had 4 people participate, Chronos, Echo the Human, Machlin, and Quin.

Bass & Percussion:
Machlin
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2J8Ek6TObsjPr7B7Oq325l?si=-KRWvLOSQCyTfQLfYkZAxw

Vocals:
Echo the Human
www.echothehuman.com/
https://soundcloud.com/alchemy-echo 

Melody:
Chronos
https://soundcloud.com/pathogenic-apothecary

Mixing & Mastering:
Quin

Case #18 (ft Chronos, Echo the Human, Machlin, Quin)

volca sample - Bonus Pack vol.3 100 BPM

Drawn Worlds

Finally some new noodling with some sort of polyrhythmic arps, nothing too fancy.
Special appearance here the vintage Roland SH-7 which I luckily am allowed to play for a couple of weeks! 🤩 So some bits of improvising on this nice piece of gear! Please enjoy.

Gear:
DSI Prophet rev2
Behringer DeepMind 12D
ASM Hydrasynth KB
Minimoog model D*
Roland SH-7
moog Subharmonicon
Roland D-05 (D50 Boutique)
Q-Sampler
Clavia nord rack 3

*The B-Clone 

17.09.2021

mean-time

Downstairs

a track by Marco Lucchi reworked by Wilfried Hanrath

maggio 2022

Wilfried Hanrath - Triumph (Marco Lucchi) reworked

Go Faster EP written and recorded in may as part of the Lights and Lines Album Writing Club.

Seoul Sister

Void To Fill [ORIGINAL]

Said And Done

2 tunes called The Dawdler's Dream and Trolska - both written by me on an NYFE course. Accompanied by Carl Schenker.

The Dawdler's Dream Set

'AXIOM' is a statement of intent, a hit back against the apathy of modern living, an attack on idolisation and a call for all the marginalised to take the helm – to kick against the pricks.

Foundations built upon a love for pop music, while leaning into their obsession over the golden era of Dischord records & 90s college fuzz sounds. Since 2014, the band have put out releases through well established labels, including their EP 'A Lifetime Apart'  and their first full length 'No Discordance' which followed in 2018 to critical acclaim – becoming a powerful punk/emo shot to the arm for the UKs indie scene, seeing the band go on to support the likes of The Wildhearts, Mercy Union & Spanish Love Songs as well as a string of UK and international tours including a successful tour of Japan in 2019.

2021 brings their sophomore effort 'Axiom' – recorded by producer Bob Cooper, the new album cuts into the state of modern living, discussing themes on isolation, social class and environmental change. Not content with sitting still in their punk-pop bubble and retracing steps, Harker have pushed against the grain with ‘Axiom’ - a middle finger to force fed algorithm produced pop. It sees Harker at their most experimental yet, delving into new sonic territories evolving out of the bands earlier radio-popfuzz rooted sound – pulling in more left field influences, such as Sonic Youth, Jets To Brazil & Black Sabbath.

Harker are a 4 piece 'EMOGAZE' band from Brighton, UK.

The Beast Must Die (Single edit)

New band, based in the UK.

https://twitter.com/GiantAndroids

Said And Done

Giant Androids