imputor is a record label founded in San Diego Ca and Seattle Washington in 1999. We are now based out of Berlin, Germany.   This playlist contains music from most of our releases.   As we upload releases from our catalog, we will add them to this playlist.  Check our other playlists for playlists of our releases.

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"The oneiric experience is central to this album's sound -- so much so, in fact, that it could've been the first hip-hop-affiliated recording to give props to Sigmund Freud or legendary ancient Greek diviner Artemidorus on its liner note shoutouts. Sadly, it didn't happen. The album's disorienting and enigmatic narcoleptic ambiance, its blurry spaciousness, its lush range of warm, organic-sounding textures gently caress our inner eye with a playful, anything-goes attitude. Fortunately, it does so while avoiding the abstruse abstractness and alienating digital data file scrambling that we've come to expect from non-commercial electronica. As with similarly progressive-minded projects (Boards of Canada, Plaid), Plastiq Phantom's brand of music recalls the old school's pioneering redefinition of technology, as well as an enthusiastic embrace of vintage analogue sounds, which favors a more human approach. Add a touch of surrealism and absurdity a la Themselves (or any of the other crazy guys on Anticon) and you're ready to go. Breathy, pristinely reverberant mutterings slowly reveal a ghostly tinkering piano on fragile opener "Tomplikplianokton", setting the tone for the rest of the album, unfolding passively and unobtrusively in a haze of retro-sounding electronic processing.



One defining feature of Plastiq Phantom's aesthetic is his desire to liberate sounds normally buried in the vertigo of everyday life, and therefore doomed to meaninglessness, never seen beyond their status as unusable noise or their plain functionality. Perhaps as an attempt to distance himself from the cold, oppressively sterile, obsessive-compulsive and ultimately intimidating software tweaking of the "intelligent" genre, the mysterious artist behind this delightful anomaly searches for oblique, unexpected inspiration within his immediate surroundings, adding a homemade/lo-fi feel to the proceedings. "Fly", for example, derives its shimmering pulses from the prosaic, almost abject sound of a buzzing fly, here submitted to ingenious, futuristic sound treatments. Rusty springs, a power transformer and balloons provide the sampled foundations for the extraterrestrial, Escher-esque "Sqeeeble", without falling into grim, post-industrial Neubauten territory. Miniatures are expanded into large vistas of sputtering programmed rhythm and bubbling synthesizers. Exuberant drumming and subsonic bass tectonic shifts (check "Tiny Dancer" or "Mama Take Me Home") remind us of early rap and electro's adventurousness. Iggy Pop once famously bragged about having "home appliances" in his main musical influences. For Artemidorus, on the other hand, dream interpretation was "nothing other than the juxtaposition of similarities". Plastiq Phantom blends these two principles into one fascinating journey." - Splendid 

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Plastiq Phantom - S/T (imp026)

Ghost Artist Seth Warren

Ashamed

Pelton Wheel Suite, I

Dolphin Smiles&#13;
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Dolphin Smiles

Collaboration Record !  This side is a Collaboration between imputor artists otto von schirach and sindri limited edition pink vinyl! released 2002!

SIndri & Otto Von Shirach - Seduisant Lollipop

20 years later, a digital release of a planned 2004 split 7" that never saw the light of day.

* Music created by Jase Rex and Jordan Snodgrass in 2004.
* Artwork created by Raum in 2004.
* Mastered by Ed Upton in 2024.

Split 7"

Free @ Bandcamp

A Friday Afternoon (Another Electronic Musician)

Plastiq Phantom - Tiny Dancer

RIP my CPU

A tribute to George Harrison who had recently passed in 2001. At the time, Snod's CPU was struggling under the weight of various VSTs and plugins, and the fans would whirr in pain as they tried to cope. After all, why can't digital chips weep in the same way that traditional analog musical instruments can?

Pieced together fragments of tracks circa 2000 that were meant to be Snod's debut album "It Takes A Nation of Indie Rockers to Hold Me Back." Some of these tracks are early mixdowns salvaged from various CD-Rs and ZIP drives, while others were actually able to be fully reconstructed from the original samples and project files.

For more:
- www: www.thesnodgrass.com
- Bandcamp: thesnodgrass.bandcamp.com
- Soundcloud: @thesnodgrass
- Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/6jh5aRHbg…Z-RkuVs2MgxF0cmA
- Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/the-snodgrass/1604024627
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UChqw5ijyfcJSLjAZQlla6_A
- Instagram: instagram.com/theesnodgrass
- TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@theesnodgrass
- BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/thesnodgrass.com

Fragments of a Nation

While My CPU Gently Weeps

Red Stars Theory

Parts per Million (Remix)

The Hot Rock

The Size of Our Love

Available on tape today!  https://plastiqphantom.bandcamp.com/album/the-blue-tape

Fake Turtle Necklace

water. electric violin improvisation
captured 7/11/19

A Concerned Rain

These songs are from a split 7" Make Break Records released with our friend Chris Staples band Discover America. I like the way the tracks turned out especially a mouth full of pills.

01 A Mouth Full of Pills

Imputor? is an open format record label releasing analog and digital formats., We were originally founded in Seattle WA & San Diego, CA.  We stream our records on all digital streaming outlets and have our releases available to All Digital Download sites in order to ascertain maximum exposure for our artists.   We leave it up to you, the listener to purchase/support how you want when you want.  We'll do our best to upload a song a day from our catalog, or some previews from upcoming releases.   We are always open to suggestions.    Much Love to this Universe, and Thanks for Listening & Lnkng with Us.  

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-Berlin June 2014

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Plastiq Phantom - Tiny Dancer

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