https://backsteinroulette.bandcamp.com/track/soup-architect

The Soup Architect

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
credits
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

Expanse

One of my favourites of the Hollwed EP i released last April on Sonic Router,

Bambooman-Fields

https://kelpe.bandcamp.com/album/arrival-in-magic-hour

Kelpe - Arrival In Magic Hour

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/09/part-ii

Download

Memotone & Soosh - Part II

Beats Unraveled 11: Ringleader (Shigeto)

Summit Village Chapter 2

2nd volume of Instrumentals made with SP1200/S950
Produced & Mixed by Paul de Monteynard / SubjectJazz Records

www.facebook.com/SubjectjazzRecords

Bandcamp

Subjectjazz - Warm Underground

http://www.ddayone.com
http://projectmooncircle.com/artist/dday-one/
http://www.thecontentlabel.com/artists/dday-one-2/

Photo by Sven Gérard

Dday One - Think Thought (Unreleased Loop)

Konichiwa VIP

KONICHIWA VIP

First MP60 beat
Oldschool it is
100% vinyl + MPC 60 + S950 + MPC1000


One man army

Upcoming shows:
21.3 @tapefabrik 
6.6 tba
24.7 tba
25.7 tba

Booking: artur@der-bomber-der-herzen.de

⬇️BEATS ON THE ROAD VIDEO⬇️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nylljxj2Zjg&t=709s

KONICHIWA VIP

KUSO GVKI

Recent comments

If You Have No Friends

Nico Bellic 9

soundproof

ozoyo

Related tracks