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David Cassette

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Songwriter/lo-fi bedroom producer in The Hydrogen Trees https://thehydrogentrees.bandcamp.com/album/secret-arcade Luddite extraordinaire. sometimes I also draw snails and aliens. Scarborough, UK

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · Jul 2

A Tape Collage For Eloise was a project from back in my late teens/early 20's. Mostly recorded digitally so a bit more conventionally "well produced" than my current stuff (though still incorporating lo-fi tape elements here and there):
atapecollageforeloise.bandcamp.com/album/your-s...

#indiefolk

Your Smile Is Made Of Vanished Days, by A Tape Collage For Eloise

7 track album

atapecollageforeloise.bandcamp.com

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 31m

Feeling nostalgic for the Yorkshire music scene of my youth. Always had a soft spot for the syrupy, harmony strewn casio pop of The Research. Achingly twee but without the trust-fund phoniness of so many of their London contemporaries:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdBO...

The Research - The Way You Used to Smile

YouTube video by The Research

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Another obvious but important one: support your local music/art scene. Go to gigs, check the local section in the record store. Talk to musicians. People slugging away in the little leagues tend to be doing so out of passion and will usually be happy to spout off influences.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 44m

Truly believe that the bit in Hardcore UFO's when the guitar cuts out is one of the best hooks out there. It's so unexpected at first but now I can't imagine the song without it and I look forward to it every time.

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 46m

The term "hook" always used to bug me because it felt vague and I was like "so a hook is just a catchy chorus? but it can also be a bass riff or a drum part?" but now I just see it as whatever you look forward to when relistening to something. A mistake can be a hook if it sticks in your mind.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 48m

I've started to think of song-to-song transitions as secret hooks that are only awarded to those who listen to albums in full. Those bits where one song shifts into the next on a well assembled album (Bee Thousand & Donuts being my favourite examples) can be an element you keep coming back for.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

If your favourite artists are on an independent record label then look it up and see what other stuff they release. Some labels might specialise in a certain sound while others favour variety but chances are you'll find more great stuff you've never heard before.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Don't be afraid to ask older folks for recommendations. A lot of people who grew up in the pre-streaming era are like walking fonts of arcane musical knowledge. Always worth asking the older folks in your life who are passionate about music for their guidance.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Go to the library. Not only will you find lots of books about music but some libraries might have a record or CD section. How I miss the days of the Scarborough libraries VHS collection. Libraries are great.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Buy physical music. Not only is the album listening experience improved and the artist better remunerated but it's always worth reading through the liner notes. Find out the musicians names, see if there are any guest players, see if the band thanked any of their peers or influences.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Find human curators you can trust and rely on to provide knowledgeable insight and recommend interesting, obscure and underground stuff. There are plenty of writers, bloggers, zine makers etc out there doing God's work. You've just gotta find them.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

If there's an independent record store near you go there. Ask for recommendations. The staff at any good record store should know their stuff and if you tell them a bit about your music tastes will likely be able to point you in the right direction.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 26d

Read. Books about music scenes, interviews with the artists you like, biographies, reviews.

All of these are great sources for finding out older/more obscure stuff that might have influenced your favourite bands. Soon you'll have a whole list of stuff to check out.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · Jul 31

A lo-fi folk punk reminder to tell Jared Leto to go the fuck away:
soundcloud.com/the_hydrogen...

No Jared Leto

Zen in linen shirts They sap upon the day Like every other morning star Acceptable and fey December dismembered my instruments I can’t tell you that now But I say No Jared Leto No Jared Leto No Jared

soundcloud.com

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Sean Padilla says #ProtectJhordin @seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 1h

friendshipcommanders.bandcamp.com/album/bear = My favorite rock band (that isn’t GbV) released a new album today, and they’ve outdone themselves YET AGAIN

RIYL sludgy guitars, nuclear drumming, great vocal melodies, profound lyrics, Paramore, Soundgarden, White Women on the Right Side of History

BEAR, by Friendship Commanders

10 track album

friendshipcommanders.bandcamp.com

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 1h

Please help this family

chuffed.org/project/1428...

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Sgt. Hare Apollo @sgthareapollo.bsky.social · 12h

When it comes to music, “If the cover art’s AI, I’m passin’ it by!™”

Share if you agree

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 1h

I guess one thing you can say for Tron 3 is that it will more accurately reflect the reality of cyber space as a lair of vile sexual predators

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 1h

Society (1989) - Socially conscious and stomach churning in all the right ways and more relevant now than when it was made.

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 1h

Day Of The Dead (1985) - My favourite of the original Romero trilogy. Some of the best zombie practical effects ever put to film and despite it's bleak tone throughout there's a crack of hope poking through at the end. Joe Pilato's death scene is one for the ages.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 8d

Might keep adding to this thread of horror favourites intermittently through October

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 13d

I don't talk enough about movies on here. Mostly as I don't really watch a lot of recent ones. But I do love films, particularly older horror films and Halloween is fast approaching so I'm going to do a thread talking about some of my favourites. No particular order or number ratings:

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 3h

New acoustic track I recorded to the Tascam 4-track just before it packed in. One of the rare times I'm not in standard tuning. Please allow it to go into your brain through your ears (or via some manner of quantum psychic transmission)
soundcloud.com/the_hydrogen...

Crocodile

Capturing song fragments and lo-fi experiments on old cassette machines in the tiny back bedroom of a scarborough terraced house. Debut EP Back Down Woe Betide Ravine out now on bandcamp!

soundcloud.com

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 2h

Sometimes it feels like "poptimism" has just given people the go-ahead to not challenge themselves, to not be discerning in their consumption of media, to endlessly shill for corrupt billionaires, to ignore class struggle. It's a dangerous, regressive path to go down. It makes everything worse.

David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 2h

& before swifties flock in to call me a misogynist: There are millions of women out there writing songs that aren't bland, pandering, corporate sludge. Who don't come from hugely privileged backgrounds & constantly undercut their peers. Who have had to work far harder & actually deserve your time.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 2h

Why say "Taylor Swift is the greatest living lyricist" when you could just admit that you don't listen to any music that isn't Taylor Swift.

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David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 3h

Crocodile

Capturing song fragments and lo-fi experiments on old cassette machines in the tiny back bedroom of a scarborough terraced house. Debut EP Back Down Woe Betide Ravine out now on bandcamp!

soundcloud.com