Phlogistine (Master Tape)
This is an album I created when I was 16 years old. I discovered the DOS based tracker program ScreamTracker3 and everything changed for me. Using a computer to make music was a concept I had never even considered in the past. MTV’s show Amp aired around the same time and began to show me a side of electronic music that I had never been exposed to. Aphex Twin, Autechre and The Future Sound of London began to break down my very concept of what was acceptably considered music. Suddenly a good portion of my time was spent trying to understand how they made those sounds.
When I had a decent collection of material I decided to create my first album. I did not have the money to register the program and render out to WAV files so I took the next most logical approach. I took the family’s boombox and used the internal mic to record the songs to tape. I wrote “Phlogistine (Master Tape)” on the tape sleeve and promptly never showed another living soul.
Every few years during my life the tape will resurface while moving from one house to another, an artifact from a lost time. On one of these occasions I decided to dump the tape back to the computer. By this time cassette players were in their decline and I felt this artifact may be lost forever. While cleaning out an old harddrive I happened upon these files again. I decided it was finally time to share them after being hidden away for 17 years. Here are the first awkward fumblings of a youth attempting to find a sound of his own.
Download “zer0 Isosolies – Phlogistine”
Thank you for listening,
J. Siemasko
11/19/2013