Ogehiko

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Album Info

Release Date: 2021-01-03

Label: Superpolar Taïps

C-5 cassette single (2m30s per side) with (tape and download) exclusive B side. Dark smokey clear shell with custom made stickers, limited to 10 copies, hand dubbed on high quality tape decks. 250g/m² full colour reversible J-Card with matte finish.

Ogehiko and Yahiko are tape loop siblings.

Yahiko is a reel to reel found sound tape loop, played at various speeds and pitched down by hand, processed with an aged digital pitch shifter/delay pedal. The artist, due to his continual confusion while splicing the tape (4-track, recorded on both sides), no longer knows whether the basic drone sound is playing forwards or backwards.

Ogehiko is a layered four track cassette tape loop. Again, the artist does not exactly remember how he created the main sound element (with some synth, he believes). He however recognises the use of the Fostex's lovely pitch wheel, which he digs a lot.

Beware: Ultra lo-fi alarm with lots of tape noise.