HARDNUT used to “make music”.

  • the music album: HARDNUT
    recorded c. 1991 - 1996

    1. super-amusement MP3, 4596KB
      created over a weekend while flat-sitting for friend, exploiting said friend's new-fangled computer sequencer and sampler set-up
    2. beginning MP3, 3396KB
      pitch-shifting, time-shifting guitar and bass experiments
    3. 2FMC530 MP3, 3143KB
      the result of months of obsessive fiddling with a tascam 4-track tape recorder, overlaying milliseconds of recording at a time until the cassette and sounds virtually wore away
    4. big day MP3, 6027KB
      HARDNUT's attempt at a commercial proposition, but mainly an offbeat bass work-out
    5. slick MP3, 3398KB
      guitar, pig-nose amp, wah-wah pedal, delay
    6. almost quite deep MP3, 7961KB
      a munchkin drum machine accompanying some coldly calculated guitar patterns

  • selections from the rock an(a)them(a) collection:
    recorded c. 1989 - 1991

    1. track 2 MP3, 2391KB
      HARDNUT's grandma recorded on a dictaphone, superimposed via a portable double-cassette recorder over a guitar with 3 strings unmasterfully played through an ancient tape recorder to achieve the miracle of distortion
    2. track 4 MP3, 4595KB
      same sort of thing as track 2, but putting the voice of a HARDNUT evil acquaintance to a foul loop of a soundtrack
    3. track 7 MP3, 3093KB
      ridiculous electro-drums, twanging bass, ‘piccolo’ guitar, an overdriven sk1 casio keyboard

[HARDNUT played bass in life with patrick for a while too (c. 1991).]

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