blue blazer irregular c25
[2009, 905 tapes]

the perkiest of the perks from doing this blog is getting things that i've never heard of, and having those things fucking rule. hollow bonez are a prime example. there's no backstory on this duo, hailing from parts unknown, not possessing any online way of discovering more about them and further obfuscating matters by using pseudonyms instead of real names: one is a character from the 1984 cult sci-fi flick buckaroo banzai (pinky carruthers) and the other is from seinfeld (whitey fisk). gotta love the contrast between the origins of their names. the title of the tape is also a reference to banzai, which correlates to pinky's character.. and there's your useless trivia fact for today. beyond that, all i know is that they make their own synthesizers, but that's stated in the tape's liner notes.

8th dim mention starts out with a sick loop of echoing zaps from one synth before an inconsistent rattling drone emanates from the other, a little while later. next comes a layer of lightly distorted shooting tones along with squealing in the background. near the two minute mark, the shots start coming in clusters, giving the layer a bumpy textural droning type of feel. that'll be followed by another staccato layer as well as vague siren tones. then, a hearty rumble and a nice dominant drone, as all of the other layers mesh into one undercurrent of rapidly throbbing synth. to the background, the duo will add more whopping tones along with a swarming drone, at the same time as the foundation begins to lose its shape, transmogrifying into throttled humming while the main drone also shifts, away from its stasis and into a wonderful rhythmic swell. after six minutes, a new layer of slow, muffled, echoing tones (which turn into a rad booming sound as the loop descends) come into play. during the brief respite from that they'll dig up the introductory loops, removing everything else except for the aforementioned echoing loop. to that, they'll throw in occasional chirps. the central loop that they'll finish up with totally reminds me of the score during psycho's shower-stabbing scene, but slowed way the fuck down; very anxiety-inducing.
hollow bonez opt to keep things minimal for the start of side b's cigar store indian, with faint (i thought that my tape was effed up because, as i was ripping this, the audio was barely registering.. just a bolder blue line, over the top of a lighter one) winding drone that will eventually come to be joined by understated rattling and looping squeals in the background, i shouldn't say that, the whole first few minutes of this solely exist in the background. they'll soon form a great pattern, hinging upon the repetition of those squeals, but also consisting of a rhythmic knock, with the still present synth vibrations out in front. another memorable loop of shrieking tonality will be tossed in with the rest of their squeals, and that deadened percussive lurch. a sweeping loop of stammering synth will periodically come over the top of indian's humming foundation. the latter elements will congeal into a rad rhythmic oscillation, accompanied by a new layer of tonally fluctuating droning (which reaches piercing highs and also dips down into dying battery-like valleys). as the tape winds down they'll shy away from the high tones, focusing squarely on the mids and lows, whilst firmly retaining their semblance of rhythm.
these guys had me at homemade synthz, so i'm stoked that the music turned out to be so fantastic. as i assume you've gathered, this is very much loop-based (albeit, with a definite dynamic slant) and more experimental than noise, but if you're a fan of synths, rhythmic qualities and memorable sounds, you absolutely need this. blue blazer irregular will stand as one of my favorite tapes of the year, for sure.

Cigar Store Indian excerpt (from 6:48 to 12:02)

Great stuff...
I'll need to start digging around these digs of yours.

awesome! glad you like it. from the looks of your blog, i could do with a bit of perusal myself.