When Dayve Hawk edited "Graphics" for UK radio he opted out of a simple abridgment, instead slicing and dicing it while also folding in new passages and a clipped futuristic (less backward looking) beat. Hence the title. On a structural... CONTINUE READING NEW MEMORY TAPES - "GRAPHICS (SCI-FI EDIT)" (STEREOGUM PREMIERE)»
Posted on November 10, 2009 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Grizzly Bear | Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Weird Tapes
In "Walk Me Home," the always generous Dayve Hawk dialed up almost 17 minutes of creepy, creaking mutating dance music (aka a "love letter to the art of horror movie scoring.") It's an occasional piece. As Hawk notes: ARAWA is... CONTINUE READING NEW MEMORY TAPES - "WALK ME HOME"»
Posted on October 21, 2009 in (2 comments)
Tags: Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Midnight Juggernauts | The Flaming Lips | Weird Tapes
There was a "slight delay" with the vinyl version of Seek Magic. It's been sorted out, but to tide you over Dayve Hawk posted the gorgeous 20-minute patchwork instrumental piece that appears on the Seek CD Bonus Disc. Grab it... CONTINUE READING NEW MEMORY TAPES - "TREESHIP"»
Posted on October 8, 2009 in (0 comments)
Tags: Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Thom Yorke | Weird Tapes
Dayve Hawk, aka Memory Tapes/Cassette, followed a pair of EPs with a proper full-length debut Seek Magic. We posted the collection's energized, but frosty bedroom pop anthem "Plain Material," which unexpectedly reminded me of Flaming Lips. Hawk goes in a... CONTINUE READING NEW MEMORY TAPES - "GREEN KNIGHT"»
Posted on October 1, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Austin City Limits | Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Weird Tapes
Fresh off Call And Response and the Calls And Responses EPs, New Jersey resident Dayve Hawk, aka Memory Tapes/Cassette and Weird Tapes main man, has released his debut full-length Seek Magic. The first track we've heard from it, "Plain Material,"... CONTINUE READING NEW MEMORY TAPES - "PLAIN MATERIAL"»
Posted on August 31, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | The Books | Weird Tapes
Joining Micachu, Weird Tapes (aka Memory Cassette aka Memory Tapes aka Dayve Hawk) recently put a remix spin on the LA Afropop collective Fool's Gold. Because that is what he does. Dayve excised the original's Hebrew passages for his take,... CONTINUE READING WEIRD TAPES REMIX FOOL'S GOLD»
Posted on August 26, 2009 in (6 comments)
Tags: Fool's Gold | Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Weird Tapes
The four-man Philly synthesizer troupe get remixed by Weird Tapes, aka Tri-State Memory Tapes/Cassette pal Dayve Hawk. You can hear the synth-rock-ish original at Instamatic's MySpace. Weird Tapes' ambling steel-drum and spaced-out take is, well, weirder. And all the more... CONTINUE READING WEIRD TAPES REMIX INSTAMATIC»
Posted on August 7, 2009 in (12 comments)
Tags: Instamatic | Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | The Twilight Sad | Weird Tapes
It was just last week we were telling you about Memory Tapes (aka Memory Cassette, aka Weird Tapes, aka Southern NJ resident Dayve Hawk)'s fully remixed (and downloadable) Calls & Responses EP. Now the gothy Trent Reznor-approved and Mercury Prize-nominated... CONTINUE READING HORRORS REMIX MEMORY TAPES»
Posted on July 28, 2009 in (4 comments)
Tags: Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Nick Cave | The Dirty Three | The Horrors | Weird Tapes
New Jersey's Memory Cassette (aka Memory Tape, aka Weird Tapes) recently released the Call & Response EP, but it sold out (at least in physical form) long before most folks got a chance to grab it. As a sort of... CONTINUE READING DOWNLOAD MEMORY CASSETTE'S CALLS & RESPONSES REMIX EP»
Posted on July 23, 2009 in (1 comments)
Tags: Dam Funk | Memory Cassette | Memory Tapes | Sail A Whale | Weird Tapes
