Remix Tape Out Now!

Only 50 copies of Remix Tape were manufactured on high quality, purple FerroMaster cassettes with white ink imprint & full color j-card

On the third anniversary of Bandcamp’s original Juneteenth benefit for NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund - and as some of these tracks celebrate their 20th anniversary of creation and initial release - this hour-long, special collection of music arrives on high quality cassettes: the way Remix Tape was originally intended.

This release celebrates the music of artists who I had the pleasure of befriending and remixing between 2003 & 2008, including Adventure Time (Daedelus & Frosty of dublab), The One AM Radio (Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder), Take aka Sweatson Klank, Misel Quitno (Dimlite), and the Gardel Award Winning group, Altocamet.

And for this 2023 reissue, a remastered instrumental version of Explosive (from Capcom’s Final Fight: Streetwise) begins “Side A”.

Remix Tape on Bandcamp

Circa 2005, the only surviving image of my bedroom studio in Manhattan, after my sampler was moved from the floor to a desk I got for free.

In 2004, I moved from Williamsburg into a small apartment in Hell’s Kitchen with jazz trumpeter Jordan McClean. For a while, I didn’t have a bed - or a desk - and I literally sat cross-legged with headphones on my floor. While the work on this collection was created and originally released between 2003 & 2008, the vast majority of it was done in this very space. This photograph is the single surviving document of the room - now (luckily) with furniture.

It was a truly special time. As I was using a hardware sampler, I would get source material mailed to me on CD-Rs from the artists themselves. This was the era of MySpace, cracked software, and Sketchbook: a weekly DJ night begun in Los Angeles, and continued by Sweatson Klank (aka Take) and me in the East Village. The “beat scene” was truly in its infancy and, every week, I was inspired to spin records by its pioneers.

Listened to together, this compilation plays like a lost album between Remembering Today and Mirrors For Eyes, my final full-length for Mush Records.

I hope you enjoy it.