self-titled - no. 2 - (Page 17) The Blue Tape By 1997 the Fabsix’s new compositions started turning into magnum opuses. We were seven members strong and influenced by the Orb, Parliament/Funkadelic, Burning Spear, Wu-Tang, The Swirlies and Stereolab. We headed to Tarquin Studios in Connecticut to record three songs, each about 10 minutes long. Once the live stuff was recorded, we added synths, drum machines, scratches and VHS samples. We pressed it to cassette and called it The Blue Tape. Hednod Action Summer of 1997 I got a job as a camp counselor to replace my broken turntables with some Technics 1200s. I found a used pair. They were pretty beat up but still worth the $300 each. I then spent the rest of ’97–’98 in my bedroom scratching, juggling and recording a mixtape with the 4-track. I wanted to combine some 4-track trickery with party blends—kind of like Coldcut, but use hot shit like a Photek remix of Dr. Octagon. Super Crispy Around 2007 I got really turned off by the amount of “Internet mixtapes” begging to be downloaded for free. Most people who know me know that I am far from a hater, but MySpace was becoming a cesspool for chumps. In addition, if your mix is free, it probably sucks. Gig wise, 2007 was pretty good for me, so I decided to cap the year off with a mixtape of all the tunes I had been playing out. It touched on freestyle, Baltimore, house, techno, electro, bass and some musical numbers, like this unreleased XXXChange remix of Thom Yorke. 17
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