1981, by Immaterial

1981

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Gavin Hellyer Home recordings done by the former lead singer of Rooney at the age of 14. Owd Scrat felt it was time they were heard so good on them. The tapes feature all sorts of disparate sounds, some with a musical bent, and some not. I reckon every bit of it is worthwhile though.

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1.	Untitled (Mass) 02:05	buy track
2.	Untitled (Chinook) 02:52	buy track
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Immaterial (aka Dermot Bucknall, former singer of nineties Liverpool band Rooney) made a number of lo-fi experimental cassette albums – in small handmade editions – in the summer, autumn and winter of 1981, when he had just turned 14. We at Owd Scrat feel very strongly that now is the time for the stark grey beauty of this body of work to finally see the light of day. Recorded on a Binatone mono tape recorder and Hitachi stereo hi-fi tape deck during those long school holiday and weekend hours, this selection of pieces mixes apocalyptic tape distortions – made by manipulating the record button on the tape decks – with fragments of the short wave radio noise, news reports and pirate radio broadcasts from 1981, that monochrome but seminal year.

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released September 12, 2017

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