yakuza switchblade: human hands

{cole miller}

last piece of gear used: casio dg-20 controller, casio cz-101
first pece of gear used: tascam portastudio

last cassette listened to: caged soprano "the newspaper"
first cassette listened to: meatloaf "bat out of hell"

last book read: Olaf Stapledon "last and first men"
first book read: H.G. Wells "the time machine"

last record listened to: tones on tail "pop"
first record listened to: the cramps "bad music for bad people" or devo "

last food eaten: toast with avocado

favorite record title {now}: "some deaths take forever"

last person you said goodbye to: ossian chris tierra

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yakuza switchblade: radio people

{sam goldberg}

last piece of gear used: Dave Smith Instruments MoPho
first piece of gear used: Epiphone Crestwood

last cassette listened to: "Icelnad & Toledo" - Synaptic Foilage
first cassette listened to: "Pyromania" - Def Leppard

last book read: "A New Look at Black Families" by Willie & Reddick
first book read: "Good Night Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown

last record listened to: "Durch Die Wuste" Hans Joachim Roedelius
first record listened to: "Thriller" - Michael Jackson

last food eaten: Twizzlers Cherry Pull & Peel

favorite record title {now}: "Harvest"

last person you said goodbye to: Helen Lanning

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yakuza switchblade: timothy wind

{charles free}

last piece of gear used: busted transistor radio
first piece of gear used: karaoke machine



last cassette listened to: The Dead Live at Renaissance Faire Grounds 8-27-72 which is as nasty as it gets

first cassette listened to: Queens "greatest hits"



last book read: Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury

first book read: some Bernstein Bears or some shit



last record listened to: A // Politcal - "Planting the Seeds of Revolution"

first record listened to: first memorable is probably Arlo Guthrie "Alices Restraunt" or Run DMC "Raising Hell"



last food eaten: the worst gas station chili dog washed down with the worst malt liqour on way home from the worst bonfire



favorite record title {now}: Dory Previn "Mythical Iguanas and Kings" / Agincourt - "Fly Away" cant really get enough of either


last person you said goodbye to: the boy

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yakuza switchblade: wet hair

{shawn reed}

last piece of gear used: Roland SH101 and SM57
first piece of gear used: Fender Strat

last cassette listened to: The Other Side of Summer (Mississippi Mix)
first cassette listened to: kids book read along cassettes

last book read: Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
first book read: Tin Tin and Uncle Scrooge Comic Compendiums from the hometown library

last record listened to: Phantom Payn "Days"
first record listened to: Black Flag "First Four Years"

last food eaten: pasta w/ wild mushroom cream sauce

favorite record title {now}: Heavier Than a Death in the Family

last person you said goodbye to: members of Grass Widow and Mikey from Providence

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yakuza switchblade: indignant senility / expressway yo-yo dieting

{pat maherr}

last piece of gear used: Boss EQ pedal
first pece of gear used: cassette boombox w/ built-in mic

last cassette listened to: Hamagroll
first cassette listened to: Prokofiev - Symphony #1

last book read: Martin Bormann: Nazi In Exile by Paul Manning
first book read: Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now

last record listened to: disk from Absolute Body Control Tapes: '81-'89
first record listened to: Beach Boys - Endless Summer

last food eaten: home-made vegetable + chicken soup

favorite record title {now}: self-titled

last person you said goodbye to: my girlfriend's mother Esther

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yakuza switchblade: nina hartmann

{nina hartmann}

last piece of gear used: portable tape recorder
first pece of gear used: squire jagmaster guitar

last cassette listened to: mississippi recs - lullabies and dream songs
first cassette listened to: something my parents listened to, probably joan baez

last book read: Jean Genet - the thief's journal
first book read: nancy drew

last record listened to: soft cell - non stop erotic cabaret
first record listened to: i can't remember, the first record i ever bought though was the dead kennedys s/t

last food eaten: veggie burrito

favorite record title {now}: love's easy tears

last person you said goodbye to: my best friend

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yakuza switchblade: oneohtrix point never

{dan lopatin}

last piece of gear used: roland sp 555
first pece of gear used: roland juno 60

last cassette listened to: can't remember, my tape player is broken
first cassette listened to: aerosmith - permanent vacation

last book read: Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (33 1/3)
first book read: dont know, probably a soviet picture book with lots of bears in it

last record listened to: prince - sign o the times
first record listened to: its gotta be a beatles record?

last food eaten: bacon egg and cheese on a poppy seed bagel

favorite record title {now}: Orange You Glad

last person you said goodbye to: Konx-om-Pax

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yakuza switchblade: jefre cantu-ledesma

{jefre cantu-ledesma}

last piece of gear used: my 'set up' 3 moogerfoogers, a mixer, electric guitar, Line6 POD, a few BOSS pedals..
first pece of gear used: electric guitar

last cassette listened to: Ilyas Ahmed mixtape for the Root Blog
first cassette listened to: Prince 'Purple Rain'

last book read: The Ultimate Medicine - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
first book read: I seem to remember somthing about the ABC's

last record listened to: Brian Eno - Music For Films
first record listened to: Probably something by Iron Maiden (Circa The Number of the Beast) or Pink Floyd's The Wall

last food eaten: Chana Dal with nan & Chi

favorite record title {now}: White Light / White Heat

last person you said goodbye to: My wife, Barbara.

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yakuza switchblade: spencer yeh

{c spencer yeh}

last piece of gear used: violin
first pece of gear used: violin

last cassette listened to: James Friley "Improvisations"
first cassette listened to: first tape I bought with my own $$ was Beastie Boys "License to Ill" -- they sold it to me with this cassette security thing still on it, which was really tough to break apart/off.

last book read: Michel Houellebecq "Platform"
first book read: do scrolls count ?

last record listened to: Daphne Oram "Oramics" 4LP
first record listened to: I am guessing something by The Carpenters because I remember the last few records my folks still had

last food eaten: "apple cinnamon" granola in blueberry kefir

favorite record title {now}: Acid In The Style of David Tudor

last person you said goodbye to: Greg Kelley


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yakuza switchblade: pete swanson

{pete swanson}

last piece of gear used: the usual. The last thing I touched was a fader on my terrible mixer.
first pece of gear used: toddler piano soundtracks to science fiction movies

last cassette listened to: Mi Or And The Pedestals "EOS"
first cassette listened to: Run DMC "Raising Hell"

last book read: "Drop Edge Of Yonder"
first book read: "A Wrinkle In Time"

last record listened to: Call Back The Giants
first record listened to: Most likely some book on LP involving Tolkien.

last food eaten: Loafaroni with coffee

favorite record title {now}: I'm some songs

last person you said goodbye to: you. The Witch and Wheezy

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yakuza switchblade: carl calm

{eric lanham}

last piece of gear used: eurorack modular synth
first pece of gear used: yamaha dx-27 given to me from a middle school girlfriend

last cassette listened to: john clyde evans - go gracious kiki change
first cassette listened to: smashing pumpkins - gish

last book read: among the thugs by bill buford
first book read: some variety of large hardback science book with huge pictures about spiders, sharks, snakes, or dinosaurs

last record listened to: autechre - quaristice
first record listened to: first LP record could have been van morrison or moody blues from my dad, but most likely dark side of the moon. my dad is super square but we was way into piper at the gates of dawn.

last food eaten: coffee and toast

favorite record title {now}: greg kelley - i don't want to live forever

last person you said goodbye to: sarah


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yakuza switchblade: geoff mullen

{geoff mullen}

last piece of gear used: teisco electric guitar, maestro phaser, alesis nanoverb, yamaha e1005 analog delay, 2 sony tcm handheld cassette players, maestro echoplex ep-3
first piece of gear used: acoustic guitar

last cassette listened to: james blames "summer songs"
first cassette listened to: probably some terrible cassingle from the mid-to-late 80's
(think mc.hammer, young mc., another bad creation, etc.)

last book read: the adventures of huckleberry finn by mark twain
first book read: maybe something by the berenstein bears, or "frog and toad"

last record listened to: people the sky by michael czajkowski
first record listened to: most likely one of the beatles records. either that or something like beethoven or tchaikovsky

last food eaten: nature's path flax plus cereal w/ thompson raisins and soymilk, w/ a cup of guatemalan coffee

favorite record title {now}: force the hand of chance by psychic t.v., or twin infinitives by royal trux

last person you said goodbye to: uncle bob


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yakuza switchblade: three legged race

{robert beatty}

last piece of gear used: Realistic MG-1 & Frostwave Fat Controller
first piece of gear used: Bicycle Radio with broken horn

last cassette listened to: Schoolly D "Schoolly D"
first cassette listened to: "Weird" Al Yankovic "Dare to Be Stupid"

last book read: "A Cool Million" by Nathanael West
first book read: "The Indian In the Cupboard" by Lynne Reid Banks

last record listened to: Prince "Prince"
first record listened to: Ugly Duckling storybook LP

last food eaten: Pizza

favorite record title {now}: "Everybody is Fantastic"

last person you said goodbye to: Kate Duncan


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yakuza switchblade: mirror to mirror

{alex twomey}

last piece of gear used: computer keyboard
first piece of gear used: my baby voice

last cassette listened to: ciani - seven waves
first cassette listened to: weird al greatest hits vol. 2

last book read: realityland
first book read: day in the life of super critter?

last record listened to: plantasia
first record listened to: dallas cowboys christmas?

last food eaten: asada burrito

favorite record title {now}: mad about the mouse

last person you said goodbye to: baby


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yakuza switchblade: coppertone

{sasha wiseman}

last piece of gear used: ever-present Juno 60 and...my mind..?
first pece of gear used: heart monitor used to monitor my heart beats in high school, never used for such practical purposes once i realized what an amazing sound it made...and then heart2heart was born, sort of.

last cassette listened to: john fahey/ robert johnson/ carter family tape
first cassette listened to: yikes i dont know! middle school boyfriend mixtapes?

last book read: just re-read "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
first book read: i wish i knew

last record listened to: i've actually never owned a record player
first record listened to: ?

last food eaten: steak!

favorite record title {now}: this is way way too hard of a question, but my favorite title i've seen recently is "challenger"

last person you said goodbye to: late airport run to return markus to vienna last night...airplanes lit from beneath, emerging out of dense LA fog


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yakuza switchblade: driphouse

{daren ho}

last piece of gear used: sequential circuits six-trak
first pece of gear used: upright piano

last cassette listened to: pulse emitter on NNA
first cassette listened to: Uncle-made Beatles mix tape

last book read: rudolph wurlitzer's "nog", drew daniel's "throbbing gristle's twenty jazz funk greats", a handful of short stories on rudy rucker's www.flurb.net
first book read: who remembers that?

last record listened to: velvet underground's s/t
first record listened to: forgot

last food eaten: tofu, salted fish, and chicken casserole at congee village

favorite record title {now}: juicy fruit

last person you said goodbye to: marcia bassett


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any given sunday "a {excerpt}"

from "take me to your dealer" c30 on a.o.c.
out soon.

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yakuza switchblade: baronic wall

{jack gilbert}

last piece of gear used: The Yamaha AN1X synth that I'm going to sell in a few days because I don't like it enough to lug it to Portland.
first piece of gear used: A Casio MT-68 I bought from a friend who was leaving town.

last cassette listened to: A hissy Mazzy Star tape on my old walkman. I've been out of the loop living in Wales and the few tapes I have are charity shop stuff.
first cassette listened to: A compilation called "Rave 92" was the first tape I bought myself. A couple dimly remembered mixtapes featuring the Beatles and some kids songs existed before that.

last book read: A re-read of "At Swim Two Birds" by Flann O'Brien, because I haven't been able to make it to the used bookstore in a while.
first book read: It was full of swirly paintings of houses and had hardly any words, but it was still frustrating because I couldn't read at all.

last record listened to: Face to Face by The Kinks
first record listened to: The bass parts of "Everbody Knows This is Nowhere", which were all I could hear when I was upstairs in bed.

last food eaten: A small chocolate muffin with two dollops of ice cream.

favorite record title {now}: Cyborg

last person you said goodbye to: My grandparents who don't want me to leave the country again.


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yakuza switchblade: xela

{john twells}

last piece of gear used: Sequential Circuits Pro-One
first piece of gear used: Radio Shack sampling keyboard (SK-1 knock-off)

last cassette listened to: Reuben Son - Cortical Migrations
first cassette listened to: Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds

last book read: The Walking Dead Book 12
first book read: Miffy

last record listened to: Ghostface - The Big Doe Rehab
first record listened to: Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love

last food eaten: A self-made bulgur wheat/mushroom concoction

favorite record title {now}: DJ Nate - Da Trak Genious

last person you said goodbye to: Mikey 'IQ' Jones


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yakuza switchblade: grasslung

{jonas asher}

last piece of gear used: ?
first pece of gear used: Charvel Charvette 6-String Electric

last cassette listened to: Thought Broadcast by ravi binning (GEL11)
first cassette listened to: Led Zeppelin "Houses Of The Holy"

last book read: Aleksandr Blok "Selected Poems"
first book read: Sentimental Education

last record listened to: Lowlife "Dimiuendo"
first record listened to: The Beatles "Rubber Soul"

last food eaten: Granola and Yogurt

favorite record title {now}: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (one of them at least.....)

last person you said goodbye to: Roe


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yakuza switchblade: concern

{gordon ashworth}

last piece of gear used: tascam mf-p01 cassette four track.
first pece of gear used: either a walkman or a shitty keyboard.

last cassette listened to: life during wartime "mixed combat" compilation.
first cassette listened to: probably "marvin's invention" (kid's book on tape) 1987.

last book read: italo calvino "cosmicomics."
first book read: probably "the little fur family" or "the runaway bunny."

last record listened to: jackie opel "picture of smoke" 45.
first record listened to: unknown, but probably The Beatles or some classical record my parents put on at home.

last food eaten: I ended my night with hot tamarind candy and a brown ale from Cascade Lakes brewery.

favorite record title {now}: Strive to Survive Causing the Least Suffering Possible.

last person you said goodbye to: my ex-girlfriend.


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yakuza switchblade: mark lord

{chris forgues}

last piece of gear used: Alessis HR16
first pece of gear used: Kareoke Machine

last cassette listened to: "There's a snake in my cash register" by Russian Tsarlag
first cassette listened to: El Debarge, forget what album, ugly yellow cover

last book read: "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin
first book read:... first memorable? "Bridge To Teribithia" by ?

last record listened to: Bela Bartok, Suite, Op. 4b / 14 pieces from "mikrokosmos"
first record listened to: Thriller MJ

last food eaten: Crackers And Cheese

favorite record title {now}: "Not Our Laws" or "They Gave You A Name?"

last person you said goodbye to: Emily Kiyomi Shinada


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yakuza switchblade: lazy magnet

{robin sherwood}

last piece of gear used: chain: tascam portastudio 414 cassette four track with "dirt dirty" and "kitten trek" cassettes for source, boss oc-2 pedal, arion meq-1 eq pedal, realistic electronic reverb, arion sad-1 analogue delay pedal, digitech rds2000 time machine.

first pece of gear used: acoustic guitar/boom box

last cassette listened to: SPORTS
first cassette listened to: STRYPER "to hell with the devil"

last book read: "valis" . . . again
first book read: "run silent, run deep"

last record listened to: whyes blud "liquor castle"
first record listened to: woodstock "ost"

last food eaten: chicken finger hoagie with horseradish cheese and romaine

favorite record title {now}: n/a

last person you said goodbye to: sakiko mori


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yakuza switchblade: earn

{matt sullivan}

last piece of gear used: Terrible Boss DR-110 drum machine
first pece of gear used: Cassette recorder

last cassette listened to: Jon Hassell "Power Spot"
first cassette listened to: Michael Jackson "Bad"

last book read: "Querelle" Jean Genet (RE)
first book read: ?

last record listened to: Moggi "Tra Scienza E Fantascienza"
first record listened to: Huey Lewis and The News "Sports"

last food eaten: Turkey Sandwich

favorite record title {now}: "The Lexicon of Love"

last person you said goodbye to: Cody Burger Twomey


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yakuza switchblade: greg davis

{greg davis}

last piece of gear used: Eurorack Modular Synthesizer
first pece of gear used: Technics turntables & a really big and old 4 track recorder & Ibanez analog delay

last cassette listened to: Mississippi Records Tape Series Vol 45 - Samba De Morro
first cassette listened to: Howard Jones? Peter Gabriel? Stuff I taped off the radio?

last book read: Allan Kaprow - Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life / Mud & Water - A Collection of Talks by the Zen Master Bassui
first book read: Where the Wild Things Are? Shel Silverstein?

last record listened to: Pierre Henry - Le Voyage 'An Electronic Score based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead'
first record listened to: The Beatles - Abbey Road & HELP!

last food eaten: Mushroom / Barley Soup & Apple Cider

favorite record title {now}: Tusk

last person you said goodbye to: my friends Toby & Alexandria

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yakuza switchblade: keith fullerton whitman

{jacques and keith; jacques r.i.p.}

last piece of gear used: flower electronics t_ng touch noise generator
first piece of gear used: dewan triple slice module commodore vic20

last cassette listened to: reuben son "cortical migrations" (digitalis, 2010)
first cassette listened to: a.a.v.v. "breakdance" (k-tel, 1984)

last book read: "broken music" rene & ursula block (gelbe musik, 1989)
first book read: "watership down" richard adams (rex collins, 1972)

last record listened to: anestis logothetis "hör-spiel! 1960 necrologlog 1961" (jeunesses musicales)
first record listened to: modest mussorgsky "night on bald mountain"

last food eaten: awesome chanterelle mushroom pork/beef meatloaf from highland kitchen, w/ collard greens & garlic mash

favorite record title {now}: "music has the right to children"

last person you said goodbye to: john mcentire, sam prekop, and archer prewitt.

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flower man "IBM UNTITLED {excerpt}"

from forthcoming split cs with rene hell
on agents of chaos

OUT SOON ON A.O.C.:

keith fullerton whitman "live generator" c40
any given sunday "take me to your dealer" c30
driphouse "FM radio '10" c24
flower man / rene hell "split" c20