ARTiST : Cassettes Won’t Listen
ALBUM : Small-Time Machine
LABEL : Independent
GENRE : Indie
RELEASE : 2008-03-15
STREET : 2008-03-11
ENCODER : LAME v3.97 -V2 –vbr-new
QUALiTY : 181kbps avg / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
SiZE : 39.81 MB
PLAYTiME : 00:30:36
+ TRACK LiSTiNG +
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1. Metronomes 4:19
2. Large Radio 4:16
3. Paper Float 4:14
4. Freeze And Explode 4:16
5. The Broadcast 5:57
6. Two Kids 4:09
7. The Finish Line 3:25
30:36
+ RELEASE iNFORMATiON +
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Cassettes Won’t Listen is the brainchild of New York-based,multi-instrumentalist
and producer Jason Drake and is the latest in a heap of musical monikers he has realized
over the years.
Cassettes Won’t Listen was initially just a bedroom affair; in 2004, he picked up
the microphone for the first time in years and sang over a new track he had recently
written. The result
future fan favorite and eventual single, Cutting Balloons, He
sent the track out to a few friends and never expected anything more. He soon saw the
mp3 appearing on influential blogs including Gorilla vs. Bear and Scissorkick. As this
fan base grew, Jason served up the digital-only EP Nobody’s Moving in October of 2005.
“Cutting Balloons” reached 1 on WOXY’s Top 20 charts after just weeks of being added to
rotation.
In the wake of the release of Nobody’s Moving, a wide range of artists, commissioned
countless Cassettes Won’t Listen remixes, including El-P, (featuring Trent Reznor),
Midlake, Asobi Seksu, Dr. Octagon, Pela, Dirty on Purpose, Mr. Lif, and
Morcheeba, amongst others.
Cassettes Wont Listen followed up Nobody’s Moving with another digital-only release, the
instrumental album The Quiet Trial. Both Nobody’s Moving and The Quiet Trial have received
much critic fanfare, including radio tastemakers WOXY and KEXP, SPIN, the NY Press, the
notorious Perez Hilton as well as landing an exclusive front page feature on Myspace.com and
being named one of Urbs Next 100 for 2007.
Cassettes Won’t Listen embodies an otherworldly and distinctive blend of electronica and indie rock,
with comparisons being drawn to the Postal Service, Beck, Hot Chip, The Notwist, and DJ Shadow.
His live show blasts at a frantic pace with Jason hopping from turntables to guitar to keys and vocals
as a true one-man band.
Small-Time Machine is Cassettes Wont Listen’s first ever physical release. Entirely
written, played and produced by Jason Drake, Small-Time Machine deals with many of
the themes that touch us all, including: love, betrayal, hope, disappointment and the quest to
find what’s missing in each of our lives. Small-Time Machine is the next chapter in the career
of one of the true new voices of the 21st Century.
http://www.cassetteswontlisten.com
