Cassette Gods: Al Qaeda "Invite Us Back Sometime" (Teen Action Records)

Al Qaeda
"Invite Us Back Sometime"
(Teen Action Records)

Al Qaeda is a project fronted by Scott Miller which features a constantly rotating cast of collaborators from members of The Locust to The Minutemen. They've also put put releases with a far spectrum of people from Cave Bears to Richard Ramirez and Cock ESP. This new cassingle put out by Teen Action Records out if California gives us 2 banging tracks that both beat you and cover you in an uncomfortable fuzz. Chainlight opens with crisp crunchy field recordings that are looped and then accompanied by light organ sounds. Then this shit drops the bass. Beats are clicking in and out of time with cars driving around your head while breaks come in segued by trains and footsteps, then going right back to the bass drop. Marquee starts off more breathy with a clicking right off the bat. Those clicks become more and more footsteps in the sand like and then shapes into a faux reggae beat. Steam whistles chime in and so do drums ever so slightly while someone drills you into one place. Highly recommended tape that is extremely rhythmic with an overall tense feeling.

--Mark Johnson

http://alqaeda.bandcamp.com/
http://www.teenactionrecords.com/

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It should be obvious, this is a webzine we created to put cassette releases and the format of cassette itself on a pedestal. We are not doing this to be some sort of cassette snob, more-DIY-than-thou elitists or anything. We are doing it because all the formats that sound can be presented on are exciting and provide unique ways of shaping the listeners experience... so it is a shame that any one of these formats would fall by the wayside. Cassettes provide a listening experience that is similar to vinyl because of the intermission/moment of pause created by changing sides of the tape, but can be of almost any length between 30 seconds a side to an hour. Tapes can also be listened to in a car or while jogging.
While today this format helps keep the home label alive, its almost a dream to remember that once every musician from Michael Jackson to REM had their releases on cassette. Cassettes were a legitimate format, not just for the DIY underground. Maybe we (thats you too) are the last guardians of this format. Maybe someone, someday will popularize cassettes again. In the meantime we keep the reels turning. A little offering because at least there are a few of you that know there is more than one god of this land.

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