what if tomorrow never comes
Vasectomy Party & Hal McGee split
recorded on microcassette, May-June 2014
Side A
Unknown variable by Vasectomy Party
Track I: “What”
Track II” “If”
"What"
Trogotronic 666
Ehx Memory Boy delay
Rogue Analog delay
Sirkut WNG 2 noise generator
Mantic Conceptual Density Hulk
"If"
handbuilt cigar box synthesizer
DOD Death Metal distortion
Ehx Memory Boy delay
Rogue Analog delay
Ibanez CF7 Chorus/Flanger
Luna Lab Analog Synthesizer
microphone
Vasectomy Party is Hal Harmon
vasectomyparty.bandcamp.com
Side B
Tomorrow never comes by Hal McGee
- Arturia MicroBrute analog synthesizer and Moog MF-104 Analog Delay
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Original artwork by Hal Harmon.
Audio transcriptions from micro cassette and cover layout by Hal McGee.
Review by Jerry Kranitz at Aural Innovations:
Vasectomy Party is Hal Harmon, another Floridian audio artist who for his side of this split employs a variety of electronic gear, including delays, noise generators, distortion, flanger, and more. This is a high intensity Space-Noise excursion that’s equal parts abrasive interstellar luge competition and spacecraft engine room activity. One moment we’re jettisoned through supersonic waves of noise debris, and the next we’re in a gaggle of bleeps, blurps, pulsations and static. It’s totally spaced out but in a sand blaster sort of way.
Hal too explores experimental electronic space, creating Space-Industrial electronica with Arturia MicroBrute analog synthesizer and Moog MF-104 Analog Delay. I like the rapid-fire pulsations alongside raging cosmic buzzsaw, which together create a harrowing headphones experience. 15 minutes of white knuckled, nail biting intensity that is, nonetheless, disturbingly hypnotic.
released June 5, 2014