DJ DJ TANNER

[djdjtanner]

Look at what showed up today

[djdjtanner]

[djdjtanner]

Smoke From Your Cigarette by The Mellows, slowed down and washed out in delay and reverb. So, you know, not much work went into this...

[djdjtanner]

Got a new tape out on Adhesive Sounds.

[djdjtanner]

one off tape covers for various releases, never to be seen again.

[djdjtanner]

Kamrar sound installation New Year's Eve 2014

[djdjtanner]

Mop Sniffer

[warmgospel]

WG41

“HOST” c30

by DJ DJ TANNER

“HOST” marks the tenth solo release on Warm Gospel for the 515-based 303 wizard, DJ DJ TANNER, and it doesn’t look like his prolificacy will be slowing down. You should see the guy’s to-be-sampled stacks. He actually had to move into a new place because his old room wasn’t big enough to allow an area to actually live between the piles of records and cassette tapes. Unlike previous albums like “GANGSTER” or “FOOL”, “HOST” carries itself with a near-vapor light-heartedness. Hip-hop experimentation gives way to soft loops from fistfuls of 80’s and 90’s thrift-store fluff. The repetition invites the listener to listen past the pop music tropes and consider the hands responsible for even the most mass-produced musical trash filling the rickety shelves of secondhand stores across the Midwest.

Listen and purchase from the Warm Gospel Bandcamp page.

[warmgospel]

WG38

“WAITRESS”

by DJ DJ TANNER

There is a waitress that I work with whose very nature adds highlights and lowlights to her otherwise mundane life. She’s energetic, friendly, and a bit loopy. She always makes sure to greet me when I arrive to work a few minutes late with a genuine smile, as if it were her solely her duty to bring a little bit of excitement to the dullness of my job as a bartender. Her heightened emotions also create for her deeper valleys in which to descend. This makes her bad days into trainwrecks. She loses her innocence on these days, talking about sex and illicit drugs and complaining about customers every time she comes to the bar to pick up a drink for a table. I see this dichotomy day after day working with her. The repetition of it has become a comfort to me.

Listen and purchase from the Warm Gospel Bandcamp page.

[djdjtanner]

Kamrar practice

[warmgospel]

Warm Gospel 33

DJ DJ TANNER // SEEZUREFACE

Split on High Bias c24

“Whose job should it be to listen all day to dirty records?” Has there ever been a better vocal sample culled from/for that reduce, reuse, resample culture pioneering electronic music? The familiar crackle of vinyl cuts in and answers that sampled question, opening this split tape between Iowa sound thrifters, DJ DJ TANNER and SEEZUREFACE.  Thing is, you can buy $40 records for one drum break, or you can dust off the overlooked cardboard box of records in the corner and the beauty in even the worst music of decades past. It’s a collage, really. Just cut out the grooves you want from each album, and melt it all back together into something that resembles a record, a loop, the strum of a hand over the coiled strings.

Listen and purchase from Warm Gospel.

[warmgospel]

DJ DJ TANNER teaching sampling to the kids at the Des Moines Mini Maker Faire.

[djdjtanner]

them fools got learnt. but seriously, one of the best days ever.

[djdjtanner]

[warmgospel]

Warm Gospel 29

Kamrar

Glullings c42

I remember reading an article about Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox doing some early tape loop recordings on a rooftop somewhere. I don’t remember very many of the details, and I also completely misidentified the concept of “tape loops” when approaching the recording of Kamrar material, which starts with a cassette tape player, passes through an enormous string of effect pedals, and ends with a loop pedal, with the source material being pulled almost entirely from used new age, instrumental, and self-help cassette tapes, thrifted from junk stores around the Midwest.

The result is a kind of improvisational DJ set, wherein meditative tones, world music, and inspirational speakers are juxtaposed into a wall of layered tones, untethered by time, melody, or rhythm. Glullings is the sound of forfeited musical history bubbling up beneath its own timeline, like magnetic tape melting in a fire, the sparks rising in patterns before disappearing into a night sky the color of the tape in which they rose from.

Listen and purchase from Warm Gospel

[warmgospel]

Warm Gospel 27

DJ DJ TANNER

TOWNIE c42

Another one in the DJ DJ TANNER ongoing series which will, someday, total twenty-four in all, this tape follows the drunken townie, stumbling out of morning mass and into the city streets filled with storefronts, every other window covered with cardboard and FOR LEASE signs. It’s a simple city, and its calmness is reflected in the source selection of the album’s loops, pulling from dirty old thrift store 45s. It’s a kind of surreal parade of used-up small-town offerings, celebrating the shortcomings of a city too small to satisfy its citizens, and just large enough to keep anyone from leaving. TOWNIE follows the movements of its people like researching the repetitious trends of an ant farm, as the experiences of each character fade into and out of the whole picture, looping endlessly, generation after generation.

Listen and purchase from Warm Gospel

[centipedefarmer-deactivated2024]

Listen/purchase: Kamrar/Lost Trail split by Kamrar/Lost Trail

[djdjtanner]