LA Drones, by Stuart Argabright & AfterAfter

LA Drones

by Stuart Argabright & AfterAfter

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Cassette + Digital Album
Matte laminate and embossed out sleeve, three panel fold out cover, pro-dubbed cassette

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1.	Malibu Waves 07:46	buy track
2.	Replicants Skip A Rope 11:04	buy track
3.	Mirror Canyon Sunset 05:47	buy track
4.	Barefoot Dawn - Part I Monster Mash Parade // Part II Sentries Chatter 13:38	buy track

about

A note from Stuart Argabright

I had gone to LA in early summer of 2021 to help produce a mix tape for Stefan. The tracking went well and I began thinking we might get in some time to do some cassette based work while we were hot.

This worked out too, we recorded across three or four days. I had brought a selection of tapes with voices on them and Stefan had at least 6 or 8 different decks. Almost all of them could playback slower too.

Once we had our tapes loaded we would take off into something else new and in the moment. The result sometimes drifted and blurred, becoming like a kind of pitched down or screwed Lower Broadway jam.

Blue Dream...Blue Agave, blue neon path, to Whole Foods.

We went to Japan Town. Drove across town one evening to the ocean drive up to Malibu and waves were coming in, through a haze.

North to Encino and stayed some nights in Toluca Lake. Then McArthur Park and somewhere else we heard Venice Beach chimes.

The Bradbury was in the neighbourhood - that classic set for the interior of JR Sébastien living quarters in the cyberpunk classic Blade Runner … as well as for the Outer Limits episode starring Rau Culp - The Demon with the Glass Hand, written by Harlan Ellison and aired 1963-64-65.

These memories haunt the tapes going forward.

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released March 29, 2024

Coproduced by Stuart Argabright & Stefan Scott Nelson @
Stefan's S Broadway Studio 2021.

Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space

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