Track Listing
- Low Earth Orbit
- Proun
- Man In The Planet
- Corridors (Covered in Fine Velvet)
- It Smells Like Dust, and Moonlight
Low Earth Orbit
Low Earth Orbit
17 September 2024, original rel. 31 August 2020
Ambient, DroneRead the retrospective of this release by pb!
The original Low Earth Orbit EP came out on Total Trash Tapes four years ago. I'm impatient for a 5-year anniversary remastered reissue. I made this EP in about two months in that summer and people occasionally still talk about it. I figured that I would make a reissue so I can give people something instead of saying the original tapes have long since been distributed. There were only 10 made originally.
Most of the sounds on this EP were among the very first things I had ever actually put some level of effort into recording. I had developed an obsession with ambient music and synthesizers and that summer I got my hands on a Korg Monologue (honestly a pretty difficult machine to make ambient sounds with, but I was determined). I did not know what I was doing. I did not know how to play keyboard. Yet I enjoyed the sounds that it made, especially continually layering the sounds over each other in ways.
I know what artists I was copying with each track on this project. Each song is basically a love-letter to a musician's style I had worshipped at 19. Even listening to this again years later, I'm filled with a tempered proudness of the product of the music. I manage to actually enjoy something I made. It only took four years.
This reissue I took the liberty of remastering some of the tracks slightly. Many of them were originally mixed very quietly. Just some technical things to make the general listening experience less cumbersome.
Maybe one day I'll make something like this again.
-bzg
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