XLR8R TV Episode 140: Tune in an Afternoon: Javelin

The resourceful Brooklyn duo makes a song from warped rip-off-artist cassettes.
Asking Javelin to do one of our Tune in an Afternoon episodes was a no-brainer. Cousins Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are natural improvisers prone to mashing together found sounds on barely working boomboxes and magically turning them into timewarp dance hits that get stuck in your head for days. Here, we challenged Tom and George to make something catchy using only gear they had on tour and a handful of thrift-store cassettes. Download the result, "Me Thing Drawing Me" at xlr8r.com/javelin.

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Music

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• xlr8rtv
• javelin
• thrill jockey

[safestbearhugs]

@jacobdubyapeters 1000

[jacobdubyapeters]

What MPC's are they using

[0ldman0tis]

i think i have the same carpet in my studio.

[TheSparadrap]

@hammertown610 kaoss 2 channel mixer :)

[hammertown610]

what kind of mixer is that

[xecut10n3r]

i thought the song was going to suck but it turned out to be alright..

[blablaat123]

1:42 I don't know about your cassette decks, but as far as I know, all tape players have fast forward and rewind functions. You can't automatically skip to pre-defined points like you can on a cd or with mp3, but you can definitely "play time".

[saxophones]

YOU GUYS ARE TAPE MARTIANS

[drjackohollious]

Tape Snobs. ha ha, im s vinyl snob

same deal.

[grahamtavel]

very cool