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Blanketship: Teen Sounds (Gigante Sound)

Jared Blum, aka Blanketship, in an eclectic album of strange audio collage, constructed songs with absurd twists in a Negativland or Plunderphonics mold.
 

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Label: Gigante Sound
Catalog ID: GIGA014
Squidco Product Code: 12050

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2008
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardstock Sleeve
Produced by Jared Blum 2007-2008 at Bloom Studios, SF. Mastered by Mike Measer at Red Lines Audio, SF.

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"Teen Sounds is a pretty remarkable album. It's contradictory in many ways. The sounds and songs are often somewhat dissonant but yet very pleasing to the ear. They are quite dark yet also uplifting and enjoyable. Finally, the album is somber but comedic at the same time.

I was thoroughly impressed with the subtlety and complexity of this album from the first listen. The songs are composed by use of sampling, manipulation of tape reels and vinyl records, and also live instrumentation. The sounds are manipulated, distorted, arranged, and mixed in such a way as to make it almost impossible to tell where a sample ends and live instrumentation begins. The term "sound collage" falls short of conveying the sophistication of Teen Sounds, but is probably the most appropriate description.

Teen Sounds is full of memorable and haunting melodies, absolutely bizarre sounds, and distorted samples that you can't quite place. Blanketship, aka Jared Blum knew exactly what he was doing and where he was going with these songs. At no point does the album lose its way. The songs move in a clear direction. Blum's composition and arrangement skills are apparent throughout. Teen Sounds is extremely well crafted, original, and surprisingly accessible.The mixing, by Blum, serves each song individually and the album as a whole. It's quite dense, with a powerful bottom end, but with clear highs that give the album a spacious sound. There's so much going on in these songs it would have been easy to end up with a muddled mix. But Blum makes excellent use of reverb to give the songs the width and depth required.

I had the pleasure of mastering Teen Sounds, a very unique, experimental, and rewarding album."-Mike Measer, Chain DLK.com


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Track Listing:



1. Teen Sounds 2:08

2. The Northern Grapes 4:01

3. Yestone 5:03

4. Royal Ear 4:03

5. Ramsey Denver 5:37

6. Dirty, Dirty Carol 2:10

7. Swirl>Jam 3:41

8. A Paid Advertisement 4:46

9. The Serge 3:09

10. Helpless Child 3:54

11. The Electric Grapes 4:12

12. Smile, See My Veins 5:00





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Electro-Acoustic
Organized Sound and Sample Based Music
Plunder & Sample Based Compositions

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