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One day, young Davey Harms wanted to make some techno music. But unlike every other red-blooded American boy, he had no drummachine, no sampler, no sequencer, and not even a computer. Despite being such a deprived little punk, Davey was resourceful and so he looked around his room for something else that he could make some beats out of. Gathering up all his guitar pedals and a mixer, he asked himself, “Can I make accessible beat driven music with a rock n’ roll edge using just these fx pedals?” Any gear nerd would have told him that this is impossible, because guitar pedals need some sort of source sound in order to work. But Davey was also deprived of friendship at this point in his life, so no one like that was there, and instead he defied such unknown expectations and assembled all his guitar toys into what is essentially a synth circuit the wrangles mixer-feedback into fierce rhythms. In other words, this is the cyberpunk dream come true. You know, those movies in the 90s that depicted snot-nosed teens “hacking” into common everyday electronics and making them do incredible things like steal all the money out of the US treasury. Technology
transcended and turned into pure magic. That is exactly what Davey did. And thus MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED was born.
Now it is many years later, and MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED has explored and mastered the vast possibilities of this guitar-pedal synth set up. He also has many friends now. Adult mother-fucking friends that know what’s what and think that MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED is the most fascinating music being made. Friends like Dan Deacon who recently named MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED one of the best acts of 2007 in a recent Pitchfork pole. Friends that understand that “Party Like a Rock Star” and Justice’s techno-rock are just beat songs about rock n’ roll, while MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED is beats born from a perfect marriage of rock n’ roll and techno. Friends that have seen how far this pedal-synth setup has come. That now it is capable of much more than insane aggressive beats, but can also manifest beautiful melodies and emulate so many tones and timbres that you ask yourself, “Is that a banjo inside of his Big Muff or is he just happy to play Someone’s in
the Kitchen With Dinah for me?” So, with this awesomely honed powers, and with powerfully awesome friends like that, it is only natural that the first MINCEMEAT OR TENSPEED album has been born. Lifted on high by a trinity of record labels, this 12” will instantly show you the new world of sounds that shall move your feat, expand your mind, and get you really fucking high. This is magic on a plate. So rub it with a needle and remember the boy
who grew like a seed into a Manthing that now everyone is good friends with. The feel good hit of 2008!
MP3 SAMPLE: Root Turs
YOUTUBE SAMPLE: Circle Crazy