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Dog As Master - Dog Food and Club Sandwiches

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65 minutes on a 90-minute cassette (or one CD-R, by request). Dog Food is 20 minutes and will be on the 45-minute Side A of the cassette.
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Dog Food  
is another oddity in my catalog, and something of a novelty. A minimalist, random, chance process composition consisting of four tracks of sounds from a friend of mine and Deb's, Toby O'Brien, playing a Commodore 64 computer baseball game. The use of lo fi lo tech electronic consumer product sound samples prefigures much of my work at Tapegerm.com in the 2000s. Originally released on cassette in 1986, C20, on the Cause And Effect label.

from the January 1988 Cause And Effect catalog:
An interesting concept tape, a cut-up collage of electronic junk. Unique and a definite collector's item for the hardcore DAM fan.

"Sparse electronic run-away mod noise funk", Robin James, Sound Choice.

"An enjoyable listen; one that makes you smile", Scott Colburn, Blow It Off.

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Club Sandwiches: The Dog As Master Radio Show - Misadventures In Sound with Dog As Master  was originally recorded and intended for radio airplay. It debuted on November 27, 1986, on Dave Prescott's radio show on WZBC in Boston. It was aired a few days later, December 7, 1986, on a program hosted by Robin James (of Cassette Mythos) on KAOS in Olympia, Washington. In addition to waxing goofy about the subject of club sandwiches and other banal topics, and repeatedly announcing my contact address over and over again, I also play some un-released material, as well as play excerpts from Symbolic Accidents Of Ceremony, Brash Pussy, and Incidental Vibrations. The real highlight of the show is when I coax my miniature dachshund, Coffee Binx, to bark into the microphone. Originally released on the Cause And Effect label as a one-sided tape. I gave copies #3 through #7 to Scott Colburn, Al Margolis, Carl Howard, Byron Hoesman, and John Eberly.


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