Las
Vegas-based home recording project Ten Digit Army is D.I.Y. to the
core. Songwriter and
multi- instrumentalist TDA plays every sound you hear--from vintage
keyboards to reverbed guitars and
overloaded drum machine beats. Ten
Digit Army's first
release for RER is four catchy,
soulful
songs from a far-off basement, a distant beacon from the desert. Many
thanks to Masayuki @ Music Forest and Roland @ Machtdose podcast for
being early
supporters and spreading the word about this EP.
[Download
.zip]
rer005The Starry Tides- One Lit Window EP
(Aug 2006)
Seven
tracks of home-recorded post-rock in
miniature, originally put to tape 2000-2002. Blog attention
from Alex
Young's Milieu
and Bulut @ The
Modern Music, combined with
support from Netwaves
DJs @ Radio
Scorpio (Leuven, Belgium) and listeners on Last.fm
have led this first
EP to
reach over 6000 file downloads via Archive.org alone. OLW
is the
first in a series of four TST EPs. The second, "Music from
the film Presence", will be out this
Winter.
[Download .zip]
Pencil Test is sort of a
super-condensed rerelease of
RER01 V/A - A
Little Bedroom Rawkenroll, and serves as a time capsule of early demos
documenting the spastic, lo-fi beginnings of the Reverse Engine
experiment. Pre-RER home recordings from Striped Shirt Math
Team, The
Moth Pan, One-Eyed Spaceboy, Posthumous and The Alienated Roommates,
plus a bonus rip of Deafwing's self-released cassette-only noise rock
epic, "All-Night Entertainment District". In the words of the
Desperate
Bicycles, "It was easy, it was cheap--go and do it!".
(Out Of Print)
rer003 The Moth Pan & elevator to the
stars - split
CDr (April 2002)
Lo-fi
musings from film and music collaborators J and D. 17 tracks recorded
over two years in two bedrooms, a bathroom, and an abandoned
coffee shop.
(Out Of Print)
rer002 Striped Shirt Math Team - Academic Excellence
EP (Summer 2001)
Simply put, Academic
Excellence is a 21-track lo-fidelity epic.
This near complete collection of early demos from
Striped Shirt Math
Team also includes a bonus EP of questionable tiny music from
SSMT's alter-egos, The Magic of
Christmas, and "music for a slow motion knife fight", an MoX track
featuring Louis
Allred & The Tarik Booker Gospel Choir that can now be found on
The
Satellite Show's still-available "Consumer Product" CD.
(Out Of Print) rer001 V/A - A Little Bedroom Rawkenroll LP
(April 2001)
A limited edition CD-r
that compiled
much of the Reverse Engine collective's musical output up until that
time. It included 30-40 tracks--a slew of One-Eyed
Spaceboy tracks
including selections from two EPs on Mark Carpenter's Digital Softcore
Records (Pencil Test
and Portrait Of A Sonic
Embryo)--and early material
from elevator to the stars, Striped Shirt Math Team and The Moth Pan,
as well as one-shots from Posthumous and The Alienated Roommates. Very
few copies were made and the track listing varied from copy to copy.
Each copy contained either slides or color copies of slides taken by
Jed Johnson. There are no plans to make RER01 available again. It was
replaced in 2006 by RER04 V/A - Pencil Test: An RER Pre-History
(1998-2001), which is now deleted. Reworked versions of some of
this material appears on other RER releases. (Out
Of Print)
Las
Vegas-based home recording project Ten Digit Army is D.I.Y. to the
core. Songwriter and
multi- instrumentalist TDA plays every sound you hear--from vintage
keyboards to reverbed guitars and
overloaded drum machine beats.
Seven
tracks of home-recorded post-rock in
miniature, originally put to tape 2000-2002. Blog attention
from Alex
Young's