The Boomerang Project has been created to release previously unseen music and writing by the late James Kopta. There is a special section in the DeptEx shop devoted to James’ work. All money from the sale of these items goes in to the...
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I’m informed that this is the buckle of the bible belt. Yes. Here I am in Nashville, TN. It’s late on July 28, 2004. The first Brown Cuts Neighbors 7″ record, “Broken Down Like A Bean” (by all accounts a mastering...
Read moreTHE JOB
Recording engineers operate and maintain sound recording equipment. They may also work special effects equipment. These engineers install, test, repair, set up and operate the electronic equipment used to record and transmit radio signals. They...
Read more… this and that …
The Denim + Diamonds EP “Street Medics Unite” is now out on Bloodlink Records.. pick your copy up at a show or look for it in our shop or your local music store by the end of the month or so… If you haven’t been to the Schenectady Museum yet to...
Read moreIC Vector (or Interval Vector)
An array of six integers representing the ic (interval class) content of a chord, where the first digit indicates the number instances of IC1 in the set, the second, IC2, third, IC3, fourth, IC4, fifth, IC5, and sixth, IC6. For example, is the ic...
Read moreTelemachus
STATELY, PLUMP BUCK MULLIGAN CAME FROM THE STAIRHEAD, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and...
Read moreHave you noticed lately…
That the birds are starting to sound like cell phones?
Read moreGiraffes on Horseback Salads
The “Surrealist woman” is lying in the middle of a great bed, sixty feet long, with the rest of the guests seated around each side. Along the bed, as decorations, are a group of dwarfs caught by Harpo. Each is supported on a crystal...
Read moreChange is comin’ down fast
Yes. You may have noticed by now we are heavily overhauling the DeptEx web experience. There is a whole new section for Magic Recording Eye already under way. Many more new things to come, and a serious face lift is being sculpted. But. RIGHT...
Read moreTo Boddah:
Speaking from the tongue of an experienced simpleton who obviously would rather be an emasculated, infantile complain-ee. This note should be pretty easy to understand. All the warnings from the punk rock 101 courses over the years, since my...
Read moreDenim & Diamonds play in your town!
Dates have been announced. Get on your pincushion platform boots and get out and dance the boomerang with the kings! ALSO: new stuff in the Shop, including the first Hail Mary 7″ – Glorious Morning which is now back in print.
Read moreSpace Truckers
They’ve shipped everything from square pigs to anti-gravity beer… But now they’ve got a load of real trouble. John Canyon is one of the last independent space transport entrepreneurs. Rough times force him to carry suspicious cargo to Earth...
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