A review of Wild Parvenu

in The Ransom Note

Beauty Product - Wild Parvenu Maxi-Single

Caliper Music Blog's Feel Guide Vol 3 Compilation

Includes two Strategic Tape Reserve tracks and lots of other fine experimental musics. Free download!

VLK - The End of Music

The End of Music is made entirely from the last sound in songs which were listed on the Billboard singles chart for the week beginning 25 December 1999.

Free download

Efficient Processes for Synthetic Funk

EPfSF research paper.

The Strategic Tape Reserve guardedly presents the recordings from our recreation of the Efficient Processes for Synthetic Funk clinical trials. EPfSF was an Cold War-era research project which attempted to standardize low-input production methods for generating asymmetrical rhythms with military applications.

Shaq Fu: Da Return: Da Return reviewed on A Closer Listen

"Everything you hear was already here, but VLK has resurrected the music in what is an impressive reconstruction. The beats have that 90’s chunky feel, like powerful Tetris blocks falling over and over again. The vocals remain muddied while the squeezed synths dart around, lasers of light that shoot out of a strange, secret nightclub somewhere in San Antonio, Ibiza. Shaq Fu has morphed into an interdimensional being capable of transcending the decades and the borders of music itself."

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Shaq Fu: Da Return: Da Return - free 10-track EP

Shaq Fu: Da Return: Da Return is made entirely of sounds taken from Shaquille O'Neal's second album which have been processed by analog modular synthesizer and software and arranged to present an alternate context within which Shaq Fu might return.

Strategic Tape Reserve

As a continuous mix