That’s the logo that I designed sometime around ’98-’99 when I was deeply into analog 4-track cassette recording. These days the concept doesn’t seem so unusual or amazing, but at that time I began work on spacey, layered tape collage stuff that was psychedelic in theme, with plenty of weird spoken bits and samples from thrift store LPs I’d accumulated.
Jack Van Impe liked to rant about tranquilizers, pills, and LSD on record (as did most evangelical folk on 1970s vinyl), so his voice as various speeds with assorted electronic/space sounds resulted in a handful of audio experiments which I may or may not take the time to (ever) post. I think that I fancied myself capable of sonic magic akin to Steve Fisk (solo stuff, Pigeonhed), which was my error.
Besides, at that point I’d already gotten pretty spacey and psychedelic with my Teenagers Live Forever project – and, to some extent, with my Dance Floor Five stuff. I believe that the logos are strangely complementary:
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