Remote Outposts

     Ever since I was a kid, I've always loved the sound of AM radio, lo-fi recordings and the way that music sounds over the phone...

   Back in 2005, a package showed up in my P.O. box from Dan B (from  IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT  /  UKE OF SPACES  /  Trd Wrd Records ) with thi...

   In my last year of living in Bloomington, IN, I made a whole lot of mix tapes for friends, both locally and far away. I would sit in fr...

   Matt Himes is the man behind SHEP AND ME, which incorporates the sounds of experimental folk, outsider noise, tape loops, and acoustic ba...

   This tape was compiled by Dan B (of  IMPRACTICAL COCKPIT  and  VILLAGE OF SPACES ) to showcase some of his and friends' bands who pla...

       When this tape came out back in 2002, it was glued to the inside of any tape deck in my vicinity for a solid year (and is still on...

   UKE OF PHILLIPS and ETWAN SHERLEW are brothers Dan and Matt Beckman (among many friends) and both play acoustic/electric music that seems...