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Skin Tone // Markus Floats split 10"

by Skin Tone and Markus Floats

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  • Limited Edition 10" vinyl
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    Each of these records was recorded live directly to vinyl. This means that each disc contains a unique performance of each of the two pieces by Markus Floats and Skin Tone.

    Lathe cuts by Jackson Darby for Personal Touch

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Untitled (Fred Moten Piece) 11:26
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Nitrogen-fixing corn consumes the toxic clouds, all pillowy like raspberry druplets 09:24
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A particularly industrial exercise, these pieces were performed 12 times in alternating succession over the course of a weekend in the Personal Touch studio at Durocher as they were cut by lathe,
live-to-disc. I hung out for a bit of one afternoon while Markus and James played, and Jackson recorded. The mood was quietly jovial – goofy, even. It was a sunny, warm late-fall day. The process was one that required many sustained bouts of focus and as it wore on one could almost sense each players’ muscle memory kicking in – a physical fusing with the contours of the piece as the specifics of its content shifted underneath. During my visit, my job was to turn off the vacuum (heard humming on each record, possibly the one almost unchanging performance) which collects the bits of excess vinyl carved out of the blank disc by the cutter head, after each performance had been rendered, and to turn it back on before the next recording began. The pieces are well-suited to this unique format, making the most of the ways time and repetition can mould and remould the musical experience of both the performer and listener. Where Lake‘s staccato tapestry weaves in and out of Moten’s immaculate verse with a soft agility, Goddard’s mbira near-mechanically rises and falls before
his saxophone’s plaintive drones are born as murmurs, swell into cries then lapse desperately into growls before dissipating. But your copy might sound totally different than mine.



The recordings posted here are ripped from two of the direct-to-disc vinyl records.

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released December 5, 2022

Music performed live by Markus Lake and James Nicholas Dumile Goddard
Text on "Untitled" by Fred Moten (The Service Porch)
Lathe cuts in real-time, direct to disc by Jackson Darby for Personal Touch
Artwork by Markus Lake
Write up by Destiny Rosenberg


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Personal Records is an independent, short-run vinyl label based in Montreal creating sonic artifacts for left field music projects. Lathe-cut by Personal Touch.

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