Songs of the Tiltmaster

by Slant Commander

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1.
insected phobia 03:21
2.
thin as air 05:37
3.
playing to the cats 01:07
4.
welcome to my silo 02:03
5.
what are you waiting for? 01:50
6.
sick and tired 01:46
7.
no light 04:11
8.
cow 03:55
9.
all wrapped up inside 02:28
10.
insected phobia 04:29
11.
...introduction to self-hypnosis (thin as air) 05:53
12.
playing to the cats 01:12
13.
welcome to my silo 02:26
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what are you waiting for? 01:58
15.
sick and tired 02:18
16.
...lesson one: establish your key word (thin as air.redux) 01:45
17.
no light 04:26
18.
cow 03:57
19.
all wrapped up inside 02:50

about

This tape was a strange and mysterious one for me to gather everything together for this re-issue.

In the liner notes, it states that I (4K) mixed this in one day, half awake... and this I believe, because I have no recollection whatsoever of mixing this.

It is a perfect, early example of the community minded spirit that Day2 Alliance has always expressed... but it is also a perfect example of how impermanent memory is and how much of the 90's I spent ad hoc and half awake.

I did find a nice review of the album, from then champions of all things Day2, AUTOreverse magazine.

I hope you enjoy this collision / collage of three distinct artists coming together for the love of it.

- Mkl Anderson, May 2021

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SLANT COMMANDER "Songs of the Tiltmaster"

"This seems to be a one-off project by Chris Gregory of Day2 (Stuffings/Fuscillage). A half-hour of covers, presented as a birthday "offering"... someone has a thesaurus handy: SLANT COMMANDER = TILTMASTER. My, aren't we clever.

Gregory is helped here by guest producer 4K, who adds his usual dense levels of effects and analogue keyboard driven drones to the Stuffings-esque treatments of Tiltmaster songs mostly take from recent EPs on his new Black Apple label.

Being a fan of Tiltmaster and The Stuffings, this is a great tape. The result is a passionate kind of grace that so perfectly lends itself to the sparse and tragic melodies and lyrics of Tiltmaster so well that is becomes hard to remember who is covering who.

The tape seems to be interspersed with subliminal positive thinking lectures. "The purpose of this tape is to teach you the basic mechanics and theories of self-hypnosis... to work in a positive manner." I don't doubt it for a second, and 4K's version of the EP, which stands up on its own... perhaps it is 4K that will make the therapy penetrate; a desperate plea for the world to just slow down and control itself mixes with self-knowledge that this is just not feasible anymore... that things have just gone too far.

Check out "Playing to the cats because there's no one else around", or the Jesus and Mary Chain take on "What are you waiting for?" and take a long look around you."

-(NR) AUTOreverse #6, summer 1998

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credits

released February 14, 1998

Bluesanct (INRI032, 14 FEB 1998)
• (C-60) = ltd to 50 copies
• DIGITAL = unlimited (remastered 2021)

digital re-release 14 May 2021

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cat.no.INR032-

Slant Commander: songs of the Tiltmaster

side a-

insected phobia
thin as air
playing to the cats
welcome to my silo
what are you waiting for?
sick and tired
no light
cow
all wrapped up inside

side b-

insected phobia
...introduction to self-hypnosis (thin as air)
playing to the cats
welcome to my silo
what are you waiting for?
sick and tired
...lesson one: establish your key word (thin as air.redux)
no light
cow
all wrapped up inside


recorded on the 4-track at Day2 in the white square,
Portland, OR June 1997 by Christopher Gregory (side a)

remixed the day before Tiltmaster's birthday
on the 4-track in the second hermitage at Ravenswood
by 4K, half awake (side b)

all songs by Tiltmaster (D.Blood), arranged by CGregory/4K

cover design by 4K/GummyFat Prod.

a birthday offering to the master of solemn
with lectures on the basic mechanics and theories
of self-hypnosis

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