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Sly & The Family Drone
Acousmatic / Tape music / Trance

"when i say sly, you say drone!"

London and South East
United Kingdom

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Last Login:  8/18/2008
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   Sly & The Family Drone: General Info
Member Since7/20/2007
Band MembersMatthew Cargill
Influences± Cassette tapes
± Razor blades
± Musique Concrète
± Bernard Parmegiani's 'Pop e'clectic'
± Shitmat
± Now music compilations 11 onwards
Sounds LikeEverything you've ever heard recorded on magnetic tape, spliced together, processed, cut up and spliced back together again. Or if being more specific some garbled mess including samples from...

tenor saw
1940s big band records
discarded tapes
theusaisamonster
disney soundtracks
tori amos
jaws c64 cassette
fantomas
billie holiday
Record Labelunsigned
Type of LabelNone





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Aug 30 2008 9:00P
Woolfire Festival Hampshire, London and South East
Oct 11 2008 8:00P
Spatchcock 7 Warehouse! London, London and South East
Nov 15 2008 8:00P
Albert Brighton, London and South East

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   About Sly & The Family Drone
“Strands can be found all over the world, in gutters, snagged on trees, wherever tape players have ventured it seems they have chewed, snarled and spat too. These fragments create a shifting inaudible soundscape. Some of the strands have travelled far, they are worn and battered but can be re-spooled, and listened to.” Zoë Irvine

Taking influence from the work of Zoë Irvine’s ‘Magnetic Migration’ and Michael Oster’s ‘Tape Destruction’, I was encouraged to push this found material even further; by applying destructive techniques to the magnetic tape, I was able to seriously affect the sonic qualities of the recorded material.
My intention was to investigate the properties of cassette tape and exploit them to produce sound; the ‘warm’ warbles of wow and flutter from the tape transform into deep bass murmurs and spoken word becomes lost beneath a garbled layer of hiss. As the sub bass lines fluctuate in and out of the sonic field, the listener is challenged to search for hidden melodies that may or not be there.

I'm currently studying BA Sound Arts & Design at London College of Communication. Last year I received a Distinction for my cassette work. I've put this page up to show off some of my work and to make contact with others working with cassette tape!

Here's a link to a recent live set recorded straight from the mixer. Excuse the realy shitty clipping, the sound guy wouldn't turn it up so the gain is maxxxxed. Sorry!
Enjoy though, let me know what you think!
Download it here!

Here's a video of me playing my tapes at the disco boubou warehouse party. Banger!




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I am now able to sell my tapes via paypal. Each c20 cassette is a duplicate of a three month long tape splicing experiment. Either side features cut up samples of found tapes, vintage warbling, backward spoken word passages with warm bass dropouts, hiss, wow and flutter.
Each cassette costs three english pounds and is available in either slime green or baby blue with record tabs out.
Please specify which colour you would prefer when ordering.


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Aug 11 2008 7:50 PM

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Aug 7 2008 12:07 AM

i have one or two of the original ones, but they are fairly creased (those are the ones i put up in record shops etc), and i may well get some amended ones printed up to give to the bands concerned.
message me your postal address and i will get a couple to you at some point!
Nitkowski





Jul 27 2008 2:12 PM

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Colour Ride





Jul 22 2008 3:57 PM

thanks!

yeah i'm planning on selling some on the day, but all bands playing can have one for free!
Colour Ride





Jul 22 2008 1:02 PM

Hey!




+ Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides


+ John C-Judd(son)


Tickets: www. wegottickets. com/event/32481

Interlard





Jul 10 2008 5:48 PM

Ta, enjoying your tape-itude too. download our album it's free and there'll be another along soon. We're interested in gigging at the moment but it's all a question of motivation and getting the new tracks sorted...
cool for cats.





Jul 4 2008 1:16 PM

i managed to get some photos from my phone up their a bit shit but put them there anyway! i did that funny little tag thing on them so hopefully that should work! and the reading gig sounds cool! james mentioned it a while ago too!
dog frog





Jun 26 2008 11:39 PM

hi matt. thanks for the kind words.

i should record something new sometime but im more interested in playing live at the moment....not that im doing that much tbh.
:(
CABLES





Jun 10 2008 12:08 PM

I think that the picture of me enjoying Sly, albeit hideous, sums up my feelings of Sly and BouBou.
See you soon champ
xx
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Jun 7 2008 3:00 PM

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May 27 2008 11:44 PM

yes, yes i was at the warehouse!
you were real reaaaal good.
x
cool for cats.





May 26 2008 9:52 PM

yea was sick!!! sooo good!!! ahaha the police got totally owned at the beginning lol got meself a tshirt!! the djs were so sick too, love a bit of breakbeat! got dragged out around 1.
30ish tho, but herd somewhere tht it got shut down later on? hope not! cool set tho its so clever! have some photos on my phone too, wen i work out how to get them on the computer i shall send away lol
shield your eyes





May 19 2008 6:31 PM

yerr
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May 16 2008 9:48 PM

aha hellyea! wht manics, caught them off ur half a peigeonnnn website thing through the tome page thing! :p theres some mad stuff on there! i like the sound of that Ray Rumours , sounds a bit like Le Volume Couzbe but less sinister... so in the way that they sound foriegn too ... lol
and indeed im rolling on down to that fleet warehouse thing! it sounds mental, the djset will be sick too, u'l have to find some full on rave tapes! exciting stuff!xx
andy





May 10 2008 12:51 AM

I was indeed there on that awsome nite, when the race track was put to death. Outstanding set it was. It made me feel as if I was 9 again; watching and listening from the outside with life flashing before me. Sounds strange I know. That is a compliment by the way, as totally changed my way of thinking emotionally. (Not many things do that to me. Anyway I'll shut up now. Cheers for adding me.
Take it easy
Quarry Eyes





May 9 2008 2:39 PM

Hey, hey! You're right, it's never long enough. Though, if all goes to plan, I'll be in London from September. Maybe I can come over and abuse your tapes some time. Gig was a pleasure anyway.
See you soon!
OFF N ON





May 7 2008 4:24 PM

nice new pic! x
Tom





Apr 25 2008 3:29 PM

hey chap, good luck at the resheduled gig. hope it's a blast.

im doing a bunch of shows with munch munch in june, are you still putting shows on these days? and if so where? and if so... dya wanna do a show????

birthday twas a gooden. hope to see you soon man, it's been a while!

xxx
BO NINGEN





Apr 25 2008 8:01 PM

Thanks for the add!
I really like the sounds you make.
Looking forward to see ur live performance!

_Taigen(Bo ningen/Sanpo/Tarenagashi)

CABLES





Apr 25 2008 11:22 PM

your set was incredible! do it again and again and again.
x
Emma





Apr 23 2008 3:43 PM

yes, yes! i agree with rhys/luke, the new excerpt sounds ace. is it really new or just one you've been hiding?
xxxx
ps.i drank all yr pepsi max.
Wild Dogs In Winter





Apr 23 2008 9:37 AM

if your live set sounds anything like your new excerpt you'll win my heart forever, even though you won it when we first met; you'll win everybody's heart x
Charity Dave





Apr 22 2008 6:44 PM

Dearest C(H)argill at pains me to say that I can't make this Friday as Mrs Charity Dave is taking to a beer festival so I can get drunk & start a fight with some MORRIS MEN (she has history on her side) ... Which is a shame because I would quite like to be there at S&TFD inaugural performance hurling abuse through the swathes of wow & flutter.. I also was keen to see BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS as I have always managed to miss them previously.. Well I suppose Iconsistant then!!

I will sort out the recording from the last time you were jumping into the kick drums with such aplomb
Unfortunately, it will have to be on disc, I currently don’t have (1) any cassettes (2) any way of connecting my disc to my old cassette player … I heard about your poor unfortunate communications failure.. I checked at work but we have no old L/T’s at the moment (they usually give to charity) I keep me mincers out for you … Good luck on Friday dear fellow!!
lonely ghosts (pre-order mini album now)





Mar 5 2008 12:57 AM

dude your playing a show with shield yout eyes. awsome squared.

im assuming your set is gonna be some monged out shit... i'd like to see that sometime!

im playing in london on tuesday at the buffalo bar, you should swing down if yr free. 4 piece band this time.

peace. xxx
OFF N ON





Feb 27 2008 6:39 PM

how about playing at the may event?
OFF N ON





Feb 27 2008 4:56 PM

yep the next one is april 18th and may 16th after that!!
OFF N ON





Feb 27 2008 4:09 PM

dude whats your email
i tried the one you gave me and got it wrong
booo.
serena.





Feb 22 2008 5:03 PM

it was just lovely to see you the other night, as brief as it was, sorry about that!
really really looking forward to seeing you and your gorgeous cor blimey lady at the westy.xxxx
OFF N ON





Feb 18 2008 2:12 PM

Auti5ta Rock!
and Luke comes from my neck of the woods
crazy!
Charity Dave





Dec 27 2007 9:36 AM

Happy NEW Year
http://www.tapedeck.org/index.php
Charity Dave





Sep 4 2007 8:43 PM

In the wardrobe of resonance there are many unused sounds, too vulgar, offensive, oblique, yet too beautiful to throw away….. Yet in that wardrobe we hang our likenesses, echoes of sounds already in the twilight of their Autumn, like old pocket books yellow thumb-smeared with yesterday, waiting… Waiting for someone to rediscover them, reconstruct them to the NOW… It could be you.. But I don’t think it concrete…
lonely ghosts (pre-order mini album now)





Jul 21 2007 4:42 PM

man this stuff sounds monged out... good work. x
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