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indiecassettes:

Cosmic Sound - VHS Vision - $5.00
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Quantity: 100 tapes

VHS Vision takes the listener on a journey from slow-paced nature tones to 90’s sounding grooves. Every song progressively becomes more dancy as deep bass kicks and other choppy tones join in with the beat.

A:
Backyard Woods
Purple Melody
Little Flower
Radical Eye
Night Owl

B:
Bear Auras
Wind Shine
Weird Trees
R.I.P. Robin

Purchase/Stream:
http://crashsymbols.bandcamp.com/album/vhs-vision

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cassette-rewind:

Cosmic Sound-Purple Melody

I’m loving everything about this next artist and without Dwight over at the label Crash Symbols I wouldn’t have been able to have this great album on my laptop. If you aren’t familiar with CS then you certainly should be. They’ve signed a number of talented bands and since I haven’t heard of most of them I was introduced to tons of great new music. Anyways, a few days ago I found VHS Vision in my inbox and after a few plays I gained one of the top releases to hit my ears this month. The EP is from Stephen Farris, a producer out of Texas who now makes music under his own name but at the time went by Cosmic Sound. Let me get to the point which is VHS Visions is a nine track adventure through synth heaven and if you can’t take my word for it, Com Truise even gave it a thumbs up. “Purple Melody” just slightly touches on the fact that Farris definitely knows his way around a synthesizer and has a knack for blending together retro, gleaming sounds with equally stunning atmospheres. You can stream the EP over at bandcamp or soundcloud but I’d suggest while you’re on bandcamp that you check out some of the other artists that Crash Symbols has to offer.

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Originally self-released midway in 2010, VHS Vision was the one and only release from Texas producer Stephen Farris under his Cosmic Sound moniker, which he used briefly between solo releases. It hung around long enough to raise a few eyebrows, get some good “I never saw this coming” press, and even a nod from Com Truise before Farris began focusing on his work under his own name. At the time, reviewers loved his circuit bent keyboards and the horde of field recordings and other sounds that Farris recorded and mixed using his VCR, but aspects of those characteristics have since become typical of his larger output, so perhaps the name stopped making sense or the short tracks felt too tentative for Farris to want to justify the conceptual ground he would cover later. Nevertheless, it is an early and certainly one of the best statements of Farris’ experimental audio aesthetic and incomparably clever, always catchy synth-play. We couldn’t be happier to add it to the catalog over at our imprint Crash Symbols. My wife and I even played track #3 at our wedding last year.

“…super ill synth work, melted vibes and like the EP says, it’s a VHS Vision.” -Com Truise  

“This ambient project of ‘lost vhs tapes, forgotten sounds and lucid dreams’ has a beautiful, cascading dream-like quality.” -Friends With Both Arms 

“‘The Most Interesting Man In The World’ from those XX commercials could only dream of being as cool as this dude.” -Digital Hygiene

Preorder the limited edition cassette or download VHS Vision directly here. For a limited time, while the cassettes last, we’ll only be charging $4 for digital downloads on our bandcamp.