The Manual and The Machine used to be able to practice during the daytime.

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February, 2012
We made a new tape. 6 songs about the failure of civilization. It's called Social Services. We wrapped it in paper.
Side 1: Walking All Day/How you got in here/I Got This (20.5 Mb)
Side 2: Cold Inside/No/Dazed, Confused (23 Mb)
tapes, $2

We played at The Knockout, SF, on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011. We were pleased.

June, 2011
Boiler Maker
tapes, $2
285 Turk St. Apt 301, San Francisco, 94102

01. turn it back on / crucibles (6.4 Mb)
02. past performance predicts / pressure vessel (6.4 Mb)

tMatM is a 2-piece melodic noise band. We live in San Rafael and San Francisco. We hear peacocks on the road sometimes.

Paul Gaffney plays guitar, bass, keys and electronics, and loops them; Dan Gudgel loops drums, noise and electronics, and shouts. vinylpuma@gmail.com

September, 2009.
Just Don't Get the Blues
The kazoo was cheap, but its sound is large.

01. Fucking Promises (5 3/5 Mb)
02. Crosscut Saw (Albert King) (6 1/6 Mb)
03. shoulder-glancing, staying hid (1 1/6 Mb)
04. Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down (Big Bill Broonzy) (5 1/2 Mb)

August, 2009.
Industrial Noise Jazz
Saw a lot of folks sleeping in their cars the other night.

01. rizika která chcete pojistit (6 1/4 Mb)
02. i,i insist (6 1/4 Mb)
03. tag overflow (5 Mb)

Not Christmas, Not Not Christmas, 2007
Slayryde
The figs on the abandoned lot went from thick-skinned green knots, to withered brown husks without ever ripening. Some things never have a right moment.

01 Watch Your Back, He's Coming* (4 Mb)
02 Slayryde (3 1/5 Mb)
03 God Bless You, Irving Berlin* (3 3/4 Mb)
04 Precocious Thing* (2 7/10 Mb)
05 Precious Thing* (3 1/10 Mb)
*We didn't write the words to these ones.

March and April, 2007.
Note Volume, Exchange Next.

01. We won't hesitate to use (2 1/2 Mb)
02. the engine tick (2 1/2 Mb)
03. of the slip-disk carousel. (2 1/2 Mb)
04. Five minutes of noise (1/2 Mb)
05. when the torque wrench calls its mattress from a phone booth. (3 Mb)
06. We'll hear the all-clear (2 Mb)
07. and the cricket swarm will learn our lessons for us. (1/2 Mb)

Some time ago.
Loopermadness
You probably shouldn't.

loopermadness 01 (1 1/5 Mb)
loopermadness 02 (7/10 Mb)
loopermadness 03 (1 9/10 Mb)
loopermadness 04 (1 1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 05 (1 1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 06 (1/2 Mb)
loopermadness 07 (9/10 Mb)
loopermadness 08 (2 1/2 Mb)

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

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Paul, Dan; Lafayette CA
Dan, Paul; San Rafael CA
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I was late because the bus I was on took the door off a car just past Fillmore.

 

 

 

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