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Geek Upmanship

by Neil Scrivin

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Turquoise cassette tape with full face on-body printing in turquoise case. 100 copies.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Geek Upmanship via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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'Geek Upmanship' combines digitally processed guitar with intricate drum machine programming and bleeping arcade arpeggios. Broadly ranging stylistically between the angular riffing of ‘The Mushroom Stage’ via serene ambience on ‘Inky Gorgeous’ to the jazz-flavoured chord structures and time-signatures of the title track.

Augmenting the five original tracks is a brand new SH-101 driven reconstruction of ‘Inky Gorgeous’ by Datassette (Apollo Records, Shipwrec).

Written and recorded in early 2007, this newly remastered edition is available in physical format for the first time, on full-face printed turquoise cassette tape in transparent turquoise case.

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"Retro-futurist Neil Scrivin returns to Fonolith for a record of chirpy electro. The sound palette of Geek Upmanship is a pleasing mix of 808s, various synths and electric guitars, and from these tools Scrivin crafts six jams that have a little Super Mario in them as well as, say, Ceephax Acid Crew. Anyone who dug the retromania of Scrivin’s previous drops on Fonolith will get a kick from the wacky distorted groove of ‘The Mushroom Stage’ or the bleep test that is ‘Colour Clash’. Elsewhere the interlude ‘Inky Gorgeous’ is a delightful, dreamy guitar piece that obliquely recalls Eric Chenaux. Those buying the physical edition will receive a fetching turquoise-coloured cassette." Bleep.com

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released April 13, 2018

Written, produced and performed by Neil Scrivin.
Recorded 2007.
Remastered 2018.

Additional production and remix on track 6 by Datassette.

Artwork and design by Neil Scrivin.

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Neil Scrivin Blackpool, UK

AKA Phono Ghosts, The Night Monitor, DOOMLODE, Meatbingo and member of Hyperlink Dream Sync. I also operate the Fonolith label.

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