Tone Set
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Their early sound was ostensibly synthetic, mixing very ‘clean’ synthesizer sounds with tapes. This was the sound of their first release, a 1982 cassette called “Cal’s Ranch”. It almost completely lacked vocals (the only exception was a line in “Wigglin Around In Middletown”). The tape portions were primarily pieces of dialogue from various recordings. “(Predictions) uses the dialogue from a prime-time local news broadcoast (with anchorman Bill Close) that some nut with a gun took over in, I believe, the fall of ‘81 … really surreal stuff.”(Dan Bailey) Other pieces were of a more lighthearted nature, like “Time Travellers”, which used an extended recording of dialogue from “Rocky and Bullwinkle”. The tape was recorded at “The Center for Advanced Studies,” a house were both band members lived, and released by Zia Records in Tempe, AZ.
In 1982, Tone Set contributed the track “Out, Out, Out” to Placebo Record’s “Amuck” compilation (PLA-103 A&B). Galen Herod, as Happy People, contributed “Happy People” to this compilation.
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