Larry Gordon – Sea Section
11.18.15 by Mike Haley

Like a mixtape that your number one sweetie made ya, which somehow became infected with a nasty strain of malware, Larry Gordon‘s “Sea Section” cassette on Kirkland spews an infected froth of awkward popups and heavily-dosed frustration. Attempts to sit back, relax, and listen to a buzz clip from The Smashing Pumpkins or a poorly dubbed Tears For Fears number are ransacked. Overrun by password hacks, phishing IM’s, and offers for Fr3e V1agRa. Only snippets of the original audio work their vibrations through the cracks of dizzying, agitated loops and buffering obstructions, creating a circus of oddball structures out of samples that have no right being sampled. It’s a magnificent flea market of mistakes, wallpapered with vertigo.

The low points are rather low. Pessimistic detours through the muddy back-roads of deep web Vine audio. That all easily transition into straight goofball’n (Ever hear a duck run out of free hours of AOL? Ever hear it on repeat?!) and these killer distraught melodies constructed from polluted fragments. Impressive work for a guy with the name of a insurance salesman. Though I’m assuming Larry Gordon is a moniker. Maybe of someone possible behind the inner workings of Kirkland? Maybe someone who fucks with Gee Weaver? I don’t know, I’m not Columbo! Peter Falk is dead! … He is, right? (googling….) Yeah, he’s dead.

Gordo uses a Lenovo Thinkpad, Numark PT-01, and Tascam 414 on these recordings. I only know that because it was written on the Jcard. Like I said, Columbo-a-no-no.

Pick up this tape, check out the weird way Kirkland folds their Jcards, and be happy!