(2 Dads 2 Sons Emoji) – Untitled Modular Synthesizer Demos
4.24.18 by Ryan Masteller

Sometimes you just stumble across something that makes so little sense that it renders everything around it obsolete, thus redefining the idea of “sense” so that, coming from that something, nothing else makes more sense than that thing you stumbled across. That’s how I felt when I peeped at this [2 Dads 2 Sons Emoji] artefact and beheld its utter weirdness coalescing into normality before my eyes. Nothing is as it should be. Yes, it says “edition of one” on the j-card. No, you can’t buy it. No, you can’t HEAR it. So I won’t even be embedding a Bandcamp or Soundcloud link below.

But considering the circumstances, I’m breaking all the rules today.

Dubbed over an actual copy of The Beatles’ “1967-1970” collection, because sometimes blank tape is just too expensive, “Untitled Modular Synthesizer Demos” is like an odyssey through the cracked psyche of [2 Dads 2 Sons Emoji]. The frenzied scribbles of the artist’s preferred instrument pinging around my headphones are SO MUCH MORE welcome than another runthrough of that goddamned “Octopus’s Garden” (damn you, Ringo! I’ll get you someday). And I mean, I LIKE the Beatles, in general. But this is just a handmade treasure that you’ll have to pry from my clutches long after I’m gone. Or for the right price on Discogs…

I kid, I kid! This is a total trip, and I’m going to take it again, this time with some assistance – liquid courage!

What are you still doing here? I can’t embed this one. I GUESS I could point you in the direction of Gay Hippie Vampire if you want to check out some of the more POPULAR releases by [2 Dads 2 Sons Emoji], like “Gayest,” or “Frotting.”