Ophibre & Jarrod Fowler - Baggie/36 Letters

Here's a genuinely puzzling split cassette by Ophibre and Jarrod Fowler, released by Oph Sound in 2007 in an edition of 50 copies. Ophibre's track is a gauzy, steadily (though not unpleasantly) ambivalent texture that sounds as if it's being played by your upstairs neighbor and you can only hear some of it drifting down through the ceiling. Fowler's side appears to consist of a lot of jazz records being played at the same time. Not all the records are the same length, though, so the first section of the piece ends with a long stretch of a single, unaltered jazz album. It's followed by simultaneous R&B and dance music, again multiple recordings one on top of one another with no further manipulation of the source material. The tape comes with two little plastic bags, the contents of which are accurately described by the title.

Ophibre & Jarrod Fowler - Baggie/36 Letters