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greenfuse Awesome track - I love the mono-ness of the sequencer part, and its vibe. The sparseness of effects and fat tape saturation are delicious to the ear. I could listen to tracks like this for hours, and especially love the long form. Thanks also for the history lesson - I enjoy hearing tales from those times! I was 11 also lol :)

nowtraveller Wow! A great sequencer piece from the past reality wave. I was 11 yrs old in 1982 and already listening to Klaus Shultz and Tomita and Jean Michel Jarre. It would be 6 yrs later, in high school that a group of really altered friends and I would discover Dreamtime Return. I was forever changed with your music,Steve.

Dawa gompa Hi Steve. Thanks so for sharing this. I myself, back in Berkeley in 1982, during 80's HOS your music featured. As says NowTraveler you along with Rich and Parsons changed fundamentally my life. Sadly I've never been able to attend one of your shows though obviously they're immense. By the way, my avatar Dawa Gompa on Bandcamp is largely due to influences from tribal ambient collabs w/ Byron, Robert R, Stearns & others. On Sundays I meditate to MANTRAM, Fever Dreams & Obmana collabs etc. Thanx

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This long lost unreleased piece “Levels," from 41 years ago just re-discovered was composed and recorded in 1982 around the same time of my debut release NOW.
At this time I was in LA for 2 years, just under 4 years into my full electronic music immersion. I was playing live as often as possible. Clubs, loft concerts, house concerts, parties, small concert venues and anywhere they would have me all over LA. For a few months in 1981, I created the Midnight Cafe series in a small actor's theater near Hollywood and would present after-hours concerts with me from midnight till 1:30 am weekly for a few months or so, often for 10 people or less. On those nights of 3 people in the audience, they received the same feeling you're hearing on this track “Levels."

This was the very first piece I recorded on an 8 track reel to reel (Otari). I still remember driving out to the San Fernando valley to a home studio of a supportive EM artist Jay Lee and setting up the system you see here, performing the initial foundation of the piece complete with the lead synth, shaping the foundation form in the moment. The chordal opening, ascending cluster - Roland Jupiter 4, The Arp String Ensemble, bass part, abstract sounds in the break down and Rhodes piano at the end were all added as over dubs and opened the door to thinking beyond the live moment and into development and movements that multitrack offered for this longer form piece.

By this point my Timeroom recording was onto a Tascam 3340 4 track machine. By early 1985, I moved to a Tascam model 38 8 track which would be the main system for recording up through the early 90's.

Thanks to Dean De Benedictis - Surface 10 for delivering this and other lost pieces to me from that formative era. There is more like this coming, but because of the personal significance of this piece for me, my desire is to share it now and on its own, 41 years later. This is exactly as it was recorded and mixed, nothing was altered or added, only the levels were raised a bit. This mix was living on cassette all these years.

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