New - Davi Music - Point No Point - Cassette

I was given a 4-track cassette recorder from a good friend. Coming up in the digital age, the lore of recording to tape had been held over my head since I started making music. After buying a bum Tascam 246 from a shady dude in Queens, NY (only to discover the repair costs were completely cost-prohibitive) and receiving another 4-track hand-me-down a couple years later that also did not function, my entryway into home tape recording was not a smooth one. But the third time was a charm. My friend gave me a working Tascam 424. After recording a couple ambient/experimental albums on my computer, I was set to leave the DAW behind and make all my analog dreams a reality. Point No Point was the first release I made with the 424. I was committed to only using what the unit had built in for EQing and mixing. It was a little scary at first. But I was enamored by the simplicity and intimate nature of turning on the machine with a click of a button, pushing play and immediately returning to the world of my little project. The process of endlessly tweaking a mix was no longer an option without completely starting from scratch. All the weird anomalies and imperfections became important aspects of the compositions. Though, when I first got back the mastered tracks, I felt that I had rushed calling the album "finished". Listening back now, I enjoy the loose and somewhat crude nature of the production.