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Reuben Ingall / Logic Lost – Tandem Tapes 002

A listing from my quarterly Guardian column 'Music You Missed', July 2016


DIY cassette label Tandem Tapes began after experimental musician Morgan McKeller moved from Canberra to Jakarta. It specialises in split releases between Indonesian and Australian artists; here, Canberran Reuben Ingall and Indonesian Logic Lost (Dylan Amiro).

I knew of Ingall from his weirdly captivating Microwave Drone Ritual – made cooking a meat pie in a microwave – but I didn’t know Amiro. Such door-openings are part of Tandem Tapes’ goal: “The music – even instrumental music – we experience is still largely defined by language barriers,” says Ingall.

Both sides could be considered ambient – though Ingall’s is glitchy and playful, his goal to make it sound like “a cluttered room with a comfy bed” solidly achieved. Amiro’s two compositions are more new age than ambient: spacey and spectral enough to soundtrack Carl Sagan’s drift through the cosmos on his Spaceship of the Imagination.


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My name is Kate Hennessy. I am a freelance arts and travel writer and music critic. I contribute to Guardian Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age, The Saturday Paper, The Australian, The Australian Financial Review, The Wire (UK), NME and more.

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