Hey everyone!
Are you surprised to be getting an email from DNT Records in 2025?? Yeah, I ended the label in 2015, but Monday (August 4th) was the 20th anniversary of the founding of the label and distro, and we have a new release to celebrate! That’s right, I started Doris Nordic Tribute on my 17th birthday, still in high school. Ten years later, after 88 releases (11 LPs, 52 cassettes, five 7″s, nine cdrs, eight 3″ cdrs, three VHS tapes) I hung up my hat and retired the mailorder. A lot has happened since then, including years of anti-racist community organizing, a liver transplant, marriage… too much for one email.
But one thing I started putting a lot of time and energy into in the year after DNT was my solo music. Sir Tad was started in high school and Meadow Argus in 2006 a little after graduating, but both projects I messed around with off and on over the years until diving in deeper in recent years. (This is what I said ten years ago: “People who know me personally know I’ve been making music for years, but so slow to actually *release* anything because I’m so finnicky — so instead I’ve been accumulating shoeboxes full of recordings from over the years. I decided to finally put some of it out to the world, imperfections and all. This means the fidelity varies, and some recordings sound unfinished. Nevertheless, humility aside, I’m quite proud of my creations, and I hope you enjoy them too.“
Now to the new release. I figured, what better way to celebrate the 20th anniversary of DNT than by releasing a new tape. Does this mean the label is “back”? We’ll see! “Let me know in the comments down below” if you think that’s a good idea! Join this mailing list to stay updated. Anyway, I present to you: Sir Tad’s Generation Joint:
Sir Tad is back with his third album, Generation Joint, a 22-song double album of lofi dubby bubbly-keyboard 4 track tape haze psych pop, clocking in at 69 minutes. For the non-stoner, a “generation joint” is a joint rolled from the leftover roaches lying around. Smoking it can be a special occasion because it represents “generations” of smoke sessions and different strains, time spent with friends and family.
For this album, Sir Tad dug through twenty years of recordings: cutting up jam sessions, building upon old tape loops, or returning to old songs and finally landing on a finished version, he takes these musical “roaches” and rolls them together into a generation joint twenty years in the making. Gear-wise you can expect the usual array of instruments such as cheap keyboards/organs, tape players, tape loops, melodica, autoharp, mandolele, drum machines, all recorded to Tascam Portastudio 4-track cassette tape.
The music is woven with voice samples, sometimes found sound but mostly culled from Sir Tad’s personal family tapes, thus folding & flattening time so four generations are in conversation with each other, blurring past, present, and future. Generation Joint is also a fun, smiley, BRIGHT album, as reflected by the colorful album cover, a handpainted paper collage by Pearl Morgan. Physical tapes released by DNT Records in an edition of 54, pro-dubbed C70 cassettes on purple swirl shells & smokey case, full-color artwork.
Available here. Get in touch for wholesale rates or download codes if you run a blog/podcast/radio show/etc. or just want a free copy of this or any other Sir Tad/Meadow Argus release. There are also some bundle deals on there for multiple tapes.
My other solo project is Meadow Argus, which is more freeform than Sir Tad, organ/keyboard drone with tape loops/tape manipulation and four track experients. I’ve released over a dozen tapes on labels like Aural Canyon, Flophouse, Hooker Vision, a CDR on Chocolate Monk and compilation appearances on Histamine Tapes, The Jewel Garden and others. Give it a listen! Happy to give download codes too, just ask 🙂
I also still have copies of some older DNT titles. The website is being rebuilt and doesn’t have a store right now, so just respond to the email to order any of these. In stock:
Caboladies s/t LP (with Robert Beatty artwork) $10
Family Underground “Demon Parade” LP $10
Edibles “Other Minds Meet Inner Space” LP (Dewey from Eternal Tapestry/Plankton Wat $10
Uton “Kun Korallit Puhuvat Pilville” cassette $5
Ducktails/Mudboy “Summer of Saucers” split cassette $5
Eric Sanchez “Los Otros Ojos” cassette $5
Bobb Bruno “Clown’s Castle” cassette $3 (no cover)
Bobb Bruno “Black Gel” cassette $3 (no cover)
Alright, that’s a long email so I’ll wrap it up now. I love you all and all the support y’all’ve shown me over the years. Definitely reply if you even get this and say hi! Share DNT stories or whatever. Happy birthday DNT!
Much love,
Tynan
Sir Tad
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