Mudboy “Summer of Saucers” cassette (DNT041)

DNT is proud to present the digital reissue of Mudboy’s “Summer of Saucers”, first released on cassette in 2008 in an edition of 100, with a second edition of 100 in 2013. Available digitally for the first time!

Below is the original blurb and reviews:
“Well the summer is coming to an end now and I can’t think of a better way to end it than with this tape, “Summer of Saucers”. The A-Side is Providence’s Raphael Lyon, better known as Mudboy. The side starts off by the lakeside, and you can hear frogs and geese nearby. It slowly builds up with keyboards coming into the picture before fading back to where it started. Lazy day at the river. It is also part one of his “Impossible Duets” series of songs. Colourful conehead artwork by George W. Myers of Grey Skull/Breaking World Records. In an edition of 100 pro-dubbed blue tapes.” (Second edition on green tapes)

**Note: “Summer of Saucers” was originally released as a split cassette with Ducktails. His side will not be included in this reissue, nor will he receive any money from this reissue. This is due to Ducktails, aka Matt Mondanile’s actions and sexual assault allegations against him in 2017. pitchfork.com/news/matt-mondanile-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-multiple-women/
The Ducktails side is not uploaded as part of this reissue, however, his music is still on the B-side of the original cassette. Mudboy is the A side.

REVIEWS:
“[I]t’s the unexpected that you come to expect from DNT. Mudboy does his typical best to confuse his listeners, starting off what sounds to be field recordings of perhaps himself lost in some sort of swamp (though it’s understood that this environment is indeed his “collaborator”), setting up the backdrop for what later develops on this tape, of which I can only call “swamp ambient.” Chattering, chirping, electronic frog drone and pulsing hum load up his side.” -Dusted “Still Single” Vol.5 No.9 (www.dustedmagazine.com/features/843)

“The Mudboy side opts for the more contemplative back porch brewsky approach. Opening with some low murmur and a bunch of nature samples–birds, frogs, crickets–they all mix together before electronic murmurs start to zip around, thickening things up a bit. This nice bass growl keeps a steady pace to the whole work as it drifts–or rather, crawls–along, sounds panning all over with rich stretching and long delays. Nothing like that remix 7″ at all, much more pensive and earthly, though hardly without its own droning playfulness. Rather than pulling from the new age angle for its beauty, like so many artists are wont to do lately, Mudboy opts to keep things skittering and hushed, like a soundtrack for some vegetable garden late at night when all the snails and crickets and slugs really have at those morsels under the moon. Or it could be one small cross section of a rain forest floor, an investigation of each little creature and plant that comes to inhabit the area underneath some star-lit palm leaf. Much smaller than the journeyman, Heart of Darkness jungle vibe more commonly presented. As the track drifts off we here the crunching of footsteps in the woods, a fitting close to this lonesome trek. Beautiful work from a label that only gets better. Nice work all around.” -ear conditioned nightmare