Release Date: June 2020
Label: The Leaf Label
Formats: Limited edition black vinyl (BAY 118V); CD (BAY 118CD); digital (BAY 118E)
Duration: 11 tracks, 40 minutes
Roles: Recording engineering, production, and composition
Nightports w/ Betamax is the second album in a series of releases on The Leaf Label. Recorded in Dalston, London, this music explores the restless power of Betamax’s drumming and explores how to make pads, synths, and melodies from the raw material of the drum kit.
Artwork by Split. Photography by Fiona Delaloye.
Nightports is based on a simple but unbreakable rule of restriction: only sounds produced by the featured musician can be used. Nothing else. These sounds can be transformed, distorted, translated, processed and reprocessed, stretched, cut, ordered and reordered without limitation.