Low-Lofi Volume 4, by Spartan Jet-Plex

Low-Lofi Volume 4

by Spartan Jet-Plex

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1.	The Sky 01:33	buy track
2.	Race Horse 01:39	buy track
3.	Trying to Hide 02:20	buy track
4.	Lark 02:26	buy track
5.	Watcher 01:00	buy track
6.	The Suit 03:34	buy track
7.	In This Life 02:05	buy track
8.	Terrible 01:27	buy track
9.	Your Part 02:27	buy track

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Spartan Jet-Plex aka Nancy Grim Kells (they/them), the founder and facilitator of Grimalkin Records is releasing a series of 20-30 year old 4-track songs the first Friday of each month, July through October. Before the internet and social media, I made songs on a portable 4-track. I would occasionally make mix tapes and give them to my mom and a couple of friends. After going through some of my mom's things, I found several mix tapes I gave her from the early to late 90s. After feeling jaded by the art world and gallery scene in Los Angeles in the 90s, I turned away from my fine art background and started channeling my creative energies into music. It was freeing to create again just for me without a care of whether I knew what I was doing or if any of it was good. I weeded through about 10 different mix tapes and compiled the ones that stood out to me into 4 volumes that comprise Low-Lofi volumes 1-4. These songs were made using a perpetually out of tune toy bass, casios, and other toy instruments, as well as eventually a squire I saved up money to purchase in the late 90s. Recorded on a Tascam portable 4-track, these songs are the very beginning of what Spartan Jet-Plex evolved into over the years. The lesson and message I found in these old recordings is the necessity of maintaining and embracing the joy of creation and expression as a means towards self-development and evolution. There is something incredibly exciting and freeing I hear in these songs now knowing that I never meant for them to be heard by many and without a care for whether anyone would hear or like them. It is even more exciting to me that it mattered even less at the time that I made them whether I knew what I was doing or if the songs were any good.

Proceeds support Grimalkin's current fundraisers. We need about another $669 for our business plan fundraiser.

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released October 1, 2021

written, performed and recorded on a portable Tascam 4-track in the 90s by Nancy Grim Kells

mastered by Tom Massey

cover art by Xuan Nguyen

Huge thanks to God is in the TV for including my Low-Lofi volumes in their recs: www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2021/08/06/lost-in-musique-ah-giittv-recommends-for-bandcamp-friday-3/

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2023 Songwriter Fellow with the Virginia Commission for the Arts

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