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name: chris oldaker
origin: 1980; 34.02342024084672, -118.39684966191702

born and raised in los angeles, ca, chris oldaker began studying art, music, and performance at a young age. he began experimenting with his family’s neglected karaoke machine, using the dual tape decks and multiple inputs to overdub layers of drums, guitars, keyboards, and field recordings into instrumental soundscapes. later attending alexander hamilton high school’s academy of music, he developed a passion for electronic music after enrolling in the obscure, newly revived course in his junior year. in the dusty cupboards of that classroom, he discovered long forgotten hardware like a linn drum-ii, oberheim matrix 6, old tape reels, and fx racks that would further develop an obsession with retro, lo-fi tech that prevails throughout much of his work.

attending the california college of the arts in 1999, he moved to oakland, ca, where he lives and works to this day.

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after nearly a decade of producing increasingly complex pieces as cats on earth and moto-slave, chris oldaker wanted to strip things back to basics and return to the spontaneity of the old school hardware setups he’d grown up on. the com-s project was based on a set of rules:

1) all music will be produced on a purely hardware setup
2) tracks will be developed in full in a single 1-3 hour session
3) tracks will be recorded to cassette/video/hard disk at the end of the session
4) no post production allowed

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