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About Me

jason started recording on two cassette decks around 1996.
he recorded a lot of albums by himself on 4-track:
polymono synthesis-1997.....
enigmatic recreant android fiasco-1998......
mechanized demise-1999......
patriotism sticks & handicapped gifts-2000.....
flourishes in domesticity-2001.....
rock music with guitars-2002.....
a hard day's night & that's terrific-2003.....
don't trust yr doctor-2004.....
started playing some shows with a drum machine...
moving on...-2004.....
happy valentines day-my tenth fucking album-2005.....
then he got his friend mandy to play the drums,and recorded:
i was a hidden treasure...& i longed to be known-2006.....
do you favor the classics?-2008 ROOM TAPES rt002.....
THE Beatles..-2008...
switched on SK-5-2009....
joined shitty beatles.. joined quotidians.. joined chrome wings.. quit quotidians..formed grand children...changed name to best supporting actress... quit chrome wings.....focused on bsa for a while..... created sk-5 opus.......... switched name to NEAT CLOSE after much toiling with words that were sadly already taken...
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/09/2006
Band Members: jason-guitars,bass,synths,drums,vocals,gadgets-1996-present. ........................mandy-the drums-2005-2006
Influences: ok soda,yoo-hoo,vernor's ginger-ale,moxie,the unheralded history of underground pop music-the silver apples,the united states of america,the red krayola,the fugs,the monks,kim fowley,modern lovers,brian eno,screamers,chrome,units,the zeros,crime,the dils,the salvation army,redd kross,cowboys international,tubeway army,fad gadget,patrick d. martin,the human league,flying lizards,the normal,magazine,o.m.d.,the clean,tall dwarfs,die fehlfarben,metal urbain,the homosexuals,the fall,silicon teens,contortions,wire,television personalities,swell maps,search & destroy,trouser press,the crabs,wolfie,mathlete,kleenex girl wonder,swirlies,the frogs,the coctails,mocket,satisfact,long hind legs,fly ashtray,the greks bring gifts,r&b transmogrification,sweden,alien lanes,vehicle flips,little red car wreck,cub,the magic pacer,six finger satellite,brainiac,the snoopies album,no new york,george gimarc, etc. etc.
Sounds Like: city o' fantastic new teens
Record Label: ROOM TAPES...international lo-fi underground..LVHD
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

names etc

posted some classic jamz-nobody has listened to those suckers yet.ALSO.i'm going to change the name of idiosyncratic routine.i've become aware of some "indie-folk" type band in calfornia that is using...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:35:00 GMT

new jamz...new tapes!

hey...just posted some new tracks from the (OFF)white album...tell me what you think. also...i will have 50 shiny new pink cassettes in a matter of days,so if you want one, all you have to do is ask(m...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:00:00 GMT

cassette available soon on ROOM TAPES of Minneapolis!

that's right!CASSETTE!...culled from the depths of the idiosyncratic catalog....12 songs in 25 minutes. Do you favor the classics? Well...do you?...the tape will set you back $3.50,and word on the str...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:24:00 GMT

the OFF white album.

Let me get this straight: This is no "cover-version"... This is it's own entity. Noises and musics by jason....words by beatles. 73 minutes of aural chaos,with some pop songs thrown in for good measur...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:48:00 GMT

new(to you)SONGS!

new tracks now up,let's see...is there anything relevant,and/or interesting to mention?...i honestly don't even remeber which ones i put up right at this moment,except "painting at the walls" which wa...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:42:00 GMT

tribute to elephant 6 part 2!

as promised,i have just posted three more old e-6 covers from the vaults...now that i have my own laptop i will probably be changing the songs quite often.maybe a 100 play rule is in order?anyway get ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 01:30:00 GMT

songs

i just put up a couple old tracks...which will probably only be up a short time,so get 'em while you can.one is a very early acoustic/ walkman version of cuz yr pregnant,with some different words.the ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 00:15:00 GMT

the mutilated white album.aka"the beatles"by idiosyncratic routine

two newish tracks up...both reconsiderations of white album tracks.let me know what you think,i think back in the u.s.s.r. is pretty much my favorite song of mine at the moment.back to my synth-p...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:34:00 GMT

whatever happened to rock and roll?on a real comp. cd!

i'm very excited to say that a song that i recorded way back in the 20th century is being released on a fab compilation cd on the international lo-fi underground  in april!it's a terrific new lab...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:31:00 GMT

sk-5 song i sort of made up at aaron macdonald's pad

so aaron's got this song-a-day deal at aaronmacdonald.com ,and he kindly let me come over the other day to contribute some ideas...and the results were posted today(jan.14).it ended up being called 'k...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:34:00 GMT