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Tackhead Tape Time
Tackhead Tape Time is the debut album of Tackhead, released in 1987 through Nettwerk.
Composition.
"Tackhead Tape Time" is a "robotic" electro-funk album, containing abrasive beats, funky guitar, and instances of tape delay, which hint at the album's dub and reggae roots. The album also boasts spliced, sampled speeches and quotes from the likes of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, downbeat news reports, military officers and televangelists, among other sources.
Personnel.
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wall of sound effect that was highly novel for the mid-1980s. They released one LP "Tackhead Tape Time" in 1987 as "Gary Clail's Tackhead Sound System" and some of the most distinctive and well-known Tackhead tracks (some were released as 12-inch singles) date from this period particularly: "What's My Mission Now?", "Mind at the End of the Tether" and "Hard Left". These tracks combined funk basslines, hammerblow percussion and Sherwood's trademark sample-laden dub production and