Timothy J. Fairplay takes The Promise Of Midi

Get a taste for the Asphodeller’s upcoming new tape due out on Cassette Store Day. 

The fact there is such an event as Cassette Store Day only highlights the current surge in popularity of the format (something that is further backed up by the 50 plus tapes that are currently sitting pretty on this editor’s desk). Last year saw Fairplay participate in the inuagural Cassette Store Day with Good For Driving In The Night, a sublime dosage of heady Carpenter-style synth passages issued on his Centaurians Of Rome label and it’s nice to see the Crimes Of The Future co-founder is involved in this year’s edition.

Entitled The Promise Of Midi, the five track tape is apparently the crumbling remnants of archival recordings from Fairplay that were originally intended for an album that fell foul of the thieving tendencies of his basement dwelling alter ego Antoine Rouge. Available to preview below The Promise Of Midi will resonate immediately with fans of Fairplay’s widescreen approach to production and there does seem to be a narrative progression from a place of hope to lurching, sequenced misery.