## Taking Notes
- Artist(s): [[temp]]
- Release Year: [[2022]]
- Ostensible or actual genres: [[electronic]], [[dance]], [[experimental]], [[minimal]]
- [Bandcamp Link](https://tempchicago.bandcamp.com/album/taking-notes)
Notes:
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## Tracks:
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## Bandcamp Copy
> Erica Mei Gamble is a producer (prev.: A+E, Sarica, Dungeon Mother), DJ (Discdog), and video archivist (temporaryCorrespondence) of electronic, experimental, and dance music. As temp., she has created several compositions using sequenced loops and samples characteristic of her minimal approach to production. Her inspiration to produce comes from her friends and partners—past and present—in and around Chicago’s underground experimental music community. Taking Notes is her first album.
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> Prior to Taking notes, my recordings were scattered around SoundCloud, in compilations on Bandcamp, and videos on YouTube. When Jordan asked if I would send him a few tracks for a physical release on ADR, I compiled and completed several projects I had been piecing together between 2018 – 21. "The new is the old in distress" comes from a piece I started performing live in 2018 and decided to record for Taking notes. Between 2018 – 20, I recorded "Trying to climb ft. Emme Williams," "Rack of cries," and "Evening;" although previously released separately, they belong with this album. The first five tracks are new pieces created for this release while becoming more familiar with the process of recording. "What's beyond?" features Sarah Leitten, my partner in Dungeon Mother; it is a tribute to that project and to... more
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> ### credits
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> released November 11, 2022
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> Produced by temp., Erica Mei Gamble
> Recorded in Chicago (2018 – 21)
> Mastered by Andrew Weathers
> Art by Emme Williams
> Design by Devin Shaffer
> Photo of Erica by Jordan Reyes
Photo on CD by Erica Mei Gamble
Featuring vocal sample of Rae Sremmurd (2) / vocal samples of Drake (3) / lyrics written and performed by Sarah Leitten, vocal sample of Minnie Ripperton (5) / saxophone performed by Emme Williams (7) / samples from early Pokémon video games (8) Evening (9) was digitally released by Terry Planet on the compilation Trick or Tracks vol.1 on Oct. 31, 2018
Thanks to the team at American Dreams Records, The Waxing Fold, my family, friends, and fellow travelers, and the experimental music community of Chicago