Tendon Levey

From the Tendon Levey website:

“I received my first multitrack recorder, a red Fostex MR-8, as a birthday gift in 2004 after years of recording via a handheld tape recorder. The buttons ended up breaking in 2007 from heavy use and I immediately replaced the device with the newer Fostex MR-8 MKII on my eighteenth birthday (with which I would record the entirety of the Tendon Levey discography). Over time, the Play, Stop and Record buttons ended up breaking once again from heavy use and I had to rely on a screwdriver to hit the triggers for several months in 2010. Once the triggers were sufficiently worn down and damaged from being repeatedly stabbed by a screwdriver I replaced the MKII with an identical model in October 2010. Although I stopped recording music in 2011, I’ve continued to use the MKII for mixing over the years (particularly in the case of unreleased track compilations) and, as of 2020, it is still in perfect working order.”

From the Tendon Levey website:

” For my fourteenth birthday (2003) I received a Zoom Rhythmtrak 234 drum machine and I ended up sticking with it until the very end. After five or six years the buttons began to stick and malfunction, leading to a lot of foibles in my later recordings (since I insisted on playing them live during recordings, as opposed to setting aside the time to actually program patterns).”

From the Tendon Levey website:

” I used a Fostex MR-8 8-track recorder (original red model) from 2004 to 2007 until it broke and I replaced it with the Fostex MR-8 MKII (black). As with other MR-8 models, its buttons were its weak point (plastic buttons on a sprue) and it was easier for me to buy a new device altogether than to seek out and install replacement parts. This 8-track recorder was used for nearly all of the music appearing on the Baby’s First Bible and Mythologem compilations.”