David Talento is the founder of Help Wanted Productions, a music label dedicated to creating and selling unique organic/electronic music. He has released over a dozen albums with various groups and under the band names Music For Isolation Tanks and Altruistic Suicide and is a founding member of the Electronic Music Project, a collective of DIY electronic musicians who have released one CD compilation so far. He also runs the internet Linn 9000 homepage and the Unusual Instrument and Recording Gallery. For more information, ordering, samples, pictures of Binky the windup monkey, and other important things visit the HWP web page.
My track "Just Give Up and Marry the Boss's Daughter" was initially done as an inside joke and experiment. It's a collection of answering machine messages I sampled with a backing track of some electronic nonsense I was working on at the time. I used an Ensoniq ASR10 sampler, Oberheim Echoplex, and an Arp Odyssey synthesizer for the sample and hold parts. I layered two separate tracks from the sampler and played another track "live" through the echoplex looping things and playing them backwards manually over top of everything. When it was all done it turned out a bit more interesting than I had envisioned so I spent some time mixing it and such and sent it in to the Loopers CD#1 never really expecting anything to come of it. I'm thrilled to see it made the cut with such fantastic musicians and loopers. Special thanks to Tracey who never knew what she helped create.
With guest appearances from clipping., Nicolas Jaar, Angel Bat Dawid & more, “Rhizomes” is a dense experimental masterpiece. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 6, 2023
A fusion of ambient, classical, spoken word, and deconstructed dance music finds beauty and groove in glitches and pops. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 20, 2022
Three-and-a-half hours of electroacoustic improvisations that frequently conjure worlds as wonderful, alien, graceless, and confounding as insect mating. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 7, 2022