Rock$, by Title TK

Rock$

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ROCK$ is a non-auditory album that is available as a free download--just click "Buy Digital Album" and you will receive the 1 second of silence as an audio track and a PDF containing a transcription of a conversation the band members had in a recording studio, which is attached as a "bonus feature." The original album, which is now out of print, was a 12" gatefold album sleeve with the same conversation printed on a booklet inside.

About Title TK: It all started as a joke, during a three-way discussion of the overabundance of bands in the world these days: "We could go onstage and just talk about music, and say it was a band." But like most jokes, besides being funny it was also painfully true, and a pretty good idea: and so Title TK was born, in New York City, on a balmy May evening in 2010. Since then, the three amigos in the band have ambled onto stages near and far, electric guitars strapped to their chests yet never plugged in, fretboards never touched, seemingly transmogrified into mute observers of their owners' amplified banter, celebrity gossip, and breeze-shooting. Despite a stubborn refusal to accede to most of the conventional market expectations of a band (like actually playing music), Title TK has been terribly conscious of the fact that since they are a band, and they play gigs, they have to make a record. But how do you make a record when you don't play your instruments, or, in fact, allow any commercial release of an audio recording of your shows, or even your voice?

Rock$ is the answer to that particular riddle. It was recorded in a real studio--well, the lounge area of a real studio--and then transcribed (to Microsoft Word, rather than vinyl or CD) and carefully edited to radio-ready perfection. Then came the package: a booklet containing the transcript was fastened to a gatefold sleeve, a band logo was devised, credits assembled, photo sessions for both the studio's interior decor and TK's axes scheduled, and presto! The result is a debut album like no other, the only full-length record ever made where every "track" is "non-LP."

"Mostly inane"--The Oberlin Review

"Intermittently funny"--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"With Rock$, Title TK appeared [sic] to be indestructible." --allmusic.com
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Originally released on New Images, 2013

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released June 4, 2020

Conversation recorded at Gary's Electric, Brooklyn NY July 12, 2002.

Studio equipment list:
Console: API 1608 (32x8x2) 32API510 mic pre8 API 550b EQ’s6 API 560 EQ’s2 Phoenix DRS EQ’s2 Arsenal V14 EQ’sTape: 827a Studer 24 track 2” Protools: HD Accell II in Intel Tower with 48 I/0 & Sync I/O Monitors: Dynaudio BM6a nearfield (2 pairs, old and new) Avantone MiniBryston amplifiers 6 Yamaha MG102c Mixers - Quad Mono Dual Stereo cue stations Outboard:Pre’s: Langevin-Dual Vocal Pre-EQ-comp Spectra Sonics 2-110EQ:1 SPL master-stereo EQ1 Tube TechPE 1C -Full Q-mono2 Urei 565 Filter Set Compressors: 2 AMEK stereo buss compressor 2 United Audio 11762 Distressors 1 Tube Tech CL1B3 JBL/Urei 7118Spectra Sonics Complimiter 1 DBX 160x

Other:1 SPL Stereo Desser SPL Transient Designer-4 channels FX:EMT 140 ST plate Lexicon PCM 70 Lexicon PCM 90 Yamaha SPX2000 Line 6 ModLine 6 FilterAKG Stereo Spring Reverb

Mics: Condenser: 2 Soundelux U99 large diaphragm
1 Soundeulx E472 Soundelux Fet 7 large diaphragm
1 Neuman Fet 472 Rode NT
2 large diaphragm
1 Rode NTK Tube
2 Neuman KM 184 small diaphragm
2 AKGSE 300B with CK91 small diaphragm
3 Josephson E22S small diaphragm
2 Josephson front address small diaphragm
Ribbon:
2 Cole 40382 Royer 1211 AEA R841 AEA R9
2 DynamicShure 57’s 1 Shure beta 5 2Shure 58’s 1 Shure SM 74 Sennheiser 421 1 AKG d112
1 Sennheiser e609
Amps:FENDER:Vibroverb w/high watt speakers Vibroverb w/alnico speakers Delux Tremolux w 2x10 cabinet Vibro King Bantam Bass

Super Amp Marshal1 100 watt super leadBlues breaker combo One 4x12 900 cabinet 300 watts One 4x12 vintage cabinet 100 watts Bass: V4bB25 with 2x15 cabinet (currently in repair) SVT 8x10SVT 4x10 Single 15” cabinet Other:Small watt Kay 8” speaker Small watt Kay 6” speaker Supro bass amp with alnico 15”Keyboards: Steinway 1953 L Grand Piano Hammond L100 Roland Organ Wurlitzer 200a Nord Lead III Roland Synth SH301 Moog Little Fatty Yamaha Studio Piano (upright)
Drums: Rogers 3 piece 22x16x13‘Japanese’ 3 piece 20 x 14 x 12 Ludwig 1968 club date 3 piece, 20 12 14 Ludwig 1972 club date 3 piece 20 12 14 Ludwig Bonham Kit 26 13 14 16 1820” tiger stripe kick various snares, hard ware and cymbals (Gretch, Rogers, Ludwig) percussion basket

Originally released by New Images, 2013

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Title TK Norway, New York

Title TK (Alan Licht, Howie Chen, Cory Arcangel) is a banter-only band.
Pioneers of "talk rock, the ultimate sub-genre, where the band format is retained but music-making is discarded in favor of conversation between the band members (mostly music-nerd discourse and celebrity gossip). All releases are non-audio but comes with a pdf of a transcribed conversation. RIYL: Spinal Tap ... more

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