Cassettes Won't Listen

Cassettes Won't Listen is the American indie rock and electronic one-man project, of multi-instrumentalist and record producer Jason Drake, based out of Brooklyn, New York, United States.[1] Over the last few years Cassettes Won't Listen has received press from Spin,[2] Perez Hilton, and URB.[3] Cassettes Won't Listen has also done official remixes for notable artists such as Aesop Rock, El-P, Midlake, Mr. Lif, Morcheeba and many more.

Cassettes Won't Listen
OriginBrooklyn, New York, U.S.
GenresIndie rock, electronic
Years active2004–2012
WebsiteOfficial website

In 2008, Cassettes Won't Listen covered The Cure's "Let's Go to Bed" for the American Laundromat Records compilation Just Like Heaven - a Tribute to the Cure. They also covered "Need You Tonight" by INXS for Engine Room Recordings' compilation album Guilt by Association Vol. 2, which was released in November of that year.[4]

Cassettes Won't Listen released a covers EP entitled One Alternative on December 11, 2007 as well as a seven-song EP entitled Small-Time Machine on March 11, 2008. Drake released Small-Time Machine himself through distributor, The Orchard, along with his 2009 instrumental record, Into The Hillside.[5]

The track "Freeze & Explode" was used in the February 16, 2009 broadcast of the NBC show Chuck.

On December 3, 2009, Cassettes Won't Listen hosted MTV2's Subterranean,[6] a video show centered on independent musicians.

In October 2010, Cassettes Won't Listen announced a brand new instrumental side project under the name, Dfalt. He launched the project with a free mixtape titled The Stupid Rifle Mixtape and made it available via Dfalt.com,[7] along with a free self-titled EP via Definitive Jux Records.[8]

2010 also saw a resurgence from the producer in terms of remixes under the Cassettes Won't Listen moniker, with remixes for Gold Panda,[9] Daft Punk,[10] The Death Set featuring Diplo,[11] amongst others.

In April 2011, Cassettes Won't Listen announced the release date of his latest album, KEVINSPACEY,[12] on Daylight Curfew,[13] his recently founded artist collective / record label. On May 12 he was served with a cease and desist from actor Kevin Spacey and his legal team forcing him to change the name of his upcoming record.[14] The "K" was dropped effectively renaming the record to EVINSPACEY. The record was released on June 21, 2011 via Daylight Curfew.

A new EP, Casa, was released via Daylight Curfew on August 14, 2012. Cassettes Won't Listen issued an essay detailing the process and inspiration behind the release and effectively put the CWL project on hiatus (possibly indefinite)[15] in order to focus on his new project, Dfalt, and record label, Daylight Curfew.

Discography

LPs
  • Small-Time Machine (2008)
  • Into the Hillside (2009)
  • EVINSPACEY (2011)

EPs
  • Nobody's Moving (digital release) (2005)
  • The Quiet Trial (digital release) (2006)
  • One Alternative (Free Digital Release) (2007) [16]
  • Dfalt (digital release) (2011)
  • Casa (digital release) (2012)

Singles
  • The Sidewalk Cruise (digital release) (2006)

Videos
  • Where Did Go (2007)[17]
  • Paper Float (2008)[18]
  • Freeze and Explode (2008)[19]
  • Hmmmm (2009)[20]
  • Take Off (2009)[21]
  • Quickly Approaching (2009)[22]
  • Into The Hillside (2009)[23]

Compilations

Remixes

References
  1. "allmusic". 31 July 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-07-31. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  2. "SPIN.com: Cassettes Won't Listen Cover Liz Phair". Archived from the original on 1 March 2007. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  3. "URB Magazine: Urb Blogs". Archived from the original on 16 March 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. Matthew Solarski (19 November 2008). "My Brightest Diamond, Frightened Rabbit Do Covers". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
  5. "Cassettes Won't Listen". Billboard.com. 6 January 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  6. "Cassettes Won't Listen hosts MTV2 Subterranean". Mtv.com. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  7. "Audio. Visual. Mixed Media". Dfalt.com. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  8. "Untitled Document". Definitivejux.net. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  9. "[Download] Gold Panda - "You" (Cassettes Won't Listen remix)". Some Kind Of Awesome. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  10. "SlothBoogie: Daft Punk - Derezzed (Cassettes Won't Listen Remix)". 19 November 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-11-19. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  11. "Blog » Cassettes Won't Listen Death Set Remix | Mad Decent". 20 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-03-20. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  13. "Daylight Curfew". Daylight Curfew. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  14. "Kevin Spacey unamused by Cassettes Won't Listen's Kevinspacey album". News.avclub.com. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  16. "CMJ News Story". Archived from the original on 2008-03-15. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
  18. "Paper Float - twitter.com/cassettes". YouTube. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  19. "Freeze and Explode from Cassettes Won't Listen - twitter.com/cassettes". YouTube. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  21. "Cassettes Won't Listen - Take Off". YouTube. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
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