{"id":2510,"date":"2015-08-22T14:21:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T14:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2024-02-14T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T19:41:56","slug":"tone-set-calibrate-mini-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/tone-set-calibrate-mini-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tone Set- Calibrate Mini-LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been slacking for a bit here, my apologies. Skipping to the top of my imaginary queue is a fresh rip of Tone Set&#8217;s classic <em>Calibrate<\/em> mini-LP\/12&#8221;, released on Valentine&#8217;s Day in 1983. I originally covered this band in 2007, back when I was posting only a handful of tracks and maybe a video or two, and it took eight years to track a semi-affordable copy of this gem down. Man, time flies!<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/tone-set\/#comments\">here<\/a> for a refresher on this Arizona-based synthpunk band, who invoke the same spirit as Devo, The Units, Voice Farm, Oppenheimer Analysis, etc. It&#8217;s also worth noting here that the A-side features upbeat pop songs while the B-side features re-recorded versions of their earlier tape experiments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/tone-set-calibrate-mini-lp\/toneset\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toneset-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toneset-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toneset-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/toneset.jpg 501w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tone Set- <em>Calibrate<\/em> LP<br \/>\n1. Life Is Busy<br \/>\n2. Living In Another Land<br \/>\n3. Slim<br \/>\n4. Out Out!<br \/>\n5. What Good&#8217;s A Hit Song?<br \/>\n6. Wigglin Around In Middletown<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/ts-cal.zip\">download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>More soon, I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been slacking for a bit here, my apologies. Skipping to the top of my imaginary queue is a fresh rip of Tone Set&#8217;s classic Calibrate mini-LP\/12&#8221;, released on Valentine&#8217;s Day in 1983. I originally covered this band in 2007, back when I was posting only a handful of tracks and maybe a video or two, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,62,76,167,3,255,15,75,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-62","category-arizona","category-minimal-synth","category-synth","category-synthpop","category-synthpunk","category-tone-set","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5478,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/5478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}