{"id":25212,"date":"2020-12-31T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/\/?p=25212"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:11:32","slug":"tabs-out-contagious-yawns-dream-of-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/?p=25212","title":{"rendered":"Tabs Out | Contagious Yawns \u2013 Dream of Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"\nContagious Yawns \u2013 Dream of Consciousness<\/span>

\n 12.31.20 by Ryan Masteller<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n

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When is a yawn TOO contagious? That\u2019s a great question \u2013 I guess you can really only answer it if there have been instances of people yawning themselves to death. Too much oxygen in the lungs maybe? Too violent an exhale? Mouth opens so far the top of your head snaps backward? Any of these sound like bad news, some more than others. For the artist actually KNOWN as Contagious Yawns<\/a>, they better hope none of these things are actually possible, or else we might have to take them in for questioning.
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On \u201cDream of Consciousness,\u201d I dare you to yawn even ONCE. You won\u2019t. Because \u201cDream of Consciousness,\u201d despite being titled after something you do while asleep, will hold your attention quite intensely throughout the whole tape. See, Contagious Yawns is a sampling master, a plunderphonic upper-pantheon saint or something who can coax the wooziest of the woozy downtempo jams out of a stack of wax or tower of tapes or, uh, mound of MP3 files. Who\u2019s to say! But somebody\u2019s spiked the punch, because all of this is experienced from behind a watery veil of perception, and everything warps as it emanates from your speaker. Even your speaker warps!
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\u201cI just love every minute of it\u201d is the sample that really captures the vibe of this tape for me. It comes from \u201cKeep Yourself Together\u201d and is followed by the same voice intoning \u201cthe beats of the heart.\u201d The track slowly builds from the sample and evolves into a crescendo worthy of an actual rock band while reverberating at the resting pace of my own heart. I\u2019m further reminded that the whole thing has hypnotized me into a weird state of wonder, so when stuff like this happens, I\u2019m incredibly suggestible. This sounds nothing like a rock band, but next to everything else, I\u2019m like, \u201cwhoa!\u201d
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Totally for chilling, this \u201cDream of Consciousness,\u201d not for yawning. Even coming from the entity Contagious Yawns itself. Tapey tape from Specious Arts<\/a> in an edition of 50.
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