Alongside Spencer Clark, James Ferraro is one half of The Skaters, the psychedelic drone outfit formed in San Diego in 2003 that feeds wordless vocals, hand drums and cosmic free jazz keyboards through endlessly murky loops.

Ferraro's solo work, most of which he has released on CD-R and cassette via his own New Age Tapes imprint, represents both an extension and inversion of The Skaters' woozy forms. Operating under the name Lamborghini Crystal, for instance, he works hallucinatory reifications of 1980s disco and funk via pitchshifted vocals, crude tape assemblages, instrumental garage rock and fake radio broadcasts from his alter-ego JC Peavey, all rendered in extreme lo-fi and assembled using nothing but cheap boomboxes. The Jarvid 9series, a run of three double CD-R sets from which this track is edited, is an extended exploration of inner and outer sci-fi landscapes populated by alien lizard deities.

New Age Tapes discography