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This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Florida sound artist Josh Mason.

Mason’s new album, Kicking A Dark Horse, is out now on greyfade as a hardcover book paired with modular synthesizer music, the two built to zipper together rather than stand apart.

We talk about the punk rock roots underneath all that circuitry, why only the album's first and last tracks have a fixed place, and what Cortázar's Hopscotch has to do with any of it.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are from Josh Mason's Kicking A Dark Horse)

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