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James Quentin Devine — JQD — is the singer and lyricist of SCALED ALPS and a writer on culture, distribution and related subjects. His essay “YOU ARE NOT ON THE LIST: Distribution vs. Warehousing” supplies one of the project’s recurring distinctions: uploading is depositing; distribution is movement.
SCALED ALPS is a Los Angeles music project. Its sixteen-track album LET THE ALPINE PLAY moves through multiple musical languages without treating one genre label as a permanent address.
A sixteen-track SCALED ALPS album with a digital release and a physical CD presentation built around lyric cards and an Owner’s Manual.
No Auto-Tune was used on LET THE ALPINE PLAY.
The physical edition treats the record as a bounded object with sequence, text, images and instructions rather than as a loose inventory of streaming assets.
It describes the distinction between making cultural material technically available and actually moving it between people. Streaming can solve storage and access without solving encounter.
A recurring SCALED ALPS/JQD frame for renewed interest in DJs, radio, stores, programmers and other humans who choose what somebody else encounters next.
Bandcamp and other digital services. The project home is scaledalps.com.
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