System Exclusive - Party All The Time E.P.

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Pasadena based two piece band bearing an armful of mini synths, making heart-throbbing capital P pop cut with more than a hint of post-punk. Limited edition one-sided 12" E.P.

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1.	Part Time Pierre 02:22	buy track
2.	Paint The Town 03:31	buy track
3.	Party All The Time 03:09	buy track

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It’s 9:35 pm on a Saturday in Chico and it’s pouring rain. It’s three days into our NW tour and things keep going wrong. We forgot half the merch at home, we had to turn around an hour out of Sacramento after I tried to leave my lucky leather jacket behind, and sadly, the shows have been pretty slow thus far. Thankfully, the room at The Naked Lounge in Chico is filling up, and things are looking pretty good for once. Whilst happily chatting about our upcoming recording session in Portland on Monday, imagine our horror at discovering that in fact the session was booked for Sunday, a mere 15 hours away. Twin panic attacks and some frantic google searches later we hatched a plan to push through the deluge and drive as far as Yreka after the show, crash for a few hours, and make the remaining 6 hours of the drive as early as we can in the morning. 490 miles later we pulled up to Page Street Studios in Portland as shattered shells of humans, but Frankie and Leon greeted us with stellar vibes and poured us into their freshly finished and stunningly beautiful studio space. We gamely blasted through these three songs in four hours before their next session, including our cover of the Rick James and Eddy Murphy’s stone-cold electro-funk classic, “Party All the Time”. For everything that went wrong preceding (and following) the session, those 4 hours went amazingly right, and this record is the result. While we left to play more shows and forget things in new and exotic places, Frankie polished up the tunes to a candy apple sheen. When he heard the tracks, Mark Kaiser from Mt.St.Mtn. suggested a one sided LP, and after a recommendation from our tour manager Jonas, Laurent from Six Tonnes de Chair was keen to release a special edition in France, too. We enlisted Green/Blue's Jim Blaha to make us a collage for the cover, and happily called on our girl Carmen Maher, sign painter and lettering connoisseur, to do the logo to match. We also decided you can call us SysEx now, if you want...if there’s already an abbrev, might as well?

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released April 21, 2023

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System Exclusive Pasadena, California

Ari Blaisdell and Matt Jones are System Exclusive: a Pasadena based two piece band bearing an armful of mini synths, making heart-throbbing capital P pop cut with more than a hint of post-punk. Blaisdell’s vocals hearken back to openhearted 80’s hitmakers unafraid to quaver in the name of love, and they’re buoyed by Jones’ laser-gridded synth concoctions and heavy hand on the ones and twos. ... more

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Apr 19

Che's Lounge

Tucson, AZ
Apr 21

Good Times at Davey Wayne's

Hollywood, CA
Apr 25

The Knockout

San Francisco, CA
Apr 27

The Elephant in the Room

Healdsburg, CA
May 1

Thee Stork Club

Oakland, CA
May 2

Winter's Tavern

Pacifica, CA
May 3

Bolinas Hardware

Bolinas, CA
May 4

Duffy's Tavern

Chico, CA
May 17

Super Fuzz Weekender

Brighton, UK
May 19

Just Dropped In (FarGo Village)

Coventry, UK
May 21

The Shacklewell Arms

London, UK
May 23

Railway Inn - Platform 2

Winchester, UK
May 24

Centrala Space

Birmingham, UK
May 26

QUARRY

Liverpool, UK
May 27

New Adelphi

Hull, UK
May 29

Parish Dive Bar, Huddersfield

Huddersfield, UK
May 30

Xerox

Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Jun 1

The Flying Duck

Glasgow, UK
Jun 2

Sneaky Pete's

Edinburgh, UK
Nov 7

Multiple Venues - Seattle

Seattle, WA

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