Debris

This is not an album, rather a place to store material that I'v built up over the years. If I had singles, these would be B-Sides. But I don't have singles. So they're not. They're just bits of debris.

1. On Your Own Accord - Accordions and arabic percussion were always meant to be together. This much is obvious.

2.Poper - I could listen to that Kick and snare singing to each other all day. With bells on harmony.

3. Untitled - A drrty south hip-hop beat. If you want to sample it, or rap over it or whatever, it's yours. This is true of all my music, by the way. I don't own my songs.

4. Walking Hat - Another southern hip-hop beat. A little less drrty, but it's a complete song. It's currently looking for someone to rap over it.

5. As We Claw At Our Lips - Created around the same time Jittercreep (opening track for Disorient). In the end, I went with Jittercreep because it moved a bit more.

6. Dance Party - The first electronic track I ever made.

7. DNS - My first go at sampling something and chopping it up. It still makes me laugh.

8. Tasty Burger Jam - I think I was obsessed with Pulp Fiction at some point. This is first instance of sampling audio and adding music to it.

9. United States of Lebowski - My first real "Mash-Up", now that I think about it.

10. Collide i Scope - Bits of crackling strangeness. Something didn't turn out right when I rendered it.

11. Iced Light - As the signal loops, it becomes more and more agitated until it breaks your ears. I reccomend turning the volume down before playing this one.

12. meiuqeR - Taking a page out of DuChamp's book, this is a found piece of art. That is to say, it's the theme to Akira played backwards. It still surprises me how effective and haunting this is. Very Animal Collective-esque. I used to drive around at night with this on my cd player. It's also the longest "song" I've ever done.

13. I Love You Anyway (Jacek Demo) - Originally my first EP was going to be a duet album with (and about) my great friend Erin Vogel. Her friend offered to help me record it, using his instruments. I only spent a sigle night recording in his basement, and this vocal-less demo is what came out of it. I played the guitar and bass, Jacek played the organ and drums. Eventually I'm going to want to start recording rock music, so this sort of provides you a little look into how that will sound.

14. El Camino Blvd - This was ommitted from Open All Winter. If you've heard that album, you probably have some idea about how bad this song must be. I think I was trying to sound like Will Oldham, but it sounds much more Dinosaur Jr-esque.

15. 1992 Girlfriend - This was also omitted from Open All Winter, but only by accident. I still actually dig the concept and melody, so maybe I'll ressurect it someday.

16. Triptoolator - Weird ambient stuff. Put it in your horror movie or something. Spooky.

17. Gunk - Bit of noise I made today, inspired by the Noise Love thread.

18. Dealers - I became obsessed with Lil' Wayne's "A Milli", and I tried to see if I could build a beat based around a single vocal sample. The verdict: No.

19. Vampire - I meant to put some gothy, Baushaus, kind of vocals over it, but I never got around to it. It's actually better the way it is though.

20. Not A Dream - I'm very much interested in odd percussion, and how it can build and release tension in weird ways.

21. Super Famous - A quick one-off I did in about 20 minutes. I think it's fun.