Saturday, November 9, 2013

catchin’ up (original album mix)

noises generated with cool edit. it seemed like the coolest thing in the world, at the time.

created in the fall of 1997.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/catchin-up

fuck the dead (original album mix)

well, it's a song about necrophilia. what?

this is actually the first thing i recorded in the new electronic style, and i sort of picked up where i had left off, thematically.

ok, if it's not blatantly obvious, it's entirely tongue-in-cheek and absurdist. i'm poking fun at what i'm assuming people are perceiving the spooky goth stereotype as.

i have removed a section full of painful homer samples. i put the spiderman sample in after and it's one of the things i'm most proud of, actually.

recorded in jan, 1998. edited on nov 9, 2013.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-the-dead-1998-archive

a psycho kills a cow (original album mix)

so, there's this dude, and he sounds sort of like one of the monsters from doom II, and he lures a cow with a weird mating call and then attacks it and it's kind of twisted and hilarious. subtle vegan brainwashing? yes, but more on an environmentalist level.

created in the fall of 1997.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/a-psycho-kills-a-cow-2

about a squirrel (original album mix)

the guitar loop is taken from a popular nirvana song, whereas most of the building sound pasted on top is from civ 2. no real message here. just a particularly savvy squirrel that's getting ready for winter by building some kind of fortress.

created in the fall of 1997.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/about-a-squirrel-2

skaters (original album mix)

the original version of this track, along with a write-up, is over here:
jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/skaters

this version is sped up a little bit and has some keyboard sequencing  added to it but is otherwise pretty similar.

recorded in jan, 1998.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/skaters-1998-archived-112-kbps-mp3

useless (original album mix)

kind of a new wave / synth pop track. as can be heard, i'm still not out of the clutches of trent reznor - there's an awkward nin sample in the middle of the track.

this is the first track with my new synth on it. that's a large part of  what the track is.

this isn't the first document that demonstrates my struggle with coming to terms with the futility of existence, but maybe it's the first meaningful one. in a very real sense, that struggle has defined most of my life. listening to the lyrics now, they seem sort of trite. yet, there's a large amount of who i've become within these words.

recorded in jan, 1998.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/useless-valium-sped-up

boogeyman reconstruction (discarded first vocal take)

this was recorded over the christmas holidays on my brand new 4-track. i ended up rejecting the track, then redoing the vocals for the second demo. it is itself a redone version of a track on one of the cassette demos:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/boogeyman-depressed

you can hear that the drum programming was fairly meticulous here, adding all kinds of unusual sounds. there's no synths or samples here, it's all ry30.

while the strong backbeat improves part of the track, i prefer the cassette demo, overall.

recorded in dec, 1997.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/boogeyman-first-vocal-take

inrijected cover art

inriched cover art

file: 07. about a squirrel.mp3
composition: about a squirrel (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 06. a psycho kills a cow.mp3
composition: a psycho kills a cow (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 05. wrong number.mp3
composition: wrong number (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 04. untitled.mp3
composition: untitled (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 03. nails.mp3
composition: nails (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 02. catchin’ up.mp3
composition: catchin’ up (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file
file: 01. war.mp3
composition: war (original 1997 construction)
status: completed mp3 file