this is a rough outline in what i'm working through for the next little while, in cleaning up material left hanging from 2001. some of this is going to be left as is, some of it is going to be remixed and some of it is going to be (re-)recorded from scratch.
inri numbers are tentative throughout...
it's going to culminate in:
jjjjjjjjj
a) an lp of modern "chiptune" midi music, played back through vst synths. i'm not interested in the wanky, generic silliness that defines that genre. as "chiptune" this is going to be considered bloody weird. inri34.
b) uplifts of that lp to include live guitar parts. 'cause i'll never accept sampled or sequenced guitars. sorry. and also because i didn't score out a lot of the lead parts. these are the "final versions" of the pieces. inri35.
c) a series of eps that collect rough mixes, primitive card renders, midi files and other goodies for each of the tracks. inri24, 25, 27, 28, 32 & maybe 29/33.
d) j's adventures in guitarland. this is an aborted project that is already available at bandcamp as inri26.
rabit is wolf
a) a demo with 5 tracks, that include an outside vocalist. 2002. inri3x.
b) the wave, regular and sped-up (with vocals). aka symphony 3, in full. inri36.
c) multiple mixes of symphony 4. 2002. inri3x.
d) tracks eps with remixes and demos: inri29, 31, 33 and probable others.
ftaa
a) early two-track noise demo. inri30.
inri24: jan 10 - stuck in an alley
inri26: feb 10 - little suite
inri25: mar 21 - the time machine
inri26: may 08 - preludio
inri26: may 10 - guitarland
inri27: may 13: symphony sound card mix
inri28: july 15: intersection
inri3x: aug xx: trep drums
??????: sept xx: gonna kill someone
inri29: sept 7: me, myself demo version
inri29: sept 22: me, myself chip version
inri29: oct 13: me, myself temp version
inri30: nov 11: strung out
inri30: nov 11: hell, harry
inri31: nov 25: clarity incomplete. instrumental.
inri32: dec 1: choir
inri33: dec 15: #9 both versions + chiptune version
(possible additions to chiptune project:
august? 1997: confused
??: mwp, think, nope, hey, god, boogeyman
sept 06, 1997 - schizoid w/drums
oct 14, 1997 - skaters
jan 13, 1998 - wish fragment w/drums?
feb, 1998 - anticipation.
mar 17, 1998 - i did your mom w/drums
june 04, 1998 - symphony 0 next.mid
june 13, 1999 - symphony 0 next.nwc
inri34: thru - midi versions
inri35: jjjjjjjjjj - live versions. )
inri36: the wave. dec 31, 2001.
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moving into 2002, rabit stops in it's tracks around june and both tetris and trivial group begin. the symphony-centric period also begins, meaning single tracks become relatively rare.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
this is on the fringes of my tastes, and about as heavy as i'd ever get. the thing about stuff like white zombie, ministry, melvins and some of the other stuff from the same time and place (including korn, actually) is that it was never really metal. it was punk musicians trying to be metal musicians that were trying to be punk. or something. i think that subtlety has been lost to history. but it let people that were normally into punk get into it a bit more.
i was actually listening to the remix disc, supersexy swingin' sounds, quite a bit at the time. that remains one of the most outright fucking weird pieces of music ever released. the camp appeal was a big part of this.
but those that are willing to strain their memory this far back will recall that there was a brief moment when the guitarist for white zombie had a column in guitar world. white zombie was never particularly challenging, but the guitar style (regardless of who was playing) has always been pretty creative. the guitar parts on this disc were a lot of fun to play along to. now, i was mostly learning blues at the time, which got me more interested in thayil and corgan (as periphery to the lesson material, which was hendrix, clapton, page, zappa, srv), but i've always had a taste for noise, so i took the time to explore this idea of "skronking" a little and am pretty glad i did. you can hear it from time to time, not just on this old stuff but moving forward....
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general.)
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
this is on the fringes of my tastes, and about as heavy as i'd ever get. the thing about stuff like white zombie, ministry, melvins and some of the other stuff from the same time and place (including korn, actually) is that it was never really metal. it was punk musicians trying to be metal musicians that were trying to be punk. or something. i think that subtlety has been lost to history. but it let people that were normally into punk get into it a bit more.
i was actually listening to the remix disc, supersexy swingin' sounds, quite a bit at the time. that remains one of the most outright fucking weird pieces of music ever released. the camp appeal was a big part of this.
but those that are willing to strain their memory this far back will recall that there was a brief moment when the guitarist for white zombie had a column in guitar world. white zombie was never particularly challenging, but the guitar style (regardless of who was playing) has always been pretty creative. the guitar parts on this disc were a lot of fun to play along to. now, i was mostly learning blues at the time, which got me more interested in thayil and corgan (as periphery to the lesson material, which was hendrix, clapton, page, zappa, srv), but i've always had a taste for noise, so i took the time to explore this idea of "skronking" a little and am pretty glad i did. you can hear it from time to time, not just on this old stuff but moving forward....
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general.)
obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing.
this is a much more creative record than nevermind and had a much bigger influence on me. in utero > incesticide > nevermind, but none of the earliest really noisy stuff made it up to youtube, for various reasons. there's some later stuff. it's all at the bandcamp site, at the very bottom.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing.
this is a much more creative record than nevermind and had a much bigger influence on me. in utero > incesticide > nevermind, but none of the earliest really noisy stuff made it up to youtube, for various reasons. there's some later stuff. it's all at the bandcamp site, at the very bottom.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)
obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing. the rhythm section is really the best part of the record.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
i'm not making a comparison. i yell at people when they do that. but you can tell i was listening to novoselic's bass playing. the rhythm section is really the best part of the record.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general. also, my guitar style is heavily indebted to kurt cobain's noise-first approach to the instrument; even if that influence gets lost under more direct influences from sonic youth and billy corgan that had a bigger effect on me when i was older, it was nirvana that opened my brain to the possibilities of chaining effects pedals together and feeding them through an amp.)
obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
back in '94, when i was 13, this video was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with.
back in '94, when i was 13, this video was pretty much the coolest thing ever.
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)
obligatory "influential on song of the next few days" post.
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with. so i'm going to have some fun with the silliness...
i played my stupid songs and wrote my stupid words in a basement rather than a garage. yet, that's easily glossed over. and this is really a universal teenage anthem, isn't it?
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)
again: i'm trying to avoid linking to the old stuff, but there's really a deficit of material that draws a direct influence from the stuff i really grew up with. so i'm going to have some fun with the silliness...
i played my stupid songs and wrote my stupid words in a basement rather than a garage. yet, that's easily glossed over. and this is really a universal teenage anthem, isn't it?
(relevant tracks: mosh pit song, unintelligible, first two punk/emo/grunge/industrial/noise demos in general)
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