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WTF? I'll tell you WTF! WTF? I'll tell you WTF! WTF? I'll tell you WTF!
WTF? I'll tell you WTF!
Don't Worry: I'm from the future!
Let the record show that i have historically
been 5 to 10 years ahead of the rest of the world.
Proof:
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1992, begins scouring pawn shops and local trader newspapers for vintage
analog synthesizers. Builds a collection that eventually leads to being
stalked by insiders and industry professionals. There was no ebay or
Craigslist.
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1993: distorts first synthesizers and uses it in a recording. pure joy
is found.
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1994: signed to a dance music label out of Detroit. Doesn't work out so
well.
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1995: begins to win remixing contests one after another.
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1996: discovers the internet, a treasure trove of both information and
misinformation.
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1997: moves and quickly begins making electronic records with girl
singers. This is coined "trip hop"
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1999: begins doing electronic hip-hop a full decade before it hits the
mainstream.
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2000: records and plays live with electro-punk band. This is during the
punk/ska reinvention. Great, more obscurity!
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2001: records a half electro, half guitar record. Later this would be
referred to as electro-clash and indie rock. or what youre listening to
now.
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2002: writes and records an album where all the songs are remixed, done
collaboration style with german partner.. Self
published on the internet.
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2003: builds and opens home studio in basement. Records over 25 bands, mostly punk. 0.00
electronic bands. Throws 10 band festival. Closes home studio.
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2005: Completes internet collaboration. No one notices. No one cares. No
one minds.
WTF: An Essay
I don't look for music
anymore, it "just comes" to me via various channels. Chances
are you're the exact same. Long dead is the snobby record store clerks to condescendingly
throw a CD at me and tell me how I 'probably won't get this because I'm
not able to get it'. There's no more "independent" disc
jockey's playing tunes the choose
late at night. There's playlisting. There's taste engines that programmatically select things
based on what you looked at before. These might be evil, you never know. I
am happy to see that
120 Minutes is back, and well-- we'll see how
that goes and hope for the best. In the 90's, 120minutes (which replaced
radio for me) basically turned me on to everything first including Foo Fighters, Garbage, Ruby, and pretty much anyone else I
listened to the next 10 years non-stop. But that's all gone now. Now's
there's the internet. The internet ruined (or some might argue 'fixed') everything. Also in the
late 90's, mp3.com changed my life. You could go in and listen to new
music and see band pages. In order to be an artist and submit, you had
to first listen to other peoples music and give mini reviews. That was
excellent, and pretty much perfect. You could go in and listen to "all
electronic" or "all trip hop" or "all music sorted by zip code". At one
time or another, the music I submitted ruled these charts, so it is
natural that I would like it. It lasted until about 2000, and that was
that.
So I'm doing it myself,
just for you. I'm putting it out there and placing it on my front porch for
you to peruse at will, knowing fully that you won't get most of it.
You'll get some of it or one of them, but you won't connect-- you CANNOT
connect --- with all of the songs here. And I designed it that way.
There isn't anyone that will appreciate these as much as I do. And I
have reconciled with that.
I'm parking these songs
here, online, in this form. There were times in my life where I actually
discovered the remixes before I heard the singles. And you know what? I
ended up ok for it. So you might do that as well. You might like
versions better than others, I'm ok with that. I saw an interesting
piece of writing awhile back about how people are often disappointed
when they finally get to see the Mona Lisa in the Musée du Louvre. It
might be better when its photographed, I'm not sure. I'm not comparing
this to that or myself to Leonardo; even I have my good angles.
And here's the deal: I'm
putting these songs up, one at a time. I'll sort them by popularity
based on upvoting and downvoting. And that way you can choose. I'll put
remixes here as well, for you to love and hate -- because the original was so
much better -- or are you sure it was the original that you heard first?
I'll be the condescending record store clerk, waiting for an ear. I'll
be the blood you never flow. I'll set them up, you knock them back.
From here its up to you.
Spread it around. If it grows, its your fault. If it sinks, its my
fault. Deal?
WTF: Or, more precisely, HTF?
Well i'll tell you what.
In August of 2011, i set out to do 100 songs as quickly as possible.
This took a month; 30 days. Then I put it aside and intentionally didn't listen to it or touch
them for awhile. In November, i rediscovered the pile, which i instantly
set to sorting through. I drug the keepers into one pile and realized
something quickly; these stuck with me. This pile melted down to 20. So
i worked on them, again keeping only the essential bits. Some of the
lyrics were cut in half. Most were trashed, at 80% recidivism. Slowly i
made vocal less versions of them and started singing them in my living
room. No one had heard them at this point. The next step was to start
making remixes of them. Sometimes, the remix was better than the
original.
Then i realized shit, i
need a webpage or two.....
Yes, this is 100% all
D.I.M.D.S. Songs. Engineering. Recording. Mixing. Producing.
Remixing. Videos. Graphics. Webpages. Photos. Live shows. Stuff. More hidden stuff to come.
FAVORITE BAND EVER! Less
people to argue with that way!
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