This is spoof of overly produced House music, originally designed to accompany a fake Tourism ad for the country of Poland. It contains awful stereotypes, stupid jokes, several mispronunciations and then disolves into a hot gay dance party. Enjoy

Tourism Board of Poland

Very old demo of my band, Onion(?), recorded from and 8track machine, feeding into a two track HQ VHS. It's the only remaining document of this band and is one and a half songs. 

Onion - 2 18 15, 10.05 PM 2

So, this is an early track from the VERY last band band I was in, "Loom", before I quit to pursue stand-up. I had a blast playing with these guys and got all to the way to the demo phase before things fell apart. That happens quite often. I feel like I was finally nailing some of the techniques that had previously eluded me, such as phrasing and dynamics. There are a SHIT ton of weird chords in this song. Michael Cotta on drums: He was fantastic. My friend Aaron (cannot remember last name, because it was 9 years ago...) on bass: VERY upfront sound. Bass is #1 in the mix. Nothing wrong with that. Anyway, no vocals. We never got to that stage in the recording, which was engineered and produced by Don Gunn. Fun stuff.  

"Bound" by Loom

Here is track number #2 from the "Loom" demo, "Pop". This was a piece initially conceived while jamming with our friend, Kris Darr. Another bassist, who would later play with Michael in a VERY kick ass band. 
I kinda wanted to write a straight forward pop song, but in my voice: basic in form, complex in function. Lots of intervallic voicing, complex chordal arrangement, a beast to play but it shouldn't sound like it. I honestly wanted to attack the rhythm and chorus in a very "Cobain" kinda way, lot's of heavy, wide open downstrokes. I always liked the way this recording turned out. Terrific performances by Michael and Aaron. Don Gunn and i played around an awful lot, experimenting with different sounds. I always thought this one had some legs, if there vocals on it.
Anyway, enjoy. My FAVORITE part is the outro solo.  

Derek Sheen

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