Okay, well, here it is... This is my unreleased solo debut, recorded at the dawn of 2007, shortly after December of 2006's Law EP.  This is an unmixed and unmastered version rescued from a cd-r test-mix I made at the time.  The original sessions are trapped on an archaic PC that no longer talks with current technology.  I didn't release it  then because the last track was intended for heavy re-editing and competent vocals (man, was I waaaaasted), but I never got around to that, so... Fuck it.  Here ya go.  Headphones recommended.

Pretension and Release (unmixed/unmastered)

This track is #3 on Vol. II (disc two) of For The Light Of The Stars, "A Cosmique Cleveland Compilation" (2016), curated and released independently by Steve Lull (Dead Corporate Eyes) in a limited edition of 200 2-cd sets with deluxe hand/letter-printed card-stock cases made with love by a team of people on the comp(available digitally here: https://clevelandweirdos.bandcamp.com/album/cosmique-cleveland-compilation). "Hull Breach" was conceived as the soundtrack to a space-farer having just been inadvertently blown out of a hole in the side of their ship, watching, as they tumble away, their only hope of survival slowly, slowly recede into the inky void until it disappears and/or the oxygen runs out... the oxygen is running out... it's getting harder to breathe... the stars begin to speak very strangely... it feels like a ship listing but there is no ship...

Hull Breach

In gloriously claustrophobic mono.  A web-based open collaboration with /deadcorporateeyes.  I added vocals and treatments.  In glorious mono.  Turn it up.

Almost Human

These two tracks were recorded sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s.  All sounds created exclusively on an Ensoniq SQ-1 and mixed live direct to a crappy home stereo cassette deck.

Hydrostatic Swing

These two tracks were recorded sometime in the mid-to-late 1990s.  All sounds created exclusively on an Ensoniq SQ-1 Plus and mixed live, direct to a crappy home stereo cassette deck.

Gravitational Collapse

This is a quick demo of a track recorded somewhere around 2008-9 that I never got around to fully arranging, so this is just the intro, but I still like it well enough to throw it up here.  Unmixed/unmastered.

Pizza Dub (The Beats Become A Buzz)Demo

Composed specifically for "All The King's Horses", an audio-visual experiment presented by Shawn Misiak at Asterisk Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, 2006, where each piece of visual art was paired with adjacent cd players and headphones so that one might enjoy a specific private soundtrack (written without having seen the associated piece) for every artwork.

"Chloroform Orbit" was composed using as its core a ten-year-old piece written on an Ensoniq SQ-1 in 1996 or so and recorded to cassette on a crappy bookshelf home stereo unit.  By 2006 the tape was disintegrating and flaking pretty badly in playback, but that just made it sound even more zoned, so I digitized it and added a bunch of other crap on top, including multiple vocal tracks, yet more synths, and some shameless Low-esque Bowie sax.  SPACE.  IT'S DEEP, MAN.

Chloroform Orbit

Field cellphone recording of some of the last of this year's brood of 17-year cicadas singing in the Cleveland Metroparks, a few minutes south of Pearl Road., at about 11pm on July 6 2016.

Cicada field recording Jul 06 16

I have been recording electronic and acoustic music since 1992.  The vast majority of these recordings have yet to be released (mostly for good reasons).  Some of them will appear here.

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