I'm listening to this one again, to try and write new ones with the same "sound."  How are you doing the cymbal part here?  It sounds like it requires two hands (sticks)?  Does it only require one?  I'm confused as to how you can play that and still hit the snare rolls.

Tear out of school and take the solid orange Chuo line to Kichijōji. Shin, Emi, Chris, Shungo, Andrew, Brett, they nickname you “New Kid” and say you look like the bassist from Green Day. Skate down to the studio, just a few minutes from the station exit. Before heading up to hang out and take a turn behind the kit for 20 minutes, stop by a record store to browse the newest Fat Wreck Chords and Caustic Resin CDs in between Japanese grindcore 7”s. Was this the record store called Warszawa? Or was Warszawa in Shimokitazawa? Wherever it was, of one thing your memory is sure: you all pronounce the name “Wor-ti-zow-wa.” Then on to the teenage pop-punk jam with Dan and Adam moshing in the corner. The studio practice rooms all have huge racked drums with tons of cymbals and toms, you are just learning to play and don't even know how to keep the kick in time. When you tell Shungo maybe you’ll just not use the kick at all, he says calmly, “you should try to learn, cause it’d sound better.” Amps crunch and squeal, covers of Propagandhi, NOFX, and Lagwagon for a couple hours. The drumming continues round your head well after you sit down to a quick pork tonkatsu and then go skating in Shinjuku.

One recording of recent drums + resonators + delay = extension of drum memory to recent Ohio past.

One drum rack constructed out of snippets from recording above + random MIDI pattern generator = memory of learning to play the basic teenage punk beat.

One additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator = half-memories of all those years learning to play drums.

Another additional drum kit + random MIDI pattern generator + resonator = half-memories of Tokyo.

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More on this 185th Disquiet Junto project (“Summon up a memory, and then summarize it in sound”) at:

http://disquiet.com/2015/07/16/disquiet0185-memorymusic/

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http://disquiet.com/junto/

This project was proposed by Robert Thomas, more from whom at:

http://dizzybanjo.com/

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Kichijōji Warszawa (Drum Half-Memories)(disquiet0185-memorymusic)

From a mixtape made in 1998, North Canton, Ohio.

Fitful Suns – “Got It (Sebadoh Cover)” – git/bass/vox by @jc-rowdy, drums by @lethatechnique

Motel Blonde – “Another State” – git/bass/vox by Russ Fink (bass written by @jc-rowdy), drums by @lethatechnique

Fitful Suns – Got It (1998 Hot Car Mixtape with Motel Blonde)

Las Wolski is @alexrainer + @lethatechnique.

Las Wolski - Two Bolt

Viandante (PKRZDZ)

A preview of Dag Nasty's "Cold Heart" b/w "Wanting Nothing" single, out in May on Dischord Records. 

Find it here: http://www.dischord.com/release/184/cold-heart

Dag Nasty - "Cold Heart" / "Wanting Nothing" (Clips)

Mastered by @alexrainer at Sangcoby Sound

Dépaysement (Kinds Of Testament)

Achtendertig

I used these “five by five” matrix mixer combinations as a sort of guidance — readability + signal strength:

1.	perfectly readable + very good
2.	readable + good
3.	readable but with difficulty + fairly good 
4.	now and then + weak
5.	unreadable + scarcely perceptible
6.	unreadable + very good
7.	now and then + good
8.	readable but with difficulty + fairly good
9.	readable + weak
10.	perfectly readable + scarcely perceptible

Configured a sequence on my Moog Mother 32 and recorded it live while manipulating effects (my first foray into recording like this). Added delays, beat repeat, EQ, and compression in Ableton.

Needed some noise.

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More on this 309th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Military Matrix Mixer: Mix music according to a military standard for relative message clarity) at:

https://disquiet.com/0309/

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Advisors (disquiet0309 Military Matrix)

Las Wolski - How To Win (When You're Sitting Back)

Fitful Suns - Prison of Belief

Nothing (Negative Approach)

Sometimes true underground music comes in fits and starts, from across continents, crafted with questionable equipment, carved out in pockets of spare time, but always from the basement.  We do this primarily for ourselves, because we enjoy it.

Fitful Suns - Prison of Belief

JC Rowdy

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