In 1973, Dean Corll was shot dead by Wayne Henley who turned out to have been an accomplice along with another young man, David Brooks, in the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of at least 28 teenagers in Houston, Texas.  The three men had carefully concealed evidence of their crimes by disposing of their victim's bodies in the floor of an isolated boat shed, in forest graves, and beneath the dunes of a local beach.

At the time of the victims' unearthing, these Houston Mass Murders shocked the country and came at a time when there was not yet a wide awareness of serial murder or the monsters lurking at the edges of complacent neighborhoods.

This track evokes the bleak atmosphere of driving as dawn's light begins to glint at edge of night's horizon.  In this twilight, as a news report plays, it possible to imagine that the driver is returning from having hidden the evidence of murder.

Is this a retrospective tale that imagines the driver as one of the subjects of the news report?  Or, another listener consumed with hiding the evidence of his own crimes?

Hiding The Evidence (Newsreel Mix)

Maxi - So Beautiful (M00nchild's Perfect 10 Mix)

I wrote this song in late November of 2012.  While laying in the early percussion patterns, a Martin Luther King quote popped in my head and I went online to find the source of the quote.  

This quickly led to listening to a number of recordings of his famous speeches from the 1960s -- all of which wrestled with grave and urgent matters facing the civil rights movement at the time.  The quote came from one speech in particular, delivered in 1968, known as the Mountain Top speech.  Like all of MLK's oratory, this speech is profound and stirring, the urgency of so much injustice now is no less relevant to the universal human condition than it was almost 45 years ago.  But the speech also serves as a snapshot in time, just months before his assassination and in the speech MLK ominously refers to the possibility of his own demise.

As conceived this song started as experimentation with beats and bass lines. I toyed with inserting actual sampling of MLK's speeches, but decided in the end that those of us who want our freedom often have no voices until we find them and that the relentless rhythm strained melodies in this song represents the tragedy of being actively beaten down and denied a say in the matter of one's own life.

-- J.M00nchild

We Want To Be Free

What happens is a consequence of all that has happened before

Come Tomorrow (Come Quickly Version)

The Truth Be Told

Seen Blindly

Flux & Rendition (Sex Included Version)

Chapter One

In 2007, 19 yo Robert Hawkins walked into a Nebraska shopping mall with a semi-automatic rifle and shot 8 people dead before taking his own life.

Robert was a deeply troubled young man with a long history of violent mental illness.   He was a wounded beast who cruelly hunted his own beasts of prey in the last moments of his life -- prey that until targeted for murder had lived very human lives.  

This incident was yet another senseless tragedy made possible by guns falling in to the wrong hands at the wrong times.  This song is dedicated to the 8 victims who lost their lives, others who were injured during the incident, and the entire community who suffers to this day:

1. Gary Scharf, age 48, customer.
2. John McDonald, age 65, customer.
3. Angie Schuster, age 36, employee.
4. Maggie Webb, age 24, employee.
5. Janet Jorgensen, age 66, employee.
6. Diane Trent, age 53, employee.
7. Gary Joy, age 56, employee.
8. Beverly Flynn, age 47, employee.

-- J.M00nchild

Wounded Beast

The Finders Case is an actual incident regarding an alleged global child prostitution ring that happened in the late 1980s in the United States.  The case was initially widely reported by national and local publications but all coverage was hushed following CIA involvement in the early 1990s.  

I stumbled across a Whitley Strieber podcast file describing this case and intersections across his own troubled memories with which he has struggled for many years.  The entire story is disturbing and mesmerizing in its dark depth and scale.  

The track itself started, as with much of my music, an exploration of percussion that began to accrete enough layers to become interesting -- but with the discovery of the audio material rapidly expanded in depth and experimentation.  

-- J.M00nchild

The Finders Case (Parts 1 & 2)

This track started as a dark ambient piece inspired by the late winter's brooding mood and my continued interest in the dark and desolate places of horror.  But then a drum loop found its way into the track and mixed with the sounds of fear, captivity and infernal doings the song developed a life of its own and became consumed with an image of woman trapped somewhere worse than awful.

-- J.M00nchild

Hunter's Desolation

I make and mix electronic music.  My tastes run the gamut but lately trend into much darker territory.  All music posted on SoundCloud is available for purchase on Bandcamp with broader releases announced below.


UPCOMING RELEASES

10/2013:  The Truth Be Told (Single) on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital retailers

AVAILABLE RELEASES

3/2013:  We Want To Be Free (Single) on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital retailers

5/2013:  Wounded Beast (Single) on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital retailers

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