Name: Derailed by Lycia: Early Demos in My October
Duration: 4 min 13 s
Description: Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, synth.

My October

Where Everything Changes And Nothing Is Real

Static Noise EP

Next, please

Die Auferstehung Des Technomancers

Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, synth.

Derailed

Walking through the shadows
Tries to find home
But nothing really matters
Now when you´re gone

I´m losing my senses
A bottle is my friend
I´m feeling helpless
I don´t know the way

Living in the paradise
With the best friend
We made a promise
A promise to the end

We don´t know the future
We only know today
I´m feeling helpless 
I don´t know the way

Walking Through The Shadows

Raw original version demo from Jan or Feb 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Sing Like Sirens (Original Version)

Raw original version demo from Jan or Feb 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitars. John Fair: bass, drum machine.

Incinerate (Original Instrumental)

Raw demo from May/June 1989. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar. John Fair: synth, drum machine.
Numerous versions of this song were recorded, including one version planned for the Wake release. Vocals were written and recorded but that version has been lost. Of the salvageable tapes this short instrumental synth oriented version was the best.

Paralyzed (Short Instrumental Version)

Raw demo from Spring 1990. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth, bass.
During the early part of 1990 John Fair spent more and more time working on his solo project Brilliant Abstract Machine, as well as starting a new Industrial project with Will Welch. As a reaction to this Mike worked on a few new Lycia songs alone, this being the first. Perhaps influenced by this song, or perhaps just as a coincidence, the VanPortfleet/Fair collaboration had one last creative burst soon after with Blinding White Fire, Jesus On My Shoulders and Down.
This recording also served as a template for what would later evolve into the Ionia album.

Distant Eastern Glare (Original Instrumental)

Raw demo from Spring 1990. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. John Fair: bass, drum machine.
Perhaps the high point of the VanPortfleet/Fair collaborations. This was also one of the last songs worked on prior to John leaving the band. Originally planned, along with Jesus On My Shoulders, to be the Lycia contributions for the Projekt CD compilation From Across This Gray Land No. 2. Issues arose during the re-recording of these songs and plans were abruptly changed, with a quick re-recording of From Foam and the newly recorded Down used instead. A major misstep for sure...

Blinding White Fire

From the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs. Mixed in late 1999/early 2000 for the Projekt compilation Projekt 100, which was released in the Summer of 2000. Also briefly available as a digital download via Lycium Music. Along with Excade Decade Decada, one of two officially released songs from the Byzantine sessions.

Byzantine

Early instrumental version of Desert from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth. Will Welch: drum programs.

Desert (Instrumental)

Early tribal version of Distant Eastern Glare from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, synth. Will Welch: bass, drum programs.

Distant Eastern Glare (Tribal Version)

From the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar, vocals. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs. Mixed in late 1999/early 2000 for the Projekt compilation Projekt 100, which was released in the Summer of 2000. Also briefly available as a digital download via Lycium Music. Along with the song Byzantine, one of two officially released songs from the Byzantine sessions.

Excade Decade Decada

Unreleased instrumental from the Byzantine sessions. Mike VanPortfleet: guitar. Will Welch: bass, synth and drum programs.

Neutrality

An official Lycia site.
Early demos and surviving recordings from the never realized Byzantine release.

Derailed

Lycia: Early Demos

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