All recorded on a Yamaha MT-120 Cassette 4-Track. Portland, OR, 1993-1994. (any other places & years will be mentioned). Some I've recently remastered a bit, some I have not.

I made a LOT of music that first year! If you hear something you'd like for me to re-visit with a modern production, holla.

Adding tunes randomly with time. 
Please also  check out my main page at soundcloud.com/mitalupa 
& my wonderful duo with Mark Corrin, Octobuse, at soundcloud.com/octobuse 
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Mita Lupa :: A few of my EARLIEST TUNES first months in no particular order

Recorded on cassette 4-track in 1994. Me on bass, keys, drum machine and vocals.
Lyrics:

I try to find you, I've been stalking through your neighborhood.
You must be somewhere, but I keep lookin' and my search ain't goin' very good,
Big Spider.
I wanna bite but my love, you are nowhere in sight
I try to phone you, 'cause I want you love to break the silence!
We could be an ocean. We could spin webs of light.
I have a notion, but you are nowhere in sight.
I wanna kiss you. I wanna run my legs all through your hair
I really miss you.

I walked across the hot cement, I've swung from every tree, I played the part of Charlotte, but the pig, I could not see. 
Oh everywhere I could, I looked, and everywhere went I, but no place did I see your face, I will not say good-bye. I will not (so say's I). I will not say good-bye.

We'll, we've been talkin'. Talkin' 'bout the things we share
And we've been holdin', holding out 'cause we don't dare
Break the silence. And break plates, break records, break hearts, break water...
Build an island.
Swim across the sea.


Big Spider

Big Spider (4-Track 94)

This is an early bass tune. I had only been writing/recording/playing/singing for about 6 months when this tune happened. My beau at the time called it my "bass symphony". Extra, given that it's essentially a punk song, at least nearly as punk as I ever get... which is actually pretty true to the MO. Anyhow, I'm especially chuffed about this tune as I believe everything about it has stood the test of time. Certainly not something I can say about all of my earliest works! This tune has aged well, & I'm happy to have such a clean tape recording mix of it to work with. This take has pretty much stayed as it was, ripped from the cassette mix o' the moment that I harvested it from. With 4-track tape recording, you have to mix live, & I spent a lot of time doing different mixes & learning what worked best. 
Anyhooo... Njoy!

On A Bender

MITA LUPA : On A Bender :: 4-Track 1994

All instrumentation = tiny child's Casio keyboard, graciously loaned by my 4 y/o friend, Neil. Recorded in Phoenix, AZ, Spring 1996

2:45 (4-track, '96)

Here's my heart on my forehead.

Bass, keys, vox. Recorded in Watsonville, CA on cassette 4 Track, 1998. Possibly the sweetest (most touching, gentle) song I've recorded yet. 

Lyrics:

The sea is the vessel of my love.
The sky, a reflection of my faith.
I'm happy for the sparkle in your eyes, and
I'm glad to have you in my life.

Well, the sea is swelling every day,
the sky is repeating what I say, and
everything I'll ever wish for you is
everything you want and need, it's true.

My heart is filling to the brim, and
my spirit is longing to let you in, and
I'm sorry that I never said before, but
I love you with all I am
and more.



With All I Am (4-track, '98)

Piano fun. Casio on cassette 4 track. 1997.
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Tha gardens were tall as my eyebrows, and the
Pollen, it tickled my nose.
I'm feeling a bit like a fool, now
I guess that's the way these things go.

I gave him wood. Ahaha!
That's all he wanted from me
I gave him wood
Now he's left me alone with our baby
I reveled in possible marriage,
Never a time for despair,
Now I'm left pushing this carriage, and
I'm likely to pull out my hair!

It happened one Saturday evening,
I'd never done 'it' before.
But you know, he seemed such a nice boy,
Till he pushed me right out the door!

After I gave him wood. Ahaha!
That's all he wanted from me.
I gave him wood.
Now he's left me alone with our baby.
I thought that he really loved me
(because he told me so),
Put no other woman above me,
Until I started to grow.
Ahaha!


Wood (4-track 1997)

As stated, the very first song I wrote, recorded, played, and sang on. 4-track, 1993. Portland. The tune that kicked it all off, this sonic obsession o' mine. 
Over the years this song has often been a favorite of friends... I am convinced it's b/c they're all teenagers at heart. It's the cussing. And sex! :)
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Lyrics:

Tuna in the letterbox
Forwarded address
Forgot about her smile, cock's
Gone on that caress

Slish-slosh
Wishy-washy
Girl is only fish
Charm, harm
Hump, dump
"Boy, was she a dish"

Wading through these frozen waters
Trying to be the river's daughter...
But I'm getting cold.
Thundering sound, the crackling ice
Chasing me again, rattling dice...
I can't do that anymore.

Salmon at the marketplace
Picking at the lox
Undress her with his eyes and it
Stiffens up his cock.

Slish-slosh
Wishy-washy
Girl is only fish
Slump-frump
Hump, dump
"Boy, was she a dish."

© Mita Lupa 1993


Boy Gone Fishin' (4-track - my first full written/played/recorded song)

Casio love from the old dayz. Dark, sexy, creepy pop. Tinybig song from a tinybig woman.

Share The Wealth (4-track 1996)

Song built upon improvisations. 1997. Used a "haunted" 360 Systems keyboard, very odd, for example: the timpanis, which I found EXCELLENT, only sounded some of the time, and if memory serves, had no particular setting. I vowed to take advantage of them when I could, and this song resulted. 

Crazy Maze

REMASTER From THREADBARE, early mix of earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.

Mita Lupa - Fungus Town 1994

MITA LUPA : Fungus Town :: 4-track 1994

Mita Lupa - Can't Take This 1994

MITA LUPA : Cant Take This :: 4-track 1994

Mita Lupa - Music Box 1993

MITA LUPA : Music Box :: 4-track 1993

Mita Lupa - Alexa 1993

MITA LUPA : Alexa :: 4-track 1993

Me, early 1994. cassette 4-track. Bass. Keys. Wind chimes. Production.
I still play this song. There's a last bit now, a D part, that came later, goes like this:

"...Cindy ran off with the mice.
She's decided that she wants a simple life.
For, all your glitz & glamor could not steer away a girl who
Only wants a good roll in the hay."

Mita Lupa - Whoops! In Which Cindy Runs Off With the Mice 1994

MITA LUPA : Whoops! In Which Cindy Runs Off With the Mice V. 1  :: 4-track 1994

With Brandon D. on 12 string guitar.
Me on drums, vocals, engineering.
1994, Portland, OR

Fresh master mix-remaster 4/2020

Mita Lupa -Woman Eating Tuna Fish Sandwich With Sunglasses On 1994

MITA LUPA : Woman Eating Tuna Fish Sandwich With Sunglasses On :: 4-track DUO 1994

Early mix from my earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94
NOT a remaster (yet)

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.
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CRYPTIC

Ever the world, ever eluding
Climb the fences of the old school
Get your boards & go aborting
Cryptic messages for solving

Finally handsome in the sunshine
Try on the ladies with the hats
If, then, you should have some backbone
They may shuffle to the mix

Mita Lupa - Cryptic 1994

MITA LUPA : Cryptic :: 4-track 1994

Early mix from my earliest 4 Track songs, 1993-94
NOT a remaster (yet)

Mita Lupa on: Music, lyrics, vocals, instruments, engineering, production, mixing.

Mita Lupa :: A few of my EARLIEST TUNES first months in no particular order

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