Weekend Warrior - along with https://soundcloud.com/mr-squirrel/sets/mr-squirrel-music-for-earphones and the adjacent material - came about after a brief sojourn as Hypothetical Sofa making clumsy stabs at low slung trippy sample mash up trip hop. Very diegetic and cartoony even, fiercely intimate and idiosyncratic - but sofa was a hot mess and by the end of 2005 something - I don't remember what - made me tighten the screws. Starting 2006 a very 18 year old Skwirl (then Mr. Squirrel) was making these mad mashes ripping samples from household/self acquired cds with rudimentary audio editing software and chucking that wildly at a 16 track virtual sequencer that required live performance (no offline or linear arrangement possible) and once a good take had tumbled out then off on a dash over to my stepdad's Sony Vio, which for some reason had Sound Forge on it, to do crazy effects and mental layers of things - that then had to travel via zip disk back to my room...all to make these trippy, dense, kaleidoscopic, intimate, bombastic, experimental, and dare I say dope sample collage, mega mash up style big beat meets downtempo meets trip hoppy tunes from literally hundreds upon hundreds of samples of all sorts of things.

To be fair a lot my memory of making music at that time was excitedly running down the hallway with a zip disk or something of the like so i could put the thing from one thing into another thing to do the thing to then take back to the first thing and make it do that thing. I remember being overwhelmed when I got Logic that i didn't have to do that anymore and that I could arrange things on an offline linear path and didn't have to make half dozen print mix performances of the tunes. Now of course I marvel at the dedication we used to have to doing things when it was much more arduous! Oh dear - geriatric "we" used there. Clearly I digress - check this isht out!

A note: given the obviously profound illegality of claiming any rights to these things they will never see streaming sites so think of here and YouTube as the official drop spots of these ancient nuggets of mad science-y associations and almost wayward ideas.

Mr. Squirrel - Weekend Warrior (2007)

Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66 - Promise of a Fisherman
Classics IV - Spooky
John Coltrane - Naima
Stereolab - Diagonals

 
(some other things I'm forgetting...)
(2006)

Weekend Warrior

Mr. Squirrel - Friday: After School

so I'll try my best to remember samples:

some Les Baxter thing

Deadweight - Beck

Who Are You? - The Who

(dunno about the flute)

Any Colour You Like - Pink Floyd

the piano is certainly a sample from something but I'm only one man.

Mr. Squirrel - On The Way To School

Juanita/Kiteless [Everything, Everything] - Underworld

Nasty Habits - Liquid Fingers

The Daughter of Time (Audiobook) by Josephine Tey - Read by Derek Jacobi

I think there's an little slice of Massive Attack's Blue Lines in there too...

Mr. Squirrel - Loose Leaves

Oh that bug game that came on that iMac OS thing in the noughts. 

(very emo 17 year old vocals)- web mic business

End Theme - Zero 7

Last Night on Earth - U2

Mr. Squirrel - Motion Sensor

Colours The Soul- Coldcut

Besaid (ビサイド島 Bisaido-jima)	Masashi Hamauzu (Final Fantasy X)

Tongue- Underworld

Menina Flor - Stan Getz · Luiz Bonfa · Maria Toledo

Diamond Girl- Seals and Crofts

don't remember the trumpet and the band stabs I'm afraid...defo from an anime but not sure which....

OMG one of the tunes on the Batman Beyond soundtrack...

Mr. Squirrel - Las Vegas

just remembered that I couldn't hear these on the way to school. it was 2006. 

Roundabout - Yes

[all of the sequencing in these tunes had to be performed live in takes. if I wanted a stereo loop, I needed to sacrifice two slots.]

[I had to remember keyboard combos to cue and stutter intro the loops. it's over engineered now...]

Mr. Squirrel - The Bus Stop

I really don't think there's too much of the mash up in this it was a fucking weird "make a song that is a palindrome" experiments.

there had been a very ill advised and largely illegal roadtrip with Justin, Phillip, and Tim, and "airports yes" was an inside joke. (I guess my web mic was working at this point)

big ups to Sound Forge XP destructive processing.

Mr. Squirrel - Airports Yes

Mr. Squirrel - Over Nova Scotia

(my web mic had totally died at this point and made these gnarly distortions)

Nervous Tension - Lemon Jelly

Horse With No Name - America

shit I'm spacing this next one - it's a super dope trip hop almost big beat record. will update. edit- it's the Wiseguys...don't remember the tune just now.

an interstellar jazz sample from a hip hop tune on one of those Scion promo mix cds I think. will update when I figure it out...

I don't remember the piano loop but shit I wish I'd found that now.

Mr. Squirrel - America In 1971

Promise of a Fisherman - Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66

Like Sonny - John Coltrane

I don't remember the skank and dude I'm completely skipping breaks in these - I don't really but kind of vaguely remember - I will not attempt to.

Swim - Madonna (produced by William Orbit)

OMG one of those charming but ultimately naff "world sounds" type kitch Bed Bath and Beyond cds - Ireland obviously

Twins - Caribou

Mr. Squirrel - Weekend Warrior

Edanna - Jack Wall (Myst 3 Exile Soundtrack)

I Miss You - Björk

I can remember vividly chopping this break by using different combinations of fingers in the browser sequencer.

fuck a really cool nu jazz tune - I'll update when I remember it.

Mr. Squirrel - Market Shares

all enquiries can be made to skwirl@woodlandcreatures.space

Mr. Squirrel - Weekend Warrior (2007)

Skwirl/Shīdo