A long ambient track made for the winter, part of the Red Wine On Ice split from record store day 2013.

Needles & Leaves

A droned-out, noisy cover of Katy Perry's Firework. More at neatlyknotted.bandcamp.com

Firework (Katy Perry cover)

A droned-out, noisy cover of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream. More at neatlyknotted.bandcamp.com

Teenage Dream (Katy Perry cover)

The first track from the 2015 Record Store Day release.

Don't Panic

A new audio sketch. Arp Odyssey, field recording, effects.

Feb. 2016 sketch

My side of an ambient split cassette with Steve Ruffin (Dig Up Another Coffin To Burn). Recorded at home on cassette 4 track with the field recordings added in later from a portable recorder. The tape is called A Reference To Good Times, and will be released as a very limited edition with special packaging and artwork by the end of the year.

I will probably remaster it before the tapes come out, but this version is basically finished.



A Reference To Good Times

all mixing done on the cassette 4-track, then transferred to computer. trying to get some decent sounds, though i think i'll go back and remix it. some tones drop out and some shine through in pretty weird ways. 

ten million people demo

A new one...instrumental. Recorded on 4-track cassette. I'm getting more of a handle on mixing but still am getting some undesired results during the transfer to digital. 

Spring Break

The first single from the upcoming full-length Neatly Knotted album Mountain of Youth. 

Written, recorded, and mixed by Ben Chlapek. Mastered by Wil Reeves.



A Hopeful Pause

Drones, ambient, space-inspired texture stuff, a little shoegaze and psych maybe. Mostly done on cassette 4-track when it isn't broken.

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