LP ONE was recorded, cut, and edited in a four-month period between February and June.
The album itself, our first release as a group (in truth, just one adolescent and a laptop computer...!), is an ambitious mixture of influences spanning from ambient techno/the 90s Electronica scene, experimental electronic and avant-garde elements, drone music, harsh noise, and psychedelia. It helps to think of it not as an experimental record, but more as a chemically damaged bedroom pop album.
On the technical front, the LP was composed, produced, and performed almost entirely using the Audacity sound editor, without use any of MIDI instruments, track alignment, or quantization, assembled with external samples, field recordings, generated sound (metronomes, tone generators, etc.), and a wide variety of audio effects/manipulation. The result is a swirling mixture of avant-garde soundscapes, textures, and concepts in a minimalist, lo-fi ambient-pop framework, where low-quality field recordings and heavy distortion provide gritty, low-fidelity textures, and the use of pitched/random-modulated tone generators as a melodic lead create looping, hypnotic melodies and drones with a distinctive sound. The distinctly sloppy, lysergic production blends it all together in a haze with layers upon layers of audio effects and distortion bordering on abstract noise, heavily treated sonic textures and samples firing off in the background, synth-like melodic leads assembled piecemeal from samples, generated sound, and effects, distorted noise and feedback that rips through the churning mix like a jackhammer, and rhythmic structure constantly nearing collapse under the sheer wealth of overdubs and clipping. A combination of heavy distortion, poor-quality recording/sampling, sterile computer-generated sounds, and an almost ridiculous overuse of high-sustain digital reverb, creates a distinct sonic profile that's alternatively murky and strikingly atmospheric.
If you can get past the drawn-out song structures, the patchwork production job, and the sheer amateur wackiness of it all, you're in for what could be one of the most unique listening experiences you'll ever treat yourself to.

LP One: the Not-Yet Ensemble

Interlude: the Snake Charmer (See you on the Flipside)

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ATTENTION:
Though I have elected to leave this page up for archival and public availability, the NYE Soundcloud is being deprecated, as I am migrating to Bandcamp.
High-res downloads for LP One are available at https://notyetensemble.bandcamp.com, and the rest of my released and unreleased work is coming soon!

Interlude: the Snake Charmer (See you on the Flipside)

Not-Yet Ensemble

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