sp00 - Loose Digits

sp00 - 502 Proxy Error - Fail Whale Mix

sp00 - Robo Buddy Morning

sp00 - Socks Proxy

sp00 - Zledits

I wrote a really awesome description for this track but uploading over a cable modem sucks dicks. Sorry about that.

sp00 - First Mover

I started playing around with chiptune-style instruments. The synths are all done using Basic64. Viva la C64!

sp00 - Arnold

Now with less sputterific drums and keys that don't sound like I'm cycling through presets. Also, a smidgen of 8bit.

sp00 - Fish Butt

This is a live recording from Modified Arts, located in Phoenix, AZ, USA, Earth. It was the middle of summer, and the air conditioning at the venue was broken. It was easily over 100 degrees in there, and although the CPUs in our boxes didn’t melt, our faces did. Or at least appeared to. Through the sweat. And now you can listen as if you were there. We recommend turning the heat in your home up to at least 104 to truly share in our experience.

– sleem!?

live @ Thru The Wires 7-22-04

sp00 - beautiful sad feeling (live)

DJ TEK.
EVEN NOW.

Big-ups to the one they call DJ Tek, as he rocks this house party from ’99-infinite. Live Impulse Tracker at the Ramen House, Tempe, AZ, 1999.

The house no longer stands, but the music continues…

Live at Ramenfest Eleven

DJ Tek - Benedict

Fable is a full length release that covers all sorts of musical territory. You will hear strong melodic ambience in songs such as 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 is ten and merry go round lose focus. You will also hear oddly brutal trip-hop tracks like Worlwide Chaos Mantra and Why Do You Die. And, true to traditional sp00 stylings, there are just enough songs that sound like the forcable thrusting of a video game character into a weird real life fantasy to keep you grinning along the way. Experience the futuristic emotional peculiarities!

– sleem! (aka funkymuskrat, etc)

Fable

sp00 - 1 plus 2 plus 3 plus 4 is ten

Please fasten your seatbelts as we prepare for blast-off into the vast reaches of space and time. Your spaceway pod has been equipped with the very latest in speaker technology and we can promise you an unparalleled listening experience. Please lower your protective face-shield and lock your gravity sockets into place. Our in-warp dinner will be freeze-dried vegetable paste garnished with squang. Thanks again for flying sp00 Intergalactic Spaceways!

– 5leem

Intergalactic Spaceways

sp00 - feelingood

the story of a man and his robot

"this is chilled f0nk elegance! a tough, head-nodding beat and smooth pads wrap themselves around a signature melodic spoo bassline to make the tastiest sweater of sound you’re likely to hear. hold this EP close to your bosom, caress it, love it, taste it." --tek

We Feel It EP

sp00 - We Feel It

“This disc is an interpretation of the music that we heard on our many trips through space, visiting alien stations and planets of various types. We are aware that most of our listeners cannot afford to travel to the distant stars, so we have brought the distant stars to you…” – sp00

This disc features the best ambient and chill tunes that Ariel and Dave were able to squeeze out of their liquid computers. Some songs, like At The Spacebar and The Metal Star, will have the listener peering out of their spaceship window at the deep space scenery. Other songs, such as Hes Outside and Electronic Alien Hallucination, will have you wondering if you are really listening to sp00 or if you are merely dreaming about it…

Music From The Spacebar

sp00 - Rigil Kentaurus

sp00 - Too Far To The Next Star

Dedicated to Jason Zaleska, who designed the cover art based on a Dig Dug concept. Sorry you never got to see it finished. Rest in peace.

Dig we Dig

sp00 - Rosalind Franklin not Watson and Crick

After a lengthy hiatus, we proudly present the first full-length sp00 album since 2006! This time around, we explore a variety of musical terrains such as maxi-minimalist tech-funk, synth-frommage, rock star guitar heroism, hard ambient++, and auto-toonkore. And yet, despite our foray into new worlds and paradigms, it is still unmistakably, indescribably, extra-terrestrially a sp00 album. We hope you will agree it is the Bombdiggety.

All songs composed and produced by Ariel Gross and Dave Benjamin. Sampling, sequencing, and keyboard by Ariel Gross and Dave Benjamin. Guest keyboard and production on Dry Bones by Taylor Pakula. Drums, guitar, and bass guitar by Dave Benjamin. Drums on Pointy Fingers, Stellar Converter, and Also the Game recorded and mixed by Ariel Gross with help from Matt Helman and the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences in Gilbert, Arizona. Mastered DIY over the internet.

Dave would like to thank Taylor for his undying persistence in getting him to accept Ableton into his life, and the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences for the most amazing set of microphones he has ever seen or used.

Ariel would like to thank Dave for thanking the people that he thanks, because Dave’s thanks pretty much cover Ariel’s thanks. Also, Ariel thanks his chuchkin.

Bombdiggety

sp00 - Pointy Fingers

HI SWEETIES,

Molly_eskonitron is a name that I gave to the type of work I was doing in that range of a year and a half. The older stuff (2002-2004) all had the name of vale_eskonitron. It’s a hard thing to try to describe certain period of life where you have a range of ideas and expressions that reflect those ideas, so I just give these periods names when the word sounds like it fits the ideas. These songs have a similar kind of idea as the vale_eskonitron period, but their differences are more audible to me than their similarities. It’s hard to explain, so I won’t bother. This is collection of songs I usually play live but have never actually released (aside from that one live cd… but that doesn’t count). Most of them are Nintendo-oriented and such. Here’s a bit about how they came about…

1“The Robot and Unicorn Festival” was written in october of 2005 with the help of a now deceased modified speak & math. It was originally a 56-second slower song done for a compilation that never came out. I couldn’t stop writing and adding to it, and it ended up being over 4 minutes long… halfway thanks to the obnoxious acid solo that only comes out descently when played live :P

“1986 Peepees and Weewees” is a rip off of the Beastie Boys song “Girls!”, but it happened halfway by accident. The intro and main chord progression of the song was originally 3 1/2 steps higher and had slight timing variations. When I was messing around and trying to come up with parts for new songs, I had a keyboard hooked up to my Nintendo and would just record stuff while playing. Most of these songs came out of this one recording-while-messing-around session. This loop ended up getting stuck in my head so I developed it into a full loop with drums and backing synths before trying to write it out as a full song. When half of the full song was done, I was like “aww man! this is that Beastie Boys song!!” Then I was like “Who gives a shit!” and finished it. The drums are all overprocessed NES sounds I recorded while doing the initial recording tests and stuff. The higher-up synths in the later parts of the song are from my Nintendo as well. They were sequenced for this album, but usually get played live.

“Alfred Chicken” is a cover of the ending song from the Nintendo game by the same name. The original is simply one of the baddest, most ill-taco, hydrochloric neptune jams ever. period. Not THE baddest though… that’s “Tendance Part 5″ by Patrick Peters. Anyway, even the Alfred Chicken ending song done for Super Nintendo was awesome because it used a voice “ahh” for the main synth. Just awesome.

“Hawaii Of Course” came from an entire group of parts that were written for the song “Jackie (The Ending Song)”. They didn’t quite fit in anywhere, so they all got their own song. Parts of the drums come from my Casio VL-Tone, a Nintendo, and 800 other trinkets. If I remember right, the slight voice sound heard throughout the song is my voice run through a George Foreman grill.

“Jackie (The Ending Song)” sounds like… um… and ending song. Something like the ending of the Pee-Wee Herman Show. The main part came from that recording mentioned earlier, but was then sequenced and transposed. Then I learned to play it on the guitar. Then I messed around playing it, tabbed what I played, then resequenced that. It seems like a ridiculous process. It is.

“The Legend of Jack Burton” is entirely Nintendo. No modifying samples, no processing, no nothing. Just Nintendo. I think we know who it’s named for. If not, it’s a character in this movie I watched every other day between the ages of 3 and 4.

A few songs got cut out of this cd, including a cover of a Guardian Legend song. I figured one cover (and one sound-alike) were quite enough.

Have fun with this cd.

Terminator 8: Return Of My Keys,

-captainmarmalade

p.s. Really, I can’t find them.

captainmarmalade - Jackie (the Ending Song)

captainmarmalade - Hawaii Of Course

captainmarmalade - Alfred Chicken

captainmarmalade - 1986 Peepees And Weewees (girls)

captainmarmalade - The Robot And Unicorn Festival

captainmarmalade - Goatse Intro

Sleem - Glug Glug Glug

Sleem - One Two What Shoe

Sleem - Seaphoam

Sleem - Extra Droid Sauce

Squishy Hand - Clickity Clack, Time To Attack

Squishy Hand - Bananas And Me

sp00 - Lil Man Ager

Dedicated to my mom, Alice. May you find your strength.

sp00 - Sub Arachnoid

Fighting the loudness wars with laser beams and musket repellent

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