Album version of the title track to the upcoming albums "ShapeTracer" and "ShapeTracer: Mixed The F%*# Up"

Haunted Echo - ShapeTracer

OVERLY AGRESSIVE ACT III.aif

...the desert & the mountains - on an endless road of sand

Glue Sniffer

Americas

Original version taken from the self titled album Trigger 10d

Trigger 10d - Misplaced (v2)

Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music To Cure Cancer Volume V: Remembrance

Thoughts Become Things

This is one of those happy accidents of the recording and mixing process. The original music tracks were recorded by Scott in early 1987 using a Korg DW-6000, a Casio SK-1 (on loan from the Fiber family), and recorded onto a Fostex X-15 Multitracker 4-Track Cassette Recorder.

Later in 1987, the infamous DSL sessions were recorded. For these mind altering sessions, Scott and I ended up using the other side of the cassette from the Idea H-2-12 recording.

Now, jump forward 2 years to the Summer of 1989 when I was mixing tracks for final release of The Secret Society project. Though most of the songs for The Secret Society release were recorded during the Summer of 1988 at Horse &amp; Buggy Highway Studios, I was looking for additional material to include on the final master. This is when I stumbled upon the cassette with Idea H-2-12. I popped the cassette in the X-15 and hit play.

Here's where the happy accident occurred...

The previous song that I had been mixing was a 4-track song and had all the levels wide open so, as the 2-tracks for Idea H-2-12 started to play, the 2-tracks from the other side of the tape were also audible. However, those 2-tracks from the DSL sessions were playing backwards! I thought it sounded "so cool" that I mixed it all together and we created our first (and only) backwards masking song.

Now you can be the judge of whether or not this song is as "cool" as I thought it was at the time and you'll also get bonus points if you can decipher the backwards masking vocals and sounds from the DSL sessions. But be warned, you may not want to know what the backwards masking vocals and sounds are!

The Secret Society

Idea H-2-12

Here's another live in the studio track unearthed from the FFS Vaults. This version of How Do Rocks Multiply (Solution IV) was recorded at Horse and Buggy Highway Studios in Shippensburg, PA during the recording sessions for The Secret Society debut release in Summer 1988.

As in yesterday's post, this performance was recorded in between the "serious" recordings for the release and features the line up of M Scott McConnell (Synthesizers), Matt Norcross (Bass), Tim Harrell ("Live" Drum Machine), Ken Chandler (Vocals), and birthday boy, Kevin "Bart the Fart" Wilson (Guitar).

The occasion for this recording was Kevin "Bart the Fart" Wilson's birthday. Though none of his guitar work made it onto The Secret Society official release, we celebrated his birthday with a day (and night) music making and partying. Though by listening to this and the other recordings from this day, you may wonder which we did more of but, suffice it to say, we made sure that we did plenty of both.

Without further digression, I present to you the dueling guitar work of Kevin "Bart the Fart" Wilson.

The Secret Society - How Do Rocks Multiply (Solution IV) Live

Floating Fish Studios held its first in a series of Synth Jam Sessions at FFS II on 02/20/10. This series provides a forum for our fellow musical collaborators to create improvisational electronic music within the freedom of our state-of-the-art recording studios.

The ensemble gathered for the first inaugural session included (from L to R) Tim Harrell (aka LTJTHC), Dave Chandler (aka Thee Sub One Genius), Mazie (aka I Want to Play and Bite Chewie Matt Matt!), M Scott McConnell (aka MC2P4), Stephen Saputelli (aka Steve O), and Matt Norcross (aka Ttam Troll).

We wasted no time in launching into our sonic experimentations which yielded hours of audio and video recordings.  Here is the first excerpt from our inaugural session...

Imbued Vagary - TR-6 (Live at FFS II 02/20/10)

While waiting to officially release our Any Questions? - Death CD in early 1996, MC2P4 and I began working on new ideas in the studio. Our sonic arsenal had grown quite extensively leading up to this period and we were anxious to make new music with it. These ideas ranged from very structured pounding rhythm Industrial to very non-structured and improvised ambient music.

Technical falls a little bit in between both of these concepts. Recorded on 02/04/96 (the DAT says so!), this 15+ minute improvisation features a very structured/repetitive rhythm track and chord structure. On top of which we incessantly solo over intertwining synthetic tapestries and sampling overload. We had fun on this day and now you'll get to hear it too!

1996

Any Questions? - Technical

Music produced by Elaine Benavides and Kris "Halo" Pierce
Vocals by Elaine Benavides
Lyrics are interpolated from the poetry of Greg Bullock.  Used with permission.

Resident51 was started as a challenge: create a set to open for Psychic TV in 2006. Elaine and Kris fall down the rabbit hole of experimental, yet danceable, electronic music for fans of Download, Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key. They have placements at MTV, Hot Topic, Tencent Music Entertainment (China), Rehegoo Music, Yandex (Russia), and retail in-store radio in Spain, France, Russia, and the USA.  www.HaloAskewEnt.com

Resident51 - Distilling The Beast

This was the first song written for the album 'New Ghost'. So, it's pretty old. We recently adjusted the recipe to taste more like violence.

"Better Days"

First mutant to ascend from the plasma pool after the Cy-Tech Wars. Skilled in cybernetics and data manipulation. Exhibits an extreme appetite for blood and kills for his own pleasure.

Any Questions? - Technical

Ttam Troll

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