This track is from the upcoming Imbued Vagary release, Live.  The release features our entire performance at SHAPE Solstice Arts Festival on 06/15/13 and our encore performance at the opening reception of the Deep exhibit at SHAPE Gallery on 09/07/12.

Imbued Vagary - warmit (Live at SHAPE Solstice Arts Festival 06/15/13)

This track, titled The Dark and Lowly Theme, is from mC2p4’s upcoming Soundtrack project.  Expect to hear more about this project in the weeks to come from Floating Fish Studios.

mC2p4 - The Dark and Lowly Theme

Here's a raw unedited excerpt of an Imbued Vagary rehearsal while preparing for our performance at SHAPE Solstice Arts Festival 2015. Recorded at FFS on 06/07/15, it features MC2P4 (Synthesizers), Ttam Troll (Synthesizers), and LTJTHC (Electronic Percussion).  Our performance on 06/20/15 will be one not to miss!

Imbued Vagary - Ebow Nucleosis (Rehearsal @ FFS 06/07/15)

While preparing for our performance at the cOMMuN cIRCUiT Noise Festival, which unfortunately was canceled, we assembled the machines at FFS II to do some sound experimentation.

This track, titled Crash Landing, is an electronic experiment from the session.  It’s noisy!  Just the way the Imbued Vagary Noise fans like it!

Imbued Vagary - Crash Landing (Live at FFS II 08/09/15)

This track is taken from Imbued Vagary’s improvised, live performance at SHAPE Solstice Arts Festival on 06/18/16. It features MC2P4 (Synthesizers), Ttam Troll (Synthesizers), and Thee Sub One Genius (Beat Architecture).

After a 2 year absence, Thee Sub One Genius re-joined Imbued Vagary for a set of electronic experiments that delighted Festival goers.  Ttam Troll locks in with Thee Sub One Genius’ Ableton beats a pulsating synth bass line on his Minimoog Voyager Electric Blue while mC2p4 sprinkles sounds from outer space on his Alesis Micron.

Imbued Vagary - Muv Muffle (Live at SHAPE Solstice Arts Festival 06/18/16)

Back in the early '90s, the internet wasn't used as a medium to promote music. There were no MP3s, no music sharing sites, and no iTunes. There wasn't even a good GUI web browser (Netscape Navigator) until the end of 1994. If you were in an "unsigned" band and wanted your music to be heard, you needed to go out and play live shows and/or try to get your music played on the radio. College radio was usually receptive to new music and would take chances on local or "unsigned" bands but getting any airplay on a commercial station was near impossible.

As luck would have it in August of 1993, a past co-worker of Scott's from Donnelley Directory was working at B-101 - a soft rock/adult contemporary radio station. He had a cassette of our latest release, Any Questions? - Prey For Death, and, knowing that our Industrial style music would never fit into the program format at B-101, he forwarded our cassette to his friends at 103.9 WDRE - Philadelphia's modern rock radio station.

They must have liked what they heard because I received a call from the station and they said that they planned to feature one of our songs during an upcoming Local Edge radio show - their weekly local music spotlight segment. I gave them some background info on the band and suggested that Limerick Lights (Radiation Mix) would be a good song to play.

I got a courtesy call about a week later from the station informing me that our song was scheduled to be played during the 08/15/93 Local Edge show. This would be our first mass exposure on the Philadelphia music scene and we were excited. We told everyone that we knew that we were going to be on the radio and that they should tune in. Not many people had e-mail at this point so we had to contact everyone by phone or word-of-mouth.

When the day of the broadcast arrived, we tried tuning in the radio station so we could listen to the show and record it. Normally, we never had a problem tuning in the station at either FFS I or FFS II but, on this day, the reception was full of static. We tried everything... We placed the antennas in every possible position, moved the radios all around the studios, etc. No matter what we tried, we couldn't get good reception.

Not to be deterred, we called our friend at Club Wojo and asked what his reception was like. He said that his reception was good and he invited us down. With time quickly running out, we jumped in the car and sped down to Club Wojo. With seconds to spare, we made it there and set up our recorder. This is what we heard...

Any Questions? - Limerick Lights on WDRE

Tonight's Floating Fish Studios Holy Grail Week entry is an "insensitive" one.  To protect the innocent, I've altered the image of the protagonist in this story and, instead of explaining the back story of the song lyrics, I'll simply say that they were inspired by a medical procedure and a Ho Magos comic (aka Kenny's Cartoons).  I challenge the listener to try and decipher the blasphemous words.  Those in the FFS inner circle know the story well so you need no explanation.  

This live, improvisational jam was recorded in 1991 by the three member line up of Any Questions? which consisted of Ttam Troll - Vocals, MC2P4 - Synthesizers/Samplers, and LTJTHC - Electronic Drums.  Musically, this is one of our most inspired improvs.  After months of nightly improvisational jamming during and after the first Gulf War, we had become a very tight and cohesive unit and it shows on this track.  The song intro slowly pulls the listener in before erupting at the 1:48 minute mark with a barrage of electronic drums, synthetic warfare, and vocal shriekings.  The sonic terror that ensues is some of our finest music!

All that's left to say is...

"This is your dance remix!"

FFS Web Site Audio

Any Questions? - Scrape The Pus (Live)

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.

Imbued Vagary - Crash Landing (Live at FFS II 08/09/15)

Ttam Troll

Recent comments

YellOrANGE

Related tracks