Any Questions? - Darkness (Special Edition)

Release Notes:
This special edition of Any Questions? - Darkness celebrates the 29th anniversary of the electro-terrorist unit’s release of pure audio sculpture.  The electronic experiments and sonic soundscapes contained within herald the beginnings of the Imbued Vagary project.

Credits:
Releases May 07, 2021

ANY QUESTIONS? is comprised of:
Ttam Troll - Synthesizers, Sequencing, Sampling, and Drum Programming
MC2P4 - Synthesizers, Sequencing, and Sampling

Tracks 1-3 Produced, Composed, Engineered, Performed, and Mixed by: Ttam Troll
Tracks 1-3 Additional Sampling by: MC2P4

Tracks 4-6 Produced, Composed, Engineered, and Performed by: MC2P4
Tracks 4-6 Mixed by: Ttam Troll

Mastered by Tommy T Rapisardi at DSBP Records

Original Cover Design and Layout by: Ttam Troll
Special Edition Cover Design and Layout by: Ttam Troll

Special Edition Illustration by Mike Bohatch

Tracks 1-3 recorded at Floating Fish Studios August 1992
Tracks 4-6 recorded at Floating Fish Studios June 1992

This album has been produced on the Atari 1040STe using Steinberg Cubase 2.01 software

Copyright ©1992/2021 Floating Fish Music

Procession

Here's an excerpt of a live improv from FFS II Synth Jam 2022 - Birthday. Recorded at FFS II on 07/30/22.

Recorded after a dinner break (hence the song title), we wasted no time in working off our meal.  The track features Ttam Troll providing a sumptuous synth bass part on the Moog Minimoog Model D, mC2p4 effervescently refluxing forwards, backwards, and bi-directional audio collage samples on the Ensoniq EPS, and Steve O's delectable synth leads on the Korg Z1, Studiologic Sledge, and Kawai K5000S.

Imbued Vagary - Post Roast Beef Sandwich

Sorry about the distorted 808's I couldn't find the flp :.(

distant memory (dark Lil Peep type beat)

This track, titled It Sang to Him, is the companion to The Sun Came Out Last Night.  It was actually recorded before The Sun Came Out Last Night during the FFS II Synth Jam 2015 - First Strike session on 01/01/15 but seems more fitting as a companion or reprise to the latter.  Again, the Ensoniq EPS is utilized quite extensively by layering sample after sample.  The sample, “He says the sun came out last night.  He says it sang to him.” is also used here.  I guess you can’t use a good sample too much.

The personnel on this track consists of Dave Chandler (aka Thee Sub One Genius) on Rhythmic Metronome and Matt Norcross (aka Ttam Troll) on Ensoniq EPS samples and Moog Minimoog bass drones.

Imbued Vagary - It Sang To Him (Live at FFS II 01/01/15)

This is the first release of new/rare/unreleased tracks in 14 years!

Songs Left After The Nod (Vol. 1)

Destiny

Dodge This

Driving the Two-Dimensional Highway

This is a collection of remixes either done by Krushed Opiates. Most of these remixes were never released.

Dirty Work For Other People

The Mercy Cage - M (Over The Counter Remix by Krushed Opiates)

We start off Floating Fish Studios Ttam Troll Plays Bass Week with one of my favorite early Any Questions? songs. This unrelenting aggressive track is full of angst about the human condition, a cynical view of society, and the youthful frustrations of trying to change it all. This song was written and recorded at Der Palast des Goldes in March 1990 and features two blistering bass solos.

After I wrote and sequenced the music for this track, MC2P4 joined me in the studio and we recorded several live takes with him adding keyboard accents and backing vocals as I screamed lead vocals and played live bass. The end result is a great mixture of cold synthesized sound with harsh human aggression that we've rarely matched since.

Rather than trying relay how I was feeling at the time I wrote the lyrics to this song, I'll simply share the words with you. My mental and emotional state will become quite apparent.

I'm living in waste
I try to break free
I'm trying to get out to make you see
This is not how life should be
Living in this sympathy

Follow me, talk to me
I'll try to show you the way
Follow me, talk to me
I'll try to show you the way
The way

I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this
I want to get away
I'm tired of this, I'm tired of this
Oh just go away

People always telling me
That I'm not OK
Living in their glass houses
Letting life slip by
Watching their bank accounts
Grow above their heads
Waiting for the day
Their spouse is dead
Is dead
Waiting for the day
Their spouse is dead
Is dead

Dead (repeat)

I guess I had some issues. Here's the track. Enjoy!

Any Questions? - Follow

After the live debut of Dungeon Aire on New Year’s Eve 12/31/87, we rolled into 1988 by adding an additional guitar player, Kevin "Bart The Fart” Wilson, and changing our band name to This Mistress.  There was nothing to stop us.  

In order to help us get some gigs, we recorded a “cassette calling card”.  In true DIY fashion, we set up a boom box with a built-in mic and hit record.  Here is our cover version of Robert Plant - Moonlight In Samosa.  Saved from oblivion from a long lost tape.  The quality of this recording is very sub par but it highlights a more subtle and nuanced side of the band.  I hope you enjoy it!

This Mistress - Moonlight In Samosa

Imbued Vagary - Captured Moments 2

Release Notes:
In categorizing ones own projects, a template of sorts begins to emerge. One of those is this series. Imbued Vagary is proud to present to you a collection of musicians as well as a collection of “captured moments”. In this case, the second in a series. Just as the name implies, these are moments of raw electronic improvisation, complete with all the “imperfections” one would expect from such an endeavor. Concepts thought up and run with on the spur of the moment. Captured moments of time in an overall fabric of synthesized space.

Credits:
releases February 26, 2021 

The Imbued Vagary Collective 2021: 
Dan “The Man” 
Guillermo Pizarro 
Ho Magos 
James Krabiel 
LTJTHC 
Mary Mary 
mC2p4 
Paul Doppelganga 
Steve O Man 
Thee Sub One Genius 
Ttam Troll 

All live improvisations performed and recorded by Imbued Vagary at Floating Fish Studios II 

Mastered by Tommy T Rapisardi at DSBP Records 

Copyright ©2021 Floating Fish Music

Imbued Vagary - Caddo Issaquah

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 - It Sang To Him (Live at FFS II 01/01/15)

Ttam Troll

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