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Compact Discs:

Concupiscence (Summer 1996)

A CD version of the original sound-on-sound "Concupiscence", mastered from the original cassette for archival purposes. Also included is a stripped down version of "Nothing Better Than Real Part I", some leftover 4-track compositions without a home, and also the reworked 4-track "Concupiscence 2.0". This whole disc is an archive of older material that I put together in order to test CD production from my home studio. 60 minutes.

A Partial Reconstruction of Days (December 12, 1996)

PRoD is the most ambitious project I have ever pursued. Began in 1993 immediately after completing The Not of the Want, PRoD met with every kind of obstacle I can think of. Originally the music was going to be very acoustic and primitive. The final CD retains that aesthetic, but becomes very electronic as well. My first real CD, created to be presented digitally using my entirely revamped and upgraded studio. This disc is half sequenced and half acoustic improvisation. Improvised vocal gibberish is the compositional core, and the disc is highly percussive. PRoD is very produced, very listenable (compared to previous work), and yet very amateur and raw at the same time. The three years I spent working on it provided me with a great deal of material to choose from, and at one point I imagined the project being two CDs. Instead I narrowed it down and finished it so I could move on. The leftover material may make its way onto another project at some point. 49 minutes.

The Forbidden Antithesis of Rock (Released 4/26/98)

Compositional collage in all respects. Fast electronic music that changes frequently while being simple and minimalistic at the same time. Some vocals and acoustics abound, but most of the music is bloated with heavily processed sampled audio. A humorous and noisy jump from my lighter sounding work (i.e. PRoD). 73:03 Minutes

HeEnd - The Remixes (Released 1/3/99)

It was bound to happen. After remixing my own tracks on ...all fall down I found that I enjoyed the possibilities of radically or methodically reworking material. So the next step was to rework someone else's material. The first attempt to do a remix CD failed when the almost completed project was lost between backups. After a few months away from the project, it is now complete.