Here is some other stuff, newer than what is on Background Check.  I'm working on another CD but not planning to put any of this material on it.  So what we have here are... future retro bonus tracks.

The Day           

This is probably the first recording I did in the digital realm after taking out a huge (for me) loan in 1997 and purchasing a 200MHz PC along with a bunch of Alesis products and a Mackie mixer, of course...  I was using Cakewalk v6.01 if I remember right, and a pretty nice flute soundfont.

Mike's Thing          

 

 

Another early DAW recording, mostly live.  I didn't really do much on this except engineer the session (with bros Mike and Jared) and add some unnecessary sounds.  Mike did all the guitars and that's Jared on bass.  All of us would probably say we'd do things differently now but it still sounds pretty sweet, I think.

12 Days of Christmas           

 

 

Not really sure what to say about this.  I offered to do the music for a Christmas party at work where the lyrics were re-written (by someone else) to awkwardly go with work stuff.  Not content with a straightforward version, I decided to put some "easter eggs" in there.

No one ever got the joke.  Some tard stole my thunder by standing up and shouting "FIVE GOLDEN whatevers!" each time it came around.  It was a big hit.  So it goes.......

Shock The Monkey (Weapons of Mass Deconstruction mix)

I did this in 2006 for a contest at Real World Remixed.  All the original Gabriel tracks circa 1982 were provided.  The mix on their site sounds pretty grainy because of compression and the size limit.  So I wanted to put the better file out there.

My goal was to do something like an 80's extended remix with some re-arranging.  Except for a few additional samples (yes it's Genesis) everything was taken from the original audio.  There were a lot of really cool entries but I think this was one of the few done without an overly modern spin or by incorporating a couple of the original tracks (i.e. vocals!) into a whole new song.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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