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Rollercoaster 00:06
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This is gonna be fun 00:12
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Say something 06:38
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Moo Oom 00:10
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Meany 05:01
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Eggplant 00:16
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Birdaisy 05:06
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Lie detectors 00:22
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Life check 04:23
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Popular favourite 00:06
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Claire 02:27
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Ice 00:12
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This and that 04:08
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Nesbitt 00:12
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Rhetorical question 04:58
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Zippo 00:06
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Stay in bed all day 04:27
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Best GF's house 03:16
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Smarts dunnit? 00:21
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My species 05:03
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Holy holy 05:09
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No Joneses 00:11
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Midas clutch 05:22
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Stiff 05:38
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Whale 00:34
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Piggy 05:47
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Horseshit 00:04
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about

From 1997 to 1999 I had access to a studio with a Yamaha O2R, an Alesis 8 track ADAT machine, a few nice mics, a Tama drum kit, my Fender Strat, a borrowed bass, the studio keyboard, a live room where the setting sunlight shone in the window and the control room had blinds to hide the morning sun telling you it's time to go home.
I did lots of recording. It was interstellar planetary travel as far as I was concerned. I recorded about 30 bands in that time. And took more steps on my journey toward figuring out producing recordings.
These recordings are me figuring out a song at home, then coming into the studio, sitting behind the kit and playing a drum track completely blank. Then tracking stuff on top. The odd time I might have put down a guide guitar, but more often than not, drums first, then bass, then guitars and keys, then vocals, then shiny stuff.
I think mad shit happens and possibly is only possible when all the music comes from the same source/player. And focussing for a few hours to get the takes down probably wouldn't be possible with more humans in the way. Some nights I'd record 3 or 4 tunes.
Then on mixing I'd figure out ways to cover mistakes. Sometimes things really clicked. Sometimes it was all over the place.
Over 20 years later, I hope people dig giving it a listen. It's fairly of its time. I left in the movie samples I had gathered for projects from 'True Romance', 'Miller's Crossing' and other stuff that was big at the time. Ye know the way you'd get used to listening to a sequence of things on a burnt CD. Great times for film, we were there then when they landed.
Albums lying around the studio and lab at the time were all that mid 90's stuff, audibly influencing some of this. I remember going to see Pavement in Dublin the year my first niece was born. I couldn't believe how beautiful a new baby was and how good a Les Paul through that orange amp could sound. My sloppy playing vindicated mar a deirtear.
Anyway, I'm 46 now. I look back fondly on this mad 24 year old kid. I've lost some of those colours but found new paintbrushes. But I bet I could record way better versions of these songs these days. I may get around to it. But this was me then, fair play to him.
Alright.
MO'C, October, 2020.

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released October 3, 2020

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