Versificator- Adrien EP (2001)

While all the music previous to this on this blog represents a "third period" of my music writing, involving collaboration with partners, bands, and record labels, this will mark the first release of my "Second Period", that being my first experimentations with computer music. Not music through computers, mind you as I did do some primitive stuff with MIDI and sound recorder cut n pastes prior to this, but music fully made through the computer and nothing else. There is some overlap of material here, as many of these songs were recycled for m0dnAr tunes, but listening to these again there is some interesting stuff within.









To be honest, these early songs were more collage-y then I'd wanted to be. I liked sample-based music, but the ease of construction on these almost seemed like cheating. It wasn't until later when I found out that the process I used was not much different than many of the Moby-ish personalities out there. I guess where I felt I cheated most here was in the rhythm department, blatantly stealing a lick from another big beat song.

Mainly I wanted to see how the Wayne's World sample and Sleepwalk went together





Not particularly proud of the Wesley Willis dialogue at the beginning of this, but it was the final part I added over the "clown music" ("Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fucik). "Adrien" had been described in A Very Vari Christmas as Circus Music, so it seemed appropos to make a demented circus out of it. Then there's the "God is Dead" bit from Rosemary's Baby and Paul Whiteman's "Whispering" at the end, which adds a demented but interesting afterthought.





when i am high
they make worms of my friends
i too am tempted
but insist on the handbook
to party partisan is
leverage
to lay down is
heavy damage

from concentrate
shine with peroxide
on the shelves
like product, like wholesale
i'm not your centurian
i'm not eons elapsed
we bitch at what we shit
tight feeling of forever
is e to my I
anchor to my leg
cementing each sunken flash
ad nauseum ad infinity

save my life
save me from hell




Another rip-off rhythm, I think from an Alec Empire track (who probably sampled it elsewhere). I wanted to make something like an Empire track, extremely hard, fast, and noisy. So, I did that noise thing and crossed a line, trying to make it sound like a thrilling video game ride through a school shooting rampage. Not the only song I'd create to comment on school violence either. It actually fits the model of darkside jungle pretty well, though I wasn't really listening to any of that at the time.
Nothing gets between me and my A-K

There's Alice Cooper in there and a Metallica reference if you listen close too (perhaps the creepiest part).



Versificator- Adrien EP
1. Adrien (EP mix) (4:30)
2. Googleplex (quantum mechanical mix) (0:38)
3. The Happy Birthday to You Song (4:40)
4. Adrien (hell is other people mix) (10:05)
5. Tropicallous (3:31)
6. Adien (instestine vendor mix) (7:05)
7. Googleplex (versificator's at-at destructo mix) (1:03)
8. Googleplex (3:39)
9. School Blaze (3:33)


(yes I left off a few tracks because they were pretty stupid)