Notes from the Fridge was an album assembled around choice phrases written in magnetic poetry on the fridge at the house where my group of friends all hung out. Though we did customize some words, it was mostly names, hence the "name" tributes here. Some names were chopped off for aesthetic purposes only. It was a period of lots of Warp, IDM, and electronic listening music, though there's some aberration from this (particularly the first track and the last two). Many of these tracks were repeated on m0dnAr's first album, hence the duplication here.
All in all, this still may be the best thing I've ever put out.
A weird way to open the album, for sure. Unlike anything else on the mix. I hada friend who worked at Pizza Hut with me who was really into what he termed "hardcore" rave and techno. It turns out this was a term still being thrown around in Belgium and Holland,but what it was was actually closer to gabber than either of those things. I wanted to pay tribute to this scene, but the track I came up with became rather cerebral and percussive, instead of the amphetamine candy rush of most of the music I'd heard in this genre. It turns out, this does bear some resemblance to tracks by Marc Trauner, specifically his "Symphonies of Steel" by Mescalinium United. With dark techstep-style paranoid samples of 1984, I was tapping into an existing sentiment I didn't even know existed (. The rest of the album was hugely influenced by Warp, IDM, and other listening music genres
The original magnetic poetry was "timh feels vaseline-y", so it got changed a bit. These were all mouth sounds until the very end. take that, matias aguayo
for some reason, this phrase on the fridge always reminded be of Seurat and Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte. The idea was an idyllic, chilled place...with lots of monkeys.
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