Tripecac - Brroom (2002-2004)

  1. Click [6:05] 2002-01-02 - 2004-03-23
  2. Gentle [6:02] 2002-01-04 - 2004-03-25
  3. Logic Test [5:04] 2002-01-13 - 2004-04-26
  4. Comotoast [3:49] 2002-01-23 - 2004-03-31
  5. Early [5:55] 2002-01-26 - 2004-04-06
  6. Logic Test 3 [4:02] 2002-01-28 - 2004-04-28
  7. Deep Snow [3:23] 2002-01-30 - 2004-05-03
  8. 222 [3:12] 2002-02-02 - 2004-05-05
  9. Ordered Sonar [3:04] 2002-02-05 - 2004-05-10
  10. No Valentine Jam [3:04] 2002-02-14 - 2004-04-09
  11. No Valentine Jelly [2:43] 2002-02-14 - 2004-04-09
  12. No Valentine Honey [1:35] 2002-02-14 - 2004-04-09
  13. Ditch [7:42] 2002-02-15 - 2004-04-13
  14. Freedom Clock [5:45] 2002-02-16 - 2004-04-15
  15. Relapse [2:02] 2002-02-22 - 2004-05-11
  16. Vibrate [7:22] 2002-02-28 - 2004-04-22
  17. Logic Reprise [0:15] 2002-01-13 - 2002-01-13

During my first winter in Bellingham, I enjoyed the cool, clean, rainy air so much that I never turned on the heat! I spent most of my waking life in my cold ("brr") room, either working, watching movies, reading, or making music. My excursions into the "real world" dwindled to once or twice a week; sometimes, if it was raining and really cold on the weekend, I wouldn't go outside for an entire week. After a while, I started missing seeing people outside on the trails (since it got dark earlier) and now that Christmas was over, I had no social opportunities planned for the next year. A rare thing happened. I began to feel a bit (ahem) lonely (cough). Fortunately (and characteristically), I didn't just play games and mope around in front of the TV; instead, I threw myself into tasks. I sorted all my receipts and records from the past 10 years, catalogued my old practice tapes, learned Logic (before it was bought by Apple), became very active on music newsgroups, and upgraded my main sequencer to Sonar. As part of the learning process, I created lots of test songs, which, although started during a small time period (January-February 2002) in a small room, are stylistically wide-ranging, my main taste of adventure during that time.

Gear:

These songs were started in 2002 using either Cakewalk / Sonar or Logic, and then finished in 2004 using Sonar 3.1.1. "Click" and "Early" have vocals and "Freedom Clock" has guitar piped through the Pod Pro. The Triton makes the rest of the noises.