Tripecac - Lost Train (2010)

  1. Dust Castles [5:00] 2010-05-27 - 2010-07-01
  2. Dirt Necks [6:51] 2010-07-06 - 2010-07-08
  3. Cacqua [7:34] 2010-07-17 - 2010-07-26
  4. Dadi [4:53] 2010-07-28 - 2010-08-07
  5. Dida [5:19] 2010-07-28 - 2010-08-07
  6. Chew Thoroughly [4:29] 2010-08-12 - 2010-08-17
  7. Gone Jah [6:03] 2010-08-20 - 2010-09-04
  8. Goop [4:51] 2010-09-06 - 2010-09-10
  9. Avenew [9:18] 2010-09-14 - 2010-09-16
  10. Gemaker [4:09] 2010-09-17 - 2010-09-20
  11. Feleven [5:47] 2010-09-21 - 2010-09-23
  12. Don't Blame the Racket [6:46] 2010-09-23 - 2010-10-07
  13. DDC DDC GGA GFD [5:41] 2010-10-11 - 2010-10-12

The title comes from the feeling of "losing my train of thought" during my eight month hiatus from music making.

I've had my Triton since 2000. Before that, I used the Yamaha SY55 from 1990 to 1999, and before that, my Casio CT-310 until 1989. So this is the year I expected to switch to a new keyboard. However, as I've become increasingly reluctant to spend money and time on new hardware, I decided to stick with the Triton for a while longer.

I wanted to see if I could get this album to sound different from the previous ones. At first, I thought about switching to soft synths. However, some quick tests demonstrated that Sonar's bundled synths sounded very similar to the Triton, at least when I used them. So I abandoned the soft synth idea, and instead decided to focus on learning a new engineering technique for each song.

None of these songs was written out beforehand, and I tended to cling to each idea, no matter how lame, with the aim of finishing songs quickly. As a result, most of the tracks fall under the realm of "experimental filler". There are a few lucky moments, however. I'll leave it to you to discover them, and when you do, maybe you can rate the songs to let me know which ones you like.