Tripecac - Extra Extra

This is the full version of "Distorted Loop". Giovanna hated it so much that I agreed to shorten it for Schmocial. I actually prefer this long version; it feels trancier and gives me enough time to get into the "feel" of the song. The short version just sort of comes and goes, without any real payoff.

This is slightly longer than the Schmocial version. I don't notice much difference.

This is a bit longer than the Schmocial version. I think it has more of the noisy guitar at the end.

This is almost a minute longer than the Schmocial version, but it's hard to spot the differences. An extra chorus, perhaps?

This is the three original Triton+vocal takes of "I'm Alive", mixed together. It's shorter and slower than the Schmocial version, but has a more interesting vibe. I have no idea what most of the lyrics are; they're all jumbled together and full of delay.

This isn't the first instrumental version of "Early"; there was actually an earlier one (no pun intended) that predated the vocal version (on Brroom). I later remixed it, to get rid of some of the boominess in the bass.

This is the instrumental version of "Contact" (from Chuckadee). You can actually hear the sax solo this time!

I recorded this multi-track guitar and vocal improv in a few hours. Since I completed it in one day, it could have gone on Wonday, but I figured it didn't fit stylistically. I cemented its exclusion from Wonday by remixing it a couple days later, violating Wonday's single-day rule. So, where to put it? I didn't want to put it on Chuckadee; it was just too weird for it. I finally decided to put it on the odds-and-ends album (Extra Extra).

Well, what's it about? Nothing really. It's just me rambling on about something Giovanna said one day, about my life resembling a treadmill. I thought she had a point, and explored the idea in this song.

The second part of the song, which is vocals only, makes fun of avante guarde music.

This is a long, rambly jam that didn't fit with the rest of Chuckadee. It was originally the second part of "Rusty".

One night in late 2002 I invited my friend David to come and "jam" with me in my apartment. I programmed a simple, funky loop, and then David added some bluesy guitar over it. I tried to get him to sing, too, but he declined, so I ended up adding vocals and a bit of guitar myself.

When I finished the song in 2004, I made it much longer and added tons of keyboard solos. It still felt a bit empty, so I improvised some more vocals. It was all done very hurriedly, to finish up the Extra Extra album by the end of the year.

I'm surprised how catchy it turned out! The groove is actually catchy and the solos are super-energetic. It's amazing how a "throwaway" song like this (which is how I perceived it when I was working on it) can end up one of my favorites!

This end-of album filler is three tracks of improvised audio. One track is wordless babble. The others are rambles that have nothing to do with each other. Since the two sets of lyrics are independent, I've listed them serially rather than trying to interlace them.