OFFICIAL album #8

Sessions that went into this album:
"Yew Nork Tissy" (Oct 21 2019, track 1) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zywoqd7jxs0
"Trilogy of Errors" (Feb 24 2020, tracks 4, 15, 16) www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxQ3LzxqbeY
"steps" (May 20 2020, tracks 5, 12, 18b) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-LumWOggOA
"The Subtractions of The Incompetent Skater" (Jul 13 2020, track 3) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNt5mkv0r3E
"Drinking The Sky" (Aug 12 2020, track 13) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQZP3rOaH4
All other tracks made specifically for this album.

So this is probably my weirdest and densest project to date (probably loudest on average as well), a loose concept about having ADHD and kinda following my headspace for 2020. It's a pretty hard turn away from 044444, that project was very focused and planned out and tight and cohesive and small-scale and this project is not really any of those things, stylistically pretty sporadic and all over the place, not focusing too heavy on any one sound of mine in particular, just kinda doing whatever I wanted, be it breakbeat-type stuff like Miles Per Hour, weirder IDM-influenced stuff, a few ambient cuts, a handful of drum'n'bass cuts, one straightforward trance cut, and more. Also been trying to capitalize on some of the missed potential on my previous 3 albums, If Tomorrow Is A Ball is probably the old one it most resembles but there's not as much funk and disco, the second half of Spiral as well but with more texture, also these tracks aren't nearly as long-winded as on there.

In terms of inspirations, I guess the most direct ones this time around were The Orb's "The Dream" and "No Sounds Are Out Of Bounds"? Not the parts with the cheesy pop hooks (which I do love but I know aren't everyone's cup of tea, and no, I did not sing or use my own voice on this project), just mainly inspired by the tone and style and density of those projects more than anything. Sometimes dark, sometimes goofy, often both, and always plenty going on for you to pay attention to. As for other influences, got the usual inspiration from Orbital, Hybrid, Squarepusher, Zircon, 808 State, quite a bit of A Guy Called Gerald inspiration this time since I'd been on a kick with his stuff lately, there's little bits inspired by Autechre, the trance cut was inspired by Paul Van Dyk and Astral Projection (probably a bit of BT as well since he bleeds through in my stuff a lot), an odd-time cut inspired by some of Patricia Taxxon's recent output like "Rosa" or just watching Adam Neely videos, and you get the idea, I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting but whatever hope you enjoy the album :)

All tracks created using ACID Music Studio 7.0 and FL Studio 11, sometimes one or the other and sometimes a combination of the two. The FL-exclusive ones this time are tracks 7, 8, and 17.