viewless (original album mix)

this was re-recorded significantly earlier, but left to sit. i updated it over the christmas holidays, re-recording some sections and adding samples.

the star wars samples have actually been removed. that required a bit of splicing, but it's the only actual editing on the track.

original version:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/viewless-2

initially, it was a song about being young and not listened to. as i grew up, i realized this is a general condition of society that is not limited to young people. so, i've generalized it here to reflect the illusion of what we call democracy.

recorded in december, 1998. edited on nov 19, 2013.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-jesus-original-1999-cd-mix

anticipation (original album mix)

this was constructed as a bridge between tracks 16 and 18, which are conceptually linked. it samples the initial demo tape recording and adds some noisy sequencing.

recorded in december, 1998.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/teenage-jesus-original-1999-cd-mix

circus (original discarded outtake)

i spent the entire fall with this, only taking a break to do the offspring cover. i eventually got really frustrated by my inability to get the tone i wanted, put it aside, then went back to it, then gave up altogether. it might be the first example of me getting lost in overproduction, and in that sense it's sort of important.

recorded in november, 1998.

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-orginal-1998-outtake

circus (original album mix)

i had spent the last three months frustrated by my inability to get the tone i wanted for this. often when i ran into that problem, putting it down for a few days and approaching it fresh solved it, but that wasn't working.

there was a power outage that knocked my computer out as i was running a part of the track through a transform. the track - and all the digital additions i had added to it - were largely destroyed. what was left was this completely corrupted wave file.

i've never been a religious person (obviously), and i don't want to say i took at as a sign or something. yet, i let chance assert itself; the corrupted wave file became the final version of the track, and i moved on to the next thing.

the closest thing to a completed version of the actual track is here:
http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus

recorded in november, 1998. 

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-original-album-mix

circus (zoo mix)

i was playing around with some guitar ambience stemming from a track i was working on (circus). i had bigger plans for this that would eventually be realized with {e}.

recorded in november, 1998. 

https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/circus-zoo-mix