[LAU] More stuff from the vaults, PHASEX and AMS insanity

[Ken Restivo]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:32:38PM -0400, S. Massy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:53:05AM -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> > This one is from the end of 2008; it is an outtake from a "Me And My Cronies" CD.
> > 
> > It heavily features PHASEX in the beginning and middle, and AMS towards the end.
> > 
> > It is highly experimental noisy dissonant electronic jazz.
> > 
> > http://storage.restivo.org/music/Cronies/Not_OK_Computer.ogg
> > 
> > And it's 14 minutes long.
> > 
> > Jeeebus.... what were we thinking?
> > 
> > This might be a good track to clear out a party at the end of the night, when you really wish everyone would go home.
> > 
> > I made it to about 3 minutes in, then I just couldn't take it anymore. 
> Ken,
> 
> I'm not sure whether I ever heard anything of yours before, but this
> just blew me away. This is Miles-Electric'ish with a modern twist.
> Fourteen minutes of guys kicking back and seriously jersking off: I
> love it! If you have any more like this one, please share them. My only
> complaint is that the mix is kind of opaque and really doesn't do it
> justice.
> 
> I'll be keeping this track around.
> 

Thanks! Wow, I didn't think anyone would actually *like* that stuff, that's why I didn't include it on the various collections that the band posted back in its day.

I also have a 29-minute clusterf*** from that same session that I'll post later tonight.

IIRC that was unmastered. I don't remember if I decided to drop the noisy/dissonant stuff off of the CD before or after the final mix. So that may be a scratch mix still; I don't remember.

The drummer probably still has the original PT project; I suppose I could go get it, import it into Ardour, and do another mix of it.

There is a lot on Archive.org from that band, most of it live:
http://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Me+and+My+Cronies%22

We were very proud of our freakish-experimental-jazz Radiohead covers too, which IIRC are still up on the band's old MySpace page (try and guess what the band's name is a reference to).

Great fun that band was. I don't think we ever made a single penny.

-ken