Title: On Looking Live Score
Artist: Bananahat
Album: Live at Terman Engineering
Date: 2008
After successful recording sessions and promises of international touring, Bananahat regrouped for their first live work. We were commissioned to provide a live score for part of a modern dance act who were doing the finale of their dance suite in the fountain at Terman Engineering building.
Boy did we piss the cops off with this one. Besides the dronetones and feedback at high volumes, we actually had permission to be making said noises, and the authorities couldn’t do much but let us go on and try to enjoy it.
We practiced a few times, felt really good about it, and then did the show in late May.
This recording is missing a few things, namely the entire first movement, all the signal that Max was making (running a couple underwater mics [read: good mics in condoms], and some pvc tube contact stuff), and of course the general atmosphere of the whole event. It worked really well. The three of us really tuned into the dancers and they really fed off of the speakers as well.
It starts out with the part where the dancers started stripping off clothing, then moves into more ambient, watery territory, and it’s awesome in headphones (god bless you Cobi), then stick around for the drone at the end. We had it timed with the fountains and everything. A+ drone fool.
Big thanks to Cobi for organising this, and to both her and Max for being in this thing with me.
Really appreciate all the comments, as always.
Video and photos here: Bananahat Live at Terman Engineering with Red Rover Dance Troupe
Download: bananahat-redrover080528 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Monthly Archives: March 2011
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Megaspore Mothercell – FH
Title: FH
Artist: Megaspore Mothercell / Nueget
Album: Nueget Jams
Date: 1995
Ok we’re getting real old school now. This was one of the first recording session / jams with my first band, at the time called Megaspore Mothercell. We would later change our name to Nueget. We went through a number of bassists, but the band pretty much was held down by Steve and myself. I was eventually fired (only time that’s ever happened), which is a funny story you’ll have to hear later.
Anyway, Steve had written and wrote a lot of the songs, but we jammed em up. Later on, we would all pretty much share the songwriting, which, being a (unbeknownst to us) noise rock jam band, meant making lots of noise and making sure somebody remembered what it was we did.
This one has David on bass.
Download: Nueget – FH (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Noggin – hufekinnus
Title: hufekkinus
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2003
Was seriously into glitchiness at the time I wrote this, but this one got some of the big beat and pop treatment too. This was a test on vsti’s as well.
Buzz.
Download: noggin – hufekinnus (demo) (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Noggin – Cobiflutesong
Title: cobiflutesong
Artist: Noggin
Album: As Yet Unknown
Date: 2010
I wrote this song in a whirlwind for my wonderful, beautiful, schazie Cobi. Quelle inspirationne!
Dig on that sidechain.
Speaking of Cobi, I feel a Bananahat post coming on soon…can you handle that?
Download: cobiflutesong20101013 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
Noggin – BU002
Title: BU002 (track 1)
Artist: Noggin / Mobb Deep
Album: Beretta Underground 002
Date: 2002
Made during my mixtape-madness days…this one served as the introduction to my second public mix, Beretta Underground 002. It’s basically a beat constructed in the classic 90s hip hop style (Moody Blues on the sample yall), with a heavily edited Mobb Deep a capella dropped back on top. Oh yea and a glitched out Bruce Willis a capella from 12 Monkeys….maybe one of the last appearances of a movie sample in my work.
This is still one of my proudest mixtapes, real deep real good hip hop.
Download: 01 Noggin-Mobb Deep – BU002 (right click and choose ‘save as’)
