Title: Buying Records, Buying Stocks (pt. 1 – The Mortgage Crisis)
Artist: Noggin
Album: Sober October Demos
Release Date: 2010

I recorded this song entirely on the premise of writing some music for my homey DJ CockBlock on his birthday. I then sat on this for a month as I thought ‘oooh I’ll make a video too’. Birthday came and went, this continued to sleep, and I finally put it out there on Xmas.
All drum samples are from the poor man’s 808, the TR-606….a really great sounding drum box. Also includes some samples off of my first ever guitar (thanks Chuck) that I recently attached a piezo pickup to. It’s finnicky, but it’s where I come from and I am loving it.
The title isn’t meant to be a political statement or anything…it was inspired from homeboy’s own now-defunct blog. I thought the tag line sounded great, and then I just used it to inspire regurgitation of buzz-words from the last year or so. Hell, let’s make THAT my political statement…regurgitation and buzz words.
This track produced entirely in an MPC 2000XL, and recorded to 4-track reel. It’s funny to think about that, because the MPC is basically the one instrument that will pull me away from Buzz, and Buzz is the one instrument that will pull me away from the MPC. Still, they are basically completely incompatible as I use them…while Buzz might now have midi, it was not always the case, so I would resort to bouncing down sounds and then importing into MPC…this is not fun and I rarely do it.
There is a part 2, do you want it? It might appear in full length form on my forthcoming album.
Download: Noggin – Buying Records, Buying Stocks pt. 1 (right click and choose ‘save as’)