This is a pretty straight reading of the song from Radiohead's the Bends. I put brand new strings on the acoustic guitar for this one. I didn't put any banjo in this.

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This song started out as an electronic composition. I gradually replaced various parts with actual recorded parts. The drums remain sequenced (except for the hi hat intro and a snare fill) samples from the Mapex kit. The bass and guitar parts were recorded directly through the Digitech RP-1. The song is in seven and the clave part breaks it into 9-8 plus 5-8, with the 9-8 overlapping the one. I did most of the composition in February, revived it in July and finished it in September.

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Here's yet another version of this song. This is sort of like a Neil Young meets Built to Spill by way of Modest Mouse and maybe Flaming Lips ...version. Howl and twang.

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I think I've only heard the original a handful of times. Different versions of this swim around in my head from time to time. This one is a mid-'90s pop-punk version. Sloppy and raw!

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I like to set fires in my backyard. I was doing this a few days ago and it started raining on me. As I walked inside, this song was playing in my head so I went upstairs and recorded it. Pulse problems are abound, as usual. When drumming, I used a brush in my left hand and a stick in my right.

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I had this lazy, sloppy tune in my head. I ran upstairs and blasted it out in the studio in about a half hour. This is pretty close to what was playing in my head.

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This is a cover of the opening theme in Sid Meier's Civilization IV. It is (roughly) The Lord's Prayer in Swahili. I used no electric instruments in this recording.

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This song was playing in my head for a couple weeks before I recorded it. It is now your burden. I don't know what the genre of this is-- modern synth banjo prog? cyberslag? No idea. It seems maybe post-apocalyptic, but like after the terrible terrible robots enslave us all, a human discovers a form of math that drives him to madness in a dystopian robocracy. This is his song.

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The first Electronaprov recording in the new studio. This is a live recording. Moss on keyboards, Mitch on bass, Matt on mixer and background percussion.

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I got this tune in my head a few months ago and blasted all of these single-take tracks together. The drums were recorded with three mics, the bass and guitar were from a mic on an amp, and the banjo was recorded with a single mic and hit with distortion later. The lyrics made no damn sense so I skipped over about half of them.

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First thing I played within a few minutes of trying new standard tuning (NST). The drums are 1 to 16 bar snips I took from practice recordings. The bass is the 6 string fretless.

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