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Today's Selections
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1. Chino Hurricane - Written and performed by City of Progress in its initial form, this remix was conceived and produced by Archbishop Shabby using multi-track audio files from the original "Chino Winds" recording sessions as the only sound source. See if you can count all the banjo parts.

2. Giant Metal Balloon Bunny - This is a student work from Shabby's time in the Vladimir Ussachevsky Memorial Electronic Music Studio. It features MIDI-sequenced voltage control of the coveted ARP 2600 synthesizer. The assignment was to create a piece of music based on any picture, in this case, a photo of the sculpture described in the song's title. If you know anything about that work of art, please tell me. I can't find the picture anywhere and it's really cool.

3. Bounce Daily - Sporadically recorded in a cold basement in Portland, OR. This track features live guitar, bass, and drums blended with sequenced beats and the radically dated sounds of the E-mu Emulator 6400 sampler. The title stemmed from the practice of re-editing the song to the point where bouncing a "finished" version to disk became a daily occurance.

4. GET OUT - A track by Water & Light (Archbishop Shabby being the "light" half of that duo). This one makes a decent ringtone. Get in touch if you're interested in that. Drum machine sounds courtesy of the Casio CTK-670.

5. ta-dow! - One more Water & Light tune, this one's an instrumental and it's all Shabby.

6. Photon Tortoises - A rather long experimental noise piece made on the ARP 2600. A wonderland of versatile sample-able sounds. Totally unlistenable without some real discipline and/or altered state of consciousness.