the condescension was really uncalled for and hard to watch. i mean, by the time i was eight i had a better understanding of american foreign policy than lucas over there. if you're going to bring a kid like that in at all, what's the point of being snide about it......

and, it's hardly like resource management is a less pressing issue than war. in terms of consequences, it's the most pressing issue. in terms of war, it's the dominant underlying factor. mallory was right to shift the topic; you adults are all doing this all wrong.

la la la la (2002 mix)

i'm squeezing an extra single in.

this was meant to be rabit is wolf. sean wanted a song that just went "lalalala". i think his intent was to try and simplify my thought process, because what i'd been doing sounded more like FTIeikdTY7isdD7E5dk!. he was just kind of like "how about.....lalalala.".

it got a bit of an eye roll from me, as you could imagine, but i played with it. he wasn't really that excited about what i did, and it just didn't move forward. there were no further sessions, as he became interested in working with a more conventional early 00s "emotional hardcore" (think at the drive in) style guitarist and i got very involved in a relationship

despite his initial suggestion, i'd consider the result to clearly be of my own doing. so, i took the core of what i did and warped it into the first track on the reflections symphony.

as his intentions are clear, i don't have a problem completing the vocals on my own, and it's what i'll be doing as inri043. there may have been a vocal part recorded, but i don't have it any more.

so, the ostrich thing is getting pushed back a release. this is going to be a relatively quick remix, with a simple vocal line. and i'm releasing it as rabit because it's collaborative in the abstract, despite sean not actually existing in the track.

for now, this was the initial forwards version of the song, which is only coming down to me over the space of time via mp3 and a collection of scattered source tracks. there's actual nothing but guitars in this version. it's dated to nov 15, 2002.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/lalala-2002-mix

untitled (vst mix) (for thru)

i decided the vst mix is good after all, it just needs volume....

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this track was initially written as a folk punk song, but i jumped to the scorewriter with it almost immediately. the expanded guitar demo was written in a scorewriter and then performed, rather than vice versa. it was initially less about explicitly creating a techno song and more about ordering the parts in a way that could be deconstructed more effectively.

the taiko drum part was initially just to keep time; it wasn't supposed to be a part of the song. but, as i built it up i began to realize how interesting it sounded as a techno tune and sort of ran with it.

written over the summer of 2002. remixed in december, 2014. this render is from dec 26, 2014. as always, please use headphones.

http://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/track/untitled-3