Thursday, December 26, 2019

so, let me order my thoughts a little. writing them down tends to help when i get a mess of data in front of me that i need to work out.

inri029 was created in mid-1999 out of loose ends, for a grade 12 art project. it was essentially a remix record of material from the first two demos. i still have the cd-r and liner notes from that period. but, i did not officially release it on inri records until nov, 2013, when i sat down to sort through everything and put everything in order. i re-released it in sept, 2017 to add an early version as a hidden track, and make it available on cd.

so, we have three release dates - (1) june, 1999, (2) nov, 2013 and (3) sept, 2017. in the end, i want the liner notes to have entries for each of these dates that were written contemporary to each of them. specifically, i don't want to post something i wrote in 2017 to 2013. there will be a fourth release date of dec, 2019.

1) i will want to post the initial write-ups to 1999, as cringey as they are, in conjunction with the alter-reality, sometime around 2029.

2) i'm certain that the track write-ups that appear on bandcamp as of right now were written in sept, 2017. what existed before they were updated was probably what i wrote out in 2013. so, they should be posted to 2017. i've updated the master document to reflect that.

3) all of the archived posts appear to have removed the initial write-ups, if they even existed. this was done before the initial aleph-0 writeup in mid-2015.

4) i know that i wrote out some of the original 1999 liner notes when i published it in 2013. i may have deleted them because....they weren't that insightful. really. i do specifically vaguely recall deleting the write-ups for this record some time between 2013 and 2015, probably when i made a first attempt to clean-up the facebook page.

5) the other possibility is that i may have included some overlap between the tracks on this ep and the tracks as they were initially written.

so what do i do? if there was any writing here to recover and post, it appears to be lost, and if it isn't lost, it's going to take a long time to find it. but, i don't expect it to be very worthwhile, even if i can find it.

i'm going to operate under the premise that i added excerpts of the 1999 release, and then deleted them, and there's nothing worthwhile to recover. ok. i said it.

but, for the purposes of the blog, i should have specific write-ups for each track on the upload date, even if it's just completion dates. that's how i approach this, always.

so, i'm going to have to go back and add a segment to all of the posts and update everything, and that could actually take a few hours. but it's necessary. this is an oversight i have to fix.

i'll be back to post the liner note release in a bit, but i'm also updating all of the 11/30 blogs in all of the places.