ON A MISSION FROM SKULL 2000 ✦ 70min ✦ LP   1. 20 Gigawatt Light Dump 2. On a Mission from Skull 3. This is Electric Osaka (mp3) 4. The Vampire Strikes Back (mp3) 5. I Want to Bury Myself 6. Porcelain 7. Korosu (mp3) 8. Brain Bank Media 9. Evil Eye Fight Drowsy: Drowsy Win. (mp3) 10. CHOCO-TEK 11. Drama Suckers 12. Deviled Legs 13. Evil Eye vs. Dr. Science (hidden track)   Though I'd liked electronic music since childhood, I hadn't started really getting into house music until late 1999, shortly before starting this album. I decided I wanted to make an album with lots of house influence. I didn't end up making anything that sounded that much like house, (except for "Drama Suckers"), but what I did make turned out enjoyable and diverse (in my humble opinion). This album was a breakthrough for me. For starters, it was my first album to have some tracks recorded in CD-quality (44100 Hz), which I would stick to afterwards. (I realize how quaint all this sounds now.) Thus, a lot of the album sounds much more crisp than previous albums (except for the first few tracks I made for it). Equally important, after a couple albums of just experimenting with the technique, I started time-stretching / compressing all of my loops, leading to a much tighter sound from this album onward.       RECORDED: 1999-2000, in Toledo OH & Monroe MI   COMPLETION: 2/19/2000 ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden   VOICE & PHONE BEEPS ON TRACK 8, 12, 13: Ryan Sands  DRUM MACHINE ON TRACK 12: Yohei Hayashi PACKAGING ART, DESIGN & DUDE ON COVER: Evan Hayden  NOTES: Special thanks to my good friend Melissa for suggesting the album name. She knew how much I loved skkull iconography and told me "you are on a mission from skull."       ◄ BACK TO GALLERY   Site contents and design © Evan Hayden