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RVNG
2013 ✦ 326min ✦ 5xLP box set
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DISC 1. The First Vision
(20 untitled tracks)
DISC 2. The Second Vision
(14 untitled tracks)
DISC 3. The Third Vision
(24 untitled tracks)
DISC 4. The Fourth Vision
(20 untitled tracks)
DISC 5. Gink Bonus
(22 untitled tracks) |
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Between 1999 and 2003, I made some albums with my friend and frequent pan-media collaborator, Ryan Sands. This was a series of live noise sessions, recorded straight to Minidisk, after running all kinds of keyboards, video games systems, drum machines, turntables, broken / customized Walkmans, and other sound-producing things through the mixer. They are totally chaotic, but also totally charming in a weird way. The sound changed over the four albums as my gear got fancier, but things stayed fun.
For ten years these just remained Minidiscs that I was holding on to, waiting until I had the time / patience to put them onto the computer, fine tune them (I kept the live stuff intact, but took out long awkward stretches of silence where we had a recording problem), and otherwise get them broken up into tracks and ready for iPods and CD players.
As I was preparing to move to Japan at the beginning of 2013, I was checking things off the to-do list and finally got this compilation put together. I made Ryan and I each a five-disc set, with packaging based off of a couple photos of us
recording (presumably taken by my mom), and bits of design used for our old
clothing label, "Revenge", and used scans of the actual MDs for the CD inner
sleeves. I printed the packaging on metallic silver cardstock and flourescent paper. The fifth disc is a bonus, containing all kinds of insane recordings we made
in 1997 and 1998, when I'd gotten my first computer and we were both experimenting a lot with WAV editors. I popped this and the original minidiscs in the mail for Ryan, and he was delighted!
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More art from this album's packaging (bigger &
more detailed) in the design gallery, right here!
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RECORDED: 1997-2003, in Monroe MI
COMPLETION: 1/11/2013
ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden & Ryan Sands PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden & Ryan
Sands
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