rupture

cover, digital

looking back on it now, i’m not sure what an atomic-looking symbol has to do with blowing speakers, but that’s what i went for. the red ellipses are the result of a red ellipse with a smaller ellipse cut out of the center, along with some rotating, trimming (for intertwined effect) and a blur. the text itself sort of looks like what you’d get if you blew out whatever used to be filling in the letters, and i don’t know why i decided to give it a shadow / reflection thing. i think i was having fun with the filters. the back of this one is a scan of one of my speakers tinted red with a white track list in a cool, shaken-around, broken-looking font.

as this one says on the back, “specifically engineered as to have the greatest chance of blowing your speakers.” this is the first cd where i experimented with track blending. i collected a bunch of tracks with a lot of bass, and put them together with just a little bit of mixing. my favorite trick on this cd seemed to be stereo effects: i would fade over one channel and then follow with the other instead of doing both at the same time, which sort of makes it sound like the new track is coming in from the side.

1. echoing green — “redemption”
2. cult of jester — “p-mondo”
3. dead agent — “believers”
4. dance house children — “merry”
5. falco — “der kommissar 2000”
6. aleixa — “purge”
7. level — “she: backslide”
8. echoing green — “enter love”
9. moby — “james bond theme”
10. situation taboo — “future shooter”
11. level — “what if (vintage lofi)”
12. dance house children — “the locket maker”
13. massivivid — “flesh:wound (nanovivid)”
14. dead agent — “gunhed”
15. moby — “feeling so real”
16. situation taboo — “germinal cinema”
17. echoing green — “freak out (dj buttersuperfly mix)”
18. mortal — “godspeed”

how do you like it?