subscribe to feedthis is a collection of recordings i've worked on in some way. it's organized by the main artist's name. click on the song title to download the mp3.
recorded at home via garageband between june 2007 - november 2008.
[download the whole thing at once as a zip file]
1. medication
2. stamps & matchbooks
3. closing credits
4. supermodel
5. weightless
6. lorem ipsum
7. saved to memory
8. black cocaine
9. x = tundra
10. song for logan
some outtake instrumentals from lorem ipsum:
• acoustic instrumental 1
• acoustic instrumental 2
• acoustic instrumental 3
• acoustic instrumental 4
• future beat foundation
ciuin is a recording project with jef. if we replaced our jobs with copious amount of leisure time and beer, we'd have a bunch of songs finished. so far we have these works in progress:
• aminor_v2.m4a
• weightless_072405.mp3
• forgettingit_level2_01.mp3
• backhouse_072405.mp3
• ifeelfine2.mp3
these songs were written by steven chen, a smart guy with notable hair. he played rhythm guitar and sang, i played lead guitar and recorded it on my computer.
• "personal questions" is a slower, acoustic-based song that's vaguely country. listen for the triangle.
• "compulsion" is more drum machine oriented and dark and maybe sorta joy division/new order-meets-the-smiths.
• "nightlife" sounds like, well, it pretty much sounds like the strokes. we still like it.
• "robot cat" is a sinister, goofy, educational, guitar-driven, rock-rap thing. (maybe i just think it's guitar driven because i played the guitar on it, but watch out because this guitar lick is h-o-t.) if you get the full-length album goodbye, my 4-track, there are several other songs that i played guitar on: "prosthetic brain", "lizard and fish", and "happy noodle vs. sad noodle."
• "drum instructional video" is a "piece" that logan and i recorded. it was inspired by watching the videos they play in the drum department at guitar center. it's probably an inside joke.
• "at the ticket counter" is an experimental instrumental song with barely audible spoken word lyrics from an email my mom sent me. logan played lead slide guitar and a bunch of other instruments on this one. i'm pretty sure it was done in the same weekend that we did 3-4 other songs together, including coming up with the guitar riff for "robot cat."
• "shooting at the moon" came about in a strange way. logan and i decided to each record a bare bones piece of music and trade them. i recorded this guitar part and logan wrote the song to it. logan gave me a drum machine part and i wrote a song to it called "falling down from jupiter." it was a total coincidence that the two songs had similar astral body themes. unfortunately i never finished the recording of my song and i no longer have the software that it was recorded in.
• "bodies in emotion" was the culmination of a year of jazz theory taught by mr. bennett friedman. i spent hours and hours painstakingly writing out this arrangment for four horns, drums, piano, guitar, and bass. in the end some junior college students did a passable job at sightreading it and i made this recording. perhaps someday i'll be able to get a real band to play it. however, i gotta say that the guy who played the alto sax solo in the middle (i think his name was brendan) did an incredible job--very talented guy.
owen is an amazingly talented young man. logan whitehurst played drums on all of these.
• "tongue tied" was intended to sound like watching a television show on a station that doesn't quite come in. it actually sounds like a pop song dipped in noise and country. in retrospect maybe the harmonies are too cheesy (not knowing how to sing doesn't help). my favorite part is the guitar solo.
• "life forms" is a space song. judah nagler on bass.
• "girls like bugs" and boys like girls. the long intro was made with sixteen tracks of vocals, and sounds like a mixture between gregorian chant and a swarm of bees. i think of this song as the sequel to "people are strange." several of the lyrics were derived from mishearing the lyrics of a flaming lips' song.
• "disappearing act" is a lullably of sorts, with falsetto vocals and jangly guitar played by yours truly.
i played in the band little tin frog for about 4.5 years. members were christine (vox, bass), judah (electric upright bass, vox, keys), logan (drums, vox, keys), and me (guitar). we released one full-length album, two ep's, and a demo tape, and actually had quite a few people that liked us.
• "paper shoes" is an early acoustic song that we revamped in this electro format after a few years. this recording was one of five songs that we demo'd on 4-track at logan's house before we went into the studio to record our last ep. ironically, this is one of the few songs i still like from the bands oeuvre and yet it was the only one of the five songs that we decided not to record in the studio. this is unreleased elsewhere.
• "complex" features some interesting guitar and amazing bowed bass by judah. after we'd been playing this song for a year or so judah started doing some bass stuff on this song that was utterly amazing, but of course we don't have a proper recording of that. still, this studio version contains some cool overdubs that we couldn't have done live.
UPDATE! I've now created a Little Tin Frog archive page where you can download most of our studio recordings and some unreleased stuff.