Stun, you frighten and entertain and amaze and inspire me all at once.
This would make great before bed music and I think this is the music
they play under toadstools.

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I am the frog prince! Thanks for the great compliments, Lisa.

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Very cool this! You and Electro Estate ever consider a duel or a collab?
Astonishing array of sounds. Great mix. This reminds me of the first few
seconds after I (at the time a curious 6 year old) stuck a butter knife into
an electric outlet!

Be well!

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We actually did do a collab together!
It was uploaded under the name "ElectroClubCrew".
Check it out here: http://www.macjams.com/song/21320
Thanks Conductor!

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I will check it out right mow!

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Thanks for the recommendation. I just listened to it and left a comment.
Amazing stuff! MORE PLEASE!

Be well!

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The Frog Prince shows up correct with his Casiomusicmaker.

ahhhhhhhhh!

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to a "Z" is now missing. But that's one busted typewriter. Full of machine emotions and philosophizing weather phenomena. It's like when you're doing something, and then you stop, and your brain freezes for a moment, in a little 'thought cul-de-sac' with the same bits o' thought fragment repeating in little cycles, working out some useless and long ago settled bit of reasoning that's just keeping the brain revving before tackling the next task. This sounds like that to me, like the mind static in the pauses between what's doing.

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I live in that cul de sac. What a cross stich of textural chemical reactions.

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facinating..very original. I think you're on to something here

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This dude has BEEN on to something.
He has game n'stuff.

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I have stuff! I have stuff!

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all day there was a cat in my shoe. and a thing in my coffee. then a cow
sound in my voicemail. and now this. i finally get it. time to sleep. thx.

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It's funny cause you have a distinctive sound to me that stands out quite
easily from all the others. I like your stuff as always. My wife says you
are a freak...this is a good thing i think!!! :)

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I concur. He is a freakmusicmonkier.

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Great stuff once again. Always interesting; I had to keep listening to see
where it would go, and it is filled with pleasant surprises, and never
boring. You have a good control of form. I liked the fact that the pitch
centers changed occasionally. Very well done!

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i can't stop thinking of the daleks whiule i hear this....hehhehhe.....and
berzerk......those old apple IIe games i loved so
much....hehhhe......thanks for waxing me with nostalgia....hehhehhe

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This sounded to me to be the perfect music to play while reading "Naked Lunch." Minus the hallucinated giant bugs.

Psychedelic isn't really the right word. Surreal is more appropriate.

Really cool listen. Fun.

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Thanks Charlie... It is always interesting to hear what people think when they listen to these. I get the naked lunch connection... with the typewriters...

Lately I have been thinking that it sounds like some sort of tone challenged singing lesson for robots.

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You know, I quite like your "Naked Lunch" analogy. When I think about what this piece really means to me (besides the odd juxtaposition of noises), I think about thought and memory process (see perceptualvortex's description, above) and other things like life and death... perhaps this is the sound of the thoughts conjured up by an author writing down his life story. He remembers fragments of incidents, sounds, impressions...

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i've had to sit with this one for a bit. what got me is your pairing this
with resuscitated joy. without your mentioning of that, would i have
put the two together? i'll never know.......
but what hits me about that comparison.... i still can't figure out.
resuscitated joy is one of my very favorite stun tracks- the image that
always comes to me is that of someone passing out of this life by
means of series of strokes- or that of a ghost trying desperately to
reconnect with life. two odd analogies, but they make sense in my
mind. mostly because my mom both died of a series of strokes, and
(believe it or not) hung around afterward for a year or two making
subtle yet jarring little inroads into our lives thru electronic means.
somehow, you gave a particular voice to a specific experience of mine.

this piece has a lot more life in it, i feel breath from it. there is also a
tension which i feel is not applicable to 'afterlife'. for me, this is a
prequel. the oo ah ee ing reminds me of the 3 headed consort to the
witch/manager in miyazaki's 'spirited away'- the character had a
certain resonance with me as something that had so very much to say,
but not quite the tools with which to do so.

i think the sediment of this exceedingly long comment comes down to
a very deep appreciation of your work, which, to me, is really
outstanding.

cheers

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Thanks Eccentrik... First of all, I want to say that I get a deep satisfaction in knowing that you can find meaning in the stuff I do. I am always glad to see when you have come by to listen and comment. I know I have told you before, but comments like yours really help me figure out my own work... I would be kidding you if I told you I knew what my music "means" most of the time... it takes time to verbalize it. At first, sounds and ideas just seem to excite me on a pure sonic level, but I often come to realize later that they may have deeper (subconscious?) meanings.

I am intruiged about what happened with your mother... "making subtle yet jarring little inroads into our lives thru electronic means." In what ways, may I ask? I have a pretty open mind when it comes to stuff like that. Unexplained phenomena has always fascinated me. Also... now I have to check out "Spirited Away" again! The first time I saw it, I only saw bits and pieces of the movie and was unable to sit down and concentrate. (I caught it on cable and the kids were nutz that night, you see.)

Finally, you were confused at first why I made the connection with "resuscitated joy"... and it was because of a few things: the abstract way I sing the notes, the heartbeat, or pulse, of the bass (similar to the thumping in "joy")... and the samples that I use which are tied to deeper meanings (life, death, etc.). In "joy", I sampled a wedding march and funeral song (two very important events in one's life)... and in this one, I sample bells and chimes (a reference to church bells and the onset of time). I think your point about this being a prequel to "joy" is true. It fits better as life, rather than death. Hmmm... perhaps the gloomy bells at the end singify the coming end of time... as in the end of life? I like that idea.





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this will suit a next century x-rated cartoon soundtrack.
this is definitly your style
your sound is unique
stun rocks
U nutz

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oh and I love your art too :-)

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remix your life

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The thing that strikes me most about your stuff is that it's full of
personality - most notably wit - you seem to proceed with a natural
instinct for what works. There's a kind of conversation (or even a song
with alien lyrics) going on in this piece.

Top stuff

KK

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The thing that strikes me most about your stuff is that it's full of
personality - most notably wit - you seem to proceed with a natural
instinct for what works. There's a kind of conversation (or even a song
with alien lyrics) going on in this piece.

Top stuff

KK

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Oh no - the dreaded double post!!


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I don't know much about art, but I know what I like! Very cool (albeit a
little weird)! Made me smile.
Neil

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really love the sonics in this. i heard the datafunk remix before i heard this...... but i gotta say i LOVE this. you have a love of sonics just for the sake of....... i know exactly what you mean......... period. beautiful Eric.

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something beetley about this....oh never mind.
wish we could work together live sometime. you are a mandroid after
JOAN's heart

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Now that is an interesting thought... live with JOAN! That could be quite the experience... who knows?... maybe someday...

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You are a sound genius. Now if only you put your songs to some killer
bass and breakbeats...OH, but don't get me wrong, we NEED Stun
experimental just to get us through school and stuff. And you you help
me well.

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Thanks 4EROjet... I know what you are saying... datafunk actually spiffed up this tune with a great remix: http://www.macjams.com/song/22695

I do some stuff killer beats, too... check out this one (especially the second half): http://www.macjams.com/song/21342

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something to to confuse me more than I am. Cool work.

Ed

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It's great knowing there's someone out there with the obsessive genius to
do this and have three kids too (I've got two). I'm kinda new at this game
after years of analog - I want like a digital woodchipper to play iching
with. BTW - what do the numbers behind each keyword mean? There's a
lot of mysterious numbers at MJ.
Pleased - Bud

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This has to be up there with the strangest creations I've heard on Macjams. Very interesting. Well put together. Thanks for sharing.

mvh : )

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I LIKE IT BRO_SKY! It's mostly sweet! Pshah! For rizzsticle.

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