If you load a song into windows sound recorder, speed it up a lot, then slow it back down, you get some strange results.

The rhythm track is that of "Parts Below" slowed down, thus continuing my pet themes of recycling material within an album and anagram song titles. Fun fact: This is the only track on the album that isn't 120 bpm.

This is "Blue Sun (Rise)" played backwards. Logically, it should have come after "Blue Sun" itself, but it flowed better here.

A friend posted a picture of himself in front of an abandoned mental hospital, and someone jokingly asked if it was his new house. He responded that the only things that live there were asbestos and ghosts.

Another track with an Ableton beat. Yes, the title is a gratuitous science fiction reference.

I experimented with slowing down individual parts of "Blue Sun" and realized it made a nice intro/segue.

I've started tentatively experimenting with Ableton - the rhythm was done with that program, but the rest was my usual sound collagey approach to ACID. And the title came from a leftover piece of cardboard packaging.

A while ago, I made a short little ambient loop I didn't really know what to do with. Eventually, I decided it sounded like hold music and this spoken word-ish piece resulted. Maybe it will function as a skit on my next album.

The backing track is mainly the "Chanticleer Hegemony" beat in reverse at a slower tempo and pitch-shifted samples of my earlier track "Harm". The lyrics are taken verbatim from a note that once landed in my driveway one windy day. The ending…

Watchout4snakes has a "sentence generator" that I find a fascinating source of nonsense - for these "lyrics" I just refreshed it several times, then organized the sentences into questions and answers.