Of course, the title also reeks of jealousy because I couldn't create an IDM track even if I tried. So instead, here's a heavy, layered electronica track that reeks of faux glitchery and IDM-ishness.

For me, one of the side effects of unemployment is insomnia. I am the kind of person who worries about things, and often that worry extends into the night time hours. I sang this after a particularly difficult night. The vocals aren't the best…

From RPM 2010. It's entirely analog synthesizer, drum machine, and my voice. Effects, too, of course. It's pretty repetitive, but I find it kinda catchy.

In Manila, waiting in the U.S. embassy line for a tourist visa back in 1999 was a 2-day affair in sun or rain, day or night. This is a 7-min. ode to the torture of waiting for the unobtainable.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

Track from 2010 RPM Challenge entry "Of Fire, Ice, and Rage" written and performed by James Blair, Jason Hannah, and Casey J. Payne.

For String Orchestra. First performed in Grassington in North Yorkshire, a place of outstanding natural beauty. This version is computer generated I'm sorry but it sounds ok! Thanks

this is more bass guitar music chill out style

Stumbled across this in the vault. Some cool summertime nightnoise from Hico, Tx. Listen close you can hear the coyote calls. Feel free to use it.

Homage, in various ways, to Bowie, Arcade Fire, Airborne Toxic Event. I wrote most of it while out running on dirt roads near the Cody landfill.

Title is a reference to a 2009 RPM album's title. It is a song about leaving Chicago.

Again, Jess' lyrics speak for themselves. Man, distorted guitar is tough to mix around.

Jess wrote the lyrics for this one, and unlike when I write lyrics, they speak for themselves.

This song is about George Washington, and how politicians in the *cough* future world this album inhabits *cough* could perhaps use a bit of his character.

Opening track, sets the scene.

Finally a good cut of this one. Named after Daniel Burnham of Chicago's Burnham Plan, this song is about the downfall of western capitalism. I'm completely unprepared for it myself -- I have no idea what I'll wear.

Bit of a waltz. Everything I know about dancing I learned from watching. This is my piano debut. Bethan deserves some of the blame for this one somehow. Thanks.

I'm really not this bleak... I was just looking for an excuse to use that VU/JAMC/The National drumbeat!

Just a short reprise of the first song on this years RPM album. Something to tie it all off so it doesn't keep bleeding.

Written, more or less, after sitting in a car for four hours, after attending Laurie's Last.

The turning point for my RPM Challenge recordings this year - I'd planned out a bunch of songs to record with just vocals and an acoustic. After several of these sketches presented themselves to my brain, I threw the old plan out.