The original notional theme for this album was "We Don't Talk About That". Hayden took that notion and ran with it. :) This was an especially gratifying bit of collaboration and coordination. On the last day of recording, Hayden (in North Carolina…

Used Hainbach's excellent Landfill Totems VST for these noisy ruminations. Also had some samples from an LP recorded by a local high school band nearly 40 years ago, but I re-rendered this version without those samples, just in case... Kevin…

This one combines a tape loop I made, hardware synths (the volcas again), the RPM-40 drum machine, my guitar effects processor, and a few more samples I found online. Kevin Craig - Synths, tape loop, mixing.

Was playing around in VCV Rack, trying to build a generative patch so the synth would make music on its own. (Can't remember if I used one of Omri Cohen's VCV patches as a starting point, or was just following along with one of his videos. Either…

Pushing buttons is how I made almost all of this album. It's also how a lot of us make a living. It's also how various forms of media keep us engaged and enraged. Used volca Keys, volca Sampler, and Korg Monotron to make most of the noises…

Our niece came to visit one night during February and helped me test out some new synths I'd picked up for RPM Challenge (volca Keys and Sampler 2). We added a nice drum track from the old Suzuki RPM-40 drum machine my dad gave me several years…

Input the chord sequence from a Spice Rack Collective song I wrote on guitar, converted a bass take from that song into MIDI, added a couple of VSTs, programmed some drums, and added some royalty-free voice samples I found online somewhere. Pretty…

When Kenny first sang this one over a Zoom call, I immediately thought of “Singapore” by Tom Waits, and said, “Hell yes!” 😊 I’m not sure I made the chaos part sufficiently chaotic, but it was a lot of fun to put together. Special thanks to Rebecca…

RPM 2022 happened to coincide with a week where Mike got dozens of scam calls, so this idea popped into his head as a middle finger to the purveyors of said calls. We tightened up the lyrics in the studio and encouraged Mike to express his *real…

Robbie’s exploration of self-awareness in a grifter. Robbie Robinson – Songwriting, lyrics, vocals, guitars, bass, recording Margaret Bibb – Background vocals Leum Monroe – Background vocals Kenny Tannehill – Background vocals Kevin Craig…