First Take Dump Cake

Spice Rack Collective

A dump cake is made by literally dumping all the ingredients into a baking pan, mixing them, and popping the pan into the oven. This aural dump cake was made by taking a bunch of alternate/unused vocal and instrumental takes from several of the group’s RPM Challenge 2025 songs, dumping them into VCV Rack, and running them through a glitchy patch.

The original idea was to represent the mixer’s divided attention toward the end of each February, trying to finish mixing, sequencing, and uploading one or more RPM Challenge albums by the deadline. Can be an intense couple of days, but always rewarding!

Kenny Tannehill – vocals, bass
Robbie Robinson – vocals
Matt Appleberry – guitar
Kevin Craig – drums, bass, recording, arrangement, mixing

First Take Dump Cake
by Kenny Tannehill and Robbie Robinson

To D. Go to D, then go… up.
Well, I’ll just go to the E to the C instead of the E to the… ah, yeah yeah.
I’ll just go back and forth there.
Are we rolling? Is it rolling?
I’ll start out with it.

I used to believe that information
was ultimately gonna set us free,
but now I can see it’s all distorted,
we believe what we wanna believe.

Yeah! It’s, uh, pop music. We do rock and roll!
Beep beep beep.
La la la la.
Take it home to me now.

I know that they said the rain was coming.
I look and I see that it’s already there.
I’m gonna get wet unless I start running.
I’ll have nothing dry to wear.

All right!
I’m feeling stuck in the fog.
I’m taking my time.
Koobaloo, boogaloo baby!
Going home now.
You’re my woman, yeah, tell me about it!
I’m taking my time.
Yeah, let’s get some sugar out there, dude!
Yeah!
I’m feeling stuck in the fog.
Going home now.

Feels like I’m in a cloud.
My vision is blurred.
It muffles the sound.