| DEMO RECORDINGS OF JAK'S ACTS |
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| SEE NEWER VERSION: SEP 2021 - JAN 2020 REWIND to SEP 2019 - MAY 2018 |
| January 23 2020 "Velvet Coma" demo EP from 2001 remastered and rereleased |
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| The latest from the old stuff to get the remaster/rerelease treatment is a quick and dirty funk rock EP from early 2001. I can't remember if anyone else played on it or if I did everything on it anymore since that was like 28 chapters ago. Four out of the five songs end up redone on later recordings but here's where they started, all themed around a nightclub sleazebag, though oddly Nightclub Sleazebag isn't one of the songs on here, go figure. |
| January 6 2020 Shape Dream + Azairah collab "Drift Protocol" release today |
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| This is a drone/ambient collaboration that I've been working on since May 2019 in free moments with Trina who plays bass in, well, just about every live project I currently have going at the moment. It's themed around a fatal mysterious encounter in deep space annnnd it's also finally finished! We've released it under my Shape Dream and her Azairah project banners, and you can listen to it whenever you think you're ready. |
| December 18 2019 Already Fading On Some Horizon remaster / rerelease |
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| "Already Fading On Some Horizon" was a companion / sequel to December 2002's "All Our Sunlight Scattered" which had only just been released two months prior at the time, and "Brokedowntown" (which I just rereleased two weeks ago) came the very next month. I worked very hard to make that sentence as confusing for you as possible. Temporal semantic gymnastics aside, remastering this generally stern and sober collection about losing and leaving right after remastering the more raucous, lo-fi, and often silly "Brokedowntown" has been an interesting contrast for me to revisit and made me remember a lot of things I'd forgotten about a very transitional point in my life. Going into more depth there would probably be completely self-involved, says the guy who made an entire site about his projects. Anyway, it's got some good songs on it and you should check it out if you missed it the first time in 2003 (you did). |
| December 3 2019 Brokedowntown from 2003 remaster / rerelease |
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| This short run cassette release from 2003 was a sort of catch basin for the various projects I was developing at the time so it spans a lot of different styles, even for me. A lot of songs that evolved and ended up on later releases started out here so mmm, raw dough. When I finished recording the songs I wanted on it there was room for one more song so I brought the master tape and a tape recorder to my crappy job at the time while I was washing dishes and made up a stupid lounge song about washing dishes until my manager came in. Since he ended up on the album, offering a percentage is only fair so David, if you're reading this hit me up, I got probably at least thirty cents for you from back sales plus inflation. |
| November 29 2019 New AUTODESTRUCTOR release |
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| Today I give you ten new tracks of harsh noise and malicious soundscape from my AUTODESTRUCTOR project with the latest release "Cycle, My Tyrant", high volume recommended. |
| November 7 2019 200 Proof's 2001 demo remastered |
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| "Wasn't 200 Proof your band in 1998?" you ask, showing a frankly terrifying detailed knowledge about my past. "Why's there this 200 Proof album from 2001?" In April 2001 about two years into my band Paradox Prophecy's existence, we got bored with the duo thing and completely changed our sound and setlist to funky bluesy rock. The bassist and guitarist we added had been in 200 Proof and we all liked the name so we just went with that since it fit the new style way better than the name Paradox Prophecy would have. We recorded a six track demo and spread it around for a minute and then some people got too busy and some ended up in jail or something and so that band never happened, though a year later a lot of the songs we had worked on would end up in my next band The One Eyed Jacks' set. Chances are very very good that you were not one of the people this demo made it to back then so heeere ya go, fresh mix included at no extra charge. |
| November 4 2019 The Dead Outlaws 2003 demo remastered |
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| Loud! Angry! Only ever heard by a few dozen people! It's the demo from the third and final incarnation of The Dead Outlaws at the end of 2003, a death metal band that we just couldn't get off the ground no matter who was in it. I cleaned some mud off the mix and now it's back for listening. |
| September 6 2019 Prismatic Static from 2002 remastered |
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| Can you tell I'm going through my projects folder and finishing up what's nearly finished? Because I'm going through my projects folder and finishing up what's nearly finished, that's why this is the third announcement of new old music in as many days. Prismatic Static was an antifolk album released at the end of April 2002. The original release somehow got pressed in mono but there was only one small run of it anyway before I put out the next album "Bloom" five weeks later so I never bothered correcting it. Well I mean until now obviously. So here's the way it should have sounded the first time, though for 99.995% of you I bet this *is* the first time. |
| September 5 2019 Paradox Prophecy demo from 1999 rereleased |
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| Oh hey look what I found, an ancient tape. I started a band in 1999 with Rob Harrison which was supposed to eventually be punk and trippy rock but we ended up doing folk and antifolk because finding other band members and buying a better amp and drum kit was for people with money or time or some excuse that we thought sounded justified at the time I'm sure. Anyway this was our first demo we dashed off when we thought we were doing acoustic music "just for now", and now it's rereleased in all its one-mic-one-take hissy cassette glory. |
| SEE NEWER VERSION: SEP 2021 - JAN 2020 REWIND to SEP 2019 - MAY 2018 |
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