((music for earphones)) - along with "Weekend Warrior", and the adjacent material, - came about after a brief sojourn as Hypothetical Sofa making clumsy stabs at low slung trippy sample mash up trip hop. Very diegetic and cartoony even, fiercely intimate and idiosyncratic - but sofa was a hot mess and by the end of 2005 something - I don't remember what - made me tighten the screws. Starting 2006 a very 18 year old Skwirl (then Mr. Squirrel) was making these mad mashes ripping samples from household/self acquired cds with rudimentary audio editing software and chucking that wildly at a 16 track virtual sequencer that required live performance (no offline or linear arrangement possible) and once a good take had tumbled out then off on a dash over to my stepdad's Sony Vio, which for some reason had Sound Forge on it, to do crazy effects and mental layers of things - that then had to travel via zip disk back to my room...all to make these trippy, dense, kaleidoscopic, intimate, bombastic, experimental, and dare I say dope sample collage, mega mash up style big beat meets downtempo meets trip hoppy tunes from literally hundreds upon hundreds of samples of all sorts of things.

To be fair a lot my memory of making music at that time was excitedly running down the hallway with a zip disk or something of the like so i could put the thing from one thing into another thing to do the thing to then take back to the first thing and make it do that thing. I remember being overwhelmed when I got Logic that i didn't have to do that anymore and that I could arrange things on an offline linear path and didn't have to make half dozen print mix performances of the tunes.

And from there...way opened....

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with samples/elements by:

1. Björk
Radiohead
can't remember who did those guitar chords...
some Gregorian chant
Seals and Crofts
Jerry Goldsmith - The Mummy (1999) "The Caravan"
Chicago

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2. this was a new take of a different arrangement of the mash up of Seals and Croft's "Hummingbird" and "Angel" by Gavin Friday that was on my inaugural Myspace player ep (wistful tear).

with a sample from Air's "Casanova 70"

oh and a break from Third Eye Blind's "Jumper"

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3. The Chemical Brothers - Chemical Beats /Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock) - Three Is A Magic Number/ Isaac Hayes - Run Faye Run

featuring:
Coldcut bass bit
the military radio from U2 - Seconds

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4. primarily a re-edit of a bluegrass cover of Sheryl Crow's "Riverwide" (it's gorgeous, hush.) some Tallywood String cover of a Kid A Radiohead (I think "In Limbo").

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5. David Axelrod's "Holy Sunday"

Thomas Newman (Finding Nemo OST) - "Wow"

Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66 - "Bim bom"

U2 - "Seconds"

i can't for the life of me remember the trumpet now...

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6. primarily a reedit of Elbow's "Ribcage"

There's some Antiloop
Noel Gallagher - "Teotihuacan"
I believe the strings are Les Baxter
...and includes assorted DnB samples

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7. I think the opening is Harry Belafonte...

U.N.K.L.E. - "Rabbit in your Headlights"

Koop - "Waltz for Koop"

Cast of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers - "Lonesome Polecat"

U2 - "Seconds"

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8. I don't really remember what the gregorian pieces were i'm afraid.

but there's Supergrass' "Road to Rouen"

and I think a bit of a beat from μ-zik

i will try to remember the rad kitch 50's infomercial bop loop...

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9. mash up of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon" and Zero 7 featuring José Gonzales's "Left Behind"

plus a loop from the Tallywood Strings cover of "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead

the main drum loop is Moby "We Are All Made of Stars"

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10. Radiohead's "Treefingers"

John Coltrane - "My Favourite Things"

Zero 7 - "Look Up"

Fatboy Slim - "Talkin' Bout My Baby"

Bob Dorough (Schoolhouse Rock) - "Hey Little Twelvetoes"


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all tracks assembled, arranged, sequenced, and recorded by Mr. Squirrel

Mastered 2024 by Jacob Korn @ Tailout