this here is a collection of a whole bunch of tracks that i'm happy with but didn't make it to an ep or an album for whatever reason. it covers a lot of ground and varies in production quality

here's some track notes:
big sexy snakes: this was a fun jam i did with all my equipment set up. there's a sample in there from an old activity center cd rom i found at an opshop called "snakes of australia" from way back in 1995.

1234: an off cut from the mechaduggy ep, i couldn't make this fit on the ep , it sounded too different from everything else but i'm still really happy how it turned out. every sound bar of the crash cymbol was made with one analogue synth, the mighty future retro xs which i'd just bought.

erb jam: made this for a facebook group challenge, it's a jam with an sq1 and an erebus synth. i put it on broken mating calls but with way too much record crackle over the top so here's the original with out all the noise

Lyrics camera action: this is my first attempt at doing anything with lyrics, i did it because when i'd show my music to people they'd ask where's the vocals and say it needs vocals. so i wrote this dumb thing in a few minutes and made this heavy breakbeat infused punk song and made heavy use of the awesome monotribe. i'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

What are we going to do: i made this relatively quickly after realizing how awesome amen breaks sound bit crushed. it's got some samples from ad police in it. I was pretty happy with the vibe but it was recorded quite crappily as my monitoring situation was a bit shit and my chops weren't anything to write home about. So when i skilled up and got better equipment i decided to redo it, i tried so many times to get it right and did so many iterations of it and just couldn't get satisfied with it. What makes this original version superior to the others was it's crustiness and that's a vibe you can't replicate with thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

Hippy song: I got caught up in the wave of folk punk which was really booming at the time and got inspired by Arse Full of Chips and wrote some filthy sweary terrible folk punk songs. this is the only one i recorded and it's a rip of a video captured on a dslr camera and it sounds like shit, there's wind, his, birds and at a certain point some kookaburras decided to chime in. I wrote this about my old housemate who was an insufferable hippy. In all seriousness i can't play guitar.

skate or die/homelife: Back in 2015 this random folk punk dude from philly called Steve got in touch with me about doing a cover album of no cash songs but with hip hop beats and rapping vocals. So i made five instrumentals and Steve and his buddy Chad did some vocals on one of them then the whole thing fell to bits because of some interpersonal bullshit on Steve's end. which is a shame cos chad has a great voice and it pisses me off because i sunk a lot of hours into those beats. Me and Steve might kick start the whole thing again, who knows.

ya can't go home: scuse the terrible vocals, recorded this mess while living off instant noodles and dumpster dived food, as far as i can remember i only had pc monitor speakers to hear what i was doing. still kinda happy with how it turned out.

Justin thyme: i think justin did guitar work on this, the original session file got whiped in a hard drive crash and all i got left of it is a wav. would have done the drums a little better, and re recorded the bass lines.

what are we going to do (2016 rework): so here's an attempt to redo the old track, i don't like it as much. i think justin might have played on it.

moonset: this is the first track i ever made, i did it in a free version of protools on my mums old computer, nothing's in sync, i got the drum loop from some website, and the main sample came from some old record, the wind sound, string loop and motorcycle kick start come from the game Full Throttle and the crowd cheering came from a NIN live album. it's kinda a rip of off of la mer by nine inch nails and it's pretty primitive, my friend ryan used it in a student film he did.

Riot_party_waiting: features the vocal work of tassie singing Baltimore Charlotte

the drawing of that fish in the crab tank was done by Sarah Carapace www.facebook.com/sarahcarapace.art/ give her some coin get cool drawings.

special thanks to all those who got involved and helped out over the years: Justin, Nic, Sarah, Rolly, Josh, Guy, Jake, Catrin, Brandon, Ryan, Berno, Al, Joseph, Blainy, and anyone else i forgot.