Obsolete Donkey
NEWS   The album, Heavenly Dementia, has been canned. I had pigeonholed one style for myself and was having trouble writing more material. A new album is underway of course, and should be a lot more fun to write. Two of my favourite Heavenly Dementia tracks that were completed are up.
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  The Beginning of Something New
play lo-fi play hi-fi  It Looks Like Rain
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Innocence and Insanity (Phase I)
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Porcelain Dolls
play lo-fi play hi-fi  The Lullaby
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Circus, Mommy
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Frailty
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Hidden in the Attic
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Buried in the Basement
play lo-fi play hi-fi  Waltz with the Voices
Obsolete Donkey is the solo project of Jaron Eldon. Jaron Eldon is a teenager living in a small town in Southern California. He is trying to preserve something that seems to have lost popularity, and that is having a texture, an atmosphere in his music, and to have some form of a theme in his music and albums so that you have actually been somewhere by the end of listening to the entire album. It's music with a purpose!
Why this name?
I despise people taking simple things like band names and trying to load them up with deep philosophical meaning, Obsolete Donkey is about as rediculous and silly as they come.
Do you play live?
Never have, I did once in 7th grade but that was well before Obsolete Donkey, or me making good music for that matter. It would be fun to do it again, but I'd need more material.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
It's almost a bad thing. I don't mind the downloading and all, I think it's a great way to offer my music free to people in Japan or Europe and what not should they want to hear it. But, I would hate to think that people are listening to just one specific song. I enjoy the concept of an album as one entity, not a ton of hit songs compiled to make money.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
Would they sign me? Harhar. Until I'm more efficient at making music, I'm not interested, and I'd need all the freedom that I want. I hate time constraints, I write when I want to write. That's the joy of a home studio.
Band History:
Just started because I wanted to make music, can't remember when, but the website has a fairly accurate representation via the news posts as to when I began the solo project.
Your influences?
Steven Wilson is my greatest influence.
Porcupine Tree
Bass Communion
Blackfield
Opeth
Chroma Key
Kevin Moore
Radiohead
Dredg
OSI
The Beatles
Tears for Fears
Portishead
Dream Theater
Spock's Beard
Favorite spot?
I love the town I live in, and I love Solvang.
Equipment used:
Ibanez something or other series electric guitar.
Yamaha acoustic guitar.
Squier P-Bass (ugh).
Roland V-Club drumset.
Cakewalk HomeStudio 2004.
Various VSTs.
Anything else...?
Music that is Musically Challenged
Jaron Eldon's ambient collaboration with Gavin Stewart and Pete Nigel.

The Jads
My collaboration with my cousin, songs mainly made using our mouths. No real instruments are used.

Jaron Eldon
Me, but this is all music for movie soundtracks.
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