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A Birthday Present for Bill Nelson submitted for the Dreamville compilation: The Return of Birthday Bill.
rock acoustic ambient blues comedy philosophical indietronic highly experimental
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Highly ExperiMental, Rock, Blues, Electronica, Ambient, Acoustic, Comedy, Philosophical...
Richard "Cool-as-Hell" Sinclair and Michael "Punslinger" Honsinger have been making spontaneously original music together since soon after they first met in 1985. After a jam or two, the Punslinger lent Richard his Fostex X-15 4-track cassette recorder; Richard impressed him so much by writing the song "Forwards in Time" that the Punman joined forces and the dynamic duo soon morphed into Quantum Mechanix by combining musical gear, ideas, and jokes; and taking cassette 4-tracks to their very limits... and beyond! The first few years were extremely experimental! Combining Rock, Pop, Electronica and Beyond together, they blazed their own trail through the underground of the Olympia Underground music scene (unseen by K records, Steve Fiske, Bakini Kill, Marcy Playground, the Melvins, Nirvana, Bratmobile and many others). They should have called themselves Secret Identity! Afraid to share their music with anyone, they languished in obscurity which fueled even more inspired songs of worth! They have released one album: Quantum Mechanix '88 (11 years after Talking Heads '77) There were only 50 cassettes produced. They later joined forces with drummer Patrick Padovan (who played at their first 2 jams) and transformed into Art Official... recently they have been known to call themselves Triple Dog Dare.
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Podcasts Comedy
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#481 in subgenre Peak #3
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Peak #11
Author
Quantum Mechanix
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2008
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November 28, 2008
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MP3 4.1 MB 128 kbps 4:29
Story behind the song
For a few years I was determined to write/record, from scratch, a birthday song on my birthday. I believe this was the first one. I also think it was February '89 (my 33rd) and Optimism was the latest Nelsong collection. When I first thought of submitting this for Bill's birthday just over a year ago, I thought it would be a simple matter of mixing it. When we actually dug out the old Tascam 246 4-track cassette recorder, and the source tape, we discovered that it had a drum track which Patrick had added at one point, that I had forgotten about. The track had been added without any rehearsal to speak of and because of the quirky-ness of the thing he had a bit of trouble in spots; I think it was done in one take as well--- as usual. Needless to say (but here I am saying it) there were problems which I hopefully have solved with some time stretching of the track and also just dropping it out. It has taken much longer than I had anticipated since I've approached the mixing in baby steps (sometimes giant baby steps). It still has problems I could ennumerate and discuss for longer than anyone would want me to!
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