Here’s a pre-release single off Out of It:

Fake It [MP3]

Also: I’m looking for help making the most cliché music video ever for it. Help!

Tonight Hit the Bong With Me [MP3], music written by Lee David in 1926.

Sometimes you have to destroy a song to learn its secrets.

fieryprophet put together all the vocals submitted so far for Out of It and man is it awesome:

Out of It submitted backup vocals (as of Oct. 16) [5mb mp3]

That audio fills me with so much joy. I can’t wait till more people get theirs in!

Here’s a remix I did for c.layne off his new album SHARK WEEK. (All his vocals for the album are available here.)

short fuses burn long bridges (brad sucks remix) [5 MB]

This was fun to do. After grinding away on shitty boring album stuff I was looking for a remix project to go kinda crazy on. I need to remember to do remixes more often, it’s relaxing.

Here’s a weird one for y’all: Brad Sucks - Tracker Array [10mb MP3]. 

As I’ve mentioned in a bunch of interviews I took classical guitar lessons when I was 8 or so but got bored of it. It wasn’t until I came across trackers on the PC around 1993 that I got hooked on making music (and realized that song files were the future) and it’s been downhill ever since. The trackers I spent the most time in were Scream Tracker and Impulse Tracker, though I did my time in Composer 669 and Farandole Composer as well.

Recently I came across one of many stashes of tracker files I had converted to MP3 years ago. I thought about putting some of the songs online as a joke – some of the ideas are okay but the sound quality of the samples is so low it makes me gag. Instead I compiled them into one retro audio highlight reel. These songs are all from around 93-98 I think. You can picture me working in DOS, chatting on BiModem, running a Telegard BBS (Renegade is for lamers) and not getting much sun or healthy social interaction while you listen to this.

So for around two years there I had some awesomely crippling writer’s block where I thought I’d never write a song again. It was very melodramatic and retarded and embarrassing to talk about but anti-depressants seem to have fixed me up.

Now that my mental health is relatively in check I can start releasing all the crap I decided wasn’t good enough during that period without having a heart attack. Here’s Tell Me Something I Don’t Know from 2004.

There are some things I like about the song, some I don’t. The drugs tell me that’s OK.

My friend Puce asked me to do a guest-chorus on his Songfight Sidefight entry. And that I did. Here’s State of Emergency (mp3).

Because I’m lonely I’m going to try posting mixes of my new album tracks in my forums for feedback, commentary, crushing of my spirit & motivation, etc. You can check out a new mix of Bad Sign if you’re so inclined.

I may make the forum private in the future, I haven’t decided.

MC Frontalot and I attempted to kick out something approximating the jams this week for Songfight. Go check it out:

I think it turned out decent for like a two day thang.

Here’s another demo I’ve been working on: Bad Sign. (And here’s the forum thread.)