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Volume 5

Posts 101-125

Thursday, November 29, 2007to

Monday, December 24, 2007

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Studio News: New Website

In October of 1994, Harry, Jason, and Darrin investigated a local urban legend.While they were there an old man drove up and told them to leave because too

many people had been there causing trouble. Tempers flared and the old man and

Jason almost came to fisticuffs. This became known as the Albino Boy incident.

And now, thirteen years later, Metal XOR Studio is proud to present the Official

Albino Boy website. While there you can watch the video that Jason shot of the

incident, various audio files, the story of what happened in the following days and

weeks after the incident, and much more! It is the most comprehensive Albino Boy

incident website on the Internet.

Please visit the new site and show your support.

Posted by - Mune Mud - at 7:53 AM 2 comments

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Studio News: ORC Photo Session

ORC was in the studio last night... the photo studio!

ORC met at Attic Works Studio last night for the first photo shoot for their new

album due out early next year. Donning masks, various outfits, and their

instruments of choice, many pictures were taken over the course of the hour and a

half session.

There were two cameras going, the main camera taking the pictures and then a

second camera taking "behind-the-scene" shots. The above two pictures are from

the secondary camera. The main pictures are at Attic Works Studio being

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processed. The band has not announced what these pictures will be used for, but

they will definitely have a web presence.

Near the end of the session Jason was asked how Metal XOR Studio is prepping for

the recording of the new ORC album. He replied:

"Hopefully this weekend the Studio will be stripped of all cables and connections. I

have a new wiring schematic drawn up and will rebuild the Studio from scratch. I

won't be using half the equipment that's there for this new album, so I'm clearing it

out and streamlining the recording process. I've settled on which computers to use

and how to hook everything up. Now I just need the time to do it. This will be the

fifth incarnation of the Studio, it's called MXOR-E. And things are going very well

for the January 1 deadline. That's the day we start recording. The excitement is

building!"

Keep checking here for further ORC updates.


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State of the Studio #4: December '07

Christmas and New Years are near. December is the time of year when thingsreally get busy for most people. And it's the same with the Studio this year.

A lot of the Studio activity this month will be in preparation for the recording of

the new ORC album. Recording is scheduled to begin on January 1 and wrap up on

February 29. The biggest hurdle at this point is rebuilding the Studio. But the plan

has been drawn up and now I'm just waiting for an opportune time to rip

everything out to start from scratch.

The first photo shoot for ORC took place a few nights ago. When post-production

on those pictures is finished they will be made available, in some form, to the

public. Also ORC related is the ORC blog. Until January 1 most ORC related news

will still be posted on this Studio blog site. But when the recording starts, the ORC

blog will be used to provide information as to the progress of the new album.

This blog will have a new feature added soon. . . a slide show that displays all the

album covers that have been shown in the Album of the Week feature. Look for

the slide show very soon.

There are two new websites in the Metal XOR Studio domain now, the Traveling

Deengelburys and Albino Boy, but there are no plans for any new sites in the near

future due to the upcoming ORC project taking up most of the Studio's time.

And look forward to at least one new Article feature which will document the

employees at Metal XOR Studio.

See you in a month. . .


Labels: State of the Studio

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Album of the Week #15: Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 1

Project name: IsthmusAlbum name: Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 1

Release date: July 21, 1998

Release format: cassette

Studio name: Metal XOR Studio

Tracks:

1. Snowflake in a Desert

2. I Wonder

3. I Cannot Tell A Lie

4. Flathead Midget

5. African Pygmies

6. ID Band

7. Lost in Detroit (Free II)

8. We Need Toner

9. Greasy Mystic

10. I Need A Drink

11. You've Given Me Air

12. It's Not Me You're Talking To

13. Wicked Game (Chime Can Mix)

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14. The Wrong Spryte

15. Outter Gossamer Ring

This album came from a jam session that Harry, Jason, and Jimmy had on Friday,

May 22, 1998 in Jimmy's room which at the time was still called Exit 23 Studio.

This was unofficially known as "Isthmus Jam 4".

This, like the ORC album Purging the Great Abyss, could have an entire book

written about it. It was the comeback album for Isthmus following the disaster of

their 1996 album New Mexico Igloo. And the story of this album goes a little

something like this. . .

Jimmy and Jason set up the equipment the previous night. Nikki was there too and

the three of them recorded a few songs during the sound check. The next morning

Isthmus met at Exit 23 Studio. For most of the day Jimmy played drums, Harry

played guitar, and Jason played bass. But that was switched up a couple of times.

They recorded for at least five hours, filling six 45-minute cassettes using Jason's

4-track recorder. They also recorded the session with a standard cassette recorder

set in the middle of the room. And they had two camcorders that recorded the

session. So this was the most documented recording session to date.

In all, 55 songs were recorded that day. And Jason got right to work cleaning the

songs up and adding post-production tracks of additional instruments and sound

effects. Right away they knew they had too much material for one album, so it

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was decided to do Metal XOR Studio's first 2-album release. The first album was

released in July, which was a veryfast turnaround from the recording date, and

the second album was released in 1999. A promotional poster was created for this

album on July 2, 1998.

And knowing it was a 2-album set, the two album covers were designed to fit

together to make one complete picture. The whole cyclical theme was continued

with the subtitle of the album being "Solstice to Equinox" and volume 2's subtitle

being "Equinox to Solstice". To further the seasonal theme, Volume 1 side A was

labeled 'summer' and side B was labeled 'winter', Volume 2 side A was labeled

'autumn' and side B was labeled 'spring'.

There were a few variations of the album. The first three copies were for the band

members and were designated 'alpha' and had a Greek alpha symbol on the inside

of the tape jacket. These copies had a bonus track called "Cornbread". The rest of

the first run was then labeled as 'beta' tapes and had a Greek beta symbol on the

inside of the tape jacket. Later, a second run of the tapes were released when the

first run ran out. The difference in the two runs is that the original tapes released

had dark tape cases and the second run had light cases.

This album came out just before the advent of home CD-recording, so it was the

last album to be released on cassette. But there are plans to re-release both

volumes on CD. An all-encompassing Special Edition has also been mentioned

containing every song recorded that day (in their album versions and raw unedited

versions) along with interviews each band member made about each song on the

album and much more! But that has yet to be completed.

Next May marks the 10-year anniversary of Isthmus' crowning achievement. We'll

see if there is any hubbub to be had.

Update:

On May 22, 2008, the 3-CD Parabolic Dish Festival 10th Anniversary Editionwas

released. Now the rumors have started of an Ultimate Editionto be released in

the future. Is there really that much more material to be released?

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Next week's Album of the Week: Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 2by Isthmus from

1999.


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Blog News: New Slide Show Feature

As you may or may not have noticed, there is a new feature on the blog. In theupper-right corner of the page is the new slide show.

The slide show cycles through all of the album covers that have been shown on this

blog in the Album of the Week feature. As new albums are discussed, their covers

will also be added to the slide show.

The slide show provides a small amount of user-control. When you hover over the

slide show a control bar appears that lets you pause on the current cover, select

the left arrow to return to the previous cover, or select the right arrow to advance

to the next one. And if you click on one of the covers it will take you to the Flickr

account where you can look at the covers in more detail.

Keep watching here for more Blog News as new features are added to the site.


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Blog News: Album Cover Collection

The Studio now has two Flickr accounts. The first account is the album covercollection that appears in the slide show in the upper right corner of this page.

The second account contains all the other pictures that have been used in this

blog. There is a new link to the Flickr Album Cover collection in the Studio Links

section in the right sidebar of this page.

I am in the process of replacing all pictures in this blog with links to the new

Flicker collections. That will allow the user to click on any picture and get an

enlarged version of it. The current system of uploading pictures to the blog doesn't

always allow enlargement of the picture by clicking on it, and I can't figure out

why that is. So I'm changing how the pictures are posted. This change may take a

few days to complete.


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Project Spotlight #15: What is Parvo?

It was the year 2000. The future had arrived. Technology, the field of medicine,and food preparation had come so far in humanity's lifetime. So why not advance

music?

Parvo was another solo project by Jason. The "gimmick" behind Parvo was the fact

that it was the first Metal XOR project to use only a computer to make its music.

Using a program called CakeWalk, two songs were started but never progressed

beyond the demo stage. Maybe the world wasn't ready for Parvo. Or maybe Parvo

wasn't ready for the world.

A publicity poster for the new project was created on May 17, 2000, but not many

people saw it. The whole project was soon abandoned and nothing has been done

with it since.

Next week: What is Young Herbage?


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Blog News: Embedded PDF Files

Metal XOR Studio is proud to announce another new feature to this blog:embedded .PDF files. What is an embedded .PDF file? Here is an example.

For this I am using a website called Scribd. It hosts documents and provides the

coding needed to embed your documents in a web page.

Now when you read a lyric booklet post or read about some other document, you

can browse the actual document without leaving the page. If it is too small for you

to read, you can right-click on "Download as PDF" at the bottom of the Scribd box

and have it open a new page as a full-screen .PDF document for you to read.

To see some real-life examples, head over to the Lyric Booklet category. All of

the lyric booklets have now been embedded. I will also be going back and

embedding any other .PDF's where needed.


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Article: Studio Employees

Many fictitious people have worked for the Studio over the years. Below is a rosterof people and what their positions are.

James Oglethorpe

Mr. Oglethorpe works for the Metal XOR Press division of the company. He is

responsible for all of the printed projects that come out of the Studio including

posters, lyric booklets, and more. His biggest achievement was in 1996 when he

was credited as being the editor of the Mune Mud book titled Olympus: Mountain

or Molehill?He also wrote a page called "About the Author" explaining Stanislaw

Mishra's mysterious involvement with the Studio that appeared in the back of that

same book. He recently set up the Scribd account that provides embedded

documents in posts.

Sir Richard Ruthonestu

He is the orchestra conductor that the Studio hires when an orchestral part needs

to be recorded. He comes from Oil City, Pennsylvania, and takes his conducting

seriously. He was credited as the orchestra conductor on the 1999 ORC album

Purging the Great Abyss. He is always on standby for the Studio if it should everneed his services.

Alumdar "101" Windwalk

He is the Studio photographer and keeper of the photo archive. He recently helped

create some blog projects in association with Flickr and link it all together. He is

the newest employee of the Studio.

The NueroMorgue Band

Most of the NueroMorgue album was recorded by one person, but for the live

performances there were four additional members:

Agnus Dei - lead guitar

Venus Psyche - rhythm guitar

Python XYZ - bass guitar

El Cid minor - drummer

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Stanislaw Mishra

No one is really sure who this person is.

Gargoyle

We're not sure who or what this is either.

There are many, many more employees that have pooled their talents into making

the Studio what it is today, the list is too long for this blog post. But the Studio

extends a gracious THANK YOU to all who have made the Studio a success and

next Monday there will be a plastic spineless yucca plant on each and every desk.

[A group picture was scheduled but Alumdar contracted some strange itchy spots

and was too ill to take the picture. He has fully recovered and regrets any

inconvenience it may have caused.]


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Collector's Corner #21

This was an early version of the Traveling Deengelburys logo.

This design was drawn by Jason, aka Doubletree Deengelbury, the rhythm

guitarist. There are a few elements of this design that made it into the final

design:

The circle that the chicken is standing on ended up being the world in the

final design. But in this design there is a small sign that says "world -

touring", so that could have been what inspired the change of the circle to

the globe.

The banners that say Traveling Deengelburys were kept in the final design.

The singing chicken was changed to an eagle spreading its wings in the final

design.

Things that did not make it to the final design:

The sword. This probably came from the fact that many of the band often

played Dungeons & Dragons after school and on weekends.

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The 8 and 9 that appear between the two banners. This stood for the year,

1989.

The storm clouds and lightning bolts.

The background birds behind the singing chicken.

So this picture shows one of the evolutionary steps the Traveling Deengelbury logo

took on its journey to final form. This now resides in the Traveling Deengelbury

Wing of the Metal XOR Studio Museum next to the empty vaults reserved for

cryogenically frozen band members.


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Album of the Week #16: Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 2

Project name: IsthmusAlbum name: Parabolic Dish Festival Volume 2

Release date: March 23, 1999

Release format: cassette


Tracks:1. Oogabooga Snack Bar

2. Seventh Guest

3. Big Red Book

4. Taught By A Midget

5. Lazy Community

6. Crawl That Mountain

7. Ephemeral Mercury

8. Probably

9. Broken Symbol Song

10. Permeate

11. The Journey

12. Low Expectations

13. Sunshine of Your Love

14. A World of Trust

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15. Outter Gossamer Ring

This album came from a jam session that Harry, Jason, and Jimmy had on Friday,

May 22, 1998 in Jimmy's room which at the time was still called Exit 23 Studio.

This was unofficially known as "Isthmus Jam 4".

As soon as the half-day jam session was over, it was realized this was going to be a

2-album set. After PDF Volume 1 was released to great success, it was doubtful

that a second album could contain such great songs as the first. But it did. Both

albums have a number of great songs on it.

Whereas PDF Volume 1 contained the Isthmus tradition of "Wicked Game", this

album had another cover, "Sunshine of Your Love". Harry taught it to Jimmy and

Jason that day, that's why this version sounds a little rough.

This album also had the same last track as PDF Volume 1, "Outter Gossamer Ring"

(the misspelling of 'outter' was realized after PDF Volume 1 was released but was

kept the same for this album). It was a good track to end an album with.

Next week's Album of the Week: Love Songsby Nikki and Jason from 2001.



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This Day in Studio History

It was December 10, 1996, when Harry, Jason, and Jimmy got together in a churchand recorded a jam session as the group Isthmus. This session became the third

Isthmus album, New Mexico Igloo.

For many of the songs Jason was on guitar, Harry on bass/keyboards, and Jimmy

on drums. But they also had a fourth player, Tim, who took over on drums after a

while. Jason, Harry, and Tim took turns on vocals. The album was released onDecember 17 of that year.


Labels: This Day in History

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Lyric Booklet #6: Purging the Great Abyss

The sixth album to include lyrics was ORC 's 1999 album Purging the Great Abyss.

This was the longest lyric booklet released at over thirty pages long.

Each song had the lyrics typed out using its own font. And behind the lyrics was a

different watermark for each song. This really made each song unique.

The booklet ended with an extensive history of the making of the album, the 1997

Musik Catalog, and a complete list of songs recorded by ORC during this period.

The booklet was released at the same time as the album. There were twelve

handed out. There were three versions released: one had a blue cover, one had a

green cover, and the other version had no cover at all. The cover was the only

difference, the rest of the booklets were the same.


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Studio News: ORC Is Ready

There is a new post on the official ORC blog this morning regarding the new album.

Click here to head on over and read it. . .


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Project Spotlight #16: What is Young Herbage?

Young Herbage was a project created by Jason and Harry for a radio contest inMarch of 1993. There was a local radio personality named JC that was disliked by

the morning show Jason and Harry listened to. The show had a song-writing

contest and whoever recorded the best song bashing JC would get to perform their

song live at an upcoming event the morning show was hosting.

Jason and Harry decided to enter the contest. The song they recorded was called

"JC's Suckin' Eggs". Jason recorded the basic music tracks of drums, bass, and

rhythm guitar. Then Harry went to the Studio and they both recorded the vocals

they both wrote. Jason took the 4-track recorder to Harry's house to record Harry's

guitar solo. Then Jason ended the song with many samples from the morning show.

They quickly came up with the name of the project and created an album cover.

The only copy of the album cover that was made was given to the radio station ,

but below is a scan of the sheet used to make the cover.

The tape was taken to the radio station. The show played it on the air and

commented that it did sound like Jason and Harry were on some herbage. Thus

Young Herbage ended and as quickly as it had been created.

The song appeared on the 1994 compilation EP titled Binary Pipedream.

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Next week: Who are Darrin and Jason?



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Article: Album Chronology

This is a complete chronological list of all albums and their release dates.

The Two-Tones Heimlich Maneuver[December 5, 1989]

X-Selsior One Way[unreleased]

Mune Mud Mune Mud[unreleased]

Mune Mud Olympus[November 12, 1991]

Mune Mud Underwater Problem Factory[summer 1992]

Mune Mud Pryme Material[September 7, 1993]

NueroMorgue Devis Tortura[December 14, 1993]

NueroMorgue E. Phantasmata[April 5, 1994]

Mune Mud Mune Mudre-release [August 2, 1994]

Mune Mud Devaulted[August 2, 1994]

Binary Pipedream Binary Pipedream[September 6, 1994]

NueroMud ...Libra 971 [October 18, 1994]

NueroMud Nine Days Wonder[November 1995]

Isthmus Electric Field Donut [July 9, 1996]

Mune Mud Monograph[July 16, 1996]

Mune Mud Equation of Time[August 13, 1996]

Isthmus Lambskin Temple[November 19, 1996]

Isthmus New Mexico Igloo[December 17, 1996]

Isthmus Ideas[May 6, 1997]

Mune Mud Sleep State F[September 23, 1997]

Isthmus Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 1 [July 21, 1998]

ORC Purging the Great Abyss[March 2, 1999]

Isthmus Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 2[March 23, 1999]

Nikki and Jason Love Songs[May 19, 2001]

Harry and Jason The Vintage Years Vol 1 [May 23, 2001]

Mune Mud The Search for Metropolis[November 6, 2001]

Mune Mud Olympus (10th Anniversary Edition) [December 29, 2001]

Mune Mud UPF (10th Anniversary Edition) [December 31, 2002]

Mune Mud Pryme Material (10th Anniversary Edition) [2003]

Mune Mud Singles Collection[2004]

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Mune Mud Hobson's Choice[November 23, 2004]

Mune Mud Hobson's Second Choice[2005]

Mune Mud Equation of Time (10th Anniversary Edition) [2006]

Mune Mud Sleep State F (10th Anniversary Edition) [2007]

Paige Watson My First Album[August 14, 2007]

Updates:

Mune Mud Precursory 33[April 8, 2008]

Isthmus Parabolic Dish Festival 10th Anniversary[May 22, 2008]

It is an unwritten rule that the Studio tries to release at least one album every

year. It has been able to do this since 1991 with the exception of one year,

2000. That was the year Jason got married and that is the excuse he used for

not having the time for a new album.


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Album of the Week #17: Love Songs

Project name: Nikki and JasonAlbum name: Love Songs

Release date: May 19, 2001

Release format: CD


Tracks:1. Any Man of Mine

2. A Love Song

3. Loving You

4. Fallen Star Wish

5. Nothing But Us

6. Nothing Better for Me

Jason had been recording music for years. Nikki had been singing for years. So

when they started dating (and eventually got married) it was natural that they

would record some songs together.

The first song on the album was recorded at Six Flags. It is Nikki singing Shania

Twain's "Any Man of Mine". The next two tracks were songs they recorded together,

Jason made the music while Nikki wrote and sang the lyrics. The fourth track was

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recorded for Nikki by Jason. This was the song that had new lyrics written by Nikki

and Jason and sung at church by Nikki. The fifth track was a slow instrumental

Jason had recorded that seemed to fit on this album. The last song on the album

was another song written by Jason for Nikki, this one for her birthday.

They have collaborated on a few others songs since this album was released. They

have plans on recording a lot more music together in the future.

Next week's Album of the Week: Underwater Problem Factoryby Mune Mud from

1992.

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It was December 17, 1996, when Isthmus' third album, New Mexico Igloo, wasreleased.

This was their official Christmas album. It was not warmly received and was almost

dropped from their catalog and forgotten. But for now it is still counted as one of

their releases.

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Project Spotlight #17: Who are Darrin and Jason?

Harry and Jason began their musical career by recording themselves singing ad-libbed lyrics to instrumental music playing on a radio. Darrin and Jason's musical

career went through a similar phase.

Darrin had been a friend of the Studio for many years. He and Jason wrote their

first song, "Fatty Fatty 2x4", in grade school. Darrin provided the lyrics and Jason

played the piano part.

But it wasn't until the fall of 1988 that Darrin and Jason rekindled the magic. They

would "cruise around town" and sing along with songs on the radio, making up their

own lyrics. It wasn't long before Jason started taking his tape recorder with him

when they cruised. They recorded a few sessions of these singing drives. In January

of 1989, Jason put together a tape called The Best of Darrin and Jasonwhich

included their favorite songs. The tape was never an "official" album release, just

something made for Darrin and Jason to hear. January 29, 1989, was the last time

they recorded a session this way.

Darrin also made appearances with other projects through the years. He was part

of a few Two-Tones recording sessions. He was the saxophone player for the

Traveling Deengelburys. And he recorded a few songs with Mune Mud (providing

lyrics and some drums). One of his songs with Mune Mud appeared on the 1994

Binary Pipedreamalbum.

Next week: What was the early period of keyboards?



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These files were recently discovered in a reorganization of the Studio's hard drives.

They have a date-stamp from 1994, possibly the oldest files on the Studio's

computers.

They have been transferred to the Digital Wing of the Metal XOR Studio Museum.


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Harry and Jason collaborated with their high school Spanish teacher (Mark S, also amember of the Traveling Deengelburys) in 1988 to perform some Christmas songs

for the students. The day was Wednesday, December 21, 1988.

Mark strummed an acoustic guitar and sang, Jason played the electric guitar, and

Harry manned the drum machine and synthesizer. They performed five songs that

day. This was a precursor to the Traveling Deengelbury show that took place a few

months later.


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Musician Profile #1: Jason W

This is a sneak peak of a new feature that will start early next year. It iscalled the Musician Profile. It will focus on people that have contributed in

one way or another to the music of Metal XOR Studio. This first entry will

discuss none other than Metal XOR Studio founder and CEO, Jason himself.

Name: Jason W

Projects involved with: all

Jason's music career began at the age of four with piano lessons. He continued

piano lessons into his mid-teens. Then he received a small Yamaha keyboard in the

fall of 1986. With that he filled a few tapes of cover songs and original songs.

Just prior to getting his keyboard, he and his cousin Harry were recording

themselves singing ad-libbed lyrics to instrumental songs off of the radio. This

lasted a couple of years and created more than a dozen tapes of the two singing.

In 1987 Jason also played keyboards for the garage band Pheonix. This eventually

led to him borrowing a friend's electric guitar and becoming the guitarist for theTwo-Tones. He also played guitar in a trio for a school Christmas program in 1988.

This led to the 50's & 60's band The Traveling Deengelburys. Jason played rhythm

guitar for their only show, a fund-raising dance at the high school in March of

1989.

There was a brief period where Jason experimented with layering his keyboard

sounds and adding vocals. This experimentation in 1990, along with a newly

acquired drum machine, led to the earliest Mune Mud recordings.

Even though the solo project Mune Mud is still around today it has spawned other

projects throughout the years that have come and gone. The second project Jason

created was NueroMorgue in 1993. The next was NueroMud in 1994.

In the early 90's he was a member of two other projects: The Spartans (with Harry

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and Brad) and The Duke Boys (just Jason and Harry).

By now there were two other major projects he was involved with. He was a

member of Isthmus, along with his cousins Harry and Jimmy. And in the late 90's

he and Jimmy had their own project called ORC .

In 1998 Jason met his future wife, Nikki. They recorded a few songs together and

released an album in 2001 called Love Songs. They also wrote a couple of songs

that Nikki sang at church. They have plans on writing and recording more music in

the future.

In 2003 Jason was the bass player in a group called Muffin Loaf. This was a group

of Jason's co-workers who got together to play a show after work on March 18,

2003.

He is also producing albums for the newest member of the Metal XOR family, Paige

W. Her first album came out in August of this year. She has already recorded a few

sessions for her second album due out next fall.

A few other projects that either didn't get out of the planning stages or had

limited success are X-Selsior, Binary Pipedream, Young Herbage, and Parvo.

Jason is a jack-of-all-instruments, master of none. To varying degrees he has

played the piano, keyboards, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, drums,

drum machines, recorder, violin, and attempted vocals. Most of the music in the

last year or so has been created in the computer, so he has experience with

various programs such as CakeWalk, Reason, and Audition.

Overall, Jason has created a lotof music in the last twenty years and plans on

creating much more in the next twenty.


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13. Go Disco!

14. Xavier's Goat

15. The Grasshopper Child

16. I'll Go Berserk

17. My Style

18. EnVenum Above

19. Rite of Diaboli

This was the follow-up to the popular 1991 album Olympus. Whereas Olympuswas

rather simple and straightforward, this album made heavy use of the new effects

processor the Studio had just bought and encorporated more recording techniques

than were previously used.

And now the Studio had a name: Quintessential Disco-Quest Tapes & Discs. This

was a theme that carried-over from the obsession of the 1970's and disco from the

Two-Tones and other projects. This would be the only release under that Studio

name.

The album cover was designed on a computer by Brad P. Brad also contributed a

little to the music of the time, mostly in the way of drum patterns. The scan below

shows some of the designing that went into the album cover.

The name of the album was a phrase used in a story written by a kid and published

in the "Kid's Corner" section of the newspaper. The full story of how the album was

titled can be read in this August 28, 2007 edition of the Collector's Corner

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feature.

The music was a bit harsher on this album than any other to da te. It showed the

new direction that the Studio was headed with musical style. It was after this

album that Mune Mud music was divided into a slower, pop style of music and the

heavier industrial sound, the latter becoming the NueroMorgue project. The main

influence at this time was a group called Mr. Bungle.

Inspiration for the songs came from an eclectic list of sources including Salvador

Dali, disco, Mr. Bungle, relationships, even a remake of a song from the unreleased

Mune Mud debut album.

Next Week's Album of the Week: Pryme Materialby Mune Mud from 1993.



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