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Still on that Slope

by Hello Spiral

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Rolliche 05:28
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Red Shoes 09:24
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about

Here I complete the second trilogy begun with There's a Shadow on You Lad and Illegal Energy.

The main sample in the still on that slope trio of tracks are from a video of an online acquaintance trying to 'roast' me. I immediately knew it would be good for sampling.
I proceeded to make a nearly 17min jam with just that one sample, which I divided into 3 parts for this album.
Thanks Val.

Lungs etc I made the night I got home (drunk) from Adam Bohman's art exhibition at Cafe oto in September of 2014.
There was also a noise performance where one of the performers was reading from scraps of medical textbooks which he dropped on the ground as he finished with them.
I collected them after the performance, went home and made this track with those scraps.

Rolliche is the result of me trying out an online autotune program. I was singing a song I made up on the spot about cooking sausages, while I was cooking sausages. This is the result of then processing the fuck out of it.

How The Sausage Is Made is an exercise in looping using a random youtube video's audio.
I decided to add drums about 6 years after I made the original track.
My favourite part is the guy's bird cheeping in the background.

Claire is my IG pal. A classical pianist who also happens to be a donk aficionado. She sends me many voice recordings and also has been on my case about putting some donks on my albums. So I have combined the two here.

The second half of track 7 features me and philip glowa (rip) aka salvatorin in conversation. More accurately telling each other to stfu.
I miss you man.

Red Shoes/Cracked Sky was the arbitrary name I gave this very long MAX/MSP jam when I made it a very very long time ago (probably around 2009).

For the purposes of this album I had the whole album sequenced in one daw and playing while I made select improvised overdubs in real time as it recorded into another daw in another laptop.

I very nearly scrambled my luxembourg man's voicemails about drugs as I was finding them kinda cringe (OMG DRUGS AMIRITE?) but I have since decided to leave them as is.

This album was finished in 2021.

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released March 29, 2023

Mastered by Ches

Art by Hello Spiral (me)

Art assistance (cleaning that shit up and making it proper) by Patpat

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