Hi there!

Have you been well? I do hope so. I wanted to share something with you. One night in May 2005, Jim Spears and I got together to jam. This particular night was most definitely a strange drive. So in keeping with this theme, we adopted the bandname "My Slick Car". This recording is part of what we captured on said evening. This is nothing more than a record of 2 people getting together to improv some psychedelic music and record the result. What you'll hear in the beginning is us writing and building a basic framework and iterations thereof. You'll hear lots of 808. Things start to move at about the 4:30 mark so ffwd if you find the first few minutes to be a boar (a hairy wild pig). You'll know the mark because the synth line becomes very warm, followed by a rapid gel.

Tech details: Roland MV-8000, DSI Evolver, Frostwave Sonic Alienator, Korg Electribes A and R mkII, Yamaha Motif ES6, Moog Micromoog, Alesis ModFX, Boss DR-202 all recorded live 2 track style into Protools. The file is a 192K mp3, clocks in at about 00:26:49 duration and 37MB girth.

Hop in and let's go for a drive through our minds' ghetto with My Slick Car.

-Frederick John James Noel II
-co-driver for My Slick Car
Consumer Electronics

or "Old School Beats - Electro-Trash - Mash-Up - Ghetto Funk - Weird Shit"

Weirder than a can of mutating worms, more potent than an entire city block worth of stank, this set blurs the line between absurdity and danceability. This first offering by Johan Ess will give you something to move to or laugh to, whichever comes first.

Both robots and humans are welcome to join this spazzed out techno party! Many of the tracks come from different eras and scenes, but they are unified in their funkyness. Step into your hypercube and enjoy.

Stream It: [ dial-up ] [ broadband ]

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01. Furacao 2000 - Mengao 2000 Part 1
02. Punk Bunny - Pink Sock
03. AFX - Where's Your Girlfriend?
04. Jonzun Crew - Space Is The Place
05. Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom
06. Reggie Griffin & Technofunk - Mirda Rock
07. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster
08. Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away (Kid 606 Going Back To Bali Remix)
09. Adult. - Nightlife
10. DJ Pantshead - The Good, The Bad, and The Freak
11. B52's vs Snoop Dogg - Rock It Like It's Lobster
12. Art of Noise - Moments In Love

Drone Operator, who's primarily hardware based production style, is breathing new life into an otherwise vapid sound scape. His dark and moody electro-breaks style is counterpointed by the haunting melodies that only his twisted brain could concieve. His signature sound was developed working tirelessly for many a moon, inside a studio that even the most die-hard laptoperator would be jealous of. Step into the Crab Nebula, and knock some dust off that pussy with this seminal dance-floor killer.

Mr. Antonym, who up until recently performed under his nom de naissance Ian Monroe, has released two promo tracks in support of his upcoming album out on http://www.ce-mu.net/. The album has been shipped off for mastering, and details of it's release will be forth coming. Clauneck is actually a rebirth of the seminal 'belial' track that appeared on the ezRPM Florida Music Festival compilation. The final vesion sees the sound fleshed out with a kind of warmth that is difficult to produce using digital production methods, but Mr. A accomplishes it with the same time of a plumb that rewards the listeners of his live shows.

Mr. Antonym, who up until recently performed as Ian Monroe, has released two promo tracks in support of his upcoming album out on http://www.ce-mu.net/. The album has been shipped off for mastering, and details of it's release will be forth coming.

Kyoski, like Clauneck, is a rebirth of one of his earlier tracks - 'a little techhop ditty'. It originally appeared on the ezRPM Florida Music Festival compilation. This new vesion rounds out the original with a richer sound and the inclusion of vocal snippets that haunt the beats with an ethereal specter that only Mr. A can conjur. Enjoy.

"Nothing can prepare you for his application of shamanistic sound, those calked beats and rhythm clusters, that catechistic technical polish that brings beaming luster to screen-frozen darkness. Church of the Ghetto P.C. is a stunning and convulsive ripple of deep-membrane funk and syntactical synth notes. It's not old school, it's old testament, not high-tech, but high priest. It's as important as the fucking Bible. Cracking the egg code on total beat typography, o9 has written the first hard-driven masterpiece of this new dead-end, face-to-the-terminal century."

-- Lee Henderson

dope and rhythmic - this track shuffles along like a glitch-hop beat lost somewhere in thomas fehlmann's studio. get the 8.4mb treat here.

taken from the unofficial o9 resource page at hyperreal: "Originally this ep was intended to have been a full-length album of the same name, featuring 12-13 songs including the four above. In its truncated ep form, it was available exclusively as an .mp3 download from the Nophi Records web page during 2000 and the first half of 2001, but was taken down. The .mp3s have reappeared on the Nophi Records web page as of October 2002, but have been taken down for good this time. A commercially available cdr and vinyl issuance were planned for the ep version, but ended up being scrapped as well."

No longer available on Nophi, the label that released it originally. However, you get the entire thing from us. All 104mb of it's glory.

A collection of tracks made by ezRPM regulars and friends.
The compilation was selected and mixed by xenlab.
The cover art is by R_Garcia.

Press:

i was just listening to the fmf compilation cd on the way home, and there is a huge tracklist error. ... im not exactly sure where the problem started out, but, i also know that xenlabs songs is a track later than listed. anyways, i was screaming all the way home. how many of these were made?
-surachai-

helllllooooo people, are we forgetting one of the cardinal rules of idm? Confuse and repel the listener. I think the numbering and mastering on the ezrpm cd is ingenious. I have never seen these idm tactics taken so far, and I think it is a testament to the fertility of the Orlando scene that we are helping to "Push" boundries and further the genre.

---Cuug

......get it......push......hahahahaha....like push night......get it?

Evocative, but not in the traditional sense. The Deep Element combines a raw energy that thrashes it's way thru each 4 count with a dogged intensity. While the melodies, that snake their way thru the valleys his devestating saw waves leave behind, counter the harshness of the other sounds with a gentle juxtapostion. Like a small river feeding into larger tributaries, his sound pulses with life - but with the  peace  of a flooding canyon. The onslaught of crunchy drill'n'bass occurs without apolgy, leaving a path of fractured beauty in it's wake. Perhaps, I mean evocative, after all.