| 1. 45,000 Milliseconds of Love | [00:45] |
| 2. Shamanistic Theta (Fall of the American Empire) | [06:00] |
| 3. (Interlude) defrag | [03:30] |
| 4. La Palabra | [05:05] |
| 5. (Interlude) chkdsk | [01:20] |
| 6. Licking Mister Whippy | [04:01] |
| 7. (Interlude) Read Error Occurred | [01:30] |
| 8. While My CPU Gently Weeps | [05:01] |
Pieced together fragments of tracks circa 2000 that were meant to be Snod's debut album It Takes A Nation of Indie Rockers to Hold Me Back. Some of these tracks are early mixdowns salvaged from various CD-Rs and ZIP drives, while others were actually able to be fully reconstructed from the original samples and project files.
The opening track 45,000 Milliseconds of Love was originally part of a 99-track compilation called 45 Seconds of: released in 2003 on Simball Records: "The tracks were chosen from over 500 submissions from over two dozen countries, of diverse styles, different generations, and of varying degrees of popularity. By giving all the tracks the same importance, “45 seconds of:” attempts to defeat the boundaries of sound, time, success, and nationalities."
Shamanistic Theta (Fall of the American Empire) was written about the USA's response to the 9-11 attacks and the sense that things would be changing for the worse. The backbone of the track is a live recording of a Shaman performing a monotonous 4hz beat, which was the basis of Snod's recently completed honor thesis on the effects of rhythmic drumming on brain waves. Meant to evoke a slow burn towards ash, the meaning behind the track is quaint to look back on now, but it is not lost on Snod how things look 25 years later.
La Palabra goes in a decidedly more "ambient" direction thanks to field recordings from a weekend trip to Tijuana. Religious megaphone chants from a corner street preacher are contrasted by the innocence of a poor girl busking for change and survival.
Licking Mister Whippy is a whimsical take on a very famous movie from a very famous group of British musicians.
While My CPU Gently Weeps is a tribute to George Harrison who had recently passed in 2001. At the time, Snod's CPU was struggling under the weight of various VSTs and plugins, and the fans would whirr in pain as they tried to cope. After all, why can't digital chips weep in the same way that traditional analog musical instruments can?
Various guitar and vocal-based interludes sprinkled throughout document the inevitable death of the original album: disk defragmentation, followed by hopeful recovery tools, finally culminating in an irrecoverable disk failure. Not unlike life itself!
Jordan Snodgrass is a San Diego native, Imputor? Records co-founder, one half of IDM supergroup (LOL!) Calculator Man & Hangar, former Rocket From The Crypt Web Lackey, and graduate of UCSD with a degree in cognitive science and specialization in computation. Rather than spending those 4 years getting toasted and mastering hacky sack, he spent them researching the effects of monotonous drum beats on brainwaves.
Crumbs from his mid-aughts noodlings can be found scattered across the web: Remix work for San Diego's Tristeza ("Mixed Signals"), Via Satellite ("Cliff"), and Ilya ("Isola"), as well as a compilation appearance ("45 Seconds of:") alongside artists such as Lusine, DJ Spooky, Leafcutter John, Dntel, Electric Company, + a ton more. He has performed live shows with: The Album Leaf, Dntel, Hrvatski, Greg Davis, Fax, Thingy, The Spacewurm, Languis, IQU, Ursula 1000, FCS North, Randomnumber, + more.
A fried hard drive in 2001 derailed his music career, his debut album "It Takes A Nation of Inidie Rockers to Hold Me Back" lost to the unforgiving digital gods.
20 years later he returned with his second debut album: "Styloid Process EP," quickly followed by the "Growlbient" LP and the "Music For 1 Musician" EP.
