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Speaking of... an example of the truest form of HONEST emotion-based music. Most of these songs were created while lying on the floor experimenting with samplers, different live instruments, synths and drum machines. We attempt to capture passion at its truest moment: the moment that it actually occures. The recordings are simply documentation. Most of these songs are products of boredom, stress, or odd points of inspiration. Please enjoy and be open minded, these unorthodox songs and perfomance styles(s) are like therapy for us (and hopefully you?).
Willie W and Benji P, 2 members of the hip hop crew Master Piece Collective (MPC), have too much time on their hands and love alternate forms of expression (side projects ahoy!) This started as just messing around and became more serious as we grew progressively more poor and deaf (and lackluster...AND amazing!).We are not a traditional "band" in that we have several members performing different musical tasks, its just a few of us struggling to keep that band aesthetic while staying true to the experimental compositional roots of this project. These Lo-fi sounds are contrived an carefully crafted, we do whatever we can to preserve analog ideals, while embracing digital means at the same time.

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Member Since: 08/06/2005
Band Website: http://www.purevolume.com/speakingof
Band Members: Benji P/Willie W/Donnie M/Trisha B/Dr. Sample
Influences: Broken social scene, Why?, cap'n jazz, American football, Neutral milk hotel, Fog, Rainer Maria, The Sea and Cake, Kevin Shields, Madlib, Pavement, Braid, Stan Getz, Joao/Astrud Gilberto, The Velvet Underground, Pinback, Joan of Arc, Her Space Holiday, Manitoba, Silver Jews, The Notwist, Sebadoh, Dinosaur jr., Belle & Sebastian, Animal Collective, Tortoise, Brian Eno, Elliot Smith, Yo La Tengo, Reaching Quiet, Dosh, cLOUDDEAD, The Smiths, Emo Summer, Mono, Stereolab, Really nice eyeballs, Open windows, The illustrations on the new releases of the Wes Anderson films, ...Early French New-Wave Cinema =)
Sounds Like: You know you have that drawer in your room that you end up just throwing a bunch of the stuff thats worth saving in to, like maybe old pictures or letters or perhaps a mix tape you like to drive to, and when people come over you dont really like them looking through it cause it makes you feel all uncomfortable...yeah like that.
Record Label: nobody =(

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BOY!?!?!?! and girls have teeth in their throats....

Thank you to evryone who came out to one of firstest shows on the 24th of July at Austins for the mumpsy Cd release show. Evryone's presence was immensely appreciated, aswell as the feedback. We wil...
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