Journal entry exerpt:
"It was envisioned as an ongoing experiment, based on an aesthetic for mutant pop sound. In 2003 I was coming from a background of lo-fi electronic music from the previous 8 years. It was all 8-bit atari, dos trackers, circuit bent kids toys and crap digital drum machines, and analog whatever. In 2001, I scored an old quadra 900 mac and a fourtrack protools setup, it was then that I started to meld the electronics with the folk-punk music I had been playing with friends on porches for years. I never wrote anything down back then. I tried to rely on my mind to remember songs. My brain is like a bad hard disk, it has bad sectors and data got corrupt. I started to do more and more improv in front of the mic when I couldn't remeber the verse. How did the chords go? Just play. It was a one man band at first. Badsector emerged out of this as a project band idea that was concived to be an outlet for these funky short improvized songs. I moved into a warehouse in 2003 with Willis Ransom. We used to exersize with a pop song a day. We would sit on drums or keys, or guitar, maybe accordian and always a computer, and find the groove and a turnaround that realy hit. Success would be hitting that perfect hook that really played how you were feeling. Music was our kinetic language. Getting that sound was the key to open the brain. Out come the lyrics. Off the top of my head. Or more like the bottom of my stomach. Almost everyday it's another 1 minute or 30 second anthem song. Soon there were cassettes and mini-disks full of this stuff. We would bomb around the neighborhood on bikes, blasting this shit on the tunebumper. A ride to the store, get some snacks, then it's back to the madness of our squatted warehouse. We just quit payin' the rent. This was our dream theater now. The 2nd and VanBuren "electrolux" empire! Slow days in eugene, you only breath art. Your wealth is your endless freedom of simple, fun expression. This is carefree, This is where you can simply deal with it all. Eventually this started to build momentum and became what it is today. A band on a stage, a band with differnt members, and different memories and stories. A song lasts as long as it needs to.
We live in the electro generations, we lead life simply and work with what simplicity affords. To make the most out of the least, is an essance of our folk life.
We are the electrofolk. "
-K Nelson Dec, 2005
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