Tape Archive V2: "Lovecraftian Song Cycle" (Lost Album) 1998, by DJ4AM

Tape Archive V2: "Lovecraftian Song Cycle" (Lost Album) 1998

by DJ4AM

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1.	Melt 07:07	buy track
2.	Brink Of Sanity 05:25	buy track
3.	Nightmare Soul 04:52	buy track
4.	Darkened Corridors 04:29	buy track
5.	Lake Of Hastur 07:06	buy track
6.	Wicked 05:04	buy track
7.	Despair 04:36	buy track
8.	Land Of Semi Translucent Shadows 06:46	buy track
9.	Scars 05:01	buy track
10.	Broken Men (incomplete) 01:27	buy track
11.	What Happened to Erich Zahn? (epilogue) 05:16	buy track

about

1998... I'm living in a tiny, dark apartment with high ceilings at the corner of Belmont and Echo in Fresno, California's Tower District... reading stories by and inspired by H.P. Lovecraft plus a fascinating book about the evolution of the modern idea of hell...

I get this idea to write a story inspired by Lovecraft about a musician that disappears after going into trancelike states while composing, having visions that grow darker and darker which in turn inspires the compositions to grow darker and more surreal. I'm pretty sure the working title was: The Strange Case of Jason P. Chavez.

The manuscript is lost due to moving from city to city in the early 2000s and the master discs for the MPC sessions as well.

I abandoned the idea and the project to work on the Octavius.4AM "Electric 3rd Rail" E.P.

Some of the tracks made their way to the Octavius project in different forms, some made their way to future solo projects in different evolved states, some just disappeared.

This approximation of the album was found on a cassette tape given to a friend 23 years ago...

The song sequence in this release was recorded directly from the MPC2000 to cassette tape in 1998 and given to a friend to check out as a work in progress demo. A week or so ago he messaged me saying he found some tapes I had given him in the 90s and brought them to me. I haven't heard some of these demo tracks in over 20 years. This is the closest thing to this lost album in existence. It's a trip to experience it again, it's dark, weird, I can only imagine what my friends were thinking when I played it for them, ha ha, here it is with plenty of tape hiss.

My obsession with the song I Want To Be Your Baby by Carla Thomas and The Flamingoes version of I Only Have Eyes For You are most definitely apparent.

The track Melt ended up as Love on my Love, Death... Puppies album. Brink of Sanity, Nightmare Soul and Wicked exist in different versions on my MPC beat tape and Darkened Corridors ended up as an evolved collaboration with Taron Barefield from The Sleepover Disaster on the Octavius.4AM Electric 3rd Rail E.P. in 2000.

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released February 18, 2021

DJ4AM:
MPC2000
Broke down Roland guitar delay pedal

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The Vampire On A Pony Network Fresno, California

JP Lovecraft / Jason Nevermind / DJ4AM cut his teeth doing radio, poetry jams and DJing dive bars in Fresno, California during the 90's before moving to the Bay Area in 2001. Since then he has performed in Europe as well as across the USA. DJ4AM is formerly a member of Octavius, S.F. indy band Black Fiction and is currently a member of Dopestyle 1231, Rich Mahogany and Opal Heights. ... more