from "Weed Gets U High" (released 2012 on bandcamp)

by late 2011 i already had some tracks i was starting to organize into a new album. i was showing some stuff to jay and my friend koda and they ended up sending me faux album art for my next album which they named "Weed Gets U High". i was 17 and had never smoked weed in my life. i immediately started shaping up my first concept album. at this point i was getting really active online for the first time and meeting people through tumblr and mutual friends. when the album was done i got 17 friends to make art for each of the songs, a lot of whom are people im still close pals with today, and a lot who i don't talk to anymore. the accidental hype cycle of getting so many people involved first hand made it my most downloaded album ever. the clickbait stupid name/art helped too. it was also my most adventurous music to date. i was starting to get a handle on garageband and was using every trick in my book. i was playing with weird time signatures for the first time since i was obsessed with venetian snares.

this was one of the first tracks i made for the album. it started as an experiment in making a polyrhythm (the drum break is in 7/4 , the piano is in 3/4 , and there's a steady 4/4 kick under them) then i added some samples of a transmission from a lost spacecraft and a skype call with my then-partner. i wish i rerecorded that piano on my actual piano instead of using midi but them's the amateur breakz.