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These folders contain the complete collection of 369 original songs and recordings I covered during the project, in the same order. Again, they are presented as one giant 369-track album.Its the...
So here, in CD-length folders, are all of the tracks created for 39-40.If youve followed the project, I recommend that you delete all the files youve collected so far and download these instead....
This is it. Last post, last song.Ive long planned to reward myself, if I got through this whole thing, with a performance of one of my own compositions as the swan song for 39-40. Prior to the past...
This was really supposed to be a tribute to Gen, whos tolerated so, so much for the duration of this project. But its Mirandas birthday, and were dealing with the ever-charming headlice...
...and with the clang and chime of what must be the most massive wall of guitar Ive ever posted here, the Skates & Rays recreation of The Churchs Remote Luxury album is complete.When I started...
Nothing, indeed, can stop us now. I downloaded this Skype thing and Ken appeared to me like a vision, and there followed a few moments of myself fumbling to link up components of the Grand...
Marty Willson-Pipers "Volumes" has a lot of chords in it for the country treatment, but after toying with a lot of differnent ideas about how to approach this one, thats where I went.Personnel:Rex...
Brian Huddell, under numerous musical guises, has contributed standout track to a number of project Ive spearheaded, so thank god hes here to save my ass again. He was also certified as some kind...
As you can see above, I have discovered as yet another edition of Foxbase Alpha, and it pretty much defies description. Please enjoy this image of the limited edition "Subbuteo Box" of our favorite...
The work of Maurice Rickard has appeared on 39-40 before, when his immortal work "Red Fiber" was heavily incorporated into my ever-popular cover of "Free Bird", and Ive borrowed technique and...
A song from one of my very favorite albums of all time, rendered as a complete toss-off. As its becoming clear that not every track by every contributor slated for Foxbase Gamma will be ready on...
Part two of the continuous finale of the Remote Luxury project. Again, meant to be listened to along with and immediately after "Shadow Cabinet" with no between-tracks break.I had the greatest plan...
Yeah, Im doing a lot of things for the last time, and it seems like there would have to be one last massively Fall-centric cover before 39-40 shuts down. Most of the backing track for this cover is...
Edward of Sim appears, on loan from Linus, to instantly demonstrate that as many different approaches as Ive tried out on covers over the past year, I havent come anywhere near hitting on them all....
Im feeling pretty lousy today, congested and sort of feverish, so I might be delusional, but I think this one may be my favorite recording from the duration of the 39-40 project. Im very glad I...
Im really not pleased with the way my output is sounding these days. Despite all my best efforts, its just murky all the time. I have a few more shots to get it right, but at this point Im sort of...
This recording really blew me away, and I have pretty high expectations for Dolph Chaney recordings. This thing starts out pitch-perfect, perhaps even smokier than the original, gets better with...
Maybe this is odd and maybe its not, but when I first came up with the idea of doing the Remote Luxury full-album cover project, "Constant in Opal" was one of the first songs I thought I could...
Hey, remember back when I did "Hotel Womb" and said it would be good as one of those little between-songs fragments on an old Church record? Well, guess what! Here I got to use it exactly that,...
Its Robyn Hitchcocks 58th birthday. I asked the Hitchcock online community, such as it is, which song I should cover to mark the occasion. The first song suggested, this one, was the correct...
Completely Unplanned Country & Western Week continues here at 39-40. Cut at the same time as "Loving Cup", with almost the exact same backstory including the feature of another fine Derek Hanna...
And heres the final mix in the Thunderhill sub-project! Which only means that the sequencing and fine-tuning of the Thunderhill compilation, due out in Summer 2011, can begin in earnest, but at...
And heres the "bonus track" for the Saint Etienne tribute album, a song not from Foxbase Alpha but from the bands subsequent album So Tough. Trivia, So Tough is one of at least two Saint Etienne...
This is not only the first time Ive featured a lead vocal by Skates & Rays drummer Derek Hanna on 39-40, its the first time hes gotten a lead vocal on an "officially released" Skates & Rays...
Charlie Eckstrom has appeared on 39-40 in the form of an information-ghost, most notably on this track which was constructed out of a very old demo tape of a song he had written, and this one which...
People, Im really tired, and really burnt out, and sort of struggling to stay just two days behind on the blog right now, and it comes down to this: gremlins. Theres no other explanation. No matter...
So I find myself three days behind... this kind of thing would never have happened in the early days... but I develop this great plan for how Im going to bash out three songs today without any of...
And here we have a rendition of the opening sound collage of Foxbase Alpha, reconfigured into a similarly-structured sound collage by the enigmatic Monkey Typing Pool, whom you may recall have...
I guess Im becoming a one-man clearing house for Foxbase Alpha tribute art. And Im far from done.This is the first big vocal piece from the album to be covered, and once again it started in one...
Jeremy Osner provides the first of what I hope will be a bunch of guest covers of tracks from Saint Etiennes Foxbase Alpha (and if not, Im gonna be slightly screwed). Amazingly this cover,...
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