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VENT ONE: LOOKING DOWN INTO THE VALLEY OF THORNS
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The reason this album is named this is because it was supposed to be part one of a set of three albums.  There are masses of poetry and ideas that have developed into their own beings in my head.  One of which is the idea that the world I live in is a river of piss.  The first record was going to be kind of a setting up of sorts, like a vulture circling over it's prey.  looking down into the valley of thorns, without mentioning a barely visable river of piss from the vantage point the album is written in.  such as, i see the valley of thorns, all the pain and suffering to go through.  such as, when you're up above it, you can find yourself down in the mix of pain and suffering of life and you COULD always push through and end up in a river of pure piss where you get pulled to the bottom and die.  From bad to worse. 

The second album I was going to name THE VALLEY OF THORNS and have it detail more of the pain and suffering in my life and in my head, in as abstract a way as i could come up with.  The third album was naturally going to be called The River of Piss.  Enough of this side of things.

What actually ended up happening with this first album, though, is it was a very basic experimentation with sound.  Backlash and a few others were done entirely in Sound Forge.  I didn't like creating music in that type of digital atmosphere so I found Fruity Loops.  I used Sound Forge and Fruity Loops for all of this album.  There are some elongated sounds behind tracks on this record that came out of a program called Coagula.  It's fucking amazing, I love the program.  I found it on accident while looking for something to replace Sound Forge.

One of the sounds used on this record was sampled with a piece of shit stick, factory, piece of hell microphone.  It is a cat we were babysitting that would cry and cry and cry.  So naturally I had to sample it as best I could and use it in a track.  It sounded pretty cool.  I'll leave the track it was used in to mystery.  There were also various other little samples from that day that made their way in.