thee Electric Bastards -- The Brown Album

320 kbps high res mp3's plus art; credits; lyrics; attitude.
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My first (and only) 'studio album'...the record that spawned the band. I recruited a lot of my friends to play on it...which is why you will hear cellos, saxophones, clarinets, vibraphones and all sorts of other things that I can't play myself. I wanted to pretend it was a band even though it was more of a solo album...and if you pretend to be something for long enough sometimes it becomes reallity...

thee Electric Bastards -- Live! At Club Awesome

320 kbps high res mp3's plus DIY art vs. record label art; lyrics; self-aggrandizement.
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The 5 man band called 'thee Electric Bastards' records a reasonable facsimile of what we sounded like live...by recording it Live...at Club Awesome. Then we spent a long time thinking of a really clever name for it...

John Parker Northrup -- The Maine Album

192 kbps high res mp3's plus art; lyrics; 4 track hiss
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This is the result of 6 months of isolation in Maine with a 4-track. On the cusp of the new millenium, young Johnny lost his apartment, his girl and most of his friends and seeing himself without a future moved to his father's house in rural Maine to work and save for audio school. When his Dad wasn't making a man out of him by working him to the bone, all his spare time was spent in his Dad's cabinet shop with his four track, an acoustic guitar, a bass, a Boss Reverb/Delay and Boss Distortion pedal,a single sm 57, and whatever he could find around the shop to make sounds. This first full length lo-fi hackfest is the result. I'm very proud of it.

John Parker Northrup -- thee evil elvis ep

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More 4 track goodies this time recorded in my old apartment in Mission Hill circa early 2001. Same four track, now with an apartment and his girl back, getting ready to go to audio school and feeling a lot better about life. This is the album that launched my "career", as it fell into the hands of one fellow that would go on to give me about 2 grand of his father's money to record and manufacture, 'the Brown Album.' Another early fan was my pal Steve Brodsky who brought me into the fold via the Octave Museum, which led to Pet Genius which led diagonally to Clouds and the awesomely cool hip scenester that I am today. Fun fact: Steve also recorded 'Live! at Club Awesome' and was woahfully underpaid. Noboby's dad was available to foot the bill this time around.

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This is a video that appeared on Somerville Cable Access Television in 2006 (I think?) The first part is an actual rockumentary that was done by Dutch film maker Charlotte Goevert. Why she thought we'd be a good subject for a rockumentary, I have no idea. She was bass player Josh' room mate at the time and when she first told us about wanting to do it we were kind of dicks and pretty much just laughed at her. We felt suitably bad when we finally saw it and saw how professional and well done it actual was. Very well edited by Mike Hall, who on his website jokingly referred to feeling like he got to know us quite well do to going through some 10 hours of film of us in our (then) shitty practice space--poor bastard. The best part of it is Charlotte's rad accent, which makes the narration sound totally PBS. Plus, she always called us 'thee Electrical Bastards' which we thought was hilarious. So its about an hour, first you get the rockumentary, then an exceedingly awkward live performance in the SCAT studio--complete with camera operators in the shot and all the good stuff you want from a cable access show. If you've never had to record in a TV studio, have some sympathy for us...do you know how weird it is to try to put on a rock show with absolutely no one there but camera men? I tried to rock out a couple of times and you can immediately tell how dumb I felt..which just accents the overall uncomfortable feeling of it...which in retrospect is also pretty funny. Enjoy the video we came to refer to as "SCAT Bastards." (Also...really...SCAT? Your going to call your cable station SCAT? Maybe I'm immature..no definitely I'm immature...but that's unintentionally hilarious. "SCAT, huh? Must be really shitty TV!! Nyuck, Nyuck, Nyuck." Give 'er a minute to load up there, cowboy.
You can listen to more of what came out of the brain of the man who was once the boy that almost drowned in a fish tank here, and then here.

and if you'd like to be one of the last remaining humans in the civilized world to actually buy a Compact Disc, you can find dying medium versions of these albums here.



Pictured above is my long time associate and engineer, the eccentric Professor Destructo. Needless to say he's a huge Sparks fan.


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