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The first album I ever owned was a copy of Raffi’s album, Baby Beluga, and I used to listen to that on repeat on a Panasonic RX-D15 CD Boombox in my bedroom a lot when I was really young. I remember the disc got scratched up eventually and it would start skipping around a lot. I think my CD boombox, along with its silly glitches and scratched up disks, served as a seed that germinated into a lot of the sounds I put together now.
The last album I listened to was All Bad Things Have Ended – Your Lunch Included by Vegyn, and I adore it so much. It’s lovely to see the progression in his work over the years, but at the same time this project is such a statement in itself. First time I listened to it was in my senior year of high school and it aligned with a lot of the disconnect I felt from those around me at the time, as this was years before I had found myself as a person.
The album (Who’s Afraid Of) The Art Of Noise? by The Art Of Noise is absolutely mind-bogglingly silly and always puts a big grin on my face. It’s such a beautiful exploration of samplers and scratches so many little creases in my brain that are often left untouched, despite it being originally released almost 40 years ago now. My dad showed me it in high school on a day that I was home sick. I was experiencing a mind-melting fever dream and decided to put on some headphones and listen to the album, only to be bewildered by it. It was like nothing I had ever heard before at the time.
At first I was a bit stumped by this question, but I think it would be really funny to do a RUBY version of Kid’s Bop 6 (US, 2004). I would want to make something really hauntingly comedic with it, something like a music version of a found footage horror movie. I don’t think I would necessarily produce it from scratch and more so treat it as a step further than a remix album; a transmogrification of what it was like to listen to that album late after my family had gone to bed on my previously mentioned CD player. I remember thinking I saw my stuffed animals move, and would stare at them for long periods of time waiting for them to move again, while Kid’s Bop 6 played in the background. That very childlike fear of nothing yet everything in their wildest dreams is something I try to capture a lot in my own work.
Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada, is an album that shook my entire world up, and continues to do so to this day. It’s not exactly something I can even really explain through words. All I can really say is that this album was the catalyst in my life for really understanding the purpose of music and its deep connection to the self, beyond the rationally explicable.
Toxicity by System Of A Down is something of a guilty pleasure for me. It harkens back to my years of drumming, and often leaves me with a sore neck and ringing ears. I think a lot of the themes in it resonate with me and the frustrations I have with the world, especially right now. But we also have music, and that’s nice.
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