Installment Three: Signals From the Bottomless Pit

by Scatter-Shot Theory

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1.	Hot Mo 2000 (Introduction) 02:15	lyrics	buy track
Lyrics: "They flew through space like a dream come true." "Uh-eh-ah-eh-oh...etc." "Sure enough you have fallen down the bottomless pit."
2.	Desert Scene Part 2 06:28	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "Eee-yah" "Earth people" (repeat)
3.	Tildae Vint 03:34	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "And he will not come again, and now he is dead, go to a death bed, he never will come again, his beard as white as snow."
4.	Take This Brother 00:53	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "Take this brother, may it serve you well."
5.	Dusk Mouse 04:23	info	buy track
6.	Puppet Named Sir 03:53	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "This year I am going to have a puppet named Sir. Some of you have met Sir, and some of you haven't. Last year I had the Cookie Monster and I had him, I think, two years. The show will start with some couple of jokes. Sir, how about starting with some T. V jokes? Okay, okay. I'll do a cowboy western TV show joke: You've got 'till ten PM Eastern Standard, Stan-, stan-" "Okay."
7.	Graveyard (Down Gravel Pits Part 2) 06:42	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "The graveyaaaaeee-urp!" "Soul ut ut ut" (repeat) "Eeyah no say, eeyah nooooo say." "Erashhhhuhhhuhg" "THe graveyard at night has driven many a poor soul to utter madness."
8.	No Right Move 00:55	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "Ya know, it used to scare me so much, when I didn't know what was coming in my life. Ya know like I would always think, uh, what if I make the wrong move? But maybe there isn't any right move. I mean look at us: we all dress the same, we all talk the same, we all fuck the same, we all watch the same TV, nobody is different. Even if they think they're different: 'oh boy, look at my tattoo' you know? And see, that's what makes me free, 'cause I an do anything I want as long as I don't care about the result. Anything is possible. It is night, on planet earth, and I'm alive".
9.	Meatbox 04:02	info	buy track
10.	Lubricious Thoughts 03:06	info	buy track
11.	Hot Mo 2000 (Body) 02:55	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "Sure enough, you have fallen down the bottomless pit."
12.	Can't Hear Anymore 00:37	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "I can't hear anymore." (repeat)
13.	The Great Actor 06:19	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "How could you do evil? The Devil makes believe, that's how one recognizes him, he is the Great Actor. That's why the church has inanimatized actors. Let me tell you about the Devil as a California player." "Huh huh huh" (repeat) "It was the night the man had heard of." "Yeah yeah yeah... rhythmical." (repeat) "The spirit that I have seen may be of the Devil, and the Devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape yea, and perhaps out of my weakness an my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me."
14.	A Pleasant Day at the Beach 05:10	info	buy track
15.	X-Ray Ted 04:37	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: ""Anyone there?" And a voice from somewhere else said, "anyone here, at the ready." "Please identify this collection of localized light pulses, at the ready." "Name: X-Ray Ted. X-Ray, a program for the letter X. X. refers to name of creature's planet. Blah, blah, blah. Creature is boy-being, presently in fledgling proto-star state, has possibility to extend to population One Star, according to luminosity scan, at the ready."" "Here (hear?)."
16.	Malaria 03:33	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: "Hung Hezakiah as high as a pigeon." (repeat) "Ugh." "Eyanosay."
17.	Puppet Named Sir Aftermath 01:55	info	buy track
18.	Buffer's Pipe 06:31	lyrics	buy track
lyrics: see "The Great Actor" "I'll have grounds." (This song is about a coffee addiction.) "Rhythmical." (repeat) "Went into you locker and I smashed your ruoy dehsams I dna rekcol ruoy otni tnew."
19.	Pre-Raphaelite Mystery 02:59	info	buy track
20.	Hot Mo 2000 (Conclusion) 02:24	info	buy track

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All songs by Damian C. Cohn and Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen: sampler, kitchen ware
Damian C. Cohn: sampler, saxophone, plastic recorder

The sampler is the bottomless pit of all musical instruments.

All songs recorded live, without the aid of sequencers, from 8-97 to 7-98 at:

111 Mina St. Gallery, San Francisco
KRCB Radio, Kosmic Navigation,Rohnert Park
the Petaluma Radiophonic Workshop, Petaluma
Cafe DuNord, San Francisco
Paradise Lounge, San Francisco
Velcro Tones at Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco
and
Brain Wash, San Francisco

Scatter-Shot Theory thanks:

Chris Lewis, Rebecca Cosboom, Eiming, The Wick, Kate Winslet, Tony Cohn, Tom AWaits, Bob Cragg, J-Bone, E-Dog, A-bone, Ern-Dog, Undertoad, Sweet Trip, Halou, Army of Ants, Hardest Emcee, Swaga, 2 Live Crew, Jason Lindell, Disflex6, Spa, Benji Illgen, Shoam, SOMA3A, A.R.M. Crew, Devils Juice Productions, Due Beat Productions, Kranky, Idiom Creek, Destruct-o-clock, Amy's Vegetarian Cuisine, Weakest Emcee, Jeloe 1, David Molina, Liam, the Rosen Family, Mary and Dan Cohn, Housest Emcee, Rhino Rape, Arjan Macnamara, Oliver Twist, Joseph Shorpkenoff, Zafaroo Boolagoo, U.S. Mayle, The Hostess with the Mostest, Isolation Experiment and... The Petaluma Radiophonic Workshop staff.

if you like this shit check out this other shit:

www.burningtokenrecords.com
www.burningtoken.com/derailed/
www.youtube.com/derailedfreighttrain
derailedfreighttrain.bandcamp.com
burningtoken.com/overturned
www.samplistic.com/LiveSamplistic/albums/ICalbums.html
www.myspace.com/mrdarkkeys
overturnedbigrig.bandcamp.com
bigrigbeats.bandcamp.com
djotbr.bandcamp.com
jesseanddamianmusic.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/seawaste
www.youtube.com/PicklesAndShizanu
seawaste.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/overturnedbigrig
www.youtube.com/burningtoken
thekranky.bandcamp.com
salt.bandcamp.com
armyofants.bandcamp.com

credits

released July 1, 1998

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Scatter-Shot Theory California

scatter-shot theory was/is a sample improv group from back-in-the-day that improvised their compositions primarily on Ensoniq ASR-10 keyboard samplers. members included/include the volcanic michael s. rosen (AKA Idiom Creak), the explosive Damian C. Cohn (AKA overturned big rig and derailed freight train) and the untrespassable Chris Topher Lewis (AKA Mr. Dark Keys). ... more