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Accoordinating to Plan (EP)

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1.
This is supposed to serve as a short intro, but it wasn't gonna be the original intro. The original name for it was "Circumarrival", but the new song is based on the song "Theme From Impostered Window" from the would-have-been album "Impostered Window". It samples the sound "Slow Down", a formerly unidentified sound as detected by the USA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) using its Equatorial Pacific Ocean autonomous hydrophone array. I don't know why I use the old album name.
2.
This is an IDM track that was influenced by the track "Donkey Rhubarb" by Aphex Twin. The main theme was inspired by "Elfenlied" by Hugo Wolf, after my weeaboo friend told me to watch the anime, but apparently it also sounds like the fifth movement to the "Suite for Toy Piano" by John Cage. The name doesn't mean anything; both words just have the same last three letters.
3.
This is a title that appeared on the original prototype track listing, but is an earlier song that I decided to include here. It was written to celebrate my hometown's 50th anniversary, but I knew that I wouldn't finish it by that time. It was written for an orchestra. The melodies were inspired by a YouTube video of a trucker's commentary as he passes by Bolingbrook on the highway.
4.
Magna Pinna 02:33
This ends the way it was gonna begin. It was gonna be an ambient piece but I put a noise intro in front of it. And now it's unfinished. It samples "Words Like Arsenic (Thine Eyes Befall the Celestial Carnival)" by Nuclear Bubble Wrap. This is probably the first and only time that any song by this band will be sampled. It might not even qualify as ambient. I don't know if I've made ambient stuff before but maybe I want to. The name is a portmanteau pun on the Magna Carta and the song "Magnapinna Squid" by Michael Hearst, referring to the genus of the bigfin squid.
5.
Diaphlegm 01:48
This is an acid banger hit that was influenced by the track "Bradley's Beat (Part 1)" by Bradley Strider, one of Aphex Twin's pseudonyms. It features some jazzy 12-bar blues chord progression thing at the end.
6.
This is a combination of Aphex Twin's piano pieces from "Drukqs" and Venetian Snares' use of oddball time signatures. It samples a video I found on YouTube about the Fountaindale Library in Bolingbrook.
7.
This is a Pogo-style remix of the film by director / animator Don Hertzfeldt, most well-known for his Academy Award-winning 2000 short film "Rejected". He actually had not heard of the idea of remixing movies until I asked him about it on his Reddit AMA and he actually rejected the idea of it. It features a special thanks section at the end as a reference to the "Respect List" from Aphex Twin's "Ventrolin (Crowsmengus Mix)".

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What happens when a punk rocker wannabe / classical composer amateur wants to make his own electronic beats? They end up more complex than some random club mixes from any old house producer. It's based on an unfinished project called "Handheld Port" where I was gonna make an Aphex Twin-style album with beat samples made from found objects, sound effects, toy instruments, and YouTube videos. But then I just recreated / improved them in Ableton Live 9. It's like a mixtape because some tracks aren't from the original prototype track listing or even in the same genre. It's assembled to be Bandcamp-friendly, as in a thing I would actually wanna release, since I have yet to make a real album. All songs created between 2013 and 2015. Cover art was created using Winning Solitaire Simulator.

A lot of people from Bolingbrook don't say they're from Bolingbrook on their Bandcamp and SoundCloud accounts. (By the way, follow me on SoundCloud. Link is on the side.) Instead they say they're from Chicago, which only makes them harder to find. Bolingbrook is a paradox in that it's been voted one of the best places in the US to live in but the people who live here think it's ghetto. Its high school is known for its diversity (we have like over 4000 students cause we're the only high school in Bolingbrook) and its auditorium. I am proud to be from Bolingbrook cause I want to be to here what Kurt Cobain was to his town of Aberdeen, Washington and be the most famous guy from here. Aberdeen has more famous people from there but a lower population. We are definitely not a small town.

Track 1 was created with Ableton Live 9 and Audacity. Tracks 2 and 5 were created with Ableton Live 9. Tracks 3 and 6 were created with Noteflight and YouTube. Track 4 was created with Audacity. Track 7 was created with Audacity and Netflix.

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released September 12, 2015

Invisible Hippo (Derrick McMillon) - bangin' beats and funky fresh flow
Microsoft Paint c/o Winning Solitaire Simulator - provider of image

Vanity That Indie Records
VTI 004

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Derrick McMillon Joliet, Illinois

The background image is "Wheat Ear" by Salvador Dalí, 1932. The order of the releases are neither chronological nor alphabetical, but rather relative best to relative worst.

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