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I created with some friends of mine back around 2000 while living at the Brooklynhaus with Johnny Mayday. This was the house with the kinda-creepy-but-ultimately-cool secret room in the back of the house. There was a room at this place that you could only get to through either John’s room or the bathroom. We decided to block off the entrance to the room from John’s room and replace the door in the bathroom with a cabinet on the hinge for the now-removed door. This, in essance, was a secret door into this back room.

The floor in this room was hardwood and totally slanted. I’d be surprised if it still stood. As we had people constantly coming and going through this house, we thought it’d be a good idea to move all of the computer and music equipment back into this secret room, and away from the not-very-big living quarters. Unfortunately, this meant the main interface for playing music was remote from the main living area, requiring us to wire the house. This was the year 2000, so wireless wasn’t available. Fortunately, the previous tenants must have had a similar idea, as we found many small pre-drilled holes around the baseboards, enabling a network of rgb cables underneath the house, maintained in the basement. This fully wired the house so we could stream from our wired computers in the back room, however it meant constantly juggling different mixers and stereo configurations, which really drove Mayday Crazy. I remember one of my favorite poems of his was almost a haiku left on my computer screen one night after a big drinking fest:

Tonight I had a small victory — I stumbled home redfaced drunk and was able to figure out the stereo and listen to that beautiful song in the VW commercial over and over.

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This track was recorded in that little room with Esto and Mad_01.