More About This Album:

Wow, what can I say about this album?... My first attempt to explicate my connection to My God. Many ppl thought I was Christian based on this album, but absolutely not... Have been meaning (for quite some time) to write up the whole thing; the whole interconnected mess, but haven't had a ton of luck til this year. Having a muse helps... It'll be ready soon; before the end of this year, I hope...

In the meantime, there's this album... I'm so preternaturally / supernaturally happy with this album. It couldn't've turned out better.

All beats created by me. All lyrics written by me (except for "Deutschrock!" which Meesh did.) All rapping recorded by me. All sound effects sequenced by me. All skratches by me. Artwork by me. Or, all done through me by My God, I should say.

"Dreamscape" features a girl named Ema I met at Java Joe's in Rochester sometime late 2002 / early 2003.  "A Mother's Curse" features Annie Rosen.

So, I need to explain to you how I made these beats cause it was so dope... So, I had bought this radio / tape player at a garage sale cause it could record the radio onto audio tape internally. I remember the dude who was running the garage sale was aware of this fact and knew how it enhanced the value of the radio. So, it wasn't a crazy price but he didn't just give it to me for nothing either. So, at the time that I was making this album (2000 - 2002) my friends (especially Eso + Mic) were bragging about how they were producing a beat a day! So, I was like, "Yo, I never done that: a beat a day." and their beats were dope! I was like, "Gotta find a way to do this...." then God showed it to me. Here's what I did:

I popped a blank tape in the tape player part of the boombox and turned the radio dial all the way to one side or the other (L or R.) Then I hit record on the tape and started to slowly turn the dial all the way from one side to the other. I would stop if I heard something interesting... The coolest part was how moving the dial or just the natural strength of the broadcast would affect the samples, like make em dirty, add noise, overlap two broadcasts at once, etc. After going from one side to the other, I would go back to the original side. That would be the entire sampling session: One trip up and down the radio dial. It usually ended up being about 3 minutes of tape at most. Naturally, in my journeys up and down, I would spend more time on things that caught my fancy. It was interesting using this method with Uncle Mic for the first time. The things he stopped on, spent time on... It was so interesting.

I would then cull the samples for a single song from this 3 minute session. I would not go outside of this taped session for a particular song except to get a little percussion or drums from the synthesizer on the Korg; all of the samples for a particular song needed to be found in that 3 minute session. This was an interesting challenge. I manipulated the samples (slow em down, stretch em out, reverse em) on the E-Mu. Naturally, everything was coordinated from the Korg X3 sequencer. All of a sudden, I found I could make a dope beat in a single day! It was incredible!

ps I dubbed this style of producing beats "Teevee Style" 'cause I originally had the production idea described above in regards to a television. That is, it was the exact idea described above, save using a TV instead of a radio. I still plan on trying this someday, but it must be harder than with radio as far as getting drums... There is lots of treble and bass things on TV, but not that much dope drums, and it's hard to make a hiphop beat w/o some kind of dope drums... Still, I'm gonna try it someday.