For the first time in a while, I have guest performers on a song. First and foremost this time is Half Zaftig bassist Lizzy Daymont, not playing bass, but GUITAR. She's the one making that "Baba O'Reilly" noise. She improvised that entire take in one go back in... 2003? Or so? She and then-HZ-bassist Brian Timpe had come over to my house to "jam" and try to generate new song ideas, and that particular "jam session" has been sitting on my hard drive ever since. The performance on here is Lizzy's unedited take (nothing else from that jam session is very interesting), although I did make with the studio magic to match the tempo up.

Then, playing flute is Mary Jensen, partner of my stepsis Erin Keckley. Mary is principal flautist (flutist?) for the Tacoma Symphony, and like apparently many classical musicians, was horrified that I just wanted her to improvise a bunch of stuff for me to go through and edit later, but she did great. I guess the classical types really like having a SCORE or something. I've never recorded a flute before, and it was really fun. Then Mary and Erin and I did a bunch of clapping. The way the claps move around on the beat was an accident that happened when I was editing, but I really like how they shift around in no particular pattern.

I was trying to evoke a My Bloody Valentine-ish "wall of noise" approach with this one, and of course I had all kinds of fun putting the rhythm track together with drum loops from all sorts of sources.

I love the IDEA of dance music (the reality of it can tend to kinda not do much for me), and I guess this is my attempt at making some.