DESTRUCTO 1998 ✦ 74min ✦ LP   1. Kujawa 2. Star 3. Day-Glo 4. Y2K Crisis 5. Quad 6. The Switch 7. Robotronix 8. Der Leber von Gött 9. Destructo 10. Wh◦re 11. Cocaine 12. Outlaw Soul 13. Innercity Fleshfeast 14. Geist 98. Locust (hidden)   This was an early landmark album for me. I was playing around with loop-based music composition a lot, and that eventually became my method of choice for music making. At the time I made Destructo, I really started feeling serious about getting my music out there. Now as I look back at it, it's actually one of my least-remarkable albums, and I didn't alter the loops enough for it to be that original, and didn't yet know how to beat-match, but it was more like a learning process for what would eventually blossom later. The album had a more serious tone than its computer-made predecessors. It was sometimes a bit political in spirit, much like my pre-computer Evil Eye tapes. I guess I was feeling teen angst!       RECORDED: 1998, in Monroe MI   COMPLETION: late summer 1998 ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden  PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden NOTES: I really cringe now at the name of track 10. I was a teenager, trying to be edgy, sorry :-(     SYNCRO DESTRUCTO 1999 ✦ 72min ✦ remix LP     1. Kujawa (Kujawa Go 12 mix) 2. Der Leber Von Gött (Autonav mix) 3. Y2k Crisis (Dot Matrix mix) 4. VS 5. Destructo (Psycommunity mix) 6. Star (Chunk of Funk mix) 7. Innercity Fleshfeast (Discocity Fleshfeast mix) 8. Day Glo (Mollusk mix) 9. Wh◦re (Ghetto Blaster mix) 10. Love Potion #9 11. Robotronix (Omega Supremix) 12. Outlaw Star (Orion mix) 13. Geist (Self Destruction mix) 14. Y2k Crisis (COBOL mix) 15. Destructo (Country + Latin Spaced-Out version)   This is the remix CD of Destructo. At the time I mad that, I thought it was my best stuff. But after a little time, and after making another album in the meantime, I decided I could do a better job on the Destructo tracks. The remixes were very fun to do, and I like the album better than Destructo. There are also two brand new tracks, "VS" and "Love Potion #9", as well as two remixes of "Destructo" taken from the Destructo EP. The packaging art was especially fun to do for this album as well, since I made an original page of art in the booklet for each song, so it ended up being a pretty beefy art booklet and required this single LP to use a double-CD case.       RECORDED: 1998 & 1999, in Monroe MI   COMPLETION: late spring 1999 ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden   TRACK 5 REMIX BY: Ryan Sands   VOICE ON TRACK 1: Susy S PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden     DESTRUCTO 1998 ✦ 24min ✦ EP     1. Destructo 2. Destructo (extended mix) 3. Destructo (Country + Latin Spaced-Out Version) 4. Destructo (Psycommunity mix) 5. otcurtseD   The title track "Destructo" was the first song I made for the LP of the same name that would come later in the summer of 1998. Shortly after making that track, I decided to make a few remixes and ask my friend / frequent collaborator Ryan to supply a remix, and I made a little EP out of it. The cover is made of metal and has letters that glow in the dark!       RECORDED: 1998, in Monroe MI   COMPLETION: early summer 1998 ALL SONGS BY: Evan Hayden   TRACK 4 REMIX BY: Ryan Sands PACKAGING ART & DESIGN: Evan Hayden NOTES: This EP was completed before the two full albums you see above, but I'm putting it here so they can get the focus.       ◄ BACK TO GALLERY   Site contents and design © Evan Hayden