Shameless self promotion again...

For those who are new to the blog, I am, above all else, a musician. I listen to a lot of music, which is why I keep doing this website, but most of my time is spent writing and recording my own stuff.

That being said, I've just released my first official full-length under the name The HATE Noise. Previously, I'd been in a band called Coma Nova that played around Kalamazoo/West Michigan a lot, but we split, and I did my own thing. This particular album was mostly recorded on cassette 4-track with me playing everything, and I guess was influenced by Guided By Voices, 60's surf music and The Cure, since that's what I was listening to. I tried to keep a strong 'old-timey' vibe...dunno....regardless, I think some of you that read this blog would dig it.

Here it is, in pay-what-you-like downloadable format on my Bandcamp page.

If you dig my stuff, I've got like 5 albums-worth of stuff available for free on WFMU's Free Music Archive.

...that's my plug...we're working on a rap/hip hop project, so I'll plug that in a couple months here....

Shameless self-promotion...again!

Since I just finished compiling a 2-disc collection of the 'best of' my musical project, The HATE Noise, I figured I'd put the download link up here. This is basically a dump for all my ideas that I can't work into a full-band setting, or that are simply too weird. On average, I write about 3-4 songs a week, and only maybe one of those will go on to be played in a full-band setting. The others get recorded (usually) quickly on whatever instruments/equipment are lying around.

These two discs were culled from recordings beginning in 2003 and ending last week (that's about 8-10 80 minute CDR's-worth of material.) This is the result of doing this shit for years but only recently deciding that anybody should hear it.

You can download it HERE from Megaupload. Here's how I'm charging for the album:

Download the album first, but listen to it all the way through. Decided if it's worth any money to you (and if so, how much.) Send said amount to my PayPal account at eli.f.kroes@wmich.edu. You have to also have a PayPal account to do this. Otherwise, just e-mail me and we'll figure something out. I won't turn down money. If instead, you find yourself feeling like you wasted 3 hours, don't pay me for the album and delete it from your computer. No point in listening to it again if it's not worth money, right? That's that.

The HATE Noise - 'Beaten to Death During Interrogation: An 'Okay Of' The HATE Noise 2003-2010'

Disc 1

1. Wolvez Introduction
2. Funeral Girl (Original Version)
3. The Middle Part
4. Coma Nova
5. Hello, My Old Heart
6. The Sticks
7. Sea of Pain
8. Western-Style Gun
9. Brown Eyed Girl
10. Hard Landing
11. Nearly Incest (New Version)
12. The Pink Slip
13. Hardly a Moment
14. Fireflies
15. Tylenol
16. Jetpack Guys
17. Otherworld Singin'
18. We Do All the Style
19. Soy Cansado (Remix)
20. Cars and Spaceships
21. Accident
22. Black Socks

Disc 2
1. Hurting the Pancreas
2. User is Okay
3. Alarm System
4. Peace is Rest
5. She's a Smoker (New Version)
6. Wildlife Preserve
7. Political Song for George Forman to Sing
8. When Did You Know?
9. The Phone Song
10. The Rumor Lives Strong
11. Syrup
12. Apricot Guys
13. Lint Trap
14. Copyright Infringement
15. Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun
16. Trapeze Artist Sendoff
17. Pirate Sails in the Funset
18. Freelance Son and Dads
19. Hair Farmer
20. Dropout Boogie
21. Shut Your Fucking Mouth
22. Thinkin' About You, Girl

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Mo' tunes, HATE Noise Disc 5

In continuing with the unveiling of all the countless hours of home recordings I have, here is my most recent collection of 'solo' tunes. Usually, when between projects, I'll just throw down whatever ideas I have, but this time I was specifically going for a 'finished' product.

The music was recorded on a Fostex 8-track reel-to-reel machine with one SM-57, one SM-58 and one mic that was apparently too shitty to even have a brand name on it. Vocal overdubs and mixing done in Pro-Tools.

Description: The 5th disc under the guise of 'The HATE Noise.' I was going to do a little more with these recordings, but formed a group instead (taking our name from the song 'Coma Nova').

Personnel: Me, mostly, on all the instruments, although Matt Motzell plays saxophone on track 5 and there are various people's voices in the sound clips throughout.

Tracklist:

1. Sea of Pain
2. Smokin' Boulders
3. Apricot Guys
4. Political Song for George Forman to Sing
5. Coma Nova
6. Desert Song
7. Bummed Out on Mersh
8. User is Okay
9. Hair Farmer
10. Accident
11. Brown Eyed Girl

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There are 6 discs in the HATE Noise series, total...this being the 5th, but also the most recent recordings (the 6th is various odds and ends)...I'll be posting them all (probably, maybe) out of order, because they vary in quality.