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More unfinished Stop Die stuff, this was supposed to break out into four different parts which we used to perform live. I think this was recorded in 2004 or 2005. That was a long time ago now.
Samples Venetian Snares' "Dad" from the "Winter in the Belly of a Snake" album.
Untitled (Too Late), rehearsal/improv track.
With Lucas Costello, Lyle Crilly (guitar), Mario Laquintana (drums), James Strachan (bass).
Recorded on my first, now gone iphone.
I think we stopped making music not long after this.
Another unfinished Stop Die Resuscitate demo thing.
Trouble (Alternate Version)
This was another version of Trouble, I'm still not sure which one I like better.
We wrote and recorded this in July of 2006, you probably only ever heard it if you caught us live around this time. I figure itâs as fitting a time as ever to let it back into the world again.  It didn't make it to The Gloom, as our direction shifted alot. Basically, we should have just started putting out internet EPs as we were going along. LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES.
We had a really awesome video concept for this where our friend Lucie Tic (dancer/dj extraordinaire) were going to dance/busk with a boom box in front of various cheque cashing places around Toronto until we got kicked out...I still kinda want to do it to be honest.
You can DOWNLOAD HEREÂ feel free to share widely.
This is a remix we did for Simone (Battle) in 2008, I think she was still in high school. Â Sheâs a contestant in the top 16+1 of the X-Factor now, good luck Simone!
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I had planned to get 10 hand cut vinyl 7" of four of the tracks done, but don't have time or the money to do it right now.
Anyway, had to get this monkey off my back. Â Enjoy.
Was also going to write a guide detailing all the mistakes we made, so other bands don't make them. Probably will do after this election.
DOWNLOAD IT HERE.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5096481/thegloom.zip
FYI The really weird intro is like a minute long, feel free to skim ahead
Given that everyone in Toronto feels like fish en papillote when stepping outside in Toronto, I decided to post one of a few different versions of my favourite song that we recorded âMidnight Romance Bloodâ for the Gloom. I wrote this when I lived in an apartment in Parkdale that overlooked one of highest trafficking areas in the neighbourhood; so much happened while I lived there.
The first week moving in a dude whipped out his dick for the world to see. I woke up to gunshots within a month of living there (no one was hurt). There were two heartbreaking murders, and a man well known in the neighbourhood was sadly, hit and killed by a fire truck, right outside my window. I saw a HUGE drug bust with undercovers and a snatch and grab van. I witnessed a man try to convince his wife to come back to their family and to stop working the street.  I saw a young kid whip around a corner and knock a full grown man out for money owed while I was ordering fish and chips.
The exact years that I saw and heard about all of these things kind of melt together, but somewhere in the middle of it all, on a brutally hot night or two I wrote this at my window (CLICHĂ I know, I know!).
The places that familiarized me with who was who in a parallel world; the runners, the users, the subsistence dealers, the suburban suppliers in luxury vehicles; Jimmyâs Tavern (?), the other place thatâs now Mother India (the name escapes me right now), Jerryâs Fish & Chips, theyâre are all gone now. I kind of miss them, I kind of donât.
DOWNLOAD: Midnight Romance Blood
BONUS: The hombre vitaminsforyou did an incredible reimagineering (for real, not just a remix) of the track, which you can download/listen to here.
Hush Little - Stop Die Resuscitate
I think we recorded this in 2005, I liked it alot, Josh and Lyle hated it.  If I ever get around to recording solo stuff, Iâll probably re-record this.  I think this was on one of my really bad days/nights buried in the gauzeâŠ
Every remix off the Bad Night EP was dope. This one got a little less notice though, but I thought (and still think) it was incredibly bold. It was a pretty big honour for me as I was a fan of Da Grassroots when I was a kid, and of LAL after I moved to Toronto; and me and Murr are buds now, so yeah, itâs dope.Â
 It has a slow build, but wait for it, as itâs very much worth it.Â
 Stupidly, as I was coming out of a college radio/hip hop background I thought it would be a good idea to put an instrumental of the original version on the B-side. Our label (Summer Lovers Unlimited Music, do the knowledge) guy Doug wanted another track, in this Doug was way right. Sorry Doug. No idea what we wouldâve put on it though.Â
Lesson learned: bands donât put instrumental versions of songs on wax, unless youâre a band that puts out instrumental music. Duh.
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This is the original version of a track we did with the scintillating Graph Gonzales (nee Nobel) it ended up in a strip club scene in a B-movie female revenge flick that I canât remember the name of (19 year old b-boy dream come true? JK @_0?).Â
When we recorded this and Graph did the breath tracks, I think both Lyle and I blushed.
Graphâs been in LA doing a bunch of awesome stuff.Â
She just did a track with my band mate from back in 2001 Masia One (Hi Masia!), so Iâm assuming that will slay.
My favourite story about this song; a rap idol of mine told me that his youngest was conceived while this song was playing (TMI?).
Sorry this never got a proper release Graph, because it should have, but you know how it goes. The final version for the album ended up a lot more polyrhythmic and very different. Both versions are equally excellent. Youâll have to wait til later for the album version though.
FYI if you play this at work, the âF wordâ is used a few times, so maybe use headphones?
I don't know why there are so many question marks in this post.
DOWNLOAD: HERE
In light of the recent news of You Say Party's "break". Â I thought it would be fitting to post the most insane/bizarre remix we ever did, for their song "Quiet World". Â Just listened to it for the first time in a long while, and got heart palpitations. Â
I advise against listening to it if you're hungover or haven't had coffee yet today.
It's basically a three minute audio version of Gaspar Noe's "Enter the Void" (the film hadnât been made at the time, I think this remix is from 2008 or 2009).
The original version of the song is quite pretty, kind of like a beckoning to step into the light. Â So we decided to do a version that revealed that behind the light was a behemoth with sharp teeth as large as mountains, that was made up of hideous creatures escaping from it's belly.Â
This came out on The Remik's Cube Album you can still purchase digital versions here. My favourite remix off of it was the vitaminsforyou remix of 5 Year Plan.
Enjoy?
Sorry folks, the Canadian election has me tied up a bit. ANYWAY, here's one of two remixes we did a few years back for Tegan & Sara's "Back In Your Head". Â The other one we did kind of went everywhere, this one was lesser known.
I decided to dedicate the remix to Jaime Sin and Will Munro because they had this great disco/house night called 7th Heaven, which was always amazing, and inspired this version of the remix. Â Sadly, Will passed away almost a year ago now, and the gigantic hole he left in this city has yet to be filled.Â
I wasn't as close to Will as a lot of other folks, but was lucky enough to call him a friend. Â He still is a huge source of inspiration both creatively and politically.
Do me a favour, if you have the finances, donate to the Will Munro Fund for Queer & Trans Youth Living With Cancer here.
Download: Tegan & Sara - Back in Your Head (StopDieRmx4Jaime&Will)
Also from four years ago, also unreleased, also for a Warner artist (dudes, you should just hire me for your digital marketing team or something). I've been in such a "Forget the music biz" coma that I had forgotten that we did this.
Buck 65âs âWay Back Whenâ, itâs pretty fun. This was all Lyle, my only contribution was that there was another version of this remix that sounded like a Ricky J track, and Lyle was mad when I told him so.
I wasnât too involved in the conversation on this one so I have no idea why it sat on a digital shelf collecting kilobyte dust. Fast raps are hard to remix and we had a bit of difficulty with this one at this particular time, since we were doing mostly danceydance stuff. Male vocals arenât my favourite for remixing to be honest, but I think this worked out pretty well. I think thereâs some irony in that. Also, I'm glad we kept some of Skratch Bastid's cuts.
This was a remix we did for Sally Seltmann (nee New Buffalo)/A&C, about 3 or 4 years ago, she liked it alot, we exchanged a few messages about it, and she even put it on her myspace (!), but for reasons unknown to us that's the only place it went.  She's an excellent lyricist/songwriter.
We spent about a month working on this one, and were pretty psyched on it, I think it wasn't too long after the Feistâs â1,2,3,4â was everywhere winning awards/accolades/ipod commercials, and we thought, âWow this could do big things for us.â But here you are hearing for the first time.Â
I think what happened was we sort of lost our champion at A&C (you know who you are, and thank you), so it was buried under a pile of more important things.
Also, this was a time when everyone was still trying to monetize anything they could get their hands on. A word to labels, bands, producers, managers, something some of you still need to understand, a remix is essentially a free advertorial that may or may not bring new listeners to your artist. I think everybody gets this now, but some may not. If you donât, catch up.Â
Also, if youâre a label/manager working with music licensing you might as well slap it into the database, and if it circulates to the MAJORMUSICINDIEBLOGZ some music supervisor in LA might try to license it or something.Â
Anyway, this remix had quite a bit of influence on the direction "The Gloom" started going.
A&C folks if you want me to take this down holler [email protected].
PS This is my favourite remix that we've ever done.Â
This was our second last show; we were starting to go JAMC/Jesus Lizard-y a bit and seeing and touching David Yow's sweaty bod earlier that year inspired my shirtless antics.Â
http://melissaclementedesigns.tumblr.com/Â made the amazing feather necklace which got destroyed that night. :(
http://raymitheminx.tumblr.com took the vid.
This is a remix we did for Die Mannequin's - "Saved By Strangers" in 2008, when fist pumping was still OK (Was it ever really though?). Â FYI Care Failure is probably one of the nicest, most down to earth rock stars in Canada. Â
There was a bunch of back and forth on this, between us and Warner. Â Lesson for aspiring remixers (hi mom!), after a month "leak it", deal with the consequences later. Â This was pretty much all Lyle, I just told him to add the breath track. Â We were going to try and do some recording with Care but our schedules never lined up.
Warner dudes if you have a problem with me posting this just e-mail me [email protected] PLEASE don't DMCA us.