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Canon2 is kind of like a blind date that some acquaintances set you up on.Your friends have been hanging out with her and talking her up for a while now. They tell you about how similar the two of you are, and whether your friends made it up or not you appear to have all the same interests. Maybe one day they invite you on a double date which starts quietly at a bar where the Wizard is playing with closed captions. It turns out your friends were right, overwhelmingly right. The both of you have so much in common that you end up finishing each other's sentences. And as annoying as it is to your friends who are now playfully rolling their eyes, they feel satisfied in knowing that both of you are getting along like Mario & Pasta.One drink turns into another, you're not sure if you drunk on her or on wanderlust for this beautiful demon who now completes you. You chat it up growing closer and closer all night. Your friends have already called a cab home but you don't care. You even missed lasted call gazing off into her longing Cory Arcangel Clouds blue eyes. Spilling into the street you follow her into the only store front open along the closing arcade of bars and shops. Inside the Tokin Tolken your bodies meet, pressed against an old Donkey Kong machine.Then you kiss. ;A kiss that is the briefest moment of your life but seems to go on forever. Her mouth is sweet like a Peach, you close your eyes and you can swear if this were a different kingdom, she'd be the love of your life.That long winded love story was how I finally bridged the gap between making progressively longer and longer electronic pieces and using an 8bit palette. For many years, even as demonstrated in the Metroid piece, I couldn't quite get it right. Finally, after being introduced to Brian (of Sound) during SXSW09, I rallied enough inspiration to have a go at it.What happened was as serendipitous as that Nintendo Slash Fiction above. I started my foray into trying to imitate chiptunes with doing a simple little loop, trying to get a feel for the instrumentation, sound colors, and variables. I had the first four bars on repeat, adding and adding to it. I kept saving the file along the way just in case I fucked something up. Since it was just a simple progression at first that kept building and building I called the dummy file Canon.Eventually, I failed in trying to keep the song simple in the traditional NES format. But what happened instead made me very excited. The more I kept opening Canon and expanding on it, the more harder the rhythm got. Whenever the song would rest, although a pause, the rest of the song was so dense it felt like a punch, or more accurately like a canon. That was when Canon became Canon2.Canon2 also had the good fortune of getting a little key movement and fine tuning by one of my best and longest friends and collaborators, Mr. Carter Arrington. This song was also great because it was the starting point of us finally working on some new shit together after six years of dicking around.

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• Release Date

  Jun 11, 2010

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  04:32