Written, recorded, produced, performed, and mastered by dAVE Inden (attks th drknss)
Release October 9, 2023
Created as part of celebrating their birthday, dAVE wrote and recorded each of these songs in a single day. Every song was created solely on a Roland SP404 mk2 with a variety of instruments and dAVE’s own voice.
The performance of each track was improvised and recorded down on the SP404 mk2 before being mastered by dAVE. Outside of the mastering process the entire record was created outside of any computer and used hardware devices or instruments only.
The purpose of this record was to focus on creation without getting caught up in the tiny details of music making that can often derail a project into never getting completed.
The title of the record ( a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference) comes from dAVE turning 42 on this birthday and a text a friend sent to say happy birthday and how now dAVE gets to know the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. As it turns out, it really is just about always having a towel. The song titles are all from dAVE’s long list of thing his daughter has said or inspired.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect if it doesn’t have to be our lives (03:46)
- Made from playing a small toy accordion looped and resampled to be pitched up and down. This marks the first instance of dAVE releasing a song with recorded finger drumming.
- Waving from across the lagoon (03:31)
- A collection of chords played on a piano that have been resampled under various effects to create textures.
- Band Names (It needs more knives in it) (04:31)
- dAVE has long kept a list of possibly great band names. This list has moved from various locations to another and sadly many of them have been lost. This list represents the current form of the list that still exists in a note on dAVE’s phone from 2012.
- Lyrics:
- Squid Cervix
- The Good Pretenders Album
- Richard Nixon’s Victims
- Quit Putting Your Finger in That
- 1983 Penguins
- Related to Charlemagne
- Freezing Pea Soup
- Reluctant Contestants
- Fire Tornado
- Cannibalized Grandmothers
- The Declined Marriage Proposal
- Stop Winking at Me
- Shark Hunting Demons
- The Monstrous Cacophony
- Baghdad Bowlers
- The Illustrator Haters
- What Rhymes with Glory?
- Not on Speaking Terms
- Consequences are for Mortals
- Finding Hatred Meaningful
- Hate Cauldron
- Magnificence Divided by Tapioca
- Don’t Eat Yogurt
- Who They Warned You About
- Republican Sex Chants
- The Diabolical Game Show Hosts
- Really Long Band Name That Can’t Fit On A Drum Head
- all capitol letters
- John Cougar Fat Camp
- Fish Suicide
- Sleeping Like Jesus
- Race Card Driver (Will Xiong)
- All About Alliteration
- Onomatopoeia Motherfuckers
- Elevator Haters
- It Calls Your Name
- Hiding a Knife
- 10 Minutes Later
- Crushed by a Robot
- Tawdry Cadre
- No One Ever Said
- Afraid of Coleslaw
- Fog on a Moonlit Evening
- Fixed and Forlorn
- Violent Urge to Poop
- Our Love is like Whoa
- Whistling Whilst Jaywalking
- Sumo Wrestle for My Seed (Ryan)
- The Recumbent Hawks
- Murdering Grape Smugglers
- Disgraced & Banished
- Vanish! Vanish! Be Gone!
- Rat Fart Snake Bite
- Nonesuch Chicanery
- Shake that Stick
- Mandatory Tramp Stamp
- Wrath of the Bonersaurus
- Vitamins Full of Hatred
- This Means You Norm
- Damn This Sideways House
- Bleeding Face Tumors
- sing a song of six dead chickens
- Pedro Nacho & The Romantic Shitbags
- Calling All Nihilists
- Est Porthos Nachos
- Charlemagne’s Chandelier
- Dead Guy with an Eyepatch
- Me Llamo Mosquito
- The Art of Sandwich
- My God Vs Your God
- Fearing a Brain Tumor
- Fuck, I Forgot
- The Chilean Speed Eaters
- A Raven of Murderers
- Pentagonal Penultimate
- Staring at Burn Victims
- Tommy Woodshop & the Severed Fingers
- The Man About Town Killed My Wife
- Laughing Without Mirth
- The Frasier Theme Song
- Written by Jealousy
- Stalking Alan Thicke
- Pretty Sure Kenny Rogers is Dead
- Chess Music Video
- Obscure Band’s Song Title
- Dancing on the Ceiling
- Simplicity in Detail
- Make Em Say Umlaut
- Rave in the Rain
- Glowstick Jellyfish
- A Color & an Animal
- The Cardinal of Crayon
- The Shocking Revelation
- Cockroach Porn
- The Fantasicingest
- The Beautiful Sound of Money
- Feelings are Bored
- Ronald Reagan is Your God
- Oh no! I don’t have eyes! (07:13)
- Single keys played on a piano that have been resampled repeatedly to create eight different sound textures that are stacked in various combinations.