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Instigator -
Reduced Materials EP
2008, PYLBUG / Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

Selections from Instigator's 2002 debut, Used Materials, are revisited on the fifth anniversary of the album's digital release in 2003. Careful reductions in program length unearth and enhance the song structures, and a strategic price reduction (it's FREE) make Reduced Materials the perfect companion to Used Materials, as well as a fitting farewell to the Instigator moniker. Original versions appear on Used Materials.

01 Reforestation (Berry Jungle)
02 Recognition (Depress And Enter)
03 Requisition (High-Style Takeover)
04 Reevaluation (Hydrocodonarcotica)
05 Reinfestation (Miracle Earworm)
06 Recollection (Okanna Borra)
07 Resignation (Panhandler)
08 Reiteration (Poh Sukumer Vidro)
09 Remodellacion (Puerto Reconditioned)

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A page dedicated to the farewell Instigator release.

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Run With The Devil

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Instigator -
Run With The Devil
2008, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

Classic "leak-on-leak" action here. First, a studio outtake of David Lee Roth signing bits of Van Halen's Runnin' With The Devil. Then pile that on top of the instrumental version of Gnarls Barkley's (then-)new track, Run. Somehow, DLR takes on the air of a gospel singer and makes GB's ho-hum new song a little more exciting.

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Pour Some Witness On Me

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Instigator -
Pour Some Witness On Me
2008, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

Once you get it beat-mapped, the acapella of Roots Manuva's Witness (1 Hope) has a lot of applications. It's a jam. I have several mashes-up featuring it in the works, but this one seems to work best so far. Mista Manuva over a sticky Def Leppard 12" version of Pour Some Sugar On Me.

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Coming Soon!

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INSTILLE - Indelible EP
2008, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]

INSTILLE = Instigator + Distille. Indelible is intended as a preview to an album we're planning to call Music For Girlfriends - though we'll both have gotten married before it's finished. That's because we take our time to be perfectionists, and don't make this music pay any bills. We're not ashamed to say this was years in the making. There's a certain amount of "imparting over time" implied in our name anyway. The point is to collaborate and make more accessible music than we usually do by ourselves. And that's the main thing - it can be done.

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Drugs Is The Love

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Instigator -
Drugs Is The Love
2007, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

You don't have to listen to much Kool Keith to realize that love isn't the only drug he's thinking of. But his acapella gives Roxy Music's classic hit a fiendish new connotation. At least, that's what I was thinking when I made this mash-up single for Noise Throng.

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Timberlicker

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Instigator - Timblerlicker
2007, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

The video for Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is a wonderful parody of the sort of videos guys like Justin Timberlake make for a living. That's what inspired this mash-up single for release via Noise Throng.

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Instigator - Timberlicker [mp3]

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F To The X:
Ten Years Of Party Noise

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FIGORA - F To The X:
Ten Years Of Party Noise
2006, FIGORA [Chicago, IL]

No one knows who's in FIGORA because they always wear masks. But I will divulge that I've produced this. It's F To The X - a 23-minute mixtape spanning over ten years of FIGORA and the fans that made each show crazier than the last.

Appearing as: Bin Wah Kenobi, Kagura, FIGORA

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FIGORA - F To The X: Ten Years Of Party Noise [mp3]

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Don't You Want To Love Me
Or Hate Me?

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Instigator - Don't You Want To Love Me Or Hate Me?
2006, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

I'm not much a fan of Lady Sovereign or Human League, but I couldn't resist layering them over each other for this melodramatic mash-up single.

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Instigator - Don't You Want To Love Me Or Hate Me? [mp3]

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All Right Already (Medley)

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Instigator -
All Right Already (Medley)
2005, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

DJ LA*Jesus commissioned me to mix all the versions of Modest Mouse's Hold On that we could find. Mix them into one big, fat party jam. That's what I did. This was the first in a series of mash-up singles released via Noise Throng.

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Instigator - All Right Already (Medley) [mp3]

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Instigator -
What The Shit Is This
2005, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]

In February 2005, I needed a demo for a demo-sharing party hosted by Quantazelle. This is it. There are less than two dozen copies of What The Shit Is This in circulation. All tracks are available on other releases.

Tracklist:
1. Invisible Blimp (with Tom O'Donnell, Jesse Quattro and Matt Waters)
2. Eating the Last Marshmallow (dUbContractor Rx by Instigator)
3. Dream Girl (Instigator Every Night Rx)
4. Berry Jungle (edit)

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Will Not Submit

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Sneaky Guy & Instigator -
Will Not Submit
2004, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

Sneaky Guy and I finished this track just before the 2004 US Presidential election. It didn't incite as many riots as we'd hoped, and it didn't have much affect on the election's outcome, but it felt good to go through the process of creating a hip-hop protest song with all-original sounds and source material.

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Sneaky Guy & Instigator - Will Not Submit [mp3]

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Eating The Last HarshMellow (dUbContractor Remix by Instigator)

Salvo Beta - Eating The
Last HarshMellow (dUbContractor Remix
by Instigator)*
2002; 2008 Unofficial Digital Release [Chicago, IL]

Salvo Beta invited some friends to remix selections from Abrasive Stuttering. This particular mix was rejected for the CD. That's what makes it a great exclusive download for this site.

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Salvo Beta - Eating The Last HarshMellow (dUbContractor Rx by Instigator) [mp3]

* Unofficial release; rejected second submission for Evil Against Evil: The Neighborhood Kids Grab Their Bats And Remix Salvo Beta.

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Invisible Blimp

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Instigator - Invisible Blimp*
2002; 2004 Unofficial Digital Release [Chicago, IL]

A stand-out in the Instigator / INST / PYLB catalog. The unavailable-elsewhere Invisible Blimp is an atmospheric voyage in sound design - using clips from a recording made by Tom O'Donnell, Jesse Quattro and Matt Waters, which they had concieved as a soundtrack to the short story "Prospector's Special" by Robert Sheckley.

There is a second track from my Prospector's Special sessions, but it is not scheduled for release, digital or otherwise. If I get requests to the contrary, you may see it here one day. Its working title was simply Two-Three.

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Instigator - Invisible Blimp* [mp3]

* Not an official release.

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Salvo Beta - Clugy (Worn Out Just Listening To It Much Less Trying To Dance Remix)

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Salvo Beta - Clugy
(Worn Out Just Listening To It Much Less Trying To Dance Remix)
2002, Some Odd Pilot [Chicago, IL]

Salvo Beta invited some friends to remix selections from Abrasive Stuttering. Instigator was flattered to learn that his Clugy remix, named after a quote from a review of previous Salvo Beta material, appeared early in the tracklist, alongside Melt Banana's contribution.

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Salvo Beta - Clugy (W.O.J.L.T.I.M.L.T.T.D. Rx) [mp3]

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Depress And Enter

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Instigator - Used Materials
2002; 2003 Digital Re-release, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]

The self-released debut full-length from Chicago's subversive beatmeister Instigator. Painstakingly produced, duplicated, assembled, signed and numbered by the artist himself. Features appearances by members of fellow Chicago acts including Epectir, Kim, Molar Mill, Quatre Tete, Ten Tongues and Timeout Drawer, with friends from Pal:ndrom (NY) and The Mass (SF). Also features rappers Sneaky Guy and FlyingEarOfCorn, ace slide guitarist Johnathan Winfield Basil Gorlewski, incendiary voice-mailer Pat Clap, two cats, a dog and more.

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Cleanliness Is
Next To Godliness
Original Score EP

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Cleanliness Is
Next To Godliness
(Original Score EP)
2002 Film; 2008 Digital Release, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]

Starring Matt Stomer and Carrie Roder. This was Throwaway Productions' first feature, about a hypochondriac doctor that goes crazy. An original score I created for Throwaway Productions' Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness - a film in which I also make a cameo.

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Dream Girl
(Instigator Every Night Remix)

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Baldwin Brothers -
Dream Girl (Instigator Every Night Remix)*
2002, TVT / PYLB / Sonic Foundry

Unofficial remix of Baldwin Brothers' Dream Girl featuring Miho Hatori. Lost in the shuffle of an Acid Planet remix contest, this entry went unheard by Baldwin ears until after the contest ended. I think it's good enough to have won, which is why I'm giving it away here. It's Instigator's first successful forray into accessible and -gasp- pop techniques that resurfaced later in INSTILLE and many Noise Throng releases.

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* Not an official release.

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Los Vampiros
De La Musica EP

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Various Artists -
Los Vampiros De La Musica
2001; 2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

""They came to infringe!" A subversive score to a horror movie without pictures."

Los Vampiros De La Musica was originally released as a CD-R, packaged in a trick-or-treat bag and accompanied by a three-inch nail driven through two pieces of candy. Roughly translated as "Musical Vampires," LVDLM borrows from horror movies, seasonal novelty songs, vintage video games and many other cultural associations of the horrors of Halloween.

Noise Throng founders and curators Instigator and Destructor Of Soil host Captain Creepdoggy and curious alias L. Ron Chaney on this soundtrack to a contemporary horror movie without pictures.

1. Halloween Theme (Secret Silent Alarm Mix) - Destructor Of Soil
2. (Theme From) It Came To Infringe! - Instigator
3. The Satanic Panic - L. Ron Chaney (aka Instigator)
4. (Theme From) It Came To Infringe! [Organ Vampire Reprise] - Instigator
5. Zombie Skillet - Captain Creepdoggy
6. Son Of Manstein - L. Ron Chaney (aka Instigator) *

* Online-only bonus track, not included on original release. Instigator also appears as L. Ron Chaney, John Wilkes Bootleg, and Son Of Manstein.

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Various Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
Various Artists - Lustratio [zip]
Various Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
Various Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]

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Bootleggers EP

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Various Artists - Bootleggers
2001; 2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

"Press play, get blown away."

Bootleggers was originally released as a mini CD-R, affixed to a belt of 100 firecrackers. We found a lot of inspiration in current events when assembling this re-release (it was late spring 2002), as you'll hear in the bonus tracks. We've turned the art of the soundbite inside-out in an attempt to express what it means to celebrate America.

Noise Throng founder and curator Instigator welcomes Captain Creepdoggy, Merle Moskowitz and angry newcomer/alias John Wilkes Bootleg on this fourth and final installment of the Almanac Fecunditas project.

1. ®EV¡S!ON¡$TM!X - Instigator
2. Superpower Shuffle - Captain Creepdoggy
3. Spell It Or Leave It - Merle Moskowitz
4. Support Our Terrorists - John Wilkes Bootleg (aka Instigator) *
5. Latest American Hero - Instigator *

* Online-only bonus track, not included on original release.

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Various Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
Various Artists - Lustratio [zip]
Various Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
Various Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]

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Lustratio EP

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Various Artists - Lustratio
2001; 2003 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

"Put the moves on with this fistfull of seductive sound-poems."

Lustratio was originally released as a CD-R, packaged in a tear-apart, red foil heart. Named after the ancient rites of Lustration, this EP borrows from chick flicks, love songs, romantic spoken word and countless other cultural references to the rites of human courtship.

Noise Throng co-founder and curator Instigator hosts Mo Reese and Chimaera on a more realistic portrayal of modern romantic conditions. Have a real heart-to-heart with this fistfull of seductive sound-poems, made for today's discerning listener.

1. Loopercalia - Instigator
2. Rubaiyat - Chimaera
3. Humbert's Theme - Mo Reese
4. Sloppy 2ndz (Featuring Lyl Kym & Tha Chairrrman) - Instigator *
5. BillieJean (End-Stage Remix) - Chimaera *

* Online-only bonus track, not included on original release.

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Various Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
Various Artists - Lustratio [zip]
Various Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
Various Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]

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A Joyful Noise EP

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Various Artists -
A Joyful Noise
2000; 2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]

"Celebrate a new way. Use this to cope with the trials of the holiday season."

A Joyful Noise was originally released as a CD-R, enclosed in seasonal wrapping paper and accompanied by a sawed-off Christmas card liner. Classic.

An aid for coping with the hypocrisy of the holiday season in America, AJN borrows from Christmas movies and carols, novelty songs, thrift-store finds and several other cultural touchpoints. Noise Throng founders Instigator, Destructor Of Soil and Sneaky Guy capture the true spirit of the season in four glowing sound-poems. This is the sound of today. Especially if it's Christmas Day. Celebrate a new way with A Joyful Noise, whatever day it is.

1. Tinsel And Gin, Christmas Again - Sneaky Guy
2. I'm Dreaming White - Instigator
3. A Season Of Mood - Destructor of Soil
4. X-massin' w/ U (That's Right) [FruitCake Mix] - Instigator *

* Online-only bonus track, not included on original release.

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Various Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
Various Artists - Lustratio [zip]
Various Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
Various Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]

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High-Style Takeover [pRx v5]

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Various Artists - Total War
Against State + Capital 2
2001, Hidden Power Enterprises [Stockholm, Sweden]

I met T.R.O.Y. because I ran a website called Delete The Elite, and he coincidentally had been using the same phrase as a name for a compilation released under his Hidden Power Enterprises imprint. He invited me to contribute an Instigator track to the sequel to Total War Against State + Capital. It's turn-of-the-century protest music from an international cast of recording artists. My contributed track is the fifth iteration of a pre-mix (working version) for a song that would later appear on the Instigator debut, Used Materials.

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Various Artists - Obvious:Oblivious
2000, Illuminance Recording Collective [Chicago, IL]

Now-defunct Illuminance Records released this very limited, hand-assembled and numbered compilation featuring Chicago-area producers of experimental electronic music. Debut of Instigator moniker.

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Mysterisous Izzy 5
Nostructure

Izzy Zeus -
Non Chrono Volume 1
1999, Limited Private Pressing; 2009 Remastered Digital Release, [DeKalb, IL]

Part two of the Non Chrono practice recordings / demo CD. Original follows, with links to download the entire album below. Enjoy.

01 Smoothvocals2guitars
02 Sex Ass Porno Music
03 Track3
04 Paulie I Don't Have A Name
05 Mysterious Izzy 5
06 Romancing Their Asses All Night Long, OK
07 Track2 Shelter
08 Robbie Likes To Shake His Butt
09 Nostructure
10 Genocide Attack
11 Getupfuk
12 Mystyerious Izzy 5 (v2)
13 Duke Dave Jam
14 LuluLa
15 Good Night

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Remastered (slightly) for its tenth anniversary: Non Chrono Volume 1 (High-Quality 320 kbps MP3s in a .zip archive).

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Izzy Zeus -Mysterious Izzy 5 [mp3]
Izzy Zeus - Nostructure [mp3]

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Why Is Jake Quiet
Demon Song

Izzy Zeus -
Non Chrono Volume 0
1999, Limited Private Pressing; 2009 Remastered Digital Release, [DeKalb, IL]

Izzy Zeus evolved to have a horn section, multiple guitars and more of an overall improvised approach to performance. The two-volume Non Chrono series were intended to celebrate our most spirited and innovative captures from innumerable practice sessions, which also served as the band's demo. All spellings and mis-spellings from the original tracklist are intact.

01 Good Night [Demo Cut]
02 Track3 [Demo Cut]
03 Beat 4 Yo Momma
04 Kat Scat
05 This Might Be One Of Those Trax
06 LuluLa [Demo Cut]
07 So What Up
08 Lighning Guitar Requium
09 What Fun Everyone
10 Rusty Torpedo Of Luv
11 One Short Pretty
12 Why Is Jake Quiet
13 ThirdTake
14 Sorry [Demo Cut]
15 Mostuffmansmoovevocals
16 Duke Dave Jam Whole
17 Interlude
18 Izzy Orig#1
19 Mary Kay's Butt
20 Sorry [Bad Take]
21 Noonions
22 Demon Song
23 740 Cadillac Grill Pauly
24 Untitled
25 3

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Non Chrono Vol 0 [.zip]
Remastered (slightly) for its tenth anniversary: Non Chrono Volume 0 (High-Quality 320 kbps MP3s in a .zip archive).

Sample MP3s:
Izzy Zeus -Why Is Jake Quiet? [mp3]
Izzy Zeus - Demon Song [mp3]

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Classic #1
Lusty Valentine

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Izzy Zeus -
Vinegar Lead Mine Tour
2001, Watery Grave Recordings [San Francisco, CA]

Recorded at Smart Studios at the height of the band's activity in 1998, this collection features the songwriting duo of Tom and Lulu, with a little help from some friends. This unique outfit blossomed into the incarnations of Izzy Zeus heard on the Non Chrono Volumes (above). Dedicated to the memory of our beloved Lulu and Tuula.

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Izzy Zeus - Classic #1 [mp3]
Izzy Zeus - Lusty Valentine [mp3]

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Speak To Me

Dark Side Of The Axis -
Dark Side Of The Axis
1997, Limited Private Pressing [DeKalb, IL]

For one night only, we recreated Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety. I was in charge of synthesizer and dozens of samples - all recreated and/or re-interpreted for this ambitious performance... at Otto's in DeKalb, IL.

Performed Thursday 23 April 1997 by:

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FIGORA - Eggroll
1996, FIGORA [DeKalb, IL]

Limited to just ten cassettes, this ultra-rare release was a give-away when FIGORA headlined the side-stage at Northern Illinois University's Campus Activities Board "Springfest". Eggroll is a snapshot of the band's activity at the time. Side 1 is the group's first performance with Bin (then Ben) Wah Kenobi, at Diversions Lounge on 27 March 1996. Plus a couple tracks from the bands' debut at the same venue some months earlier. Side 2 features selections from an ambient / foley recording session on 26 April 1996, plus a couple surprises borrowed from Bin Wah's box of samples.

Portions of this recording were used in the making of F To The X: Ten Years Of Party Noise (above).