ERIC STONE

Terrible beats. Wack as a motherfucker, only shinier. What you have found is a rare glimpse inside my special cabinet of prehistoric sound: malformed loops, accidental hooks, unfinished ideas, and totally assed-out bubblegum bullshit from an age when every button had a fifty-fifty chance of making music or killing the whole goddamn machine.

Two tracks inside this cabinet are not mine: MF DOOM’s “GAZZILLION EAR” and “D.O.A DEATH OF AUTOTUNE INSTRUMENTAL” by DJ Muro & Mitsu The Beats. Both were heavy inspirations for what I was trying to do, so I placed them between clusters of my experiments as brief flashes of civilization—and to break up the prehistoric beat rubble.

The rest is mine: glittering, malformed, and somehow still alive. Fuck. I mean, fuck.