Drumgasm LP

got mine today. its just one track. the vinyl is split but the mp3 is one continuous track, about 30 minutes. slow it really gets going in some places though.

Anybody else get theirs totally warped? Stoked to get the lp today, but the record is unplayable, completely warped.

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Matt Cameron + Janet Weiss + Zach Hill's DRUMGASM is now streaming on SPIN for you to hear: http://www.spin.com/articles/janet-weis ... t-records/

Haven't received the vinyl yet.

Taken from www.spin.com

What was the genesis of this project?
I would say friendship and mutual admiration was the genesis. I had toured with Zach. Quasi toured with Hella, so we had spent a month together watching each other play. Obviously Zach is an utterly unique drummer. After a month you're just beginning to understand what he's doing [Laughs]. So I've spent some time studying him. And Sleater-Kinney, around the same time, was doing some touring with Pearl Jam. Matt Cameron had always been one of my favorites — I'm a huge Soundgarden fan. So getting to meet him and know him and share a stage with him was a really big deal for me. We forged a friendship, and Matt and I would sort of marvel about Zach — as probably every drummer on the planet does. I just came up with the idea: What if we just rented a studio for a weekend? We didn't have any plan as to what was gonna happen.

We ended up playing for these long improv pieces. Some were 20 minutes, some were 30 minutes, some were 40 minutes. In the beginning, it's like, "Let's try something slower," and then it just erupts into what it sort of became most of the time…which is total cacophony. It was like a wild animal you couldn’t hold back. No matter where we started, we ended up all sort of going crazy.

There's speed, there's duration, there's volume. What do you remember, physically, about being part of this marathon?
Well, at the time I think I was in really good shape, luckily. It was a very exciting space to be in. So there was a lot of adrenaline. Watching those two show off for each other was just awesome… We'd play maybe 30 minutes, and then Zach, like always, would be as if he just walked out of a shower. Just dripping, head to toe. We were all sweaty, but no one sweats as much as that guy. As much as Matt and I are playing, he's playing 20 times the hits, 20 times the speed. His thing is like superhuman. And it was snowing at the time. It was the middle of the winter, around New Year's, and he would walk outside, and there was this huge cloud of steam just coming off of him.

What is hearing the record now like for you?
Oh, it's just fun! It just sounds so fun. It makes me laugh and smile. When I was getting [the record] together, I knew I wanted to use an entire, start-to-finish piece. But I had to listen to all of them to see which one summed up the meaning of the three of us. There's like a moment in this piece where I can hear myself start to play a straight-forward beat. It takes them maybe around two minutes where they actually hear what I'm doing. They're just going so full steam ahead, and I can tell, all of the sudden, 'She's playing a beat!' And then they both start playing along to the beat. It's a cool moment where we all sort of sync up on one more simple idea. And then after maybe minute, it just — pwoom — it just rockets off into some other zone. I get a real kick out of listening to it.

Is the record one piece or two pieces?
It's one. We had to make it two sides. But it is one piece. We played it all in the same sitting… I like that people are calling it "song." I hear melodies in there, but they're going by very quickly.

How many takes were there?
We did, like, 10 other ones. Some of them are shorter, some of them are 15 minutes. Drumgasm 2, Drumgasm 3, Drumgasm 4. [Laughs] The world will be clamoring for more Drumgasm, and we will have it to give them. [Laughs] My dream is to go on tour and play some of this stuff live. We would have a great time. I can't think of a better tour than that. That's my dream tour.

Soundmen across the world would hate you.
Yeah, but no singers!

Jackpot records was very cool about it. I sent them back the warped one, but they said once they get it they'll send me a new copy and reimburse me for the shipping. Very impressed all in all, quick response to my email, they get a thumbs up in my book.

On a side note played the mp3 tonight and my dog's head almost exploded, that's some insane drumming. Wow.

Vinyl just arrived here in Nova Scotia!

Got mine in Vancouver - yay!

Oh, number 518 here.
Sucks to get crushed corners. ^^ Mine is in perfect condition.

I find it completely bizarre that they numbered the cello and not the album. :fp:

choop wrote:

PJ_Soul wrote:

I find it completely bizarre that they numbered the cello and not the album. :fp:

i believe the reason for the sticker on the cellophane is because it's not a pressed to order album and will be in stock at jackpot for a long time. only the pre-orders were numbered, so i think it was just a marketing gimmick to encourage pre-orders, especially with the PJ fan base involved.

:think: I'm sure you're right.... That seems a bit scam-ish.