king feeb's self-promotion spot with amusing animated videos

[king feeb]

2010 has been a strangely productive year for yours truly. I wrote and recorded three discs this year that I think leave much (though not all) of my previous work in the dust. I'm thinking of taking a short break now, but I really had a "purple patch" this year (and this isn't counting two albums of experimental electronic music I did since January!).

Anyhow, here are the LPs with URLs where you can download them completely free. I also included some animated videos I made of a track from each LP for yer viewing "enjoyment". I hosted these albums on several sites (including LastFM) but I'm going to give the URLs for Bandcamp and Jamendo, because they have the highest quality downloads.

14 Impossible Things Before Breakfast (recorded July-September 2010)





1. You May Have Already Won 03:51
2. Hello. Here Is Some More Bullshit 04:01
3. Skywriter 02:48
4. Unpopular Mechanix 01:59
5. Down With You 04:33
6. I'd Better Make Friends In Prison 03:38
7. My Mind Went Blank (And I Liked It) 02:50
8. Dead In My Room 02:35
9. Wise Up A Little 03:09
10. The Great Molasses Flood 02:45
11. Anger Jack 04:07
12. Good Old S&M 03:48
13. All The Bright Lights Are Going Out 02:55
14. Drivers Ed 03:21

Free download from Bandcamp (full album download includes Mp4 video, album art and lyric sheet)
Free download from Jamendo

Unpleasant Tactile Experience (recorded May-July 2010)





(This album is divided into two "side-long" suites. "The Science Of Holes" is probably the best damn thing I ever did, in my own opinion.)
Watch This World Burn
1 Nice Guy
2 Paranoid World
3 Get Outta My Hair
4 I'll Be Your Experiment
5 Scorched Earth Policy
6 Money Is No Object
7 Stars Are Quiet
8 Vague Golden Sound
9 Hey Grim Reaper

The Science Of Holes
10 He She And It
11 Idee Fixe
12 We Have Big Plans For You
13 Potential Sleepers
14 Leisure City
15 Convincing Vortex Going
16 The Battle Hymn Of The Repulsive
17 Dumbass Rock And Roll
18 Martian Dancehall C'mon
19 You Were Always My Mind

Free download from Bandcamp (full album download includes Mp4 video, bonus track, album art, lyric sheet)
Free download from Jamendo

Make Room For Oblivion (recorded April-May 2010)





1. Don't Shut Me Down 03:53
2. Goosed By Lightning 03:08
3. A Fork A Knife And A Spoon 02:34
4. Thank God I'm A Pussy 02:57
5. Dead To Me Now 02:59
6. You People Are Fucking Nuts 03:18
7. I Couldn't Care Less 03:18
8. Redphone, Sir 01:55
9. Frankenstein Of Love 03:52
10. Just A Matter Of Time 04:00
11. 4D Man 02:47
12. Dry 03:28
13. Van Eck Phreaking 09:19

Free download from Bandcamp (full album download includes Mp4 videos and album cover art)
Free download from Jamendo

So that's the info. As I mentioned, I think I'm going to be taking a little break from songwriting and recording, so who knows what'll happen next. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy these albums and any comments and/or questions will be gratefully received.

[king feeb]

Here's my latest LP (along with TWO animated videos) for yer downloading/ listening/ nausea-inducing pleasure:

Only The Right People Got Hurt (recorded November 2010- April 2011)








1. Just For The Hell Of It 3:48
2. The Human Race Will Make Fine Pets For Our Galactic Overlords 4:07
3. I Didn't Have A Real Good Time 3:11
4. People Who Don't Brush Their Teeth 3:01
5. Dumpster Baby/ Earworm 6:38
6. Get It Over With 3:49
7. Cross Me Palm With The Coin Of The Realm 2:29
8. Songs About Robots Written By Cash Registers 3:30
9. Tapes Erase Us 2:55
10. Driving Through Hell In A Little Black Truck 3:37
11. Tiny Montgomery (Bob Dylan) 3:59


Free download from Bandcamp (full album download includes two videos, album art and many bonus tracks including a buncha Rolling Stones cover versions)
Free download from Jamendo

Please enjoy responsibly!

[ConnyOlivetti]

really good work, and some splendid videos to go with!
impressed by your progress regarding the videos.
what program do you use for the animation?

[king feeb]

really good work, and some splendid videos to go with!
impressed by your progress regarding the videos.
what program do you use for the animation?

Thanks, Leif.

I'm not actually using any animation program. I'm doing individual cels in Photoshop and then dropping them sequentially into iMovie. Each drawing is shown only .03 of a second, and it takes a lot of drawings to even realize a single minute of a video. I estimated it took about 1500-1700 cels to make "Driving Through Hell In A Little Black Truck" (which took me 9 sessions of 8-10 hours each).

It's certainly more labor-intensive than Flash animation, but I really like the look of the finished product.

[king feeb]

Somehow, I barfed up yet another LP this year (even though I promised myself I was going to take a break).This collection prominently features the cheap/cheesy Yamaha keyboard I bought at the local charity store for $70. Such a deal! Also, the sound quality is better on this one, due to much research on EQing. Anyway, here's the info (and a video for all you Philip K. Dick fans):

SOAPBOX (recorded May 2011- September 2011)





1. I Like Everything Here 3:41
2. Underwater Kingdom 2:58
3. The God That Sucks 2:41
4. Shoulda Stayed Lost 2:57
5. It Feels Good When I Stop 4:00
6. Janitor Of The Universe 4:07
7. The Future (And How You Can Stop It) 4:01
8. They Want Their Money Back 5:22
9. UBIK 1:23
10. We Shit You Not 2:25
11. Grasshopper Mind 4:16
12. You Didn't Need To Hear This 3:59
13. Now Here Man 2:41
14. __________ 2:58


Free download from Bandcamp (full album download includes a video, album art and a couple of bonus tracks)
Free download from Jamendo

WARNING: the track "Janitor Of The Universe" is Not Safe For Work (That janitor cusses. A lot!)

[ConnyOlivetti]

Also, the sound quality is better on this one, due to much research on EQing.

Soapbox is really great!
highly recommended!

a very fine album!

/ Tony! just out of curiosity, whats your own thoughts about your research on EQing?
what have you done different this time?

[king feeb]

/ Tony! just out of curiosity, whats your own thoughts about your research on EQing?
what have you done different this time?

Most of the research was focused on bass. I felt that the overall bass presence and sound was a bit weak on my last few efforts (maybe because the guitar and keyboard sound has become stronger? I dunno...). In any case, I felt that the bass was lacking in presence, yet if I merely turned up the gain on the bass channel, I would get a booming bass sound that drowned out everything else. This time out, I tried cutting and pasting the bass track multiple times so that I had two or three identical bass tracks. I then EQed each track differently (one emphasizing the low frequencies, the second emphasizing the higher frequencies and sometimes a third with some type of slight distortion or fuzziness). This allowed me to mix them together, which gave me a lot more flexibility (for instance I could have a booming bass sound that doesn't overwhelm the other instruments in sheer volume, or a smoother bass sound that doesn't get lost in the mix). It seems to have added more clarity and definition to the basslines this time around.


I also did similar things with the guitar tracks, having the same guitar going through two or three different effects on different tracks and then blending them together. I also did a lot of experimenting with guitar sounds (which has nothing to do with EQ). For instance the guitar sounds on "Now Here Man" (yes, that's a guitar, not a keyboard) were produced by plugging in a chain of four different effects, ending with this cheesy "organ" setting on my little multi-effects unit (Korg Pandora). It looked like a Frankenstein experiment, but sounded pretty cool, I thought.

The other EQ thing I worked on was the sound of the cymbals. I use a drum machine, and I always thought the cymbals sounded too sibilant. After a couple of hours of dicking around, I found a good EQ setting which, when mixed with a tiny tad of reverb, sounds more like a real cymbal.

Overall, I'm using fewer channels these days (because I'm planning things out better), which gives me more space for such cut/paste/multiple EQ experiments.

[king feeb]

Even though it is probably NSFW, I did an animated clip for "Janitor Of The Universe". It's in horribly bad taste of course, but you can dance to it!

[ConnyOlivetti]

Even though it is probably NSFW, I did an animated clip for "Janitor Of The Universe". It's in horribly bad taste of course, but you can dance to it!

Fab work as usual!