11:34 recordings

Happy Thanksgiving.

2008-11-26T10:08:00.000-08:00

Welcome to 11:34 Recordings.

2008-08-06T11:20:00.000-07:00

Here is the complete collection of finished works that I, Allen P. Williams, have created or participated in since 1999. It is all posted here in reverse chronological order. For each post, I will be putting up artwork, information, lyrics, etc. over the weeks, months, and/or years to come. As I find more music that was never completed or was never included, I will put together some digital compilations for your downloading pleasure (or lack thereof). Enjoy the 13.5 hours of free music (or lack thereof)! Oh, and I will also probably, at some point in my life, work on "NEW" music as well. We'll see.

Allin + Rye Enn - Molotov Fairytales (2008)

2008-08-05T16:40:00.001-07:00

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Allin - Chapter Thirteen (2006)

2008-07-08T11:42:00.000-07:00

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Allin - Part Two: Hopefully No One Kills Themselves This Time (2004)

2008-07-01T09:57:00.000-07:00

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Flophouse - Appetite For Liposuction (2004)

2008-06-30T08:49:00.000-07:00

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Allen Williams - The "Bizarre Lust Of A Sexual Deviant" Recordings (2003)

2008-06-30T07:50:00.000-07:00

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Last Step Down - 4 Song Demo (2003)

2008-06-27T07:52:00.001-07:00

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Definitely Miscellaneous - 2 (2003)

2008-06-26T08:57:00.000-07:00

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Last Step Down - Jam Session #2 (2003)

2008-06-26T07:46:00.000-07:00

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Allin - Part One: Betraying The Sheep (2002)

2008-06-26T07:19:00.000-07:00

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Flophouse - Download Me - Delete Me (2002)

2008-06-25T14:42:00.000-07:00

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Definitely Miscellaneous - There's Nothing Like Nothing (2002)

2008-06-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

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Last Step Down - Jam Session #1 (2002)

2008-06-25T09:03:00.001-07:00

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This jam occured for a reason. Brian Beemer had just bought a Korg drum machine/synth. thing for $300. We were excited to say the least. We decided to just jam for like an hour and record it on one side of a 90 minute tape. A girl named Crystal Berry plays keyboard throughout the entire recording. She obviously (at most times) was unsure of what instrument on the keyboard she wanted to use. I grabbed a microphone and an effects pedal for about the first 3 tracks. After I got bored of that, I grabbed Brian's guitar and we fed it through an effects pedal, then through the Korg, causing it to cut out at predetermined intervals. So this marks the first ever recordings of the Korg, which later shows up on almost every single song by any artist on 11:34 Recordings. Enjoy the noissssssssse.

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.

Last Step Down - [react] (2001)

2008-06-25T06:31:00.000-07:00

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This is primarily a companion disc for "Disconnected". Originally, I was not going to release a "remix" disc for this one, but what had happened was I recorded some stuff for "Disconnected" on a cassette, then lost it, then found it after I had released "Disconnected". So this is more of just a couple demos, remixes, and new songs. And it's way better than "Control".

1. "Reaction" - One of the "lost" tracks. Awesome keyboard niceness.
2. "Sometimes (Remix)" - A remix I made using MTV Music Generator.
3. "Invert (Demo)" - The original version of Invert that was to be on "Disconnected".
4. "Your Fault (Instrumental)" - Self explanatory. One difference is the ending does a downward pitch shift.
5. "Reacting" - Another "lost" track. I guess I was trying to sound like David Gilmour. Who knows.
6. "Vertical Surfaces (Demo)" - This is kind of strange to call a demo. The version of this song that appears on "Disconnected" was recorded before this version. I think I wanted to try to completely rework the song, so I started over with this rough draft.
7. "Invert (Remix)" - Another MTV Music Generator remix. I like this one more than track two, though.
8. "React" - This song was entirely created using MTV Music Generator.

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.

Last Step Down - Disconnected (2001)

2008-06-24T14:50:00.000-07:00

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Disconnected is probably one of my favorites. I was still using the four track recorder. This also marks the end of Todd Unger putting my tapes onto cd and the beginning of Justin Kayser (who is awesome) putting my tapes onto cd.

1. "The Beginning" - This was just something I was playing on an acoustic guitar and was intended to just be a rough idea for something. I recorded it in my bathroom on one of those built-in mic cassette recorders.

2. "Void Where Prohibited" - This is one of the first songs that I completely created using MTV Music Generator. I think I sampled something from Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty on this one.

3. "Your Fault" - Inspired by the music of... Marilyn Manson. Regret!

4. "Invert" - This song is awesome. I don't really know what to say about it, though.

5. "Disconnect" - Ben Kladky played guitar on this. At least I think his last name is Kladky. Who knows. I was in a short-lived band with Ben, Brian Beemer and Alan Baumann called Drowning Faces. He borrowed my four track recorder and recorded this guitar part for one of the Drowning Faces songs. After we broke up, I took his guitar part and reversed it, then added some dance beat and a phone off the hook.

6. "Vertical Surfaces" - This was made with MTV Music Generator and some guitars. It has pretty much the same lyrics as "Invert".

7. "The Middle" - This was an instrumental that was inspired by A Perfect Circle.

8. "Use Only As Directed" - Another song created with MTV Music Generator. There's also a guitar track on there.

9. "Number Nine" - This is just me experimenting with drum beats running through my Zoom effects pedal. Also, sounds from Drowning Faces sitting in a room talking.

10. "Sometimes" - This song is kind of catchy if you ignore the "worse than Courtney Love" vocals and the "worse than Courtney Love" lyrics.

11. "Not To Be Taken Internally" - This one is my favorite. It's just a simple drum beat, a guitar and a bass. Done.

12. "None of the Above" - Brian told me that this song sounded like Ministry right after I made it. I didn't know. The only thing I like about this song is the drum beat ending which muffles out very slowly.

13. "The End" - I think this was inspired by Tool's cover of "No Quarter". It's kind of ridiculous.

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.

Last Step Down - Control (2000)

2008-06-24T14:15:00.001-07:00

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This was basically a remix album for "Surreality". I always liked Nine Inch Nails' remix cds and I thought I would do the same thing. I did all of the remixes using MTV Music Generator for Playstation. The only "new" song on this is "For Just One Moment", which is just a guitar, bass and drum machine instrumental.

1. Demon... (Long Mix)
2. Untitled Mix A
3. Small Blue Circle (Overdose Mix)
4. Untitled Mix C
5. For Just One Moment
6. Untitled Mix I
7. Tapeworm (Underground Mix)
8. Untitled Mix D
9. Demon... (Short Mix)

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.

Last Step Down - Surreality (2000)

2008-06-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

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Alright. So I made "Demonstration" in 1999 and then, even later in 1999, I started working on the next one. It ended up being another cassette released in 2000 called "deEP rest". It consisted of eight songs. Shortly after this release, I met Todd Unger. He told me he could make me a cd of my songs. At the time, that was a pretty cool thing. So I came up with what I thought would be the perfect cd: The entire "deEP rest" cassette and six of my favorites from "Demonstration". That is what "Surreality" ended up being. So here are the songs and the stories...

1. "Radiance" - This was a re-recorded version of the song from Demonstration.

2. "Demon..." - I started trying to make "catchier" songs. This track and the next two are what came of that. Bryan Beemer had just purchased an awesome guitar pedal just previous to this, and that is what I was using for all the wah-wah effects.

3. "Tapeworm" - Another re-recorded song from Demonstration. I completely reworked this version into a much catchier song.

4. "Small Blue Circle" - Another annoying catchy tune.

5. "The Deepest Whole" - I used Bryan's effects pedal to loop the guitar riff. Crystal Berry says "we will never die" at the very end.

6. "Scratched Out" - I think this is when I started trying to get really experimental. You can't really tell, but the lady that was on the radio was talking about how great Satan is.

7. "Numb Yesterday" - Weird experimental stuff. I don't know.

8. "Slipping Though The Cracks" - There was a song that I recorded that was mostly piano and a drum beat that I had completely lost. This song was like a re-recording of that with other parts.

9 - 14. All of these tracks are from "Demonstration", BUT I must say if you are going to delete the tracks off of one of them, delete them from "Demonstration" because the tracks on "Surreality" are recorded much better (and in stereo, unlike "Demonstration", which is all mono).

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.

Last Step Down - Demonstration (1999)

2008-06-24T11:13:00.000-07:00

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This was originally created as a cassette tape and represents the first recordings under the name "last step down". I had recorded plenty of music before this for about 4 or 5 years. I had just never really saved any of it. I usually taped over the same tapes and stuff like that, usually because I didn't really care for the recordings that I had made. I started experimenting with different ideas and recording them onto a four track tape recorder. Once the idea of actually putting together a finalized "album" went into my head, I just kind of realized that I had recorded about 12 tracks very recently. So, in a way, it's pretty much a compilation of things that I had been working on. That's usually the way I've done it ever since, as well. I will now just list the tracks in order and accompany them with stories and notes.

1. "Spawntaneous" - This guitar melody was pretty much inspired by the music of Primus. I have a thing for combining two words together for titles. This was the first one. Everything was recorded in one take and I hadn't even written lyrics for it when I recorded the vocals... which explains a lot. I also remember that it originally was a bit longer, but when I was recording the four track tape to a regular tape, the power in the house went out. That's why the song abruptly stops.

2. "..." - This was just experimenting with backwards masking and weird noises. Nothing too interesting.

3. "Waist" - I had actually written the music for this song about a year or two earlier. Luckily, my singing notes and the notes of the music are the same, making it more difficult to make out my lame lyrics.

4. "Radiance" - This is just a nice little melody I made on the keyboard. I still like this.

5. "Whorrible" - This one was just me trying to make fun of satanic lyrics... I guess. Again, I think it was musically inspired by Primus. I do remember when I was recording the drum beat, I was trying to play it along with "Sober" by Tool.

6. "Boredom" - I think everything in this song is played in reverse. Most of this was recorded while I was trying to sleep. It was a lame experiment.

7. "Glitter of Diamonds" - I sampled some sort of end of a sex scene from some movie that was on tv at the time. Also, at the beginning, if you turn it up you can hear Bryan Beemer's answering machine message. The melody to this song was inspired by a Die Symphony song. I used to like them.

8. "Empty Promise" - The beginning is samples from the Budd Dwyer suicide video. The rest is also boring.

9. "Cold Nowhere" - Another little soft keyboard melody thing.

10. "Tapeworm" - Cool sample at the beginning. The drums are just sampled from an Offspring song, I believe. The lyrics are horrible. Fun stuff.

11. "Deep Rest" - Here we go. This was a song that I thought was serious business at the time. Now, it is the most awesome song ever! So, I wrote all of these terrible cliche suicidal lyrics. I had Bryan Beemer sing the chorus for me. Great job! I was listening to the band Orgy at the time. I'm sorry. Let's move on...

12. "Implements of Hell" - I guess this was my first "industrial"-sounding piece. I got the title from a book I read about Albert Fish, the serial killer. He had a bag of tools that he carried around, which he called his "implements of Hell".

New artwork created in 2008 by Allen Williams.