Spanning more than four years and less than thirteen, presented here are some selected tracks from the Drunken and otherwise inebriated noise collective known as Shocktrauma. The group consists of my brother Tyler, myself, and a myriad of friends, drug dealers, and well-wishers. In short, I can't say for certain who played what on which tracks at any given time. I know that when you hear someone randomly mashing keys on what sounds like an SK-1, that's probably Chris Freed...and that really is an SK-1. Beyond that, who the Hell knows? If you think you might have contributed to these tracks, email me . . . you probably did.

Regarding the processes by which many of these pieces were made, we would often set up our modest gear, chain it all together somehow, record a stereo track on our Yamaha four-track tape machine, hit record, and 45 minutes later we would switch channels and blindly record another stereo track on top of the first one. The times where things seem to seamlessly flow or violently ebb is often mere coincidence. I don't know if this could accurately be called improv or not, and frankly, I don't think any of us are all that interested in the semantics of genre. All I know is that it's weird and we like it and had a damned lot of fun making it.

As far as gear goes, it's equally hard to describe. We had a few cheap keyboards, a drum machine, guitars, vocal sounds, effects of various kinds, white noise generators, and feedback loops created by manipulating our other electronic gizmos. We also used a fair amount of 'field' recordings, such as trains, thunderstorms, or walking with a mini-tape recorder in one's pocket, as well as more deliberate things like chains in a glass jar, pounding on 50 gallon barrels, children's toys, and pieces of metal gutters. We quite literally have hundreds of hours' worth of sounds stored away, all of it sounding different from the last . . . if you'd like to hear more, just email me or find me on Soulseek (vooklah23).

We have been digitizing many of our old tapes and archiving the Shocktrauma material over the last few years, and enough progress has been made where I can announce that we intend to complete an official four-disc set of this body of work. We've been keeping it for ourselves for too long, and now we wish to share it with the World. Look for this sometime in 2008 - I'll do periodic progress updates on this site.