Ottomen records artist Justin DiCenzo’s website was down, so for the time being he has moved it under the ottomen umbrella. And I fixed the link on the left thusly. Check it out:

http://ottomen.com/justin/

From the same tape as last week, Recorded on September 26, 1996. Most of the time Dave and I were recording in my apartment, but this one was recorded in Dave’s dorm room. We discovered that his electric guitar sounded kinda cool with a microphone put near the strings while it was unplugged. His roommate Shawn Kausler is playing his bongo, and you can hear our friend Tim McCoy say “What!?” at the end of the track. And you may have the same reaction. Again this is a song dave made up as he went along. Although the 4 tracks were recorded separately: guitar, guitar, bongos, vocals.

Click to listen! > Unamplified Guitar Song < Right-click or control-click to download!

Here’s a song about unicorns !! BEWARE. IT MAY INCLUDE WORDS NOT SUITABLE FOR THE YOUNG-INS.

IT APPEARS ON THE NEW MISUNG ABLUM: “TOO HARD TO PADDLE THROUGH”  (COMING SOON! )

right click to download! > shut up i’m a unicorn <click to listen!

Hey OTTOLAND! This is Justin here for Jurstday #1

This is a song from my 2nd album “SUPER ULTRA”

It’s about sumfin and Misung says “refrigerator” a sample from the song “Magnet Artist”

OKBYE!
-Justin in Tokyo, Japan

This is another golden oldie from that very early recording session in 1996. This stuff is the primordial ooze of my learning to use a 4 track. And Dave made up these words as he went along. So, yeah, it’s a bit raw. There’s a better sounding version of this song that we recorded later with adjusted lyrics but it’s fun to hear dave’s brain making up stuff. As many of you who have witnessed that feat at an Ottomen show can attest.

Click to listen! > Dave’s Alternative Song (Sky Lark) < Right-click or control-click to download!

Misung Monday is Back!! Check out this old hit from Misung!!!

right click to download! > golden america 3 <click to listen!

This is a very weird one. My apologies for any embarrassment it causes Dave. It really only makes sense when you realize it is a parody of a strange song on a Korean rock compilation CD Dave had in college. The line “Go back to germany” and the song structure are from that song. The rest of the song was in Korean, and Dave has made up new lyrics here.

This was recorded on Sept 20, 1996. I had just gotten the machine over the summer, and this may be the earliest 4 track recording I made of Dave – although we recorded some stuff to a cheap memo recorder the previous year. This is before we were called The Ottomen. We toyed with names like The James and the Giant Peaches and The Alexander the Grapes. But nothing was sticking at that point.

But here it is. Strange as it is. Cleaned up so sparkly, that maybe I shouldn’t have. Maybe it was better all muffled with lo-fi tape hiss.

Click here to play, or right-click or control-click to download: Froggy Go Back to Germany

MISUNG MONDAYS IS BACK! Here’s a brand new song!

This week: “NO FLY ZONE” from the new “MISUNG” album

“Too Hard to Paddle Through”

>click here to listen (right click to download) – No Fly Zone

This track is from the same tape as last week. I do have some older tapes but these are from around January of 2007. I mostly recorded this by myself over Christmas break from college but had Dave  add some backup vocals in Kansas City.  Theres another version somewhere where my friend Skyler Childers sang backup. I gotta find that. I think he helped me write the lyrics. Obviously the tune is ripped off from the movie. The kids at the end are my nephews. Tristan is playing keyboard. Kody and Kekoa are requesting programed sounds on the keyboard (Not the Beatles song The One after 909, as George Garcia told me he imagined.) Adam Brown from John and Jim’s Band is on drums.

Click here to Play The Gremlins Theme – (right-click or control-click to download)

One more note. The keyboard at the end and playing the bass line in the song is this one. A yamaha pss-380. It’s actually been on sorta permanent loan from my friend George Biggs. I once told him I’d give him 50 bucks for it. But I keep neglecting to pay him. So I cant say it’s really mine.

I’m going to try to convince Misung to post here weekly. But just to get the ball rolling, here’s a outtake track from his album Roger Terror Machine. It’s called I am Legend. It was left off the album, so this is a world exclusive, man. That’s right. FIRST TIME RELEASE.

Click here to play the song (right click or control click this link to download it): I am legend