The Printer Pod w/ Basic Printer

This week I brought Aaron on to have a conversation about how the next record's been coming along. We touch on the process we're taking for making it, reference a lot of the themes that I'm attacking, and even drop a few song titles WOAH! Hope you dig dear Aaron here, please give it a listen so he knows he's LOVED and will come back.

For this week, I go through 5 albums that I absolutely love lately. The albums are...

Clarence Clarity - No Now
Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
Tobacco & Aesop Rock - Malibu Ken
Boy Eats Drum Machine - Hoop & Wire
Lemonade - Pure Moods

I hope you enjoy digging into my taste a little more, and I hope I showed you one of your next fave artists!

Boy oh boy (eats drum machine)! Boy Eats Drum Machine is an indie artist who fuses turntablism, saxophone playing, and playful homegrown production into expressive pop collages. He has been one of my all-time favorite artists since college and I've taken enormous influence from him. After a number of peripheral interactions over Instagram, I managed to convince him to come onto the podcast for a chat! It was totally a dream come true and I'm crazily honored. You can find his music all over the usual streaming services and I hope you'll go seek him out, if you love my stuff, you'll love his. 

The headline is not a joke. I interview a real, actual forest troll named Scufflemöss Treemen. Confused? Not sure why, I feel I was pretty clear. Incredulous? Well, that I'd understand. To be succinct, Scufflemöss is a forest troll that lives in the outskirts of Nashville, is a fan of metal, holds a weekly livestream show called 'Bedtime Stories' (of which I was a guest), is a generally active member of the music community and has done a lot to foster his very own community - the Scufflemöss Fruend Club. He's kind, fascinating, and definitely a little scary at first look. I hope you enjoy this convo.

I met Anna at a BBQ like 2 years ago, and then I kept running into her because we had a lot of overlapping circles of friends. At that same BBQ, we ended up playing a 10 person wide drinking game where it got HELLA crazy, so I guess we bonded a little bit then too. Since, she's been on my radar and I've seen her book gig after gig at SoFar's and Rudy's Jazz Room, to be specific. After many run-ins, laughs, and conversations about spirit animals and theoretical Senators, I finally had her on the pod. She arrive at my house with an uncovered burger and fries which was hastily looted from a networking event, and I thought to myself - YES. This is Anna in her natural hab. I hope you enjoy our convo!

Celeste is an album I made in 2014, and my most legitimate effort before I moved to Nashville - it featured a session drummer, my best mixing, and represented myself well up to that point. There was also a decent theme for the record - the cosmos, and my puny relationship to it. I discuss this since-hidden record, share song snippets and explain my influences and headspace I was in while making this record. This is a clear tee-up to my proper release, the Basic Printer EP in 2017, and a representation of my formal beginnings. Maybe a pod will happen on that one soon. For now...thanks for being a part of the printer preludes series! You can hear them all at basicprinter.com/printer-preludes.

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I wrote this record from 2012 - 2013, and it is the theoretical soundtrack to a video game that doesn't exist. It's also the first record that has drumkit (played by me) and real strings (sometimes played by me, mostly by Jake Bellissimo. Great person). Had a great time revisiting this one and re-figuring out the lore that I wrote with Snore Captain. Hope you love! You can download this record for free and/or donate at basicprinter.com/printer-preludes. If you want to support in a different way, consider buying a piece of merch using the 20% off code 'PODSQUAD' at stuff.basicprinter.com. Love you!

As a delayed reaction to a breakup from years prior, I wrote this album while suffering panic + anxiety attacks under the summer sun in upstate NY. With college ending and no friends around to find comfort in, I was forced to learn to be better and get over my issues, because I couldn't talk to the girl and I couldn't go back and time to fix anything. This album is an erratic exhale of that time period. Enjoy.

This week as a part of the Printer Preludes series, I recount a minimalist record I made in 2012. I like this record a lot and I remember it meaning a lot to me at the time. This record marks the start of when I started to get truly personal in my music. 

Installment two of the subseries 'Printer Preludes' (basicprinter.com/printer-preludes), this episode is about my second record ever created, 'Abstract Trust.' More rooted in an electro-rock territory, this record was where I started to formalize my talents and introduce more acoustic/performed elements into my music. You can download the record for free at basicprinter.com!