Year 100 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian

* Pliny the Younger advances to consulship.
* Tiberius Avidius Quietus' rule as governor of Roman Britain ends.
* Timgad (Thamugas) is founded by Emperor Trajan.
* Trajan creates a policy intended to restore the former economic supremacy of Italy.
* The Roman Army reaches 300,000 soldiers.
* Bricks become the primary building material in the Roman Empire.
* Lions have become extinct in the Balkans by this date.
* Pakores (last king of the Indo-Parthian Kingdom) takes the throne.
* The Kingdom of Himyarite is conquered by the Hadramaut.
* Paper is used by the general populace in China, starting around this year.
* The Hopewell culture begins in what is now Ohio circa this date.
* Teotihuacan, at the center of Mexico, reaches a population of 50,000.
* The Moche civilization emerges, and starts building an advanced society in present-day Peru.
* In China, the wheelbarrow makes its first appearance.
* The Temple of the God of Medicine is built in Anguo, China.
* The Fourth Buddhist Council is convened circa this year.
* Appearance of the first Christian dogma and formulas regarding morality.
* The compilation of the Kama sutra begins in India.

ALL TIME CLASSIC: lyrical humorous poitical lyric from Squirmy - "We're gonna grow pot"....
AND B.T.W. - if you are an (honest) law enforcement officer working for the good of your community to help its citizens, then please accept our most sincere apologies - this was written WAY before proposition 284 - the brainchild of Squirm's kooky survivalist anarchist "I'm gonna go out and live in the hills and pan for gold" period....

J.S. Bach's suite for baroque lute in C minor bwv 997.

5 movements:
Fantasia
Fuge
Sarabande
Gigue
Double

Kali and a pair of neumanns

(this is for all the snobs and haters out there... boo hoo, I don't like techno, I don't like rap... boo hoo)

a little friendly advice: "I don't like..." = "I don't know anything about... and am uninterested in learning"

LOVE MUSIC - there is good and bad in ALL styles.

The mighty swamp sound system is about inclusion, diversity, variety, & learning about the things we don't understand.

LIVE DUB
Extended rehearsal version.
Undoctored recording of how the band actually sounds.
Recorded with a single microphone in the middle of the room - no mixing, no effects, no eq.

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This is the opening track from the Swamp Sound System debut album.
We used it to open all our live shows for years.
Inspired by Clint's brilliant film.

This is an original arrangement of
a Robert Johnson lyric, done in a style which was very popular in the 1970's. Originally we were doing 'Stones in My Pathway' to this jam, but we decided we like the lyric to "Travellin' Riverside Blues" better, but we kept "Pathwaystones" as the title.
Click Dark is the bad-ass-mo-fo on drums.
note: 'open' drums at the end for all you producers out there...

* 138 git-house *

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Johnny Bond's lyric done in a contemporary style with Kali on all instruments.

extended dub mix

Another Alter Ego tune from the vaults....

"You better take a step closer, next time, when you try to snuff out my life behind my back - what a beautiful day. I would not want to pass away, my body is strong but the spirit is weak, I'd like to stick around for maybe just another week"

A tricky juxtaposition of samples from Pink Floyd, Ventures, Keith LeBlanc/Tackhead, with original guitar and bass.

This started out as a drum and bass tune but seemed to need some reinforcement in the bottom so we added the 1/4 kick drum and now we don't know what style it is. Maybe someone will mail us and let us know
- it is quite difficult to keep all the electronica sub-genres straight especially when we are putting all our energy into being creative and making music...

"Yeah, it's a true story man..." All of these things happened exactly as described one hot summer of hitch hiking around the American southwest.

The tunes itself was actually crafted in Switzerland with Kali's friend Sven reading the words off of a sheet of paper while Kali worked out the groove. Sven has great English, but between some pronunciation problems and some illegibility, he occasionally asked a question or mis-read something. We had a cassette recorder running just for fun as we were housebound in a dark, cold, Swiss winter. Listening to the recording later, we decided that some of these ad lib's were funny so we included things like, "Hey what's that?" and "No - it was the Santa Fe" - Sven said, "Hey man, it's a true story" in one of the guitar breaks.

Drum & Bass tune - the first one of the new group made with sampled broken beats using logic in sync with ableton live.

We are revisiting all our recent material as we prepare to settle on final mixes so we can get the Blaud album finished. It's nice to return to tunes we haven't scrutinized in awhile to clarify and focus the mixes. With this one we wanted to open up the form and densities without disrupting the which hypnotic mood it evokes.

Here's a new version of No. 284 with extended dub section in the middle. This one is more like we do it live.

No. 284 Squadron was formed at Gravesend, England on the 7 May 1943 as an air-sea rescue squadron. The squadron moved to RAF Hal Far, Malta in July 1943. The squadron was equipped with the Supermarine Walrus and was responsible for air-sea rescue in the around Malta and later Sicily during the Italian Campaign. Providing detachments of aircraft as the campaign proceeded. At the end of the second world war the squadron disbanded at Pomigliano on 31 March 1946. The squadron re-formed at Nicosia, Cyprus on 15 October 1956. The squadron was equipped with the Bristol Sycamore helicopter to provide support for internal security duties in Cyprus.

We have been looking for some nice NASA audio and finally found what we were looking for. This tune was sounding quite outer space and was nearing completion at the time - "Falling objects in a gravity field" fit so perfectly.

This was the very first dance tune Drink & Food wrote. emDay had sampled Vincent Price's original with the crackle-box and we were digging on the musical cues and Carolyn Craig saying "Darling, the only ghoul in the house is you" so we decided to write a house tune incorporating some of our favorite samples.

Billy and Kali were driving the coast on the way to a secret spot we call "Nowhere" - we were talking about surf-speak and decided to write a rap about surfing using as much surf terminology as we could.

If you know & love "Night of the Living Dead" (who doesn't?) then you REALLY gotta hear this - one of Squirmy's true lyrical masterpieces.... "They're coming to get you Barbara..."

One of the original "Drink & Food" tunes recorded by Schweickie and Kali.
The title refers to the origin of the raw material which makes up the ambient electronic part. It has occurred to us more than once that we might change the name - we wouldn't want to be misunderstood as 'doggin' Jimi - an all-time hero, true American Idol - one of the most brilliant, innovative, and influential musicians of the 20th century. Maybe we keep the name and dedicate it to Jimi.....

Classic old school punk rock from the vault: Alter Ego / Babylon Representative from the album "Slush Puppies"

This is a note for note rendition of a tune originally recorded by Eric B. & Rakim.
All of the motifs which were samples in the original have been re-created with guitars.

~ No sequencing ~
Just loopers and turntables and keyboards jam live
Hariprasad Chaurasia SL-DZ1200 pcm 41

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