Music for Troubled Machinery

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 copies! What started out as a total bummer - musical sketches and ideas hindered by a conked out machine - actually turned into an album. What listeners will hear on Music for Troubled Machinery is the slow and unruly death of Leb Laze's core production tool: the MPC 2000 (R.I.P). When this device begins to die, it randomly "freezes" at any given moment. It began to uncontrollably spit out all of the sounds that were loaded within it, in their raw and unedited form, over and over and over. The machine had a mind of its own. Leb Laze began to record and embrace these freak outs, using them as a basis for the majority of the songs on this album, adding to them, enhancing them and/or sculpting around them. Two shorter pieces, "Revelations" and "Dial In/Dial Out" were actually created entirely from these freak outs. Think of this record and, most importantly, these two tracks, as the last words of Leb Laze's MPC - a testament to the idea that the nonliving world is actually very much alive.