One Ten Hundred Thousand Million

VINYL FORMAT. One Ten Hundred Thousand Million may be more subtle and emotional than The Octopus Project's first record, but it's every bit as hypnotic and hooky, and sometimes a whole lot noisier. Imagine the Young Marble Giants if they really were giants, with giant marble instruments -- charming, young, eccentric, gentle giants among men. In the two years since they recorded the first record, The Octopus Project has taken the barely-controlled chaos of their live performance from coast to coast playing hundreds of shows. So when it came time to record again, they had a clear idea of what they wanted -- a full-on, surround sound, 3-D, technicolor studio amalgamation injected with the wild energy they felt in those noisy, tightly-packed clubs. Some sounds were captured live, others were added later. No sounds were injured, although some complained loudly. Computer slaves helped with the recording, but they are happy slaves. Happy to be mixing the best music ever made, instead of playing chess or computing data like they usually have to do.