Pasted Lakes

Nick Forte is from Brooklyn, but geographically speaking, his music falls somewhere between his living room (which he seemingly in his visual design of Pasted Lakes) and Twin Peaks. He is half of the duo called Chrimast Decorations whose recent album - Model 91 on the Kranky label crept quietyly into many charts and cd players late in 2002.
Pasted Lakes is the remains of Nick's first foray into computer music, which may never see the light of day. From its remains, he took scraps and reassembled them in a somewhat random manner, recycling and remodeling them until they bore no resemblance to their source and took on a form of their own. Forte used old punk and hardcore records like the first Wire album, early Minutemen records, and Renaldo and the Loaf as inspiration - but more as a guide than anything else. These albums did not lend influence sonically or musically at all, but towards pacing, structure, attitude, and sequencing. For Nick, these groups had really terse impacting songs, and he wanted to apply these ideas to electronic music as much as possible.