A Funky New Year Jam
Track 2
Happy New Year my Dear, Gentle Fauxs!
2024, eh?
Alright then. Let’s do.
I’m old enough to have thought that 2004 was the end of history.
I thought, okay, all the cool shit’s done, I can’t imagine the future.
But here’s the thing—time keeps moving forward, and cool stuff keeps happening.
I keep meeting amazing new people and having new experiences.
It’s kinda like “Wow!”
Of course, shitty things continue to happen, as they always have, but you gotta move forward and try to oppose the shittiness where you can.
My creative goal for 2024 is to release a long player album of all new, higher-fidelity songs.1
That was also my goal in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In the quick little video below, I have filmed the annual admittance of failure of not releasing a long player and kicking to ball down the road to 2024.
I’ve been meditating on workflow and manifesting and remain hopeful.
Today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” is a funky little instrumental jam that I busted out in 2019. Listen in the player below.
This song had been in the “2023 Long Player hopefuls” folder, but I listened to it the other day and then walked out on the patio of my rental and looked down to see this:
In closer detail:
I took it as a sign.
And so, a funky little instrumental that had been called “lpk25 test drive” became “Track 2” of Volume VII of “From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew T. Schindler.”
Nile Rodgers of Chic inspired this song.
I had watched a long interview with him and he singled out his strumming style and how he built certain songs, so I took from that and came up with this.
I had purchased this little midi controller when I was working on this tune and used this song as a test drive to see what I could produce.
“Track 2” has a better ring to it than “lpk25 test drive,” no?
I remain your humble servant,
OX&C,
Faux Jean
p.s. large thanks to all the folks who keep buying songs over at the bandcamp there, eh?
I went down to the dog beach on Coronado Island last night and took this pic, which somehow made me feel hopeful about 2024:
As opposed to the Lo-Fi aesthetic of the “Mixed Up Files.”