Joey McIntosh - or Joey Mac - was a resident of Rochester’s East End for a short while after finishing school in ‘06. He lived in a house with a spacious attic. Lots of people would crash the attic and jam during parties & roommate atticabasement would use the attic to record music - very innovative rock and post-rock jams to be specific. Joey, who was also involved in a metal band, The Council, used his attic’s low-fidelity recording setup to create his own short-lived personal project… He named it with a 24-bit string of binary code “011011000111001101100100” (which was fitting because it was only made available to hear over the internet)

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Joey recently sent me a few recordings after I told him I wanted to post them up on Color Sounds. Although this particular music is not noise-driven anarchy, it is worthy of another listen and a life beyond an obscure myspace page. There are many rock influences in this track, “resistance is futile,” but the droney quality and rubato tempo (well, more or less) really push everything over the edge. The pop nuance of the first minute and a half is taken over by a sloppy crunchy fuzz that is incredibly pleasing (to me… anyway) and so here it is.

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“resistance is futile” / stereo / 07:40

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