Sleep Well (June 2008):
Recorded predominantly over the course of 2007 (13 months total), Sleep Well was a record about nightmares. I could write out the ideas and process behind the record, but instead I'll link you to a video we made about it:
We also made four other videos for the record, including two live videos and two "Scrap Books":
Monsters It's An Ugly Life Scrapbook One Scrapbook Two
S/T (January 2006):
Released in early 2006 on Morr Music -- but actually recorded from October, 2004 through May of 2005 -- this was our first "official" album. Me and Alex have worked together, off and on, since around 2000. We originally met in the band "Helicopter Project." We never released anything from that project (phew!), but after that group split up we continued working together, recording random songs whenever we had time off from work. It wasn't until '04 that we made the project into something legit (read: we gave it a name).
The self-titled Electric President took us about 8 months to track, and it was recorded in Alex's bedroom and my toolshed. The initial concept behind the record was to see what happens when computers were integrated into the song writing process. Later on, other concepts were added (the songs all being about various "futures", and other silly stuff like that), but that was where it all began.
If you'd like to hear a track from the record, click on the little player below. Oh, and just to clear this up: that myspace page (myspace/morrelectric) is not run by us or the label. We don't know who's running it, and when we attempted to start a page of our own we were shut down for potential copyright infringement, or something of the sort. I took that as a sign. Or I was too lazy to really do anything about it. Whatever. We don't have a page.
Videos:
The first video, for Insomnia, is from Kirby and Julia of Radical Friend. The second one, for Grand Machine No. 12, was done by the folks over at Metronomic. Click on the thumbnails to the right to check them out.
You Have the Right to Remain Awesome (2004):
This EP was the first set of recordings Alex and I did under this Electric President name. We wrote and recorded the 5 songs over the course of about a month, with the intention of playing them at live shows. As it turns out, we rarely did that (play shows, I mean), so the recordings more or less sat there. And then we got to work on S/T.
But four of the five songs were released as a pair of seven inches on Morr Music: You Have the Right To Remain Awesome, Volumes 1 and 2. I don't know where to find these or how available they are, but I don't know a lot of things.
Click on the players below if you'd like to hear a couple tracks from this.
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i'm no the lonely son (i'm the ghost)