This is all I've ever really cared about, is recording songs. I've had a lot of neat opportunities in my life, and gotten to do some really cool things. I don't know, but if they could let me know, that might help. I want the quality to be as good as, and I want it to be consistent.Ĭ: If they do listen all the way through, what are a few things you think people might learn about you? JM: Right now I'm still fiddling with bit rates, but I've got a little bit under six hours. Once I got out of high school, I came around pretty quick.Ĭ: About how long would it take someone to listen to all these MP3s that you're about to post? Back then, I didn't get out a lot, and didn't know that anything worthwhile could come from Houston. I picked up some Judy's stuff and I thought it was great - really weird and really straightforward, and the fact that they were from Houston blew my mind. It was the best time to be alive - for two years, you could have any song you wanted, with no guilt. It was right when Napster was the thing, my last couple of years in high school. JM: I don't have everything they've ever done, but a friend of mine in high school told me about them. I'm getting a little bit better at recording them, and spending a little more time on them, but I've always had that initial impulse: Crank out as many as you can and see what sticks.Ĭ: Several songs on the sampler kind of reminded me of the Judy's. I don't know - you write a song, and then you finish it, and then you write another song. I got a four-track when I was 16, and that instantly became the only thing I was interested in doing. Joe Mathlete: Initially, it was lack of anything better to do, I think. "Hopefully a lot of pretty okay ones and a few great ones."Ĭhatter: What do you think it is that makes you so damn prolific? "I've written a lot of songs, but not necessarily a lot of great songs," he admits. Mathlete has compiled about 130 of his unreleased and out-of-print songs, dating back to 2000, that he plans to post online at and burn onto a CD-R available at Sound Exchange. Isn't releasing any old recording at Mango's Saturday - he's releasing all of them. The local musician, artist, producer, 29-95 blogger, videographer and comic-strip commentator Joe Mathlete puts most other local musicians to shame.
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