The phrase “lust howls” — and its sibling “lust calls” — appears across a five-year arc of alphabets-era recordings. First spotted in a curator filename sweep on 2026-04-24.
Confirmed appearances
07_08 [_]/lust howls in the afternoon.mp3(2007–2008)07_08 [_]/lust howls and calls for mating like locusts do.m4a(2007–2008)09 [_]/lust calls and sex dance.m4a(related “lust calls” variant, 2009)unreleased/lust howls.mp3(2013, unreleased loose)
The 2013 track is the latest in the arc. The .asd Ableton sidecar on the 2013 file means Colin had it loaded as late as September 2015 — possibly reworking it, possibly auditioning.
Related motif: “howl”
The broader “howl” theme runs through the catalog independently:
- “robo goats howl and bang” (fantazia2010)
- “plesiosaur howl outs and swim bump” (BESTUV09 + sep09)
- “robodogs nighttime cage howls” (DEC09SCIFI)
Whether these belong to the same motif as “lust howls” or constitute a separate “howl” motif is a curator call.
Context
The recurrence isn’t a one-off; it’s a thread Colin returned to. Like the underwaters series’s aquatic-creature naming, the howl/lust phrasing is one of his stylistic signatures. Worth treating as a motif/series rather than letting it sit buried in track titles.