Project: alphabets
Series: Album a Month — Month 3
Release date: March 2009
Archive location: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/MARCH09hopdanceshakebump
Tracks: 22
Format: M4A
The full album title embedded in the folder name — hop dance shake bump — is a four-verb instruction, a movement sequence, the album as choreography. 22 tracks in March 2009, still in M4A format.
The standout: BOB ROSS RAVEGROOVE LOVE TRIBUTE (track 15, the longest file at ~7MB/7+ minutes). A tribute to the painter Bob Ross rendered as a rave groove and a love letter simultaneously. This is the kind of title that could only come from somewhere completely genuine.
Other titles in this album establish patterns that persist through years of output: kitchen gibbons shout at toy bulldozers (animals + household objects + verbs), laundry monster stomp contest (the monster prefix that will define JUNE_MONSTERS_09), eveninginginginginging (phonetic repetition as title — the word “evening” extended until it becomes sound).
R’s synthgift to use likely refers to a specific person (“R”) who gave Colin a synthesizer or synth preset. suave and debonair is the most traditionally musical title here — two adjectives, no noun, more like a feeling.
Track Listing
- open
- hop til u drop with limbs in the air
- kitchen gibbons shout at toy bulldozers (duplicate track number in archive)
- R’s synthgift to use
- 1 min crazeland
- messa pears
- lets drop droplets
- laundry monster stomp contest
- jumble time up up
- suave and debonair
- sidewalk spoke raw language
- do the weremouse crunch
- dream beam power theme
- 2 min chill out
- BOB ROSS RAVEGROOVE LOVE TRIBUTE
- early circles to hotel craze outs
- chapter ender build up hollering
- weather feather tetherball contest
- ultra nonsense
- invicible through the level ups bump
- eveninginginginginging
- L8R
Archive Notes
- Format: M4A
- Duplicate track 02 in archive (“hop til u drop” and “kitchen gibbons”) — may indicate a tracklist revision
- “L8R” (later) as a closing track — an internet shorthand goodbye
- “BOB ROSS RAVEGROOVE LOVE TRIBUTE” remains all-caps in the archive filename, suggesting intentional emphasis
Archive: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/MARCH09hopdanceshakebump