
yoshi: hahahhaa
okay then ,... here's what i have, i have the dual mule (unmastered version) on my cd player with headphone, so ill be listening on headphones!
mikro: oh god its happening, just like in the gmail song
yoshi: hahahahah
mikro: i was like what is this orange thing in my periferals
yoshi: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
sorrysorrysorrysorrry
mikro: *getting on headphonics
lol
yoshi: okay so let's start this up man! lets do this like a boodist
sure one sec...
yoshi: hhaha it is :) i fixed u tho
okay just tell me when ur ready to press play and we'll do a play button countdown.
or rather, unpause, so there's absolutely no delay!
mikro: im ready... from 10! tminus
yoshi: 10
9
8
7
6
5
u finish it off
mikro: hahahahha
4.9
3.8
yoshi: duel muel
mikro: 2.2
1
p
la
y
yoshi: now!

Track 01

wow...
i havent heard ur version in a LONG TIME
mikro: oh this is old..
yoshi: seriously..
hahah
i was really lookin forward to it
damn there u go....
mikro: thats funny you did a good job w.tracklist
yoshi: oh good, thanks ;)
man..... ben... im tellin u this song.... the words.... what ur saying!  !!!  !
ITS SO POWERFUL...
mikro: i listened just a couple seconds for transitions, theyre interesting.. (maybe i cheated a little).. thats something im always thinking about
yoshi: this is still my favorite thing u ever did....
sorry..
(im looking forward to hearing ur transitions etc... )
mikro: dont be. im glad you relate so much, it kind of opened us up to working on things
yoshi: just caught up in this song
yeah this was the first one really..
mikro: TMNT
yoshi: teenage mutant ninja turles???
what?
mikro: is disney frozen?
"turtles lost in the sewer dont get magical powers" lol
yoshi: no im lost, uve lost me hahah
oh yeah hahaahaha
did u say that?
mikro: yessir haha
yoshi: u msay so much here..
but tell me, it was one of those moments right?
u wrote this all in one go?
mikro: yeah its a large stream, a river
yoshi: fully inspired...
yeah
ive been there, thats how most of myish, or my best ish is done... in a night..
mikro: for sure. one of my first where i wanted to "mc"
yoshi: i can tell
ur just feeling it
yeah yeah
mikro: like i'd tried one before and just decided to go instrumental, so i had to get over that, and the beats were there, and i was hungry!
yoshi: it was the first time id heard u rapping and i rmemeber thinking that this was cool, cos it wasn't trying or unpretentious, it was still YOU but u were jus rapping
yeah the hunger is what im talkin about ...
u can hear it
or rather an artist can
im sure everyone can
oh wow...it just stopped

Track 02

mikro: the bell
yoshi: yeah hahha that was the bell in my university room in egham
mikro: haha i thought of daft punk
as if human being was one more time..
yoshi: i never heard it ! by the way, we moved out at the same time, u out of kansas me out of egham...
mikro: wow
yoshi: so these arenice memories... id hear that bell every hour...
and the birds...
mikro: in lawrence, ks there is a like steam whistle that goes off during the schoolday. your bell is much nicer.
yoshi: no way!
mikro: a harmonium story!!!! i love these things!
yoshi: sounds nice though...
mikro: (i liked it when it was broke, people relaxed)
yoshi: haah okay must have been an annoying sound
i like the idea of the whistle though, like the train sounds i always hear when im in america
mikro: so i got my 1st harmonium at goodwill and used it in a sculpture piece that was half conceptualized.. but i loved to play it..
yeah if it was farther away like the real trains haha
yoshi: :) was ita box one ? that u sit down?
II FEEEEEEEL OOOOOOOOOOOOOO-PEN.
mikro: it was plastic, i stripped down the chassy to its innards (added a cover on the bottom to keep the air)
yoshi: hahahaha okay
mikro: haha yeah my friend billy bobcat will love this.. its so much like what we did, actually when i found this second harmonium
yoshi: yeah???
i love this kind of playing, cos this is what i always do but i just happened to record this one... i have this feeling of regret when i havent recorded one of those moments
mikro: anyway so after i was in school in oregon i moved to rhode island and in this snowstorm i had to abandon my place with futureboots and moved upstairs these folks i worked with... the basement was interesting they had a spot for laundry, but the rest was never really used. so i explored it a few times, kind of creepy dark...
anyway (im too slow!!)

Track 03

yoshi: :)
mikro: i found a harmonium, it was beautiful
yoshi: its good
yeah
well they are.
mikro: wooden with four legs
yoshi: i love mine, yeah minds wooden, afghanoriginally, my dad got it years ago
mikro: i had to set it up a little so it could reach the outlet in the ceiling, and jammed right there in the basement darkness..
thats awesome man
yoshi: oh urs was electro
we're listening to asalaam alaikum , how do u do ? right???
im a slave to the rhythm!
mikro: that song made me want to go back for it.. i felt like i passed on something important and kinda welled up. they will probably not use it/toss it if i dont rescue
electro for air only
yoshi: okay
(mine i had to push with my hand)
mikro: this track blew my ears off, its funny like the dule duel of sonic endeavour re: human being...
oh thats righteous, i want a hand powered one!
yoshi: hah what doyoumean
u knew about the manu chao sample when u first heard it right? so did i when i made it but i knew this still needed to be done..>!
mikro: i remember cruising around providence at night with my girl and i was like... "listen to this shit"... and we blasted it in all its glory
yoshi: NO WAY!
hahha asalaam alaikum?
no way
!
mikro: manu chao is 10x better this way
yoshi: hahahaah
thanks bro
gives me pleasure toknow it was blasted in a car... i never drove in my life so thats fun
mikro: yeah you sent me the western box cd, i played that out in my car till the cats came home
yoshi: hahahahahahaa
i think i remember u tellin me that actually
mikro: i'll drive YOU? not this summer though :) nice outro...
yoshi: damn... 2004!
hehe yeah
what are we on now?

Track 04

oh GMAIL !
hahaaahaha
mikro: we are HERE
this is so postmodem
yoshi: to the website, .dot com checkitout hahaha
yeah it is hahha
postmodern hahahah
listen to you hahahaha
mikro: that ghostface* story is bs :p
yoshi: with headphones its so much more funny
mikro: those faces are moving its crazy
yoshi: hahahahaa
hahhahaahahah
we're just... both ... i dont kow wht to say
we peak at he same time, its just too funny
i can never tellu how much i laughed when i first heard what u had done
it was the hardest id laughed literally in years
mikro: i think this release is the best "rerelease" of music, it makes more sense to me than anything else ive seen. in a way its kind of an exception to what i'd thought made sense. its cool, it turns out this kind of documents our friendship aww
yoshi: yeah yeah it really does.
mikro: (oh pop out really helps - resizes vertically)
im so glad you laughed heartily youre going to live so much longer now

Track 05

yoshi: not in an obvious way... cos we dont talk all that mucha bout our personal lives much, but musical friendship... for sure. here u go with ur inspired freestyle-burstory
:) thts a good way to think of laughter... i like it
mikro: yeah i loved trying to work with what you were giving us at that point, trying to echo mirror reflect mix it up compliment, it was new to me
i love the oooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhms going now
yoshi: ahahah, i love doing that,i wanted to do an acapella hiphop album with chants like this but bjork came out with that awful album and it turned me off the idea... but tell me this... u were not quite 'with it' when u recorded this were u??
or were u?
mikro: microbursts are amazing and frightening... marissa jokes that i talk about them every time we went outside in lawrence, but you can still see it, how it rearrainged large objects slightly, trees/poles askew
yoshi: what IS a mikroburst?
mikro: uh oh passaro the bird is freaking out. i cant listen to this even remotely close to her or she will hear herself and get curious
yoshi: hahahahah
tape on the shoes to protect... longevity ... but when ur sponsored u dont need to tape your shoes.. u just ask for a new pair hahahahahahah
mikro: microburst is what happens when two thunderstorms get near each other, and verticle winds hit the ground superfast and blow things out at amazingly deadly quick speeds. it all happens in a minute, before the tornado alarms go off
yoshi: nO WAY!
so its a technical term... ok
mikro: yeah i looked outside and a metal chair was crossing the street, then it went back .. 9am.. i was sleepy but not that sleepy.

Track 06

here is your robotized mc styles
yoshi: oh my goodness
mikro: i was worried for a while if youd dig it even, i mean you had to wait 3 years to hear this hahaha (sorry).. but i knew it was solid in my mind. its just abstract for sure
yoshi: yeah ur dark crystal remix..  i have to say when i heard it was called the dark crystal remix.. i knew it would sound ... well, i knew i would know WHY u had called it that.. and for me its the way u played (or completely digitised) my vocals, and that nice synth high note which comes in... thats what makes it dark crystal.
mikro: (i was "with it", i was just trying to remember the details, re:burstory)
yoshi: it is VERY abstract...and I love it all the more for that. Wellll... no i dont LOVE it, it's a hard song to love or feel anything for emotionally but in as far as i love true experimentation, yes i DO LOVE this song... but it's more like.. its almost scary what uve done. and thats why i appreciate it so much... its very brave.
i was also worried about u hearing my human being remix... God bless us, we both took such liberties
mikro: well good. yeah, i think my logic was kind of here is our culture, which the crystal cracked, and i am so totally alien to even the main words of your song/lifestyle, it makes me sad. (this, a rare moment of vulnerability from mikro haha)
yeah i got more to say on that one later haha :)
yoshi: wow, really? yeah cos im talkin about the islamic stuff i guess.. yeah haha i neve thought of that. its good to know u took on my lyrics in that way ...
and did something with how they made u feel.
mikro: i upped the levels a lot on this one (10db), so its about the same as the rx
yoshi: yeah yeah ! !  !
the trumpets rip my ears off, i love that.

Track 07

okay so we're onto my muleologue here.
mikro: is that you or a friend or a sample? i loved the noise i pulled out (trumpet)
yoshi: thats my friend playing
mikro: bump
yoshi: rob heasman...
he was also briefly on flowers and trees on the song DREAM
he met posdnous of de la soul!
he toured withthem :)
mikro: it sounds like classic jazz i just loved it
cool as
yoshi: yeah it does huh?
yeah...
mikro: miles davis quote is: ?
yoshi: oh ...
u know i quoted it AGAIN to YOU on the first page of my book which im sending to u soon...
mikro: all that equipment!! hahaha...  mikro: laptop, headphones, underwear.
yoshi: WHAT IS THIS MUSIC THAT WHICH DESCRIPTION CAN NEVER DESRIBE  ETC>>>>
hahahahhah
ahahahaha
mikro: haha awesome, man what the hell is the name of your book!?!?!
yoshi: it was funny how u said so few things! compared to me..
dont u worry about that
mikro: haha
yoshi: ull find out soon enough
hahhaha
mikro: ok!

Track 08

yoshi: ITS ROCK WITH YOU TIME!!!!!!
mikro: haha
yoshi: let's take on the world with a breakbeat !! ! !
hahaahaha
mikro: tony
robbie
holly?
abby!
yoshi: people who listen are never going to get the full flavour of how mmany freestyles u did...
mikro: no, jenny
yoshi: who were those names u kept callin out?
friends?
in the room?
random?
mikro: both
yoshi: okay
mikro: they just rhymed nice
i think your guitar works so well, i was so happy how it came together
yoshi: man, yeah they do but --people will neverknow how many freestyles u did on all those other beats or chop ups of rock with u
mikro: now they will haha
yoshi: yeah i didnt notice it at first cos u had melded it so nicely
yeah hahaha
mikro: yeah its like days of work in a big soup
yoshi: hahaha a big soup.
this is minnestrone soup with bread and cheese and electricity
mikro: feel my third charm is like that, lots of days at once. it works naturally
hahahha
yoshi: yeah yeah... i got th same vibe from this as i did from that album..
mikro: cheese and electricity
yoshi: :)
i didnt mean cheesy hehe
thats the last thing people could accuse le mikrosopht of, but probably the first thing people will accuse me of when they hear my guitar and singing styles on furutre albums )!
mikro: i like the idea of album components getting back into the mix later, myself or by others... like opensource. i keep it all around.. you down for something like that?
yoshi: u mean as in someone else messing with all this ?
i have no problem with it
mikro: ahhh i feel cheesey a lot of the time haha. but i think honestly gets lumped in with the dairy too often in this age of hardestcore
yoshi: :)
its good to be critical of ourselves...
mikro: yes yes
yoshi: i tellu what, i hope i adapt as well to the singing and guitar stuff i am interested in now, as well as u did to the rapping on ur human being song
hahaha ur screaming here is genius!
5:10
--
mikro: well i imagine youve been doing it for ages (and i had rapped actually since i was little, in church to DC TALK hahahaha) so its just a matter of assimilation... its bound to happen!
hahahahhaha marissa was cracking up when she heard that
yoshi: hahahahaa
mikro: (5:50, am i too fast)
yoshi: no
i was counting backwards
mikro: hahahahhahahah
yoshi: for the benefot of reader.s..
im 6:25
benefit
mikro: cool :)
yoshi: oh man u added the mad guitar part too!
:)
mikro: those faces are scary
shit
yoshi: yeah i like them :)
what else have u added here?
its not just my guitar and ur beat is it??
i hear sounds!!!
explain them!!!
am i going mad/
mikro: theyre distorted freestyle tracks
yoshi: just ur voice drums and guitar?
wow
mikro: i just freestyled/improvised the freestyles ;)
well and that cough sampled track a bit
yoshi: i never get over .... how many new sounds u can hear or what ur imagination makes u think u hear, when stuff is mixed together.
i thought i was hearing all kinds of keyboards there
that is how wonderful art is inspired, when ur imagination just gets those chances to input itself
u get ideas
mikro: yeah i love it. im getting too easily drawn into that echochambered false environment stuff though, its the easy out for electronic musicians... but its so pretty :p
yoshi: yeah yeah

Track 09

me too
mikro: hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil
yoshi: i dont want to overdub my voice or maybe even no reverb on my next joint
mikro: nice mal
yoshi: always a challege
HHILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
mikro: hhahaha
yoshi: IF I DIE ON TOP OF THE HILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
wow
i love those sounds
its so dark
theres a dark universe in that silence
its wonderful
mikro: that was all mal! where is he? he was going to skate with me, we talked and said he had to take another call, and never called back. its hard to know whats going to happen if he'll go or not. but we did some good stuff together, like this one is his production - you thought it was me at first

Track 10

yoshi: okay we're onto lions of the canyon now.... im gonna explain this to the homo sapiens who are listening.. i am rapping in the left side, and mikro heard my lyrics and just made up words that sounded like what i had said...it was too mad, and it works so well
mikro: mals signature: guitar with the roughcut beats, some slowing perhaps, a light keyboard... crazy abstract environments
yoshi: okay , i havent heard his stuff enough...
mikro: he's reluctant to share it really, i had to pull it from him with my teeth and claws
yoshi: i like all that he did on this album though.. burstory? lions in the canyon?? and the dark universe of silence in  between my guitar on the previous track?
hahhahaha
mikro: yeah those three. futureboots, officially.
yoshi: well some are like that.. im always fascinated by artists who dont want to share stuff as enthusiastically as me.
mikro: i hope you dont use outlook anymore........... :p
yoshi: theres a goodnes in that though, real goodness.

Track 11

hahahaha
i dont
!  !! !
mikro: awesome
yoshi: windows is so awful man! ;)
mikro: haha
yoshi: hahaha
listen to u
hahaha
mikro: yeah, that mikrosopht
bluh bluh bluh
hahaha
yoshi: i always wanted to ask u this, have u .... cos ur saying hahahahaha
bluh bluh
ur saying stuff that i say
mikro: i love how you titled this track originally as the spam, all those viagra cialis etc
yoshi: did u do this one take? or did u wrote it roughly?
cos u are so damn quick!
mikro: i pitched you down and did a take, yeah
yoshi: i mean, u can freestyle better than me too (which is a shame upon me whose been rapping for 10 years) but ... ur quicker than me..
okay
mikro: thats why im so small
yoshi: hahahaha i get it
its so good man
bold viagra hahhahahaah listen to u
mikro: its a pitch trick haha
yoshi: yeah
pitch trick
mikro: its all from you! haha
yoshi: pitchshifter

Track 12

oh here's ben!
mikro: 3982489239049824082384239080 4(computer noise)
i am actually fond of this noise, its been my (MY) computer noise for a few years now. kind of like a sick cat purring
cyborgcat
yoshi: see what i was saying ... its so true..... listen to u on the previous track, u are a midget demon microsoft demon taunting me over my outlook express.. and a second or two later, this is the human who's done all this electronic work, and here u are talking as urself !
hahah yeahi like your noise on this recorder...
better than my cleanliness, i miss noise!
mikro: haha.. yeah i feel like voice exploration is endless, in a lot of ways like computerized sound is
i think theyre my most interested/ing areas... i still am trying to find my voice, like i think its a constant thing really, to redefine refind re-emerging with the right, present voice.. also related to my digivoice haha
man im typing about myself and listening about myself.. too much
yoshi: for a long time ur digivoicewas the only one i heard, like that on ur human being track...
its good.
linen! books!
what medicine was it?
was this stuff packed away?
ready for ur move to big tuna texas?
mikro: i see the medicine? acetimenophen? you see the medicine! oh girl.
yoshi: no viagra? no levitra?
mikro: nope, not packed.. we moved in a couple (long) days
yoshi: :)
mikro: i have little to my name its mostly marissa's but i had to help haha
haha funny guy
yoshi: ur lucky...
i have been thinking as imoved around last week, relocating back to brighton...
mikro: hahah big tuna... thats more like kansas isnt it
yoshi: i realised how i just have TOO MUCH
posessions.
big tuna , texas... (wild at heart- a david lynch film! )
mikro: since high school or so ive tried to keep it slimmed down
yoshi: yeah thats how it should be...
mikro: yeah i know it!
yoshi: i havent moved enough..
listen
ur talking about
if the judge would have stopped u from leaving kansas right?
mikro: true, moving does it.
yoshi: cos u wanted to go do the skate of the union skate across america...
mikro: yeah. but i got lucky and am gone to tunaland
yoshi: and he wouldnt have let u if he had ruled against u?
:)
how is texas now? first impressions
mikro: yeah i would have to report weekly,biweekly something to a probation officer, now i just mail something in once a month, thrice. cool deal.

Track 13

yoshi: :)
we're on rock with you fingerstyle now?
mikro: well im just at marissas place, ive been here many times for breaks.. but i need to get going soon, i cant stay here, im still moving in a lot of ways... all summer..
this song always touches me
like i said i cried when i first heard it
even though it has this humor, its just honest
yoshi: u did huh.... thats wonderful.
yeah.. exactly, it's kind of funny, but i telllu i was transfixed when i wrote it
mikro: this was about the time of the microburst, that session a year 1/2 ago
yoshi: sorry wheni sung it
i was staring at the screen of the michael jackson rock with u lyrics.. yeah this was whenwe did a sizeable chunk of work on the album
06
it was a horrible time for me personally but wheni think that just this song came from it.. i am happy, besides all the other stuff i did but i was so uninspired and unhappy at this time
and desperate too
mikro: i think the hypnotic,... the meditative aspect is powerful, sincere
yoshi: yeah ... fosho
this reminds me of joni mitchell when i lost it heheh
singing high i mean
mikro: i think this song is incredible, people hear it and really wonder about a lot
hahaha
i like the highs a lot haha
yoshi: do they?
:)
this is what i like this part when u lose it
03:30
slowly slowly...
thats where we merge nicely
mikro: i think its the best kind of "remix" really.. recontextualizing our relationship, pulling at different parts of reality and emotion
yoshi: ahhhhhhhhhhh
those electronics u added
i took out one of the harsher ones if u can remember, but its so tender,, its the tenderist moment ive heard in electronic music, what udid there
mikro: i think your new timing changes the meaning a little, its not so jarring. i was a joker i wanted the open up your brain punctuated, but thats a bit rough haha
hah thats the one
yoshi: !
mikro: ahh thanks man. it didnt take long, but i had to consider it a lot

Track 14

SWIFT
yoshi: :)
SWIFT hahahahaa
BORIS hhahhaha
thats the funniest quote
what book is it from?
mikro: it was totally by chance
yoshi: some old history?
yeah yeah
mikro: one of marissa's one south america history
recent
yoshi: right :)
okay
mikro: it was dark in the room, i pulled a book off the shelf and opened it.. there it was.
yours is something you must have really liked though. its good
yoshi: i can imagine it.. dusty hahah im romanticising the scene
mikro: haha im harry potter
yoshi: well this quote is from .. i forget the name, but one of my favorite books, ive read it 3 times since 2005, 'conversations before the end of time'
hahahhaahaah
im jk rowling
mikro: <3
yoshi: wow heart!
mikro: oh shit that heart just moved me
yoshi: hahaha
it moved itself
!
mikro: robots with heart
thats a cool book title by the way

Track 15

yoshi: u must check for it
if u see it
just read a chapter itll change ur thinking
are we on ur string bone solo now?
i am
0:20
mikro: yessir
im trying to find a pic of what its made from
yoshi: haha i was going to ask u
i dont know if i realllllllllly want to know but i kinda do, i always just picture it..
its fun to picture it.... i see very thin and kinda weedy weak looking strings made of dental floss (in my minds eye)
but lots of them
attached with nails into a piece of wood
mikro: its from a sesame street plastic ernie guitar billy bobcat sent me, and i tried to modify and the bridge broke in half so i strung it around the back so you can play both sides and i use a slothead screwdriver that fits in the top and it all fits in your pocket! im taking it with me this summer
haha yeah its nylon
again, romanticized notion! haha
yoshi: wowww
well if we meet then i cant wait to play it
i would bring an instrument butwith my camera i probaby wont have room
mikro: haha yes totally.. we can make some!
yoshi: maybe ill buy a ukulele , i want one.
mikro: theyre fun
yoshi: we'll sing with stringbone haahahah what a name!
mikro: its the size of a bone... and you can kind of play it sticking from your belly or er.. anyway its funny in a lot of ways.
yoshi: i was telling my bro about it and he was laughing, whenveer he hears about u he just smiles and or laughs when i tell him the latest thing ur up to, he says "that guys crazy!" but he loves all ur stuff, we have a healthy appreciation of eccentrics , its an english thing of the middle classes i think, there's a history of these blake type people.
hahhahaha
the string bone!
mikro: it makes me think of different types of music, indian, eastern, middle eastern.. foreign to me, but very attractive.
blake?
yoshi: "Benjamin Kellivanovich plays string-bone in C-Minor."
William Blake!
mikro: props to your brothers and cousins
yoshi: :) its good that u have introduced my stuf to a few peoplein my life, and the sameon my side.
mikro: hahahha i see. thats cool. yeah i felt a bit more accepted in my brief uk encounters. i felt more normal which was good and bad depending on the people.
yoshi: when u just DO stuff like we do, then people have to keep usin mind, thats what i like about artists who are productive and dont just sit on their arses
when wre u last in theuk?
mikro: yeah man its cool to get that www.bleed into reality, people say Where is this from?! a friend in another land! haha awesome
haha thank you ahha
yoshi: yeah exactly a FRIEND
mikro: aww
i was in the uk for a week, then another as i couldnt leave during 9-11
yoshi: all the guys in my docuemtnary class saw u on the kansas city platform dancing and beatbooxig like a madman and theyknow u!
yeah yeah, thats right, and i wasin america at that time!
waiting to come back to the uK !
crazy, the duality continues

Track 16

mikro: i walked in brighton along the beach with a sunset, listening to casino vs japan, drinking some light bubbly, all the way to hove. then i had to walk back (i had assumed my friend would have a car to pick me up haha)
yoshi: hahahha wow, im gonna go ther after this!
in fact in ten minutes i have to go ! lucky we're on the last song, but thats miraculous that uwere on brighton beach before we knew each other
mikro: yeah a couple old roommates saw electric muscle at the going away party last week and they think we have to do some youtube stuff. we could, like a 100 performances of all kinds of shit, people would eat it up
yoshi: hhahhahaha
mikro: yeah man the pictures you had for this, for the art, of the abandoned ...
yoshi: all the publicneeds is sincerity and conviction... but high art , as we agreed, is all about ideas.
i feel like we started off onto something with this album.... its a good starting point for us
mikro: i actually burned this and iermoc and mine on a cd and when i first met malcolm/futureboots i played it in the car with 3 other peeps and he really got into the drums in this... that was his intro to you
yoshi: what this song
? human being remix ?
mikro: yeah, and your how do u do
yoshi: those are japanese drums :)
this was one of my favorite solos on my korg... a good moment of expression, u should have seen my fingers!
mikro: this was such a radical departure i had to absorb it a few listens and then i was like hell yes, and i was surprised and pleased and i just hoped to hear more farther more abstraction insanity coming from you haha
yoshi: with ur sample achoring me it gave me such a strength...
mikro: the rhodes
this distorted sample of me sounds great with the pushed back instrumentation
lots of good space
yoshi: yeah man, working with u really  frees me up in a way that a lot of other artists dont, i dontfeel like im shouldering any weight whenim working with u, we're both just going all out in our own ways which are somehow linked but basically we're very strong minded in a way, musically...
yeah this song is all about space!
it was a new thing i wanted to do...
i think generally u have a good sense of space , u let things breathe a lot (ur songs are sometimes very long) but maybe my heart has a pop mentality, i tend to do things quicker, even improvisations end sooner with me)
mikro: yeah this is definately not the last of le dual mule duelology!
yoshi: hahahaha
and there it ends!
the cd makes that noise it makes when its done
and we're done!
man....
mikro: haha
whats that noise?
yoshi: congratulations
its like HRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
mikro: i have the digital absence.
yoshi: oh too bad
mikro: hahahahhaha thats proud
yoshi: digital absense is awfuL!
:)
mikro: yeah i forget and leave the headphones on a lot, and go, why do i have these on?
yoshi: :0 ill take mine off now, itll feel good....
fresh air on my ears, it feels good
mikro: you said some nice things about me up there and i want to say so much back to you to equal it up but i am out of steam. i could say you make the flowers and trees live happier lives. ok, i will.. you make the flowers and trees live happier lives!
yoshi: hahaaha
mikro: yep texas limits headphones
yoshi: thanks man, u are the dude, we are both doing our things im very proud of the both of us, but as i say , i love tomorrow, this is just thebeinning and i cant wait for what we come up withnext.
mikro: absolutely :) hopefully we can jam realworld this summer/fall
stringbones and all
yoshi: so liten, i have arranged to play basketball on the beach for the first time in about 3 months, so i really have to run now, im so grateful we did this talk as well though... yes we will jam haha i cant wait for it! really. im so looking forward to being IN AMerica...
but yeah, d ou know how to save this conversation now?
do it !  ! cos i dont know how
mikro: go do it! throw it up like an orange in the sun
yoshi: hahhahaahah u remember ! :)
mikro: i'll save it
yeah thats awesome, on the radio even. beautiful work/fun
good talking (rapid style) see you soon!
get me that new art,
then i can upload it and it'll be live in a few days
yoshi: yeah it was too rapido! but its good we did it, and ill send out my book to u on mondy!
oh the album art haaha
mule-art wil be with u tonight
promise!
mikro: cool. later man!
yoshi: take care man, enjoy the rest of the us-day!
mikro: haha uk2
yoshi: :)
Sent at 11:00 AM (CST) on Saturday, June 16, 2007 (via gmail chat interface)



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from yoshi:
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incidentally, do u know how modems got named? Well its a crazy story andnot enough people believe me when i tell it, Ghostface Killah was working in the 80's as an assistant at a computer lab in silicone valley, and when his boss came up with the ingenius machine to communicate phone lines with PC's, ghostface was so excited he just said to his boss, "Yeah YEAH, we could make a lotta money offa this shit yo, but you only made one of them joints man, we need mo o' dem, gimme some mo'dem joint an' we be aiight nahmean?" and a lightbulb went off in old inventor jones' head!
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Sent at 5:56 PM (CST) on Friday, June 15, 2007 (via email)
