“Typical Echo”
OUR FIRST DEMO (recorded September 9-10, 2001)
About the track:
Last night, while watching the New York skyline from the window of a bus I heard the news that Bin Laden had been killed by a group of Navy Seals. Today, the whole nation felt the burden of a great injustice sink to the bottom of the ocean.
Like everyone, I remember exactly where I was on the morning of September 11th 2001. Paul and I were in New Orleans having a breakfast of beignets and coffee in celebration of writing and recording our first song together, which later became the song “Typical”. There we were, enjoying our powdered sugar and talking about our new project, when a man rushed in saying “We’ve been hit. It’s terrible…so terrible….”. We got up and went to a mechanics shop around the corner where we watched the second tower of the World Trade Center get hit and then fall. I remember thinking, “This is it. We’re going to war. We’re all going to be drafted.”
This song was several years before we started Mute Math, I was only 19 at the time. After I get past being embarrassed at how my voice sounds, and then how blatantly derivative of Moby the track is, the thing I notice is that something about it sounds so innocent to me.
The chorus vocal is a sample from a group called “Sweet Honey In the Rock” and the drums are sampled from a cassette recording of me practicing drums in my bedroom. Listening to this track brings back a lot of fond memories for me. Here’s to regaining the optimism but not the ignorance of our youth.
-Darren
