Thank you for the shout out, Rick and all of you guys. This really warms the cockles of my heart to see all of these tracks from different places on the IDMf catalogue, on a release that totally reinterprets their original form and place here. I remember each of these individual tracks distinctly, whether it was mastering them, mixing them, or arguing with Nathan (Permutated/Terrapin) over whether or not they should be included on the release. Again, he’ll never read this but I’m gonna throw him some love anyway…
With all these props and all this love thrown my way, I gotta flow it all toward the person who is the original OG mastermind behind the IDMf Netlabel, and that’s him. You wanna know who really blazed the trail? It’s mothafuckin Permutated. He started all of this, it was his brainchild… yes I was there with a few others to help work out the details, but we were all learning together. It was a beautiful moment of my life. I would have never had the privilege of handling all of y’alls incredible music without him bringing me into the fold way back when we were releasing IDMf001. I remember him blowing up my phone back in 2008 at like 2AM telling me that “sending a pre-master as an .mp3 is ridiculous.” Woops. I’ve come a long way LOL.
I loved working with Nathan on IDMf from the beginning up until he decided to leave to focus on his family. We were a special yin and yang. He was always much more critical, while I was the one who always wanted to greenlight every track submitted. If it were up to me, our compilations would be 150 tracks long, and if it were up to him, they would probably be 1 or 2 lol. We spent hours on the phone or on chat discussing, sometimes literally yelling at each other, why this track was great or why this track didn’t cut it. To this day he is still one of my close friends and WE STILL DO THIS when we talk about music, and I gotta say, if you don’t have a buddy like that, someone who you deeply respect musically while also completely differ with on aesthetic tastes, I suggest you find one.
Not everyone liked him here, and he certainly rubbed a lot of you the wrong way, but without him, there would be no Jazzyspoon, no Halogen, no Synaecide, no IG88, no Anodyne Industries, no Atra Aeterna, no Fidelium, and many more. In turn, I’ll take credit for several others telling him so-and-so artist had to be included or he’s a moron, and ya know what, he listened. Yin and yang.
I am long-winded as usual, I’m just full of good memories from this release. In closing I’ll say that what I am seeing now with this current dynamic, @Manton and @RFJ, you guys have got me excited about things to come for this little netlabel project… stoked for the amazing music to come. The fact that we are on RELEASE MOTHAFUCKING NUMBER ZERO SIX SEVEN… that truly makes me soul glow. Thank you to you both for what you’re doing and I am happy to be a part of it still in any way I am needed.
<3
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Never 4get me, buddy. Best frenz 4 lyfe. Have a gr8 summer d00dz. Your #1 friend always, Wayne Fiddy Baker"
the next retrospective should be yearbook themed.
, well movies in general and always thought it referred to a diary, which I guess in way it is…
