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The album cover of "Digitally Delicious"
APPROXIMATE COMPLETION DATE: Nov 29 2005
GENRE: Electronic, Experimental, Alternative, Dance, Instrumental, New Wave
Previously described by Beyette as "Emotionally electric journeys into dark, sometimes danceable abandoned territory."
THE RESULT OF MUSICAL LAB EXPERIMENTS[]
After bringing "Editation" and it's companion remix disc, "Noitatide" to a close, Beyette worked on a new project. In 2005, written note-for-note using a lot of the same software (FL Studio) and a slew of new plugins, the nearly hour long, instrumental, "Digitally Delicious" was the result of a project that got too big and too conflicting to call an album. The songs on this record are "the more electronic oriented" tracks of a project that was originally called "May 10th".
MOODS OF THE SOUNDS[]
Sanford, Maine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Number_One_Pond.JPG
Composed while living in "the wretched place that is" Sanford, Maine, Beyette focused on deep, emotional and darker sounding concepts. Some of the instrumental songs were written for his girlfriend on his mind, "Our Vacation", "Cavalier", and "If She Died", others about certain life attitudes and outlooks in mind, "Positive Reaction", "Slick", "Involved", "Machismo", "Fresh", "Competition", "Ups and Downs", "Teeth in Car", "Royalty".
"THE TEST OF YEARS AND YEARS OF LISTENING"[]
It was around this time that Dustin had so much music going on, he started to limit his outside musical influences. He didn't really listen to anything but his own "ivory tower" of music. "I've always found myself, at risk of sounding arrogant or narcissistic.... I believe there's something for everyone, to have a certain leg-up with other musicians because I listen to my songs CONSTANTLY. When I'm walking, when I'm hanging out with friends, in headphones, on nice speakers, crap speakers, studio monitors, on a crappy boombox at work, in cars, every where I can. Plus sometimes people don't know what you're listening to and be very frank. The critical ear of a music producer is great for first impressions, but I've found that longtime listening can be far more critical in terms of knowing what you'll want more of and what starts to annoy you after 500 listens or so. From my informal, albeit extremely elaborate, studies of mostly music from the states, classical and internationally popular musicology, it seems the only really humanly important music is still known of because it stood the test of years and years of listening. It is likely obvious to others that I can't stand all my old amateur lifeless misfits of songs critically, a lot of it wasn't really music in a traditional sense."
THE COVER IMAGE[]
The image on the cover of "Digitally Delicious" shows a "tribal-tatto
Dustin Beyette's Beard
o style symbol depicting my strange beard. I read that fashion-wise, vertical stripes are supposedly slimming on shirts for larger individuals, and I recommend vertical stripes down fat men's necks, but watch out, when you shave it off, you're huge again!". Also, it shows Dustin's hometown, Machigonne that just so happened to be in the shape of a water or oil leak Dustin saw on the side of the road. A lot of these songs were written with Machigonne in mind. The symbol of [the beard] is on the cover of both "Digitally Delicious" and "Rugged". But in later years after learning about the covenant, its humorous to think that the symbol also depicts a natural penis before circumcision. The beard symbol is there to unify the two separate "May 10th" musical projects while nodding to their same origin.
ONLY ONE HALF OF THE RESULTS[]
The bi-polar "soft songs/hard songs" dual perspectives behind Beyette's stacking music creation catalog continued on another double disc project, jointly named "Textures", but the next in line for these collections is the other half of the "May Tenth" compositions, "Rugged". There is unreleased songs from both of these projects that should be remastered and released within months. Some of the songs that didn't make the "Digitally Delicious"/"Rugged" cut still enter Dustin's life via earworms as a reminder to publicly release them and remaster them.
TRACK LIST[]
- 01 "Heist" - 0:58
- 02
- 03 "Our Vacation" - 2:15
- 04 "Positive Reaction" - 5:30
- 05 "Elegance" - 5:02
- 06 "The Beach" - 2:06
- 07 "Slick" - 1:51
- 08 "Involved" - 3:22
- 09 "Evolution" - 3:21
- 10 "The Wait is Over" - 3:53
- 11 "Machismo" - 2:20
- 12 "Fresh" - 2:22
- 13 "Competition" - 4:32
- 14 "Ups and Downs" - 3:23
- 15 "Teeth in Car" - 1:26
- 16 "Royalty" - 4:14
- 17
- 18 "Manic High" - 2:27
- 19 "The Creepy Forest" - 1:55
- 20 "Cavalier" - 1:33
- 21 "Booty Time" - 3:19
- 22
- 23
- 24 "If She Died" - 2:41