X-Sweet is the original project. It started very bad. Probably hasn't gotten any better since. X-Sweet is an attempt to do "real" songs. It's usually me and a cheap drum machine someone left at my house. Started as tapes circulated among friends and by mail, then CDs. As of 2006's "One Last Goodbye," X-Sweet is all digital.
RELEASES:
Happy Life (2010)
Recorded in 2009 and 2010 and released to the world via mp3. Recorded with FL Studio 6 and Adobe Audition. All songs by Eric San Juan. Cover photograph by Eric San Juan
1) The Key to a Happy Life (4:23)
2) Went Away (4:41)
3) Down Down (4:37)
4) So Much Blood (3:21)
5) We Are Walking Avatars (4:39)
6) Magic Nights (3:49)
7) Summer Bottles (5:28)
8) Ma vie est terminée (1:22)
9) The First is Last (3:27)
10) At the Window (3:04)
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Running Out (2007)
Recorded in 2007 and released to the world via mp3. Recorded with FL Studio 6, CoolEdit Pro, and Adobe Audition. All songs by Eric San Juan. "Misery" written in 1994 in Austin, Texas, and is dedicated to Jeff Combs. Cover photograph by Eric San Juan
1) Entrance (Singing My Song) (0:40)
2) Country Road (3:06)
3) Got A Purple Pain (3:00)
4) Think That You're On You're Own (3:14)
5) Untitled New Song (3:56)
6) Interlude 1 (0:39)
7) Sunshine Girl (4:08)
8) Misery (2:04)
9) I’m Saying Goodbye (2:17)
10) When The Cows Come Home (3:47)
11) You Don't Say (3:15)
12) Interlude 2 (0:40)
13) Runnin’ Round The Place (7:22)
14) Exit (Song Of Stars) (0:49)
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One Last Goodbye (2006)
Start of Phase Three. The first X-Sweet recorded to the PC rather than the four-track. Recorded using FL Studio 6 and CoolEdit Pro. Most songs were written circa 2002 or so as acoustic demos. Blue Moon is circa 1997. Purple Rose is 2006. Cover photo by Eric San Juan
1) The New X-Sweet (0:37)
2) Goodbye, My Friend (4:15)
3) Roll It Over (2:53)
4) Purple Rose (2:40)
5) Blue Moon (3:02)
6) Breaking (4:57)
7) Rowhouses (0:50)
8) The Bottom of Things (2:09)
9) Martha Dear (4:35)
10) Holy Roller (4:07)
11) Oh Sister (5:38)
12) One Last Goodbye (1:32)
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Unfinished Stories About Stan (1998)
Was intended to be the fullfollow-up to "all over again," but floundered just as I was getting a grasp of doing My Bloody Valentine on the cheap. Brought back to life as a collection of ideas, unfinished efforts and instrumental musings. "Fish Boy" was written with vocals, pre-X-Sweet, but no recordings exist. Despite its unfinished nature, it's among my favorite X-Sweets. The end of Phase Two.
1) Gentle (0:41)
2) Sunshine (4:55)
3) Heart of Stone (2:18)
4) Columbian Rain parts 1 and 2 (3:04)
5) Tortured Ways (3:10)
6) Until You Called (2:02)
7) Know That You (3:27)
8) Fish Boy (instrumental) (6:16)
9) Listless (2:42)
10) Vorashna (3:07)
11) In The Day (2:12)
12) Rosebush 2 (6:59)
13) Gentle (reprise)(0:47)
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The Kitchen Conspiracy (and other distractions) (1997)
X-Sweet at its most pretentious and obnoxious, "The Kitchen Conspiracy" was supposed to be made up of noises from home appliances and the like, then I found out Pink Floyd wanted to do that, so I dropped the idea. Salvaged the tracks anyway. All songs are largely first-take improv, with overdubs following along. "Holidays" is an exception. All songs by Eric San Juan except a brief clip from "Your Baby is Crying" by Jane's Addiction. Cover image courtesy of Hai Tran from alt-music.smash-pumpkins.
1) The Kitchen Conspiracy (parts 1-6) (25:23)
2) The Behavior of Guild Writers (parts 1-6) (22:28)
- a: Delaney Sleeps (5:51)
- b: Delaney Returns (1:46)
- c: Birth (1:36)
- d: Stutter (2:04)
- e: Twitch (9:05)
- f: Hum (2:05)
3) Your Baby Is Crying (14:43)
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all over again (1997)
Start of Phase Two. Jumping headfirst into louder, more noisy sounds, and longer songs and soundscapes. The CD and digital versions extend "Hal's Last Words" and add "Drifting in the Moonlight." "Destroy Her Gently" and "Hal's Last Words" modified versions of songs from "Io, Europa and Hal's Last Words." "Hal's Last Words" originally titled "Where R U? I Can't C U."
1) A Beginning (3:35)
2) The First Song In G (8:26)
3) Hal’s Last Words (2:51)
4) Destroy Her Gently (4:26)
5) The Tides of Europa (5:44)
6) Drifting In The Moonlight (5:48)
7) The One (7:57)
8) Delaney Sleeps (4:12)
9) Ultrasound (7:08)
10) Sialna’s Glade (4:19)
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all over again (cassette) (1997)
Cassette version. Mixes are slightly different than CD and digital version.
1) A Beginning (3:35)
2) The First Song In G (8:26)
3) Hal’s Last Words (2:18)
4) Destroy Her Gently (4:26)
5) The Tides of Europa (5:44)
6) The One (7:57)
7) Delaney Sleeps (4:12)
8) Ultrasound (7:08)
9) Sialna’s Glade
(4:19)
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Songs Never Heard (2000)
The end of Phase One. Technically gathered in 2000, it's listed here because it falls into this early period. This is a collection of songs that did not make the first four X-Sweet cassettes. As with any collection of cast-offs, this is some spotty bullshit. Since early X-Sweet is spotty bullshit to begin with, this is REALLY spotty bullshit.
1) Funky Instrumental (3:23)
2) The Way She Looks At Me (2:35)
3) Gold (3:58)
4) Reverse Fortunes (3:20)
5) Four Days (2:23)
6) Song In D (3:40)
7) What The Vocals Sound Like (4:43)
8) Sad Songs (3:17)
9) Echoes (2:13)
10) Anlior
(14:00)
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X-Sweet is Dead (1996)
The true end of Phase One, since "Songs Never Heard" (above) was recorded before this. I intended to drop X-Sweet at this point. Pretty scattered. Cassette version featured longer version of "Kevin's Song" with different mix, and did not include "Landscape," "Holidays," "Mt. Misery" or "Unreal." Cover image from Frank Miller's 'Sin City." "All My Bad Days" shamelessly stolen from The Flaming Lips.
1) Kevin’s Song (4:47)
2) See The Lines (3:01)
3) The Fall of Tulin (3:59)
4) Heaven Cent (Hope To Die) (3:15)
5) Superdeflated Love (3:13)
6) All My Bad Days (1:57)
7) Soft Echoing (She Weeps Softly) (4;10)
8) Big Strums (4:41)
9) Landscape (1:13)
10) Holidays (original version) (3:43)
11) Mt. Misery
(1:52)
12) Unreal (12:30)
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Snowed In (1995)
Third in the initial trilogy. Distributed on cassette. Cover photo by Eric San Juan.
1) Will Not See You Tonight (4:20)
2) Sally (5:15)
3) I Wanna Fall (4:22)
4) Three Chord Rhumba (1:47)
5) The Lily (I’m Very Sure) (4:24)
6) Goodbye (Bein’ High) (7:26)
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Io, Europa, and Hal’s Last Words (1995)
Second in the initial trilogy. Distributed on cassette.
1) No Better (3:15)
2) CP Trip (4:43)
3) Destroy Her Gently (4:17)
4) Where R U? I Can’t C U? (2:18)
5) Livin’ In The City (3:47)
6) One Song (3:30)
7) Entheme Revisited (3:50)
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Buddy Bradley Falls In Love (1995)
The first X-Sweet cassette. Distributed via snail mail and to friends. Photocopied cover features Frank Miller art (used without permission). Submitted this and the follow-up to an early website, where it was savaged in a review. Deservedly so. This is not good music.
1) Track #1 (3:53)
2) She’s Lookin’ (3:46)
3) Ride (2:45)
4) The Fields of Galadriel (3:15)
5) Rosebush (3:19)
6) ....... (0:23)
7) Night Alone (2:48)
8) Endtheme (6:50)
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