the meaning of life, the universe, and everything

Created as part of celebrating their birthday, dAVE wrote and recorded each of these songs in a single day. Every song was created solely on a Roland SP404 mk2 with a variety of instruments and dAVE’s own voice.

The performance of each track was improvised and recorded down on the SP404 mk2 before being mastered by dAVE. Outside of the mastering process the entire record was created outside of any computer and used hardware devices or instruments only.

The purpose of this record was to focus on creation without getting caught up in the tiny details of music making that can often derail a project into never getting completed.

The title of the record ( a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference) comes from dAVE turning 42 on this birthday and a text a friend sent to say happy birthday and how now dAVE gets to know the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. As it turns out, it really is just about always having a towel. The song titles are all from dAVE’s long list of thing his daughter has said or inspired.

1. It doesn​’​t have to be perfect if it doesn​’​t have to be our lives (03:46)
   
   Made from playing a small toy accordion looped and resampled to be pitched up and down. This marks the first instance of dAVE releasing a song with recorded finger drumming.
   
   
2. Waving from across the lagoon (03:31)
   
   A collection of chords played on a piano that have been resampled under various effects to create textures.
   
   
3. Band Names (It needs more knives in it) (04:31)
   
   dAVE has long kept a list of possibly great band names. This list has moved from various locations to another and sadly many of them have been lost. This list represents the current form of the list that still exists in a note on dAVE’s phone from 2012.
   
   Lyrics:
   Squid Cervix
   The Good Pretenders Album
   Richard Nixon’s Victims
   Quit Putting Your Finger in That
   1983 Penguins
   Related to Charlemagne
   Freezing Pea Soup
   Reluctant Contestants
   Fire Tornado
   Cannibalized Grandmothers
   The Declined Marriage Proposal
   Stop Winking at Me
   Shark Hunting Demons
   The Monstrous Cacophony
   Baghdad Bowlers
   The Illustrator Haters
   What Rhymes with Glory?
   Not on Speaking Terms
   Consequences are for Mortals
   Finding Hatred Meaningful
   Hate Cauldron
   Magnificence Divided by Tapioca
   Don’t Eat Yogurt
   Who They Warned You About
   Republican Sex Chants
   The Diabolical Game Show Hosts
   Really Long Band Name That Can’t Fit On A Drum Head
   all capitol letters
   John Cougar Fat Camp
   Fish Suicide
   Sleeping Like Jesus
   Race Card Driver
   All About Alliteration
   Onomatopoeia Motherfuckers
   Elevator Haters
   It Calls Your Name
   Hiding a Knife
   10 Minutes Later
   Crushed by a Robot
   Tawdry Cadre
   No One Ever Said
   Afraid of Coleslaw
   Fog on a Moonlit Evening
   Fixed and Forlorn
   Violent Urge to Poop
   Our Love is like Whoa
   Whistling Whilst Jaywalking
   Sumo Wrestle for My Seed
   The Recumbent Hawks
   Murdering Grape Smugglers
   Disgraced & Banished
   Vanish! Vanish! Be Gone!
   Rat Fart Snake Bite
   Nonesuch Chicanery
   Shake that Stick
   Mandatory Tramp Stamp
   Wrath of the Bonersaurus
   Vitamins Full of Hatred
   This Means You Norm
   Damn This Sideways House
   Bleeding Face Tumors
   sing a song of six dead chickens
   Pedro Nacho & The Romantic Shitbags
   Calling All Nihilists
   Est Porthos Nachos
   Charlemagne’s Chandelier
   Dead Guy with an Eyepatch
   Me Llamo Mosquito
   The Art of Sandwich
   My God Vs Your God
   Fearing a Brain Tumor
   Fuck, I Forgot
   The Chilean Speed Eaters
   A Raven of Murderers
   Pentagonal Penultimate
   Staring at Burn Victims
   Tommy Woodshop & the Severed Fingers
   The Man About Town Killed My Wife
   Laughing Without Mirth
   The Frasier Theme Song
   Written by Jealousy
   Stalking Alan Thicke
   Pretty Sure Kenny Rogers is Dead
   Chess Music Video
   Obscure Band’s Song Title
   Dancing on the Ceiling
   Simplicity in Detail
   Make Em Say Umlaut
   Rave in the Rain
   Glowstick Jellyfish
   A Color & an Animal
   The Cardinal of Crayon
   The Shocking Revelation
   Cockroach Porn
   The Fantasicingest
   The Beautiful Sound of Money
   Feelings are Bored
   Ronald Reagan is Your God
   
   
4. Oh no! I don​’​t have eyes! (07:13)
   
   Single keys played on a piano that have been resampled repeatedly to create eight different sound textures that are stacked in various combinations.
   
   

Written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by dAVE Inden (attks th drknss).