So this guy Speedranch calls me up. I have no idea how he got my phone number or what was going on. He starts telling me how he really likes my music and he makes some kind of noise music and tells me all this shit how he drinks like 78 bottles of wine a day and he is actually a cigarette or a flying octopus man or something. He wanted me to send him some of my tracks cuz he was going to new york for a gig. He seemed like a pretty cool guy so I said ok and linked him some stuff. He later sent me a recording of that gig he did with his friend Jansky in NY and it just sounded like all the tracks I sent him with horrible white noise over top them. WTF! We started talking on ICQ a bunch. ICQ was some chat thing like MSN back then, I dunno if it's still around but you could transfer files over it. One day I made this ridiculous tune that made no sense, some kinda ghetto musique concrète kind of shit and posted it somewhere online. Some guy called Russell was giving me shit about it for being incoherent nonsense and I was giving him shit back. This track eventually became Russell Hates This Track, can't remember what it was called before. Speedy was on ICQ and I said hey check out this Russell douche, he's really way too upset that I would make such a stupid track and Speed was like hey let's fucking kill that knob! I think he went and gave the guy shit for awhile and we had alot of laughs about it. Thought it would be funny to do a tune about him so Speed screamed a bunch into his computer about killing the guy and sent it over to me. I made We Hate Russell that day laughing like a maniac the entire time, it sounded fucking brutal and horrible and awesome! It was 700 bpm or something stupid. We just kept doing tunes together like that. Speedranch would record himself screaming all kinds of crazy shit into his computer, alot of it making weird noises with his voice through loads of distortion! I remember thinking this guy is the best most nasty fucking synthesizer I've ever heard! He'd send me a 1 or 2 minute file and it would take about 9 hours to transfer it over ICQ cuz this was 10 or 11 years ago so we both had super slow internet connections. He was in the UK so they were probably still on 14.4 over there and probably costed £800 a month. My internet connection was some shitty free dial up thing that came on a CD I bought from 7/11. It was so shitty that it put a huge ad for itself at the top of the browser giving you about half a screen's worth of what you were actually trying to look at. I can't even remember what the ad said, even though I must have seen it a million times. I've blocked it out. Anyways once I finally got the file I'd hack it up and make a new tune! Sometimes, depending on the theme of the tune, I'd get him to yell some other shit for it like UNBORN BABY or MIKE PARADINAS etc. We did cover songs, Your Cheatin Heart, Viva Las Vegas, Stairway to Heaven! We could play at your wedding! I bet we could do a cover of just about anything and our version would make you stab yourself in the eye. The sounds sounded orange to me, really distorted sounds always sound orange to me. I don't know why, they just do. I spray painted a whole bunch of stuffed animals orange at some point during the recording of the record. I still have one of them, a teddy bear that I cut the face out of and shoved the head of a baby doll that I turned inside out into. Most of the tracks with beats are inhumanly fast. The tracker files for these tunes scrolled by so fast they pretty much just looked like a strobe light. We had a wicked time doing Making Orange Things, I wish we were still making it! We've talked about making another record together but always come to the conclusion that we could not top Making Orange Things, would be redundant. We were onto some crazy shit, I still think it's the fastest, loudest most brutal thing I've ever heard. I sound like a dickhead saying that. Wow I'm so cool. But I can't think of anything that approaches it, the thing just rapes you.