The Valency

Techno / Experimental / Trance

Sydney

Billboard

The Valency is one of my (Moe Foster)'s many projects.

"March 17th, the day the prophets foretold the coming of The Valency's abomination of an album, STABS. STABS stands for, if you look at the album cover, Smiking 'till A Brunt Spadge. The meaning of this is open to interpretation, and it holds no real significance in relation to the album.

You can really sum up this album as a compilation of failings and experiments, or failing experiments, and as such, they are quite short. The outcome of this project is the result of two or so years of on-and-off, self taught FL Studio. I have no knowledge whatsoever in musical theory, sound engineering, sound mechanics, I cannot play any instruments, nor do I know how to make music. But hey, what do you know, here I am giving you 23 weird sound tracks I've managed to conjure up.

Quoting my good mate Brennan Heart's vocals in 'The Evolution of Style', this album is "an audio timeline, from the old to the new.". This basically means, anything toward the start of the album was produced - using that term very loosely - in late 2006, early 2007. The rest of the songs, except maybe two or three of the last songs were created mid to late 2007. The last couple are 2008.

Obviously, if you actually enjoy these songs, you've got a very unusual and eccentric music taste, or you're retarded. These songs sound relatively normal to me, but then again, I listen to a lot of Aphex Twin/AFX. I'd just like to point out that I'm some snot-nosed kid making music in my basement, so the songs probably aren't going to have that air of quality you've come to expect. I don't have any music production hardware, hell, I don't even have a real sound card. So in all this, I'm pretty much telling you to keep your expectations low. I don't make this music to please a particular crowd, I make it for myself."

That was an excerpt from the post entry explaining the release of STABS, you can read a run-down of the contents of each of the songs right here.