Ambient moods and soundscapes with heavy beats

Produced composed & performed by Trippo Marx
Tricks Is For Kids produced composed & performed by Trippo Marx & Mannheim Joint Roller
Recorded 1995-2000 Mixed 1996-2000 Remixed 2002-2020
May 1st 2000
© 2000-2020

TRIPPO MARX guitar vocals synth drum machine
with MANNHEIM JOINT ROLLER on Tricks Is For Kids vocals percussion ukulele sound effects
sampled voices DARREN STACI PENNY

This album began as a hodge-podge collection of the best pieces I recorded between 1995-1998, some heavily influenced by hallucinogens. Once I started transferring the analog recordings to digital and piecing them together on the computer, the running order and unifying themes of these previously unrelated bits intuited a loose project concept based on alternative states of consciousness. I then created a series of samples and overdubs to pepper throughout the project to reinforce these concepts, and realizing I need a bridge between the first and second half, I wrote the song You Know The Drill to fill the gap and inject a little fashionable cynicism into the mix. The Definitive Edition features some minor overdubs recorded in 2002 and several of the original samples have been moved, removed and/or replaced.