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Adjust Your Horizontal

by Jonathan Ammons

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Sparrow 05:25
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White Clouds 06:28
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Street Wise 04:58
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Growing Wings 03:14
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While the City Sleeps 04:14
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In 2006 I released my first LP, Awakening. A largely sample-based work, at the time it was a display of where I thought I was best suited to preform — in beat-laden, sampler-driven genres like trip-hop, illbient, and a bunch of other lost styles of the late 90’s and early 2000’s with dumb names. By then I felt quite proficient with a sampler, and was becoming more confident with synthesizers, but was eager to learn a lot more about synths. But lets face it, I was just 21 years old at the time, so I had a lot more to learn about everything.

That summer I went down to visit my family while they were on vacation on the coast. I took a laptop loaded with my DAW (I believe I was still using Orion at the time), some freeware emulators of classic synthesizers and drum machines, and a pair of headphones, and that was all. In the evenings I’d take the laptop up to a porch near the dunes and sit in the hot night air, staving off Palmetto bugs while I tweaked synths and beat machines to figure out how they worked.

By the time I drove home to Black Mountain two weeks later, I had a good start on around 20 minimal techno tunes and a handful of finished pieces. I had every intention of making them into an album, but by the time I returned to college I had begun working with the band that would become the Electric Ghost Collective, switching my focus entirely from electronic music to Americana and Rock & Roll. In the process, the work in progress — which I had titled Adjust Your Horizontal — was all but forgotten.

Fast forward 13 years to when I was putting together the studio where I still work: I dug up a hard drive only to find a handful of mostly finished records. The session files are inaccessible these days, since Orion is a now defunct DAW, but I had bounces of most of the finished songs, including these five fully realized pieces from Adjust Your Horizontal. I was even able to dig up the extremely dated artwork for the project!

I usually expect to cringe when listening back to music I dig up on old hard drives, and I did certainly cringe and get a good laugh at the artwork (which I decided to keep, as you might have noticed). But I think I was on to something with this little record. I find that it has actually aged quite well, something that I attribute largely to the limitations that I put on myself during its creation — vintage and classic synthesizer sounds, vintage drum machine sounds, limited effects, and maybe a mellotron or EPiano. Proving a long held belief of mine, that many of our best ideas come from giving ourselves limitations and a boundaries in which to play. -- Jonathan Ammons (2023)

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released July 15, 2006

All songs written, arranged, programmed, performed, and recorded by Jonathan Ammons.
Recorded on Kiawah Island in July of 2006.
Remastered April 2023 at Orchard View, Asheville, NC.

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Jonathan Ammons is a journalist, writer, radio DJ, producer, and musician from Asheville, North Carolina. His music runs the gamut between electronic, indie rock, ambient, and Americana.

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