Ryan & Anji return to Chillcuts Studio for their first podcast of 2025! The big news is their VIP Mix of “The Call,” which they discuss in detail. The duo also chat about new songs in the works, who their Spotify demographic is, which band they’re currently inspired by, a listener comment regarding “Noumenon,” and more. Video version dropping on YouTube soon!
LINKS:
- The Call VIP Mix on Bandcamp
- Noumenon 3-mix single on Bandcamp
- Lovespirals on YouTube — check out the video version of the podcast
- Lovespirals Official Website — leave us a comment on our site!
If you want to have fun with old band names, I found out just this week that there’s a site that’s put up everything that was on mp3.com (graphically – no audio) as of November 2003. That means you can see what my Earth Dyed Red page looked like – three songs off my first two albums when I was 18.
I checked, and the Lovespirals and Anji Bee pages are also there.
The site is http://mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com if you want to go to the artist list and browse adult yourselves or barely-adult me. You can see the dorky icons I made in Paint – or my questionable slogan, “Music the way it should be!” (NARRATOR: Music should have been another way.)
Oddly enough, I was just looking at that site a month or two ago! It’s too bad that not every image was scraped. BTW, you can also see the page from my previous band, Delphinium, and several online collaborations including Plastic Chair, Aslan’s, and Bitstream Dream. 🙂
Well, those names were very fun to look through!
Electric Doormat’s page is also saved – that was a friend of a friend’s artist project, and he was a few years older, and I more or less got into multitrack recording of songs to try to impress him. He told me years later that his song “Reflect,” which is mentioned on the mp3.com site as being in 5/8, was in 5/8 to impress *me.*
He later sent a drummer from his band into the Smashing Pumpkins, and now he makes well-respected microtonal prog rock as the Mercury Tree.
Also gloriously preserved: Cat Tanzu, a smooth jazz project of my first boss at the job I currently hold. He told me he made about $5,000 through the site. I believe I still have the DAM CD he gave me.
Wow, a pretty tidy sum your boss made! We used to make money from streams and DAM CDs, as well, though I have no recollection how much. I know that name Mercury Tree but can’t place why…