MYCOMPLEX

[Download "We Have Seasons Here" from If We Keep Moving] EXPIRED
[Download "To Be Continued" from If We Keep Moving] EXPIRED

I've decided that it is time to dig deep. Time to offer some tunes from the time period when I first started to take music seriously. Music from my early days that exposed me to a world I had never experienced, and continues to influence me in one way or another.

Mycomplex is one of the first local bands that I ever payed attention to. I was given their demo at Detroit's Pharoah's Golden Cup back in '97. I was in seventh grade at the time, never heard anything like it and was immediately hooked. After that I attended as many of their shows as a 12 year old could. Unfortunatly the bands career was short lived. Months after they hit the scene Cargo Music offered them a deal, and they took it. Excited by their new found success the band didn't hesitate to act and quickly entered the studio. If We Keep Moving was out in months, and a nationwide tour was in the works. Buuut, the band never made it that far. Weeks after the release the group disbanded and left this little boy very unhappy.

If We Keep Moving is simply a great album. The record is a masterful collection of ridiculously spazzed out power punk songs. The sound was completely original at the time and has ultimatley become one of the most influential math-rock albums to date. Al from Mycomplex currently fronts the popular group Rescue and the drummer plays with my least favorite band, ForDireLifeSake.

-Miike