The Complete Recordings, by My First Flat

The Complete Recordings

by My First Flat

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1.	Skyrockets Needed Advice 01:38	buy track
2.	Oh Silly Scope 02:56	buy track
3.	Desk 01:15	buy track
4.	Yr Trained Voice 02:01	buy track
5.	Young Columbus 02:49	buy track
6.	Coldcuts and Wine 04:12	buy track
7.	The Summer Skiers 01:10	buy track
8.	June Comes by Car 00:59	buy track
9.	It Wasn't On 02:53	buy track
10.	Mapless, Ampless 00:55	buy track
11.	Bonfire 01:31	buy track
12.	Song for Kid 02:01	buy track
13.	Ohm's Law Will Work 02:13	buy track
14.	Good Morning Garden 02:20	buy track
15.	Young Columbus (live) 02:55	buy track
16.	It Wasn't On (live) 02:51	buy track
17.	Oh Silly Scope (live) 03:00	buy track
18.	Coldcuts and Wine (live) 03:07	buy track
19.	Ohm's Law Will Work (live) 02:16	buy track
20.	Bonfire (live) 01:42	buy track
21.	You Sleep Alone on Sundays 01:12	buy track
22.	You Sleep Alone on Sundays (demo) 01:07	buy track
23.	Lifted 01:50	buy track

about

My First Flat marked the exact beginning of collaborating with Dan Marsden. We traveled in similar packs and loved the same sorts of bands. He played drums and I wrote songs. It was only a matter of time. This was 1997.

The name My First Flat wasn’t anything we really decided on; it was just a little throwaway title for the songs we had been recording in my parents’ basement. Personally, I had a thing for duos like 764-HERO and Butterglory. This was me acting on those emotions.

Now if memory serves me right, the plan was to work up a batch of songs to be self-released as a full length. But, see, I was always moving forward and I got antsy so I put together the 6 finished songs Dan and I had done with a collection of my solo recordings and quickly edited together enough material for a release.

We played one show, the summer of ’97, in a garage. All was peachy. But I never released the tape. I got as far as xeroxing the art and dubbing a copy for myself. I guess we agreed to let it simmer. But then we rediscovered the Casio keyboards we had gotten as Christmas presents in the ’80s and switched gears; we became Mathlete. My First Flat ended there. By January of 1998 we had already started recording Teleport.

Over the years I piecemealed songs from this project on the Audio Graves compilations. But the downside to those compilations is that by sequencing songs out of chronological order, the context is lost.

So here’s My First Flat in context. Included are all songs from the unreleased tape, a full live set from our only show and a couple other songs Dan and I recorded together right around the same period. Calling this The Complete Recordings is a little misleading, as if we had a plan or I happened to find every little piece of audio we recorded together with this project in mind. It was all very scattered and the eras of my solo stuff, songs with Dan and Mathlete were really all mixed up and blended together. It’s a time capsule.

credits

released November 23, 2019

My First Flat was Mike Downey and Dan Marsden. In general, Dan played drums and Mike played guitar.

"Good Morning Garden" written, performed and recorded by Dan Marsden

Recorded on 4 track cassette in 1997 by Mike and Dan.

Tracks 1-14 comprise the previously unreleased cassette "Can I Dig an Audio Grave Now?".

Tracks 15-20 recorded live on June 21st, 1997 at a garage show in Mokena, Il. This was our only performance under the name.

Tracks 21-23 were most likely recorded after the cassette was put together in the 2nd half of 1997; the recording dates are fuzzy. However, they most surely were recorded with this project in mind.

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Audio Graves Motala, Sweden

Audio Graves is an archive of Mike Downey's solo and side projects spanning from the mid-'90s through 2018.

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