Songs About My Cats

Songs About My Cats
Studio album by Venetian Snares
Released April 30, 2001
Recorded 2000
Genre Glitchcore, IDM
Length 46:33 (CD)
27:58 (vinyl)
Label Planet Mu
Producer Aaron Funk
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Venetian Snares chronology
Making Orange Things
(2001)
Songs About My Cats
(2001)
Doll Doll Doll
(2001)

Songs About My Cats is a 2001 glitchcore album by Venetian Snares. It is also his first solo album on the Planet Mu label (Making Orange Things, released barely one month prior to Songs About My Cats on Planet Mu, was a collaboration with Speedranch).

The album features influence from many separate styles. The most prominent influence is ambient music, however, certain songs also show influence from jazz music, such as "Pouncelciot", which uses samples from an improvisation by Anthony Braxton, and even influence from classical music and salsa music appear on the album.

Both "Katzesorge" tracks are identical except that the second has a drone akin to a cat's purr in the background for most of the song.

Many tracks contain cat-related samples, including the Meow Mix jingle. Other tracks contain other cat references in their titles. Chinaski, Kakarookee, Fluff Master, and Bobo are all cats that have belonged to Funk at one point or another. Nepetalactone is a chemical found in catnip. Bertha Rand was the infamous "cat lady" of Winnipeg, Funk's hometown. The final track, "Look", consists of what sounds like filtered static, that reveals several pictures of Funk's cats when put through a spectrogram program. [1]

Contents

Track listing

Contains time signature whenever applicable

CD

  1. "Chinaski" – 4:21 (33/8)
  2. "Katzesorge Part 1" – 0:51
  3. "Nepetalactone" – 4:27 (9/4+17/4)
  4. "Poor Kakarookee" – 6:04 (10/4)
  5. "For Bertha Rand" – 2:08 (10/4)
  6. "Breakfast Time for Baboons" – 3:24 (10/4)
  7. "Fluff Master" – 6:12 (11/4)
  8. "Bobo" – 3:56 (11/4)
  9. "Katzesorge Part 2" – 0:51
  10. "Pouncelciot" – 3:10 (15/4)
  11. "Kakenrooken Stivlobits" – 4:43 (89/8+7/8+21/8+5/4)
  12. "Lioness" – 2:04 (7/4)
  13. "Cleaning Each Other" – 3:51 (35/8+9/8+11/8+21/8+11/4)
  14. "Look" – 0:31

Vinyl

Side A
  1. "Poor Kakarookee" – 6:04 (10/4)
  2. "Pouncelciot" – 3:10 (15/4)
  3. "Nepetalactone" – 4:27 (9/4+7/4)
Side B
  1. "Fluff Master" – 6:12 (11/4)
  2. "Bobo" – 3:56 (11/4)
  3. "Chinaski" – 4:21 (33/8)

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