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Compelling Regrets
(FPM#026)
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Track List:
1 This Week's Featured Machine
2 A Whistler's German Passport
3 Knitting With Pliers
4 Quantified Membrane
5 Defensive Conversation
6 Goodnight Forward
7 The Child With Cold Teeth

Written and Produced by A Surplus of 1
Mastered by Dan Miller
Release Date: Apr 2010
©2010 Friendly Psychics Music (ASCAP)

The first-ever release from Surplus of 1, "Pyros and Unpunished Crimes," delves deep into the broken circuitry of modern life, from the glossy yet oddly appealing alienation of "This Week's Featured Machine" to the bombastic, absurd carnival imagined in "Knitting With Pliers." It's a diverse, thrilling world where the ghosts of electronic music history come back to fight and explode in Technicolor slow motion.

From the first cracked notes of "Caught in a Bird Trap," it's clear the second EP from Chris Jones' Surplus of 1 has your worst interests at heart. At once more damaged and more evolved than the inaugural EP, " Regrets" is the sound of one man's journey through the lonliest, most fascinating corners of the digital wastelands.

Track List:
1 Caught in a Bird Trap
2 Three Dancers on a Platform
3 Wasted and Polished
4 Reduction Solders
5 Shakespeare Without the Nouns
6 Atlanta Burns at Ten

Written and Produced by A Surplus of 1
Mastered by Dan Miller
Release Date: July 2010
©2010 Friendly Psychics Music (ASCAP)

With "The Promise of Sad Ownership," Chris Jones gathers the best elements of his Surplus of 1 solo project and sharpens them to a laconic point. From the opening notes of the Alan Parsons inspired "Engineering a Peaceful Failure" to the decaying drums and synth funk of "Disappointment at the End of Time," it's clear that Jones is at once more focused and still somewhere between awake and a dream...

Track List:
1 Engineering a Peaceful Failure
2 Bucyrus pt. 1 (Freezing for the Feeling)
3 Bucyrus pt. 2 (Mom Woke Me Up)
4 Waving Back
5 Bucyrus pt. 3 (Adorable Decay)
6 Every Last Error
7 Bucyrus pt. 4 (Don't Come to my Funeral)
8 Disappointment at the End of Time

The Promise of Sad Ownership
(FPM#027)
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Written and Produced by A Surplus of 1
Mastered by Dan Miller
Release Date: Apr 2011
©2011 Friendly Psychics Music (ASCAP)

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Pyros and Unpunished Crimes
(FPM#024)
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