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Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1

April 11, 2024

"Eccojams" redirects here. For the sub-genre of vaporwave, see Vaporwave § Offshoots and subgenres.

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 is a 2010 album of remixes by American electronic musician Daniel Lopatin under the pseudonym Chuck Person. Its tracks consist of chopped, looped samples of various songs—including popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s—processed with effects such as delay, reverb, and pitch shifting; the results highlight mournful or existential moments from the sources. It was used as an initial template for the vaporwave internet microgenre.

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
Studio album by
Chuck Person
ReleasedAugust 8, 2010
Genre
Length52:07
LabelThe Curatorial Club
Daniel Lopatin chronology
Returnal
(2010) 		Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
(2010) 		Replica
(2011)

Prior to Eccojams Vol. 1's release, Lopatin posted a series of videos that he called "eccojams" to a YouTube channel named "sunsetcorp". The album was released under the label The Curatorial Club in August 2010 on 100 cassette tapes. By the time an official remastered version was released for digital download in November 2016, recognition for Eccojams Vol. 1 had grown, with the original tapes selling on Discogs at three-digit prices.

Background and release edit

Prior to the release of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1, Daniel Lopatin ran the YouTube channel "sunsetcorp",[1] where, beginning in 2009,[2] Lopatin would upload music videos for tracks that he called "eccojams".[a] These were collages of slowed-down looped samples of 1980s and 1990s popular songs—or original pieces of electronic music—and looped video clips taken from YouTube; many of them were initially created at his office job in the free audio editing program GoldWave, between 2004 and 2008.[7] "Nobody Here" combines a looped sample from Chris de Burgh's "The Lady in Red" with a vintage computer-animated graphic called "Rainbow Road".[4] Other examples include Fleetwood Mac's "Only Over You" for "Angel" and Roger Troutman's "Emotions" for "End Of Life Entertainment Scenario #1".[8] Some of these eccojams were initially released as part of the 2009 audiovisual project Memory Vague under Lopatin's alias Oneohtrix Point Never.[9][10][11]

Eccojams Vol. 1 was an elaboration of that technique.[12] A limited run of 100 cassette tapes was released under the label The Curatorial Club on August 8, 2010.[13][5][14] Its artwork incorporates fragments of the cover art for the 1992 video game Ecco the Dolphin[15] such as "a distorted view of a rocky shoreline and a pixelated shark."[16] Lopatin released an official remaster for digital download from his website in November 2016[5][17] that was eventually removed.[18]

Composition edit

 
Chuck Person – "A1"
An example of Lopatin pitch-shifting and distorting 1980s pop music; the song "A1" remixes "Africa" by American rock band Toto.[19]
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Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 has been described as plunderphonics,[2] chopped and screwed,[20] and vaporwave.[21] The tone has been described as "dystopian",[22] "unnerving, often mournful",[23] "vast and mysterious",[19] and "somber-yet-tropical".[24] The songs consist of looped samples of popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s distorted by effects such as delay, reverb, and pitch shifting,[14][23] a technique derived from DJ Screw's chopped and screwed technique[14] and likened to a "candy-coloured variation" of William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops.[25] Most of the lyrics isolated in these loops are lyrics which differ from "overall tone and sentiment" of the original songs and often express negative feelings. An example would be "B4", which isolates the lyric "There's nobody here" from "The Lady in Red" to convey existentialism, which differs from the romantic tone of the original song.[14]

"A1", which stretches and loops the lyric "Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you" from Toto's "Africa", serves as the introduction.[22][19] "A2" uses a phaser effect on "Only Over You".[23] "A3" is a pitched-down looped sample of JoJo's "Too Little Too Late",[25] creating "dense, compressed, overdubbed harmonies".[23] "A4" samples a lyric from Michael Jackson's "Morphine" expressing horror at someone taking Demerol. The lyric is warped, creating the impression that the listener is intoxicated, before flanging is applied.[18][23] "A5", which samples a song by the Byrds, is described by Spectrum Culture as "a creepy little skit so blurred in effects as to be unrecognizable".[19] "A6" is taken from Janet Jackson's "Lonely".[26] "A7" is taken from Aphrodite's Child's "The Four Horsemen", "injecting a bit of apocalyptic dread" from the song's themes and uncertain melody.[19] "A8", after an R&B loop, ends with a crescendo of digital noise, akin to a blizzard.[23][19] "B1" has a bleak tone, similar to a twisted dream, before transitioning to an uplifting loop of Kate Bush's voice from "Don't Give Up".[1][26] "B2" is a "drunken, off-key" and slowed-down loop of "Gypsy". "B5" samples 2Pac's "Me Against the World".[19] The final song, "B7", is a loop of "Woman in Chains" by Tears for Fears, that has a shimmering effect "approaching and receding", eventually "overtak[ing] the words" before the song fades out.[1]

Reception and legacy edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Spectrum Culture     [19]
Sputnikmusic5.0/5[26]

Though Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 was released "with little fanfare",[25] the videos Lopatin posted on YouTube became popular, with "Nobody Here" amassing 30,000 views over several months. Music critic Simon Reynolds highlighted the videos' "conceptual framework" as "relat[ing] to cultural memory and the buried utopianism within capitalist commodities, especially those related to consumer technology in the computing and audio/video entertainment area".[7] Anthony Fantano mentioned Eccojams Vol. 1 in his 2012 review of Macintosh Plus's Floral Shoppe as an album that he found to be "more bold with its editing and its looping and its stretching" of music samples.[27]

According to Tiny Mix Tapes, Eccojams Vol 1 would lead to Lopatin's 2011 Oneohtrix Point Never album Replica.[5] In 2012, Lopatin released a box set of four 7-inch singles titled Chuck Persons A.D.D., consisting of 30 eccojams. Each disc is designed to have grooves that would make them play infinitely.[18] On the 2015 Oneohtrix Point Never album Garden of Delete, the song "EccojamC1" was included as a tribute to Eccojams Vol. 1.[28] In a 2013 Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA), when inquired about a follow-up album to Eccojams Vol. 1, Lopatin revealed that he had many eccojams in a "cryotank set to defrost in the distant future."[29][5][17]

Retrospectively, Eccojams Vol. 1 is widely considered influential in vaporwave,[30][31][32] a music genre characterized by slowed-down samples from 1980s and 1990s music.[33] Released before vaporwave's 2012 rise in popularity,[34] the album would serve as a template for artists such as Vektroid and Mediafired to produce what would become vaporwave music.[b] According to Stereogum's Miles Bowe, vaporwave artists "mash the chopped and screwed plunderphonics of Dan Lopatin ... with the nihilistic easy-listening of James Ferraro's Muzak-hellscapes on Far Side Virtual".[20] In 2013, the music blog Girls Blood described Eccojams Vol. 1, along with Far Side Virtual and Skeleton's Holograms, as "Proto Vaporwave" in a post about "Vaporwave Essentials".[36] Regarding the influx of vaporwave producers that came after Eccojams Vol. 1, Lopatin said in a 2017 AMA:[37]

Well – the entire point of Eccojams was that it was a DIY practice that didn't involve any specialized music tech knowledge and for me it was a direct way of dealing with audio in a mutable, philosophical way that had very little to do with music and everything to do with feelings and I'm happy to see that it actually turned out to be true, that people make the stuff and find connection and meaning through that practice is all I could ever hope for. It's folk music now.

Originally "relatively unacknowledged",[14] by the time of the 2016 re-release, original copies of Eccojams Vol. 1 were highly valued, selling on Discogs for a median cost of US$250 and as high as $400.[5][38] Kirk Bowman of Sputnikmusic rated Eccojams Vol. 1 highly for its poignancy and found it to be a rare example of a repetitive album that he wanted to listen to repeatedly.[26] Spectrum Culture lauded the album for "feel[ing] so vast and mysterious".[19] Marvin Lin of Tiny Mix Tapes described the album as "plundering the depths of pop music and uncovering short musical segments or particularly existential lyrical moments" to create "a simple yet wholly ecstatic listening experience".[5] Fact listed "A3" as among the best songs by Lopatin,[25] Fantano ranked Eccojams Vol. 1 at number 153 on his list of best albums of the 2010s,[39][40] and Tiny Mix Tapes named Eccojams Vol. 1 the top album of the 2010s; Pat Beane said that was because, "we at Tiny Mix Tapes couldn't get enough of music. And Eccojams, of music, begat more music".[1] In 2020, the 33⅓ series published a book of essays titled The 331⁄3 B-Sides, which included a Lin piece on Eccojams Vol. 1.[41]

Track listing edit

Adapted from the original cassette release. Samples adapted from lyrics.

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 track listing
No.TitleSample(s)Length
1."A1""Africa" by Toto2:36
2."A2" (alternatively known as "Angel"[42])"Only Over You" by Fleetwood Mac3:48
3."A3"
6:04
4."A4" (alternatively known as "Demerol"[43])"Morphine" by Michael Jackson1:55
5."A5""Everybody's Been Burned" by the Byrds2:51
6."A6""Lonely" by Janet Jackson2:46
7."A7""The Four Horsemen" by Aphrodite's Child2:17
8."A8"
4:46
9."B1"
4:33
10."B2"
4:36
11."B3"
4:16
12."B4" (alternatively known as "Nobody Here"[44])"The Lady in Red" by Chris de Burgh2:10
13."B5""Me Against the World" by 2Pac2:51
14."B6""These Dreams" by Heart2:23
15."B7"
4:08
Total length:52:07

Release history edit

Release formats for Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1
Date Label Format Catalog number Ref.
August 8, 2010 The Curatorial Club Cassette TCC011 [13]
November 2016 Self-released Digital download N/A [45]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Music critic Simon Reynolds spelled it "echo jams".[3][4] Later sources have used the original spelling.[5][6]
  2. ^ Attributed to multiple sources.[30][2][5][23][6][12][35]

References edit

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  2. ^ a b c Price, Joe (August 29, 2016). "Vaporwave's Second Life". Complex Magazine. from the original on December 1, 2020. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  3. ^ Reynolds, Simon (July 6, 2010). "Brooklyn's Noise Scene Catches Up to Oneohtrix Point Never". The Village Voice. from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Reynolds 2011, p. 80.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Lin, Marvin (November 22, 2016). "Daniel Lopatin releases remastered version of Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1". Tiny Mix Tapes. from the original on 4 August 2017. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  6. ^ a b Chandler, Simon (November 21, 2016). "Genre As Method: The Vaporwave Family Tree, From Eccojams to Hardvapour". Bandcamp Daily. from the original on September 24, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
  7. ^ a b Reynolds 2011, pp. 80–81.
  8. ^ Trainer 2016, p. 412; 424.
  9. ^ Reynolds 2011, p. 81.
  10. ^ Trainer 2016, p. 412.
  11. ^ Bowe, Miles (November 28, 2015). "The Essential… Oneohtrix Point Never". Fact. p. 5. from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  12. ^ a b Back 2020, p. 390.
  13. ^ a b McGregor (August 8, 2010). "TCC011 | Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1". The Curatorial Club. from the original on December 26, 2022. Retrieved December 26, 2022 – via Blogger.
  14. ^ a b c d e Lin 2019, p. 169.
  15. ^ Trainer 2016, p. 213.
  16. ^ Jacobson, Jordan J. (Fall 2022). "Fast Forwarding the Past (on Pause): Daniel Lopatin's Memory Vague and the Hauntological Aesthetic of Vaporwave". The Velvet Light Trap. 90 (90): 28–37. doi:10.7560/VLT9004. S2CID 251550099. from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2023.
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  24. ^ Smith, Susette (March 18, 2021). "A Timeline of Vaporwave's Vektroid-Fueled Intersection with Portland". Portland Monthly. from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
  25. ^ a b c d Bowe, Miles (November 28, 2015). "The Essential… Oneohtrix Point Never". Fact. p. 7. from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  26. ^ a b c d Bowman, Kirk (2 August 2016). "Review: Chuck Person – Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1". Sputnikmusic. from the original on 15 August 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
  27. ^ Fantano, Anthony (November 28, 2012). Macintosh Plus- Floral Shoppe ALBUM REVIEW. The Needle Drop. from the original on January 15, 2023. Retrieved January 8, 2023 – via YouTube.
  28. ^ Lopatin, Daniel (November 16, 2015). "Oneohtrix Point Never Told Us the Story Behind Every Single Track On Garden of Delete". Vice. from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
  29. ^ Lopatin, Daniel (October 8, 2013). "I'm Daniel Lopatin, pka Oneohtrix Point Never. AMA". Retrieved December 25, 2022 – via Reddit.
  30. ^ a b Beauchamp, Scott (18 August 2016). "How Vaporwave Was Created Then Destroyed by the Internet". Esquire. from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
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  32. ^ Schembri, Sharon; Tichbon, Jac (October 2, 2017). "Digital consumers as cultural curators: the irony of Vaporwave". Arts and the Market. 7 (22): 197, 200. doi:10.1108/AAM-12-2016-0023. ISSN 2056-4945. from the original on January 15, 2023. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
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  34. ^ Tavakoli, Mina (December 16, 2019). "Uncut Gems (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)". Pitchfork. from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  35. ^ Lin 2019, p. 171.
  36. ^ Trainer 2016, p. 420.
  37. ^ Lopatin, Daniel (August 15, 2017). "I am musician Oneohtrix Point Never, currently importing SysEx files into FM8 - AMA". Retrieved February 2, 2021 – via Reddit.
  38. ^ Bowe, Miles (November 22, 2016). "Oneohtrix Point Never releases remastered Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1". Fact. from the original on December 23, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2022.
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  42. ^ Lopatin, Daniel (July 19, 2009). Angel. Sunsetcorp. from the original on January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2023 – via YouTube.
  43. ^ Lopatin, Daniel (July 21, 2009). Demerol. Sunsetcorp. from the original on January 16, 2023. Retrieved January 16, 2023 – via YouTube.
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Eccojams redirects here For the sub genre of vaporwave see Vaporwave Offshoots and subgenres Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 is a 2010 album of remixes by American electronic musician Daniel Lopatin under the pseudonym Chuck Person Its tracks consist of chopped looped samples of various songs including popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s processed with effects such as delay reverb and pitch shifting the results highlight mournful or existential moments from the sources It was used as an initial template for the vaporwave internet microgenre Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1Studio album by Chuck PersonReleasedAugust 8 2010GenreVaporwaveplunderphonicschopped and screwedLength52 07LabelThe Curatorial ClubDaniel Lopatin chronologyReturnal 2010 Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 2010 Replica 2011 Prior to Eccojams Vol 1 s release Lopatin posted a series of videos that he called eccojams to a YouTube channel named sunsetcorp The album was released under the label The Curatorial Club in August 2010 on 100 cassette tapes By the time an official remastered version was released for digital download in November 2016 recognition for Eccojams Vol 1 had grown with the original tapes selling on Discogs at three digit prices Contents 1 Background and release 2 Composition 3 Reception and legacy 4 Track listing 5 Release history 6 Notes 7 References 8 Works citedBackground and release editPrior to the release of Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 Daniel Lopatin ran the YouTube channel sunsetcorp 1 where beginning in 2009 2 Lopatin would upload music videos for tracks that he called eccojams a These were collages of slowed down looped samples of 1980s and 1990s popular songs or original pieces of electronic music and looped video clips taken from YouTube many of them were initially created at his office job in the free audio editing program GoldWave between 2004 and 2008 7 Nobody Here combines a looped sample from Chris de Burgh s The Lady in Red with a vintage computer animated graphic called Rainbow Road 4 Other examples include Fleetwood Mac s Only Over You for Angel and Roger Troutman s Emotions for End Of Life Entertainment Scenario 1 8 Some of these eccojams were initially released as part of the 2009 audiovisual project Memory Vague under Lopatin s alias Oneohtrix Point Never 9 10 11 Eccojams Vol 1 was an elaboration of that technique 12 A limited run of 100 cassette tapes was released under the label The Curatorial Club on August 8 2010 13 5 14 Its artwork incorporates fragments of the cover art for the 1992 video game Ecco the Dolphin 15 such as a distorted view of a rocky shoreline and a pixelated shark 16 Lopatin released an official remaster for digital download from his website in November 2016 5 17 that was eventually removed 18 Composition edit nbsp Chuck Person A1 source source An example of Lopatin pitch shifting and distorting 1980s pop music the song A1 remixes Africa by American rock band Toto 19 Problems playing this file See media help Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 has been described as plunderphonics 2 chopped and screwed 20 and vaporwave 21 The tone has been described as dystopian 22 unnerving often mournful 23 vast and mysterious 19 and somber yet tropical 24 The songs consist of looped samples of popular songs from the 1980s and 1990s distorted by effects such as delay reverb and pitch shifting 14 23 a technique derived from DJ Screw s chopped and screwed technique 14 and likened to a candy coloured variation of William Basinski s The Disintegration Loops 25 Most of the lyrics isolated in these loops are lyrics which differ from overall tone and sentiment of the original songs and often express negative feelings An example would be B4 which isolates the lyric There s nobody here from The Lady in Red to convey existentialism which differs from the romantic tone of the original song 14 A1 which stretches and loops the lyric Hurry boy she s waiting there for you from Toto s Africa serves as the introduction 22 19 A2 uses a phaser effect on Only Over You 23 A3 is a pitched down looped sample of JoJo s Too Little Too Late 25 creating dense compressed overdubbed harmonies 23 A4 samples a lyric from Michael Jackson s Morphine expressing horror at someone taking Demerol The lyric is warped creating the impression that the listener is intoxicated before flanging is applied 18 23 A5 which samples a song by the Byrds is described by Spectrum Culture as a creepy little skit so blurred in effects as to be unrecognizable 19 A6 is taken from Janet Jackson s Lonely 26 A7 is taken from Aphrodite s Child s The Four Horsemen injecting a bit of apocalyptic dread from the song s themes and uncertain melody 19 A8 after an R amp B loop ends with a crescendo of digital noise akin to a blizzard 23 19 B1 has a bleak tone similar to a twisted dream before transitioning to an uplifting loop of Kate Bush s voice from Don t Give Up 1 26 B2 is a drunken off key and slowed down loop of Gypsy B5 samples 2Pac s Me Against the World 19 The final song B7 is a loop of Woman in Chains by Tears for Fears that has a shimmering effect approaching and receding eventually overtak ing the words before the song fades out 1 Reception and legacy editProfessional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingSpectrum Culture nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Sputnikmusic5 0 5 26 Though Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 was released with little fanfare 25 the videos Lopatin posted on YouTube became popular with Nobody Here amassing 30 000 views over several months Music critic Simon Reynolds highlighted the videos conceptual framework as relat ing to cultural memory and the buried utopianism within capitalist commodities especially those related to consumer technology in the computing and audio video entertainment area 7 Anthony Fantano mentioned Eccojams Vol 1 in his 2012 review of Macintosh Plus s Floral Shoppe as an album that he found to be more bold with its editing and its looping and its stretching of music samples 27 According to Tiny Mix Tapes Eccojams Vol 1 would lead to Lopatin s 2011 Oneohtrix Point Never album Replica 5 In 2012 Lopatin released a box set of four 7 inch singles titled Chuck Persons A D D consisting of 30 eccojams Each disc is designed to have grooves that would make them play infinitely 18 On the 2015 Oneohtrix Point Never album Garden of Delete the song EccojamC1 was included as a tribute to Eccojams Vol 1 28 In a 2013 Reddit Ask Me Anything AMA when inquired about a follow up album to Eccojams Vol 1 Lopatin revealed that he had many eccojams in a cryotank set to defrost in the distant future 29 5 17 Retrospectively Eccojams Vol 1 is widely considered influential in vaporwave 30 31 32 a music genre characterized by slowed down samples from 1980s and 1990s music 33 Released before vaporwave s 2012 rise in popularity 34 the album would serve as a template for artists such as Vektroid and Mediafired to produce what would become vaporwave music b According to Stereogum s Miles Bowe vaporwave artists mash the chopped and screwed plunderphonics of Dan Lopatin with the nihilistic easy listening of James Ferraro s Muzak hellscapes on Far Side Virtual 20 In 2013 the music blog Girls Blood described Eccojams Vol 1 along with Far Side Virtual and Skeleton s Holograms as Proto Vaporwave in a post about Vaporwave Essentials 36 Regarding the influx of vaporwave producers that came after Eccojams Vol 1 Lopatin said in a 2017 AMA 37 Well the entire point of Eccojams was that it was a DIY practice that didn t involve any specialized music tech knowledge and for me it was a direct way of dealing with audio in a mutable philosophical way that had very little to do with music and everything to do with feelings and I m happy to see that it actually turned out to be true that people make the stuff and find connection and meaning through that practice is all I could ever hope for It s folk music now Originally relatively unacknowledged 14 by the time of the 2016 re release original copies of Eccojams Vol 1 were highly valued selling on Discogs for a median cost of US 250 and as high as 400 5 38 Kirk Bowman of Sputnikmusic rated Eccojams Vol 1 highly for its poignancy and found it to be a rare example of a repetitive album that he wanted to listen to repeatedly 26 Spectrum Culture lauded the album for feel ing so vast and mysterious 19 Marvin Lin of Tiny Mix Tapes described the album as plundering the depths of pop music and uncovering short musical segments or particularly existential lyrical moments to create a simple yet wholly ecstatic listening experience 5 Fact listed A3 as among the best songs by Lopatin 25 Fantano ranked Eccojams Vol 1 at number 153 on his list of best albums of the 2010s 39 40 and Tiny Mix Tapes named Eccojams Vol 1 the top album of the 2010s Pat Beane said that was because we at Tiny Mix Tapes couldn t get enough of music And Eccojams of music begat more music 1 In 2020 the 33 series published a book of essays titled The 331 3 B Sides which included a Lin piece on Eccojams Vol 1 41 Track listing editAdapted from the original cassette release Samples adapted from lyrics Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 track listingNo TitleSample s Length1 A1 Africa by Toto2 362 A2 alternatively known as Angel 42 Only Over You by Fleetwood Mac3 483 A3 Too Little Too Late by JoJo Castles in the Sky by Ian Van Dahl feat Marsha6 044 A4 alternatively known as Demerol 43 Morphine by Michael Jackson1 555 A5 Everybody s Been Burned by the Byrds2 516 A6 Lonely by Janet Jackson2 467 A7 The Four Horsemen by Aphrodite s Child2 178 A8 My Love Is Waiting by Marvin Gaye Hearsay by Alexander O Neal4 469 B1 Sweet Little Mystery by John Martyn Don t Give Up by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush4 3310 B2 Love T K O by Teddy Pendergrass Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac4 3611 B3 Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty Separate Lives by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin4 1612 B4 alternatively known as Nobody Here 44 The Lady in Red by Chris de Burgh2 1013 B5 Me Against the World by 2Pac2 5114 B6 These Dreams by Heart2 2315 B7 Letter from Spain by Electric Light Orchestra Catch and Don t Look Back by Womack amp Womack Woman in Chains by Tears for Fears4 08Total length 52 07Release history editRelease formats for Chuck Person s Eccojams Vol 1 Date Label Format Catalog number Ref August 8 2010 The Curatorial Club Cassette TCC011 13 November 2016 Self released Digital download N A 45 Notes edit Music critic Simon Reynolds spelled it echo jams 3 4 Later sources have used the original spelling 5 6 Attributed to multiple sources 30 2 5 23 6 12 35 References edit a b c d Beane Pat December 19 2019 2010s Favorite 100 Music Releases of the Decade Tiny Mix Tapes p 6 Archived from the original on December 23 2022 Retrieved December 23 2022 a b c Price Joe August 29 2016 Vaporwave s Second Life Complex Magazine Archived from the original on December 1 2020 Retrieved December 30 2022 Reynolds Simon July 6 2010 Brooklyn s Noise Scene Catches Up to Oneohtrix Point Never The Village Voice Archived from the 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