Drain Mode = ON

Drain Mode = ON is one of many stopgap EP releases in between albums from Benn Jordan as The Flashbulb.

Drain Mode = ON
EP by
The Flashbulb
ReleasedOctober 1, 2001
RecordedSummer 2001
GenreIDM
Length15:27
LabelSuburban Trash/Bonnerwachs
ProducerBenn Jordan
The Flashbulb chronology
FLY!
(2001)		 Drain Mode = ON
(2001)		 Lawn Funeral EP
(2004)

This EP is interesting for several reasons. First, along with the free, online FLY! EP, Drain Mode = ON acts as a bridge between two very different albums by The Flashbulb, M³ and These Open Fields, employing a more evolved sound and technique, at least equipment-wise, if not conceptually. Secondly, the short release is quite a bit of fun, displaying Jordan stretching out and getting more comfortable as The Flashbulb, and trying out absurd things like a joking Jazz scat singing style in Loose Jazz X, the loosely constructed ambience of My Summer Tinsle and a very unconventional use of the didgeridoo in Didj X. (This is something he would employ again in Red Extensions of Me with the track Didj Z, as well as a few other releases.)

The track Stinger has since become a live favorite for several years now.

Track listing
  1. Beunip – 1:00
  2. Stinger – 2:15
  3. Every Two Days – 2:30
  4. Loose Jazz X – 1:38
  5. Drain Mode On – 3:02
  6. My Summer Tinsle – 3:31
  7. Didj X – 1:31


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