Input Selector PrezintÄ - "Unto the Locust" - Rearranged by Input Selector PrezintÄ on Mixcloud
This is a product of fun and games. All content is restructured by fans for other fans. All music by Machine Head. Cover art by Santiago Caruso. Additional design by Marla Chinaski. Everything else by Input Selector. Romania, 2012.
Tracklist:
1. I Am Hell
2. This Is The End -isp edit-
3. Locust Pt.1 - Unto -isp edit-
4. Locust Pt.2 - Swarm -isp edit-
5. Be Still and Know -untouched-
6. Pearls Before the Swine -untouched-
7. Darkness Within -isp edit-
8. Who We Are - isp edit-
9. Ashes Sani -isp edit-
Here is a little inside to the story of my madness: The year is 2012. Ever since the first listen of 'Unto the Locustā by Machine Head Iāve been envisioning an amended version of the album. I wanted to hear this ablum with a different track sequence, and even with different song arrangements. It was a good album, but something wasn't right with it in the way it was delivered. I heard so much potential and I had an idea of how I could make it work better. So over this one year I worked on making my own version of it. I chopped up the tracks and rebuilt the parts into new songs. Some songs I mutilated and some songs I didn't even touch. With new separate tracks made from leftover parts of actual songs, and with a new track order for a more coherent flow I created what were the last steps toward the making of this perfect, beautiful gemstone of an album.
Slowly but shurely, I have been planing the rebirth of this greater-to-be song collection for my own sake and mental peace. I put in the blood, the sweat, and the beers and it was done. All pieces fell into place. I had it all down as I saw it should be and was able to listen the whole thing head to tail. But was I content?
I kept thinking, if this was ever to see the light of day it had to look good too. It needed an identity, a nice cover. So, in building up the guts to put out this collection of songs I dared asking for some outside help. I contacted this Argentinian artist I admired, whose art included themes presented within the album. With a shot in the dark I was writing e-mails back and forward, asking this beautiful artist, I have never met in my life, for one of his art pieces to be used as cover art for my ongoing, mad, self-indulgent musical project. I am happy to say the artwork included is called "La Plaga" and is used under permission by Santiago Caruso. [After three e-mails and some bad noise, he wrote: "I love Romania. Go ahead with this!"] Muchas gracias.
Even before this deal was sealed, work was on the way for the cover design, with much of it made possible by Marla Chinaski. We were living together at the time and this girl helped me and pretty much pushed me to take this all the way to the end. I think she might have even began to like the idea, bringing focus on what it all should look like. I was so into it, so focused on what it should become, I almost disregarded these efforts. Helping with the design work was one thing, but my constant revision and submergence in the subject must have been pretty hard to put up with. She had to hear me work on this for months on end. And then talk about it to a greater extent. Not to mention that Machine Head was to play for the first time in Romania and the concert was coming up. So the pressure was building. It was all over ourselves. And this, too, passed.
- 2015 - As you can tell, this was finished a while ago, but I didnāt put it out immediately. Instead I waited for the right moment. After a good couple of years I realize I can not tell the right moment from the wrong. I know only the need to let it go, to put it out there and out of my mind. I'm going to see the band play in Bucharest again this week. I say now is as good a time as any to present you with the ultimate badass Machine Head track collection: "Unto the Locust"-rearranged. In the end, nothing is too wild for a little peace of mind.
Special thanks to Santiago Caruso for lending his art to our little project. www.santiagocaruso.com.ar
