Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1

Composition

The album consists of what Lopatin terms "echo jams": looped audio pieces which typically sample micro-excerpts of 80's pop songs or other forms of popular music and "slow them down narcotically" with effects such as echo and pitch shifting added in a manner reminiscent of chopped and screwed styles. Critic Simon Reynolds has characterized these works 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".

Release

In 2009, YouTube user "sunsetcorp" uploaded tracks A2, B4, and A4, titled "angel," "nobody here," and "demerol" respectively. These tracks are uploaded in full, except "angel", which was uploaded as an excerpt. In his Reddit AMA session, Lopatin confirmed that "sunsetcorp" is his YouTube account. When asked about the possibility of an accompanying Volume 2 seeing release, Lopatin alluded to having “multiple volumes of eccojams in the cryotank set to defrost in the distant future.”

Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 first emerged on the internet as a cassette rip that was later considered obsolete due to speed differences in the cassette's playback. In 2014, a last.fm user named r8x0 remade the album based on officially published material and "painstakingly reconstructed [select tracks] from lossless sources, using the original versions as reference perfectly synchronized." This version, subtitled Asterite Edition, was published online with a unique track list, since "the track splittings of the original rip were always something that bothered me, they seemed arbitrarily decided by whoever ripped the tape first." Lopatin then released an official remaster for digital download in 2016.