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Released
  
September 14, 2004

Artist
  
John Frusciante

Producer
  
Ian MacKaye

Length
  
14:49

Release date
  
14 September 2004

Label
  
Record Collection

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Recorded
  
February 9–10, 2004 at Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, Virginia

DC EP (2004)
  
Inside of Emptiness (2004)

Genres
  
Rock music, Alternative rock, Indie rock, Art rock

DC EP is an EP by John Frusciante, released on September 14, 2004 on Record Collection. Produced by Ian Mackaye, of Fugazi, the EP is the third recording in a series of six, released from June 2004 to February 2005, by Frusciante.

Contents

According to Frusciante: "These songs were written while I was on tour for By the Way. I was listening to the Velvet Underground a lot. It's only four songs and fifteen minutes long. I'm used to producing my records myself, and when I left that in the hands of Fugazi's Ian MacKaye, using equipment that wasn't mine, playing instruments that weren't mine, everything was different." The guitar tracks that appear were recorded with one of Guy Picciotto's Marshall JCM 800 amplifiers, the same featured on the artwork for the Fugazi album, Red Medicine. For the guitar solo on "Dissolve," Frusciante also used Picciotto's Les Paul Junior.

On the vinyl release of the EP, the words "And then the past" were inscribed on side A, and "I never see you" on side B, referring to Frusciante's forthcoming album, Curtains.

The vinyl edition of the record saw a repressing from Record Collection on December 11, 2012. These reissued records are 180 gram and come with a download of choice between MP3 and WAV formats of the album.

The title DC EP refers to the place near where it was recorded, Washington DC. The album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in nearby Arlington, Virginia.

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Track listing

All tracks written by John Frusciante.

Personnel

  • John Frusciante – vocals, guitar, bass, design
  • Jerry Busher – drums
  • Production
  • Ian MacKaye – producing
  • Don Zientara – engineering
  • Bernie Grundman – mastering
  • Lola Montes – photography
  • Mike Piscitelli – design
  • Songs

    1Dissolve4:27
    2Goals3:22
    3A Corner3:36

    References

    DC EP Wikipedia