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Released
  
October 1, 2001

Length
  
15:27

Drain Mode = ON (2001)
  
Lawn Funeral EP (2004)

Release date
  
1 October 2001

Label
  
Bohnerwachs Tontraeger

Recorded
  
Summer 2001

FLY! (2001)
  
Drain Mode = ON (2001)

Artist
  
Benn Jordan

Producer
  
Benn Jordan

Genre
  
Intelligent dance music

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

Contents

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

Songs

1Beunip1:00
2Stinger2:15
3Every Two Days2:30

References

Drain Mode = ON Wikipedia