UNIVOX MIXTAPE 2010

Hello everyone! Welcome to the 2010 holiday season! We'd like to congratulate you on making it this far in life by presenting you with the official UNIVOX MIXTAPE 2010. This collection is comprised of recordings made by us in various capacities. Some tracks were recorded before we were even a band. And because I know you're all drooling over your keyboards for the dirty little details, I'll try my best to give a detailed track by track breakdown.

Here's the link to download the MIXTAPE:
UNIVOX MIXTAPE 2010 - mediafire

1. I am, I am - Josh Jones
From Josh's solo album "murder". This track was recorded in 2005. One of my personal favorites of his.

2. Pop Tart - Joseph Bonaventura III
Recorded by Joe in 1998, probably in his mother's basement in Parkland, PA. Dig the wicked tremelo, dude.

3. Soulss - Robert A. DeCarolis
This song was probably recorded around 2004/5 at my dad's house in Levittown, PA. I can't really remember exactly when. This is one of my earliest solo recordings and probably the first recording I made that really seemed to impress Mr. Josh Jones (score!). Heavily inspired by our friends Jim T. (Pan) and Patrick (Wood-Land).

4. Pi - Fuzzbucket
The ORIGINAL recording of 'Pi' from 1997! Joe's high school band who later went on to change their name to Greyroom Breakthrough. Like we've said before, Joe wrote this song when he was about 15 or 16 years old. Over a decade later, it stills sounds great. The Fuzzbucket drummer Dave Smolen makes some great experimental sounds, which can be found here. He also runs a record label in Philadelphia called Malleable, specializing in experimental music (e.g. CSection, Mincemeat or Tenspeed).

5. The Copter - Joseph Bonaventura III
Recorded by Joe at his old apartment in Kensington in 2007.

6. Talking Dog - Kent Boersma
This was recorded by Kent in 2003/4. His sophomore year of college at UArts. According to him it's about "a bad acid trip and a broken heart." 'nuff said.

7. Lights - Josh Jones
I don't believe Josh ever released this song. Maybe on his myspace at some point. It was recorded at home in 2009. UNIVOX has recently been performing this live with our new set up. Check it.

8. Take a Long Hard Look - Robert A. DeCarolis
This song was the second of two songs I had written and recorded in a single night while living in my old house on 15th street. I believe it was late 2008/early 2009. I can't remember.

9. The Old Shadow (vocal demo) - Kent Boersma
'The Old Shadow' is a song Josh wrote. He also recorded a demo of the song. This version is Kent's a capella interpretation of the song. Friggin' genius.

10. Doctor Today - Joseph Bonaventura III
Recorded by Joe in 2002. Clips of this song were used as bookends in our video for "You Don't Know". You can watch that here.

11. Pt. I - Greyroom Breakthrough
Greyroom Breakthrough was Joe's last group prior to UNIVOX; they were originally called Fuzzbucket, which I discussed earlier. This is the first movement from Greyroom Breakthrough's sole release "Shock in the Key of Red" released by Siren Electric in 2002. (SIDE NOTE: Siren Electric was a record label run by the owner of Siren Records in Doylestown. Don't bother asking him if he has any copies left, he'll act weird and make you want to leave immediately.) This is a very unique recording in that the group had an entire album's worth of material written, but at the last second decided to scrap their original idea for the album and make an entirely improvisational record. On top of that, they went back and learned the album and would perform it live. I believe Josh engineered this session.

12. F - Josh Jones
Home recording from Josh's solo album "murder". Recorded in 2006. I once performed this song live as Josh Jones along with our friend Cristina D'Ambrozio. It was a funny night.

13. Prism/Prison - Robert A. DeCarolis
This is a track I recorded in mid 2009 at my old house on 9th street. I originally started the first half with the intention of that being the entire composition. After I finished the first half, I realized the second half was buried underneath and fit perfectly. Freak out!

14. Delicate Woman - UNIVOX
This song was recorded with Bill Moriarty in 2008 with the intention of releasing it on our first full length. It didn't make the cut. Josh had made a demo recording at home, but the rest of us didn't really know the song. So this was really our first experience, as a group, learning a song as we recorded it.

15. All this Blood Came from My Heart (vocal demo) - Kent Boersma
It is truly amazing that this version exists. Kent had written and recorded this song years ago on a four track in his parent's basement while his mind was on another planet. Josh later mixed it down. There were only two copies of this recording known to man. I found one on the floor of Kent's filthy, filthy van. I immediately took this tape from him, to keep it from perishing a lonely death in a pit of filthy, filthy despair, and transferred it to a digital format. The other is buried deep somewhere beneath the metaphysical layers of Joe's "Room o' Wonders".

16. Blessed Be - Robert A. DeCarolis
A simple, improvised track I had recorded late one in maybe 2007(?) at my dad's house.

17. View From the Inside - UNIVOX
A song Joe had written that was originally released on the 5 song UNIVOX demo we released in 2006. Recorded to half inch tape on a Tascam 38 reel to reel machine in Joe's apartment he shared with his wife (girlfriend at the time) on Temple University's campus. Screenprinted covers by Joe himself. I don't believe many of those copies exist, so if you've got one you should feel lucky ;) However, Joe tells me there should still be one last copy floating around in AKA Music on 2nd street in Philadelphia. Let the rat race begin!

Well, that concludes the true fan's guide to UNIVOX. We are very proud of all the work we do (but believe me, this collection is merely the tip of the iceberg) and hope you thoroughly enjoy every second of it. Please let us know! However, we are a delicate bunch, please be kind. Stay tuned for future mixes! Tell all of your friends!

Also, if you'd like to make your own cover for the mix, and you really like my handwriting, you can use this image. Or make your own and send it to us!



Thank you all and have a very joyous holiday. Tomorrow (wednesday the 22nd) we head to Milkboy studios in (H)Ardmore, PA to record a couple tracks with Tim Sonnefeld. He plays in a killer dance-groove band called GANG.

Be irie,
Rob of UNIVOX