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The (Almost) Complete Discography of Jake Setlak
Bear with me while I continue to digitze my archives. More complete information soon. Newest recordings listed first.
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Instigator
Instigator
-
Reduced Materials EP
2008,
PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]
Celebrating five years since the digital pressing of his self-released debut album, Instigator returns (for what may be his last release under this moniker). Reduced Materials is what the name implies: further refined, re-worked and updated versions. More intense now that they're condensed, these eight tracks are the perfect companion to Used Materials. [COMING SOON!]
Tracklist:
- Reforestation (Berry Jungle)
- Requisition (High-Style Takeover)
- Re-evaluation (Hydrocodonarcotica)
- Reinforcement (Miracle Earworm)
- Recollection (Okanna Borra)
- Resignation (Panhandler)
- Reiteration (Poh Sukumer Vidro)
- Remodellacion (Puerto Reconditioned)
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Instigator
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Run With The Devil
2008,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Classic "leak-on-leak" action here. First, a studio outtake of David Lee Roth signing bits of Van Halen's Runnin' With The Devil. Then pile that on top of the instrumental version of Gnarls Barkley's new track, Run. Somehow, DLR takes on the air of a gospel singer and makes GB's ho-hum new song a little more exciting.
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> Instigator
- Run With The Devil [mp3]
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Instigator
-
Pour Some Witness On Me
2008,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Once you get it beat-mapped, the acapella of Roots Manuva's Witness (1 Hope) has a lot of applications. It's a jam. I have several mashes-up featuring it in the works, but this one seems to work best so far. Mista Manuva over a sticky Def Leppard 12" version of Pour Some Sugar On Me.
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> Instigator
- Pour Some Witness On Me [mp3]
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INSTILLE
INSTILLE
- Indelible EP
2008,
PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]
INSTILLE = Instigator + Distille. Indelible is intended as a preview to an album we're planning to call Music For Girlfriends - though we'll both have gotten married before it's finished. That's because we take our time to be perfectionists, and don't make this music pay any bills. We're not ashamed to say this was years in the making. There's a certain amount of "imparting over time" implied in our name anyway. The point is to collaborate and make more accessible music than we usually do by ourselves. And that's the main thing - it can be done.
Download:
> INSTILLE - Indelible EP [COMING
SOON!]
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> INSTILLE
@ MySpace (Hear previews here.)
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Instigator
-
Drugs Is The Love
2007,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
You don't have to listen to much Kool Keith to realize that love isn't the only drug he's thinking of. But his acapella gives Roxy Music's classic hit a fiendish new connotation. At least, that's what I was thinking when I made this mash-up single for Noise Throng.
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> Instigator
- Drugs Is The Love [mp3]
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Timberlicker
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Instigator
- Timblerlicker
2007,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
The video for Aphex Twin's Windowlicker is a wonderful parody of the sort of videos guys like Justin Timberlake make for a living. That's what inspired this mash-up single for release via Noise Throng.
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> Instigator
- Timberlicker [mp3]
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F
To The X:
Ten Years Of Party Noise
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FIGORA
- F To The X:
Ten Years Of Party Noise
2006,
FIGORA [Chicago, IL]
No
one knows who's in FIGORA
because they always wear masks. But I will divulge that I've produced
this. It's F To The X - a 23-minute mixtape spanning
over ten years of FIGORA and the fans that made each show crazier than
the last.
Appearing as: Bin Wah Kenobi, Kagura, FIGORA
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> FIGORA
- F To The X: Ten Years Of Party Noise [mp3]
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Don't
You Want To Love Me
Or Hate Me?
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Instigator
- Don't You Want To Love Me Or Hate Me?
2006,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
I'm not much a fan of Lady Sovereign or Human League, but I couldn't resist layering them over each other for this melodramatic mash-up single.
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> Instigator
- Don't You Want To Love Me Or Hate Me? [mp3]
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All
Right Already (Medley)
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Instigator
-
All Right Already (Medley)
2005,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
DJ LA*Jesus commissioned me to mix all the versions of Modest Mouse's Hold On that we could find. Mix them into one big, fat party jam. That's what I did. This was the first in a series of mash-up singles released via Noise Throng.
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> Instigator
- All Right Already (Medley) [mp3]
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Instigator
-
What The Shit Is This
2005,
PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]
In February 2005, I needed a demo for a demo-sharing party hosted by Quantazelle. This is it. There are less than two dozen copies of What The Shit Is This in circulation. All tracks are available on other releases.
Tracklist:
1. Invisible Blimp (with Tom O'Donnell, Jesse Quattro and Matt Waters)
2. Eating the Last Marshmallow (dUbContractor Rx by Instigator)
3. Dream Girl (Instigator Every Night Rx)
4. Berry Jungle (edit)
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Will
Not Submit
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Sneaky
Guy & Instigator -
Will Not Submit
2004,
Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Sneaky Guy and I finished this track just before the 2004 US Presidential election. It didn't incite as many riots as we'd hoped, and it didn't have much affect on the election's outcome, but it felt good to go through the process of creating a hip-hop protest song with all-original sounds and source material.
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> Sneaky
Guy & Instigator - Will Not Submit [mp3]
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Eating The Last
HarshMellow (dUbContractor Remix by Instigator)
Salvo
Beta - Eating The
Last HarshMellow (dUbContractor Remix
by Instigator)*
2002;
2008 Unofficial Digital Release [Chicago, IL]
Salvo Beta invited some friends to remix selections from Abrasive Stuttering. This particular mix was rejected. That's what makes it a great exclusive download for this site.
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> Salvo Beta
- Eating The Last HarshMellow (dUbContractor Rx by Instigator)
[mp3]
* Unofficial release; rejected second submission for Evil Against Evil: The Neighborhood Kids Grab Their Bats And Remix Salvo Beta.
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Invisible Blimp
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Instigator
- Invisible Blimp*
2002;
2004 Unofficial Digital Release [Chicago, IL]
A stand-out in the Instigator / INST / PYLB catalog. The unavailable-elsewhere Invisible Blimp is an atmospheric voyage in sound design - using clips from a recording made by Tom O'Donnell, Jesse Quattro and Matt Waters, which they had concieved as a soundtrack to the short story "Prospector's Special" by Robert Sheckley.
There is a second track from my Prospector's Special sessions, but it is not scheduled for release, digital or otherwise. If I get requests to the contrary, you may see it here one day. Its working title was simply Two-Three.
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>
Instigator - Invisible
Blimp [mp3]
* Not an official release.
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Salvo Beta
- Clugy (Worn Out Just Listening To It Much Less Trying To Dance Remix)
Salvo
Beta - Clugy
(Worn Out Just Listening To It Much Less Trying To Dance Remix)
2002,
Some Odd Pilot [Chicago, IL]
Salvo Beta invited some friends to remix selections from Abrasive Stuttering. Instigator was flattered to learn that his Clugy remix, named after a quote from a review of previous Salvo Beta material, appeared early in the tracklist, alongside Melt Banana's contribution.
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> Salvo
Beta - Clugy (W.O.J.L.T.I.M.L.T.T.D. Rx) [mp3]
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Instigator
- Used Materials
2002;
2003 Digital Re-release, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]
The self-released debut full-length from Chicago's subversive beatmeister Instigator. Painstakingly produced, duplicated, assembled, signed and numbered by the artist himself. Features appearances by members of fellow Chicago acts including Epectir, Kim, Molar Mill, Quatre Tete, Ten Tongues and Timeout Drawer, with friends from Pal:ndrom (NY) and The Mass (SF). Also features rappers Sneaky Guy and FlyingEarOfCorn, ace slide guitarist Johnathan Winfield Basil Gorlewski, incendiary voice-mailer Pat Clap, two cats, a dog and more.
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> Instigator - Depress
And Enter [mp3]
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> Instigator
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Cleanliness Is
Next To Godliness
Original Score EP
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Cleanliness
Is
Next To Godliness
(Original Score EP)
2002
Film; 2008 Digital Release, PYLBUG [Chicago, IL]
Starring Matt Stomer and Carrie Roder. This was Throwaway Productions' first feature, about a hypochondriac doctor that goes crazy. An original score I created for Throwaway Productions' Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness - a film in which I also make a cameo.
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Dream Girl
(Instigator Every Night Remix)
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Baldwin Brothers
Instigator
Baldwin
Brothers -
Dream Girl (Instigator Every Night Remix)*
2002,
TVT / PYLB / Sonic Foundry
Unofficial remix of Baldwin Brothers' Dream Girl featuring Miho Hatori. Lost in the shuffle of an Acid Planet remix contest, this entry went unheard by Baldwin ears until after the contest ended. I think it's good enough to have won, which is why I'm giving it away here. It's Instigator's first successful forray into accessible and -gasp- pop techniques that resurfaced later in INSTILLE and many Noise Throng releases.
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> Baldwin Brothers
- Dream Girl (feat. Miho Hatori) (Instigator Every Night Rx)
[mp3]
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> Baldwin
Brothers @ MySpace
* Not an official release.
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Los
Vampiros
De La Musica EP
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Various
Artists -
Los Vampiros De La Musica
2001;
2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Reconsidering
the holidays for modern listeners ... through the indiscriminate use of
samples. And everything we can acquire via P2P networks. Nothing is sacred
as Instigator leads a rotating cast of noise-makers and wave-shapers on
a trip through whatever fits the theme. The four-EP series Almanac
Fecunditas includes A
Joyful Noise, Lustratio,
Bootleggers,
and Los
Vampiros De La Musica. Click each for more information or download
directly below.
Instigator also appears as L. Ron Chaney, John Wilkes Bootleg, and Son
Of Manstein
Download:
> Various
Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
> Various
Artists - Lustratio [zip]
> Various
Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
> Various
Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]
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Bootleggers
EP
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Various
Artists - Bootleggers
2001;
2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Reconsidering
the holidays for modern listeners ... through the indiscriminate use of
samples. And everything we can acquire via P2P networks. Nothing is sacred
as Instigator leads a rotating cast of noise-makers and wave-shapers on
a trip through whatever fits the theme. The four-EP series Almanac
Fecunditas includes A
Joyful Noise, Lustratio,
Bootleggers,
and Los
Vampiros De La Musica. Click each for more information or download
directly below.
Instigator also appears as L. Ron Chaney, John Wilkes Bootleg, and Son
Of Manstein
Download:
> Various
Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
> Various
Artists - Lustratio [zip]
> Various
Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
> Various
Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]
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Lustratio EP
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Various
Artists - Lustratio
2001;
2003 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Reconsidering
the holidays for modern listeners ... through the indiscriminate use of
samples. And everything we can acquire via P2P networks. Nothing is sacred
as Instigator leads a rotating cast of noise-makers and wave-shapers on
a trip through whatever fits the theme. The four-EP series Almanac
Fecunditas includes A
Joyful Noise, Lustratio,
Bootleggers,
and Los
Vampiros De La Musica. Click each for more information or download
directly below.
Instigator also appears as L. Ron Chaney, John Wilkes Bootleg, and Son
Of Manstein
Download:
> Various
Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
> Various
Artists - Lustratio [zip]
> Various
Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
> Various
Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]
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Various
Artists -
A Joyful Noise
2000;
2002 Digital Re-release, Noise Throng [Chicago, IL]
Reconsidering
the holidays for modern listeners ... through the indiscriminate use of
samples. And everything we can acquire via P2P networks. Nothing is sacred
as Instigator leads a rotating cast of noise-makers and wave-shapers on
a trip through whatever fits the theme. The four-EP series Almanac
Fecunditas includes A
Joyful Noise, Lustratio,
Bootleggers,
and Los
Vampiros De La Musica. Click each for more information or download
directly below.
Instigator also appears as L. Ron Chaney, John Wilkes Bootleg, and Son
Of Manstein
Download:
> Various
Artists - A Joyful Noise [zip]
> Various
Artists - Lustratio [zip]
> Various
Artists - Bootleggers [zip]
> Various
Artists - Los Vampiros De La Musica [zip]
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High-Style Takeover
[pRx v5]
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Various
Artists - Total War
Against State + Capital 2
2001,
Hidden Power Enterprises [Stockholm, Sweden]
I met T.R.O.Y. because I ran a website called Delete The Elite, and he coincidentally had been using the same phrase as a name for a compilation released under his Hidden Power Enterprises imprint. He invited me to contribute an Instigator track to the sequel to Total War Against State + Capital. It's turn-of-the-century protest music from an international cast of recording artists. My contributed track is the fifth iteration of a pre-mix (working version) for a song that would later appear on the Instigator debut, Used Materials.
-
Creed Of
- Anarchy 101 - Wendy-O Matik - It Shall Come To Pass
- Blackbird - Song Of Plentitude
- Fire/Fly - Law
- Instigator - High-Style Takeover [pRx v5]
- Kamp Chaos - Reclaim The Media
- Ates - Girl Means Fuck
- Dept. Of Experimental Health - DNA Liberation Front
- Militia - My War
- Esmirelda - I Ain't Gonna Kiss Your Ass
- Fighting Cocks - Don't Care
- Atom & His Package - If You Own The Washington Redskins You're A Cock
- Hemorrhoy Rogers - Please Kill Us
- Ape Beatles - The U.S. Shall Be Destroyed
- Dyslexis Coup - Fuck You McRonald
- Jacinth - Bombjack
- Eugene Chadbourne - Breaking The Law Everyday
- Traktor - Zieg Höhner
Various
Artists - Obvious:Oblivious
2000,
Illuminance Recording Collective [Chicago, IL]
Now-defunct Illuminance Records released this very limited, hand-assembled and numbered compilation featuring Chicago-area producers of experimental electronic music. Debut of Instigator moniker.
- Is.U.Is - Breathe.U-In (Excerpt)
- K-Rad - Track Four
- Second Man - They're Off
- Ceylon - Solitude
- Epectir - Infinities Occur
- Sneaky Guy - Things
- Supplement - Twin Peaks Tribute Band
- Destructor Of Soil - Philosophies Of Time And Nothing Like Physics
- FIGORA - PillFunk (Instigator v. Kagura Mix)
- .diminish - Subdued (A Reworking Of An Epectir Original)
- Pal:ndro¯m - Strange Symbol "//:" (Edit)
- The
Timeout Drawer - Photographs By Dave Baker
Appearing as: Instigator, Kagura / FIGORA
Izzy
Zeus -
Non Chrono Volume 1
1999,
Limited Private Pressing [DeKalb, IL]
Part two of the Non Chrono practice recordings / demo CD. More information coming soon.
Izzy
Zeus -
Non Chrono Volume 0
1999,
Limited Private Pressing [DeKalb, IL]
Izzy Zeus evolved to have a horn section, multiple guitars and more of an overall improvised approach to performance. The two-volume Non Chrono series were intended to celebrate our finest captures from innumerable practice sessions, which also served as the band's demo. More information coming soon.
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Classic #1
Lusty Valentine
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Izzy
Zeus -
Vinegar Lead Mine Tour
2001,
Watery Grave Recordings [San Francisco, CA]
Recorded at Smart Studios at the height of the band's activity in 1998, this collection features the songwriting duo of Tom and Lulu, with a little help from some friends, that blossomed into the incarnations of Izzy Zeus heard on the Non Chrono Volumes (above). Dedicated to the memory of our beloved Lulu and Tuula.
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> Izzy Zeus -
Classic #1 [mp3]
> Izzy Zeus
- Lusty Valentine [mp3]
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Speak To Me
Dark
Side Of The Axis -
Dark Side Of The Axis
1997,
Limited Private Pressing [DeKalb, IL]
For one night only, we recreated Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon in it's entirety. I was in charge of synthesizer and dozens of samples - all recreated and/or re-interpreted for this ambitious performance... at Otto's in DeKalb, IL.
Performed Thursday 23 April 1997 by:
- John Gorlewski - Guitar, Vocals
- Pat Insko - Keyboards, Hammond
- Jake Setlak - Keyboards, Samples
- Brett Haskins - Bass, Vocals
- Tom Hapeman - Drums
- Devin Henkel - Vocals
- Abigail Bass - Vocals
- Betsy Carnahan - Vocals
- Joren Cain - Saxophone
- Kevin Lehmann - Percussion, Vocals
- Kent Clapsaddle - Vocals
- Dark Squirrel - Sound Engineering
- Gene
Busse - Guitar
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FIGORA
- Eggroll
1996,
FIGORA [DeKalb, IL]
Limited to just ten cassettes, this ultra-rare release was a give-away when FIGORA headlined the side-stage at Northern Illinois University's Campus Activities Board "Springfest". Eggroll is a snapshot of the band's activity at the time. Side 1 is the group's first performance with Bin (then Ben) Wah Kenobi, at Diversions Lounge on 27 March 1996. Plus a couple tracks from the bands' debut at the same venue some months earlier. Side 2 features selections from an ambient / foley recording session on 26 April 1996, plus a couple surprises borrowed from Bin Wah's box of samples.
Portions
of this recording were used in the making of F To The X: Ten Years
Of Party Noise (above).
ALL APPLICABLE RIGHTS RESERVED, 2008.
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