"Jungle" - Liner Notes - September 20, 2000

Bandit, look out! The CE edition didn't get those last three minutes, which seem particularly inspired by the uber-cheese we all know and love as the classic 70s Johnny Quest. Blame the notorious Kris Renkowitz, who made showings of "Johnny" episodes a staple of lunchtime around when the first part of this track was composed. How can you go wrong with cavemen brainwashed by renegade Nazis?

This TV show, like Barbarella, has had a rather horrible influence upon me. Stieg Hedlund, designer on Diablo II, was the only one here to correctly identify the absolute devastation that "Jesus Christ Superstar", also from that era, has had on my musical development. But there's that big pentatonic melody on the tubular bells! Those are the extra points I mentioned two months ago. The first part of this track is also a relative moldy oldie from those last few days of my youth in the spring of 1997.

Nostalgia . . . Beer with Ben and Patty, a Macintosh that never worked and a strange instrument sold to me by the neighbor of our producer, Matt Householder. Developed by the world famous Sputnik Percussion, it is a stick with a thick rubber band around it, like a bull-roarer, and is responsible for that neat little 16th note wooshing sound which holds this oddity together in the first few minutes. No animals were harmed in the making of Diablo II.

- Matt Uelmen

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