maps of stone
2026
| Track | Additional Info |
|---|---|
| isticism (video version, 2025) | After 20 years of not writing full songs, this is the first track g. produced, but in a manner not unlike his earliest tracks - simple, direct, and minimal. Mixing words, phrases, and languages in humorous ways, the lyrics are a take on word vomit, chatbots, and the pointlessness of taking words at face value. |
| reel life (demo, 2025) | Early version of Reel Life with alternate third verse and without the preacher's diatribe. More of a "vibe" than a song, but had a spark of something interesting. |
| slip away (2005) | Built around the unused chorus g. wrote for the Parallel Project song glimpse. Electro-melancholy was the theme. |
| letting go (2005) | After Hurricane Katrina, g. wrote a series of instrumental tracks a friend called "terribly depressing". Each represented some facet of the emotions felt after g.'s life was upended, friends murdered, and the loss of 95% of everything he had. Letting Go was the resignation that what had happened, happened. It will be okay. It always will be. |
| thin air (2001) | The European release of dataseed contained this version of the track, while the North American release had a slightly less-polished version called "Thin Ice". The chorus was a mix of lyrics from 15 years earlier by g. and childhood friend R.Thomas. |
| zionsank (2001) | Often asked about the name, zionsank was simply graffiti written on the side of a building g. would pass often in New Orleans. Also asked if this was about the 9-11 terror attacks in New York, g. often had to point out the whole album came out months before the event took place. So, no, it wasn't. |
| new religion (2000) | For the New Religion album, g. and Clint turned down their guitars, sharpened their sound, and once again embraced the sterility of technology. "Cities built on hairline wire, country in decline" - a loving ode full of optimism for the early internet days. |
| misery (2000) | Always happy to write a song with a hooky chorus, Misery was a tongue-in-cheek jab at the life of a computer coder ("eternity in code, heady passion, reflection overload" - IYKYK) g.'s wife used to joke this was a love song for her - such a goth! |
| synthetic (demo, 2000) | A demo for a track that ended up being reworked for the dataseed album, loads of synth wizardry built around a single line of lyrics. |
| gravity (1999) | From the blueiceblack EP, gravity blended g.'s electronic manipulations with Clint Sand's atmospheric guitars. "World spins for taste of money"... still. |
| pressing the little (1999) | Clint's guitars again turned an old demo track into a frantic, hyper noisy slow groove. Edited for brevity. Lyrically, g. waxes poetic about trying not to lose himself in a scene where everyone was trying to be something else to catch the eye and ear of a local celebrity. |
| temples (1997, unreleased) | Terrible and improvised lyrics, but an infectious groove that never made it past the demo stage. Taken from a cassette copy, the bass distorted the entire intro and was mostly edited out for this release. The breakdown and "middle-eight" are perhaps g.'s favorite part, and "Clint has short hair, he has long knees" - because good rhymes are hard to come by. |
| disease v1 (1995, unreleased) | While later released with different lyrics on the blueiceblack EP, disease first took shape in 1995 as part of the album "broadcast radio messiah" which was lost until 2025 when a cassette copy of three of the tracks was rediscovered. |
| MSFK (1995, unreleased) | Another track from the lost album, MSFK turns the tables on the constant religious media g. was bombarded with while living in the heart of the bible belt. |
| pass (1995, unreleased) | The third of lost tracks turns down the vitriol but not the bitterness. |
| unnamed (1992, unreleased) | A short demo of a track from g.'s short time in Chicago (much too cold for a Florida boy). Mixing Tetsuo and Pat Robertson samples, what's not to like? |
| mine eyes (1992) | Heavily inspired by Skinny Puppy's Testure and g.'s animal rights views and long-standing vegetarianism, Mine Eyes was started while still in Florida, but didn't get completed until after g.'s move to Chicago in 1992. Shred added samples remotely from Florida before g. released it on the Distemper CD. Fun fact: the artwork for the Distemper CD was done by D.Babbitt who had also done art for Thrill Kill Kult, A Split Second, and others. But the pressing plant messed up the file and recreated it "as best they could" and it came out generic and terrible, with only vague similarity to the original design. |
| hemisphere (1991) | cut.rate.box first "hit" that opened the doors to playing with some of the biggest artists at the time - Pigface, Alien Sex Fiend, Die Warzau, Foetus, and others. Guitars by Shred, live drums by C.Kelly. |
| hell (1990) | From the self-untitled cassette-only release, this sample-laden track was a mix of funky and peculiar that proved to be a fan favorite at live shows. |
| falling (1990, unreleased) | Though often played live at early shows, this track didn't make the cut to the self-untitled album. |
| lyly (1989) | One of the first cut.rate.box songs recorded in a professional studio, live mixing in television news which happened to be the Robert Maplethorpe art controversy with Senator Jesse Helm's classic quote "if they want to go into a men's room and write dirty words on the wall, let them furnish their own crayons". |
| sing world collapse (1988, unreleased) |
One of the earliest recorded cut.rate.box songs, a stark and bleak synthetic track expressing g.wygonik's disgust at the state of things in the mid-to-late 80s, and a desire to pack up and leave. "Chained to this seaside, try to make my retreat." (This was recorded at the tail end of a 4-track cassette which cut off before the song actually finished. D'oh!) |
| sing world collapse revisited (2025) |
Merging original 4-track vocals with technology, loads of guitars, a new additional verse, and 30-plus years of experience, this is g.'s modern take on one of his earliest tracks. |