Private Amusement by Mendenhall

The year was 1988, and I was a metal singer who played a fair bit of guitar

My friend and roommate bought a brand new keyboard that had just came out called the Korg M1, that could record 8 tracks into it's on-board sequencer

So I set out to record a dance pop album, sequencing 8 tracks on the M1, then recording those in stereo onto my Fostex cassette 4-track, and finally adding 2 tracks of vocals through a radio Shack reverb unit

I ended up releasing the results, a 5-song e.p. entitled "Private Amusement" (actually misspelled as "Private Amusment" on the first few dozen copies) that I dubbed off onto cassettes and sold at college

Unfortunately, no decent copies survived. I had an old cassette and some of the photos from the cover photoshoot, but all of it was in bad shape

So, motivated by who knows what, I re-recorded the e.p.
I deliberately did not re-compose anything, or modernize the songs. I used only the Korg M1 , with a few sprinkles of Yamaha DX-7, (now VST's) and even ran all of the vocals through the Radio Shack reverb (now also in VST Form)

As for the cover, unable to use the original photo, I drew it instead, in the style of Patrick Nagel, a popular 80's artist and one of my favorites

Side note:
The e.p. originally included the song "Sunshine", which I also re-recorded, but with real instruments and I feel it is best left as it's own thing now.