01. Black And White
02. Necessary Limitation
03. Flashback, Warm Nights
04. We Were Jung
05. Tomorrow
06. Lucille
07. Part One
08. Black And White
09. Devil Girl!
10. Part Two
11. Please Please Harmonize (Spiky Burr)
12. Rectify
13. Sexy And Violent
14. Vamoose
15. The Body
16. We Were

    FrankenEightyfour was recorded between February and May 2000 by Muffy St. Bernard in the Abbxcess Bedroom, compiled, mixed, mastered & burned entirely on LadyMac.  All of the sources in this Mute were either created during 2000, or sampled from music videos from 1984 or earlier.
 

    By this time I was falling into the "Mute" groove, and it was becoming an interesting challenge.  I wanted to do "themes" for each installment (or at least give the illusion of a theme), and have at least 10 or so different segments to keep them from becoming monotonous...but the time constraints made this difficult.  As well, I was noticing that computer editing lends itself to obsessive editing -- the ability to tweak a single bar (or segment of a bar, or sample, or segment of a sample) ad infinitum was causing me to focus more and more on the miniature aspects...while the Mute itself needs to be an hour long, and requires some amount of macroscopic attention.
    I realized that In some ways, the philosophy needed to be "has this stuff gone on long enough?  Okay, I'll make it go on twice as long, then."
    I am in possession of 17 videotapes filled exclusively with music videos, and the first one was begun in 1984, at a time when the VJs didn't quite know what they were doing (should we talk over the song at all?  How trivial is too trivial?) and the videos themselves were undergoing growing pains.  I took samples from about half of the videos, looped the beats and overlayed chatter, voices, and music...and had a heck of a time.  I didn't have the luxury of removing sample pops and clicks, or making sure that everything was perfect.  In a few cases it was necessary to include some sources recorded in the Abbxcess bedroom (the keyboard line for track 8, the voices for tracks 7 and 10), and "Devil Girl!" is the keyboard portion of the track which later appeared on Pony Tale.
    A complete list of samples is being withheld, to make it more fun for 80's trivia buffs.