Album Notes

Founding Zru Vogue members Andrew Jackson and Max Tyrell recorded "Unlimited Enjoyment, Instant Gratification" in 1997-98, each working in his own studio, manipulating tracks, and sending tapes back and forth, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, neither knowing what the other was doing. Their free-form creative approach to recording an album led to some pleasantly surprising results.

Andrew Jackson on making the CD: "We each composed some new music, exchanged DATs (digital audio tapes), and discovered a remarkable continuity in the sound. Then we continued the process, trading DATs back and forth between Max's studio in the Los Angeles hills and my studio in Silicon Valley. We added to, deconstructed, and reworked the music, neither of us really knowing what the other was doing, so that the results were always unexpected."

Some of the tracks evolved into songs with words, while other tracks remained instrumental. Some were reworked more than others. After months of this collaborative exchange, we had more than enough music for a full length CD. It was time to do some final mixes, design a cover, and put it all together."

We also collaborated on the cover art and design. The CD got its name from a headline I had clipped from a magazine and included in an envelope that I mailed to Max with one of my DAT mixes -- when it fell out of the envelope, Max declared it as the name of the CD, and so it was."

Long-time Zru Vogue fans or anyone just discovering Zru Vogue will enjoy unlimited enjoyment and instant gratification.