Feel Like Jumping

It's pretty much a given that if you're making music like I do, you will invariably have a field-recording style sample of some kids playing on the playground mixed into your shit somewhere. It's possibly a lost-youth/wish for innocence metaphor?? Who knows, but a lot of songs have it. I don't think City Center actually has any, but many a day I have walked by this school in Ypsi called New Beginnings Academy and heard the future poets, doctors and practitioners at play.

Without sampling the sounds, we did go so far as to name a recording after the spot. In case you missed out on the 50 copies of the New Beginnings Academy cassette, you can download the mp3s right here, right now. More information after the jump. Thanks to Amber for the photos of the true N.B.A. as well as help with making the gif.


City Center
"New Beginnings Academy"
Recorded November 2009-August 2010 in part by Chris Koltay at High-Bias, Detroit Michigan, and in part by the band at home.
All songs by Fred & Ryan.
1.Remove Ya
2.After Hours (Demo)
3.Covered In Night
4.Cats In The Yard
5.New Beginnings Academy
6.Let's Go Die
7.Winless
8.Misstep