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Bio

Slushy is the musical mumblings of nothing-nominated livingroom producer Chris “Twist” Kramer, a sonic garden in full bloom. Little jingles that smack you like waves soaking your rolled-up jeans as you walk along the moonlit beach. Armed with a guitar, a sampler and a headful of merrie melodies, Slushy plays rock’n’roll music the way it was meant to be played: with a smile and a wink.

“Fun Cunumdrum” is the name of the latest and greatest Slushy album, chock full of songs so gummy you’ll wonder what school desk they were pick off the bottom of. Listen once to find out how much you love it, then listen twice with a friend.

Bio by William Hooper

Latest Releases

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Photos of Slushy

• Photo Credit: Chives

• Photo Credit: Katie Owens

• Photo Credit: Alen Khan

• Photo Credit: Adrian De Martini

• Photo Credit: Kendra Keyes

Links

• http://www.facebook.com/slushyyy
• http://slushy.bandcamp.com/
• https://slushypop.com/

Discography

Long Players

Fun Cunumdrum

2018, Tripp Tapes/Rubber Vomit Records. Recorded by Slushy.

Hello, I’m Chris Twist

2017, Tripp Tapes. Recorded by Slushy.

Nuggish

2014, Tripp Tapes. Recorded by Slushy.

Pastime Gardens

2014, Grabbing Clouds Records & Tapes. Recorded by Matt Riley. Mixed and mastered by Shimby McCreery

Singles & EPs

Candy b/w Pocket 7″

2013, Randy Records. Recorded by Randy. Mixed by Joe Montanaro.

Five Little Leaves

2013, Tripp Tapes. Recorded and mixed by Shimby McCreery.

All The Rad Dudes

2012, Manic Static. Recorded by Slushy.

Red/Green/Yellow

2011, Self-released. 19 tracks over 3 CDRs. Recorded by Slushy. “Margo”, “Elephant”, “Baby with the Big Tape Head”, and “I Just Wanna Be a Baby” by M.W. Epstein.

Compilations

Gnar FM 3

2016. Track: “Getting Out”. Recorded by Slushy.

Some Weird Sin Vol 1

2016. Track: “I Wanna Walk With You”. Recorded by Slushy. Drums by S. Mentzer.

Dumpster Tapes Monster Compilation Vol I.

2015. Track: “Up In The Air”. Recorded by Slushy.

Why Pick on Me? Vol 2

2013. Track: “Montanaro”. Recorded by Slushy.

Tuff & Rumble Vol 1

2013. Track: “Sweet Potato”. Recorded by Slushy.

Manic Static Mix “No.1”

2012. Track: “Baby With The Big Tape Head”. Recorded by Slushy.

I Just Wanna Be A Baby Now

I Just Wanna be a Baby Now is a song written in May of 2010, a collaboration between Max Epstein, Chris Kramer, Alex Mentzer and Ben Haley when they were the band Slushy. Max came up with most of it. Ben contributed the line “I don’t want to be so small.” Alex suggested changing the original chorus “I Don’t Want to Be a Baby” to “I Just Want to…” which really made the tune.

We recorded it once in Ira’s garage for the Enigma/Blue Pearl tape. If you come over to the house I’ll play it for ya.

The Lemons recorded a version of I Just Wanna Be A Baby Now, and released it on their first set of demos, “Fresh Squeezed”. This was limited to a run 7 of hand-dubbed tapes on the Tripp Tapes label.

The song uses the chords D, G and A.

NYC Girls

NYC Girls was written in May, 2003. It uses the chords A, D, E, and F#m. There’s a Beatles E in there too, like maybe E7sus4. It was first recorded by the Stolen Kisses and released on ONE CDR by I’m Drinkin This tapes in 2008 (now out of print).

NYC Girls is a featured track on Slushy’s 2nd cassette, “Five Little Leaves”. Fun fact! It was the first song recorded of that bunch.

The song tells the story of a small-town boy who meets a titular NYC girl, and is enchanted by her, but she longs to return to her former life. And dancing. It’s based on a true story and I only changed the details that make me look like a putz.

Wrong Words

Hey, here’s a song I really like! Wrong Words was written in October, 2009, and is comprised of the chords D, G, and A.

It was later included on the “Five Little Leaves” cassette on Tripp Tapes, as produced by Shimby McCreery.

The themes of the song are poor communication and self-depreciation.

I had a job as a writer at the time and thought it would be funny if all of my writing job friends saw me and I had a song about being bad with words. The joke was on me because none of my coworkers ever came to see me play and I didn’t have any friends.

Elephant

Elephant written by Max Epstein and originally performed by Boshus. I made a lil recording of it because I like it and put it on a CDR in the early days of Slushy. The Slushy recording of it uses the chords F, C and Bb.

Elephant was later recorded by The Lemons and featured on their debut, “Hello, We’re The Lemons”.

It’s a love song.

Candy

Candy was written in December, 2007, and features the chords D, A, A7, G, and Gm. This songs was originally performed by the Stolen Kisses, and was released on an extremely rare cassette tape by I’m Drinkin This tapes in August, 2008. (seriously maybe 10 copies? It’s very out of print.)

Two recordings of Candy were officially released by Slushy. The first of these is the Randy Records 7″, which was recorded by Nathan Johnson in the summer of 2012, and released in 2013.

The second to be released was actually recorded first, in January of 2012, by Shimby McCreery. This version features Doug Boldon on drums, and backing vocals by Ronnie, Ted and Jack of the Bingers, aka the Bing-Aires. It is included on the cassette versions of “Five Little Leaves”, released by Tripp Tapes in 2013.

The themes of Candy are obsession, self-restraint, insomnia, sweets, and dogs. Mostly dogs.

SF Girls

SF Girls/Gals was written in October, 2009 and uses the chords G, C, D, and F, with a passing F# in the chorus (daringly placed under the letter “F” in the vocal). On the demo all the tones are a whole step lower because I had a funny guitar tuning back then.

The theme of the song is a typical longing for a girl on the west coast, and the scenery and lifestyle that goes along with that type of girl: sunsets, sand, surf, and smooches.

Fun fact!

See the way they comb their hair
See the way they just don’t care
See the way they drive me wild
See the way they look so cute
See the way they point and shoot
See the way they drive me wild
I’m going out west where the sun’s the best
Going to the coast where the sun’s the most
Gonna walk around until the sun falls down
Gonna walk around with my SF Gal