The Beat Scientific Story
Posted: Sunday, November 5th, 2006 in Other and Daryl Palumbo and Glassjaw and Side Projects and MP3 Downloads | Post a Comment
As you know, Daryl Palumbo has a large amount of side projects, one being “Beat Scientific“. This was a collaboration between Daryl Palumbo and Brian Lane (drummer of Brand New). It was Daryl Palumbo singing over hip hop beats created by Brian Lane and Daryl Palumbo Circa 2000-2001.
The first track to appear from the side project was “Midwestern Stylings“. It was officially released via Fadeaway Records on their “The Best Comp in The World” compilation CD. The album credits labeled it was labeled as a Glassjaw remix, though it was really the spawn of Beat Scientific. An acoustic version also appeared on a sampler CD from Fadeaway Records; limited to 2000 copies. Glassjaw later recorded the song on a few demo sessions while working on Worship & Tribute. Unfortunately, it didn’t make the album.
Beat Scientific’s debut album entitled “Students of the Drums” was set to be released in January of 2001 via Fadeaway Records, but the album never materialized or was finished for that matter. Out of a handful of tracks, only 3 were completed with lyrics, the rest were left as instrumentals. Below is a drawing Daryl Palumbo contributed for the website of Beat Scientific (which also never materialized)
One of the tracks created from Beat Scientific was later recreated by Glassjaw entitled “The Number No Good Things Can Come Of” as a Worship & Tribute b-side. It was featured on Glassjaw’s Cosmopolitan Bloodloss UK CD Single, and the El Mark Digital EP which was released on iTunes last Fall (2005). Daryl has also called the track “St. Alex” in a live performance while performing acoustically with Beck (guitarist of Glassjaw).
Why Beat Scientific was never continued or completed is not known.
Below are MP3 downloads of some Beat Scientific material: (Right click and save)
Beat Scientific - The Number No Good Things Can Come Of
Beat Scientific - Midwestern Stylings
Beat Scientific - Midwestern Stylings (Instrumental)
I hope this was informative. Enjoy!
November 5th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Daryl, Brian,
Why Couldn’t you have finished this CD, it is some of the best stuff I have ever heard.. The Number No Good Things Can Come Of has the most ridiculous beat and vocals..
YOU GUYS NEED TO RELEASE THIS
November 5th, 2006 at 12:45 pm
this is ace. thanks for the mp3s. and sweeeeet, more brand new news i didnt know!
November 5th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Sweet. Its good to know where these amazing songs came from…I found them on Kazaa or something back in the day. I had no idea!
These two songs are A+, and I would love for Beat Scientific to come together for an album.
November 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
wow, i never knew that brian lane did shit with Daryl…. thats fuckin nuts and these tracks are the shit. thanks for the ehads up
November 6th, 2006 at 3:45 am
wow. this shit is the nuts, how many other tracks were there?
November 6th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
nothing really new. the only thing i would like to hear is St Alex.
November 6th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
nothing really new.
Yeah, I released The Number No Good Things Can Come Of quite some time ago but most of this info was unknown. Sorry you knew already…
And… St. Alex is The Number No good Things Can Come of!
November 6th, 2006 at 3:06 pm
there is another version of midwestern stylings and i was wondering if anyone knows it. It is a studio version
November 6th, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Yup… as I said in the article, Glassjaw recorded it while making Worship and Tribute but it was originally a Beat Scientific song.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:58 am
there’s the acoustic version too,.
November 10th, 2006 at 3:49 pm
these track suck compared to the ones he did with larry….him and larry were the originals of st alex…if you heard those you would see what i mean…