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Additional or alternate names:

  • JackKniVeFe (planned name, see commentary)
  • Jackknife (could've been name, see commentary)
  • idea 6 chiptune (working name, see commentary)

By Erik Scheele erikscheele Bandcamp erikscheele SoundCloud jitters20 Twitter jitmakesstuff Tumblr Jitmakesstuff YouTube erikscheele.com Other Assail Previous track by this artist Audio Commentary Featuring Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, Luke "GFD" Benjamins, and Erik "Jit" Scheele Next track by this artist.
Cover art by Robert J! Lake spellmynamewithabang Bandcamp YouTube YouTube spellbang Twitter Bars Previous track art by this artist Be the Other Guy Next track art by this artist.
Released 10/16/2011.
Duration: 2:44.

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Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, Luke Benjamins, and Erik Scheele: (album audio commentary)

Jit: —oh, this is the new song, now.
Nick: The new song.
Jit: I still remember this one, it's not even called "Jackknife" on my computer. It's called, uh, what is it... "idea 6 chiptune".
RJ!: Well, it's called "JackKniVeFe" on the actual album.
Jit: Yeah, I'm not sure if you actually end it with "ve" or "fe"— wait, you're not actually calling it that are you?
GFD: He is. RJ!: No, I am. I am.
Jit: No, nonono no, put it as "ve".
RJ!: No, it's uh... I'm gonna write, read this out to you, letter by letter: "J-a-c-k-K-n-i-F-e-V-e".
Jit: But no... [laughter] RJ!: Yes.
GFD: That's what I told him, don't do that.
RJ!: Serious— Jit: No... RJ!: N— Yes. Jit: No! No no, you can't do that. That's not your decision.
RJ!: It isn't my decision? Well, technically, it is my decision, but it isn't my decision. If you really want me to change it, I will. That's what it is right now, though.
GFD: I think he really wants you to change it.
Jit: Yeah... No, it's just because... I was kinda of typing in all caps last night, so you can't really take... I don't think you should try to be taking anything I said last night in the doc very seriously.
Nick: Oh, we're going to. Don't worry.
Jit: I mean, I was like "AHH JIT'S HERE. I'M GONNA GO GET SOME COKE WHILE THIS STUFF UPLOADS, YEAH!"
RJ!: How HIGH were you?
Jit: I was... I'm never high. I'm just...
GFD: And then, you deleted my amazing poetry. You jerk.
Jit: That wasn't poetry. GFD: Yes, it was.
Jit: No, it wasn't. GFD: It was quality poetry.
Jit: Was not. [laughter]
Jit: I'll give you a quality poetry: "Roses are red, violets are blue... GFD is stupid, and so is poo." RJ!: "And fuck you!"
Nick: Woah!
Jit: No, you can't interrupt. RJ!: I co-opted on your god damn poetry into my own.
GFD: Shut... Shut.
Nick: I didn't realize this whole album was 42 minutes long.
GFD: It is. RJ!: You didn't?
GFD: We're not even halfway. Nick: No. I know...
RJ!: The scary thing is that half of it is mine, which means I wrote 20 minutes of chiptunes for this album.
Nick: I wrote two. GFD: The other scary thing is that this call has been going for like, two hours, fifteen minutes before we started recording.
RJ!: Yeeah, that's kinda bad. Jit: Yeeah.
GFD: Half an hour of that us trying to find us a safe failsafe before recording. Jit: Was not, you're just...
RJ!: Which we never did. GFD: No. I really hope Vegas doesn't crash.
Jit: I've sorta got one going, but I'm not sure how it's working.
GFD: What?
Jit: I mean, it's recording the music too. GFD: Oh.
Jit: So I have to have my music kinda low. GFD: Oh.
RJ!: I just realized I accidentally, like subconsciously drew this elf as Sweet Bro. [laughter]
RJ!: Oh, no no, it's Hella Jeff. Hella Jeff's the one with the 8^y mouth. Jit: Keep it! Keeeep it.
RJ!: I'm keeping it, no, don't worry. Jit: Good boy.

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