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"I think what we're doing is trying to get a collection of songs together, a thing that we used to call a CD, what we, back in the day, used to refer to as an album," he joked, "with the intention of setting a precedent -'OK, this is what we sound like, this is what I sound like, I'm working with different people' - and then hopefully, I'd like to abandon the album format; just come out with two tracks every three months or every five months.

"Because this is not only a musician collaboration, but a visual- artist collaboration as well, I want to put out limited runs of CD singles, with specific artwork by specific artists, and a full-length CD as a collection, but I'm not married to that idea," he continued. "I'd like to do it one or two songs at a time, so that I still have something up my sleeve for when a decent film comes out, that wants some mood music in it - if I have something that makes sense, great, I'll do it. It will show up there."