>Notes on Dan Lopatin’s early project Eccojams by Chuck Person. The pseudonym he chose is funny and stupid, but aware. Something about this artist hits on the same notes that makes me love Ben Sinclair. Maybe it’s their shared cheesiness, or a tendency to tred in the slow. Slowness for me is indicative of living in the now. Side note that this could be and incompatibility of mine and [redacted]>. I think he is fast and I am slow and I think this sentiment has been repeated since the beginning of our relationship. It’s pleasant to hear and artist’s personal meditations (maybe too elaborate a word) on snippets from dreamy pop songs. He replays them over and over again, but not for the whole track. I can slip into a dreamscape be still be actively listening. I must resist the urge to dive into the 90’s & 00’s pop hits skattered throughout. I was too busy trying to consume and have counter culture as a façade identity that I denied myself the honest American pop culture I truly adored. Was I pretentious as an 11 year old? Maybe? But unfoundedly. I just knew that I wanted to be like my brother and follow his punk-rocker values rather than indulge in whatever [redacted] had to offer in her Disney Channel bedroom.