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Deth Spiders is an instrumental soundtrack album by hip-hop/electronic composer, Azrael Encarnacion. Recorded in a two week period in October 2010, the music was used, as intended, for Kelvin Uffre's experimental motion picture, Egg Sack Lee. The film, which is a visual foray of lights and movement as captured and later re-shot off of Uffre's Blackberry cellphone, was edited to the music, rather than having the music scored to the film. Both lucid and built upon improvisational approaches, Deth Spiders and Egg Sack Lee incorporate distortion, over-layering, and the use of edited vocal recordings. The film was completed in the Fall of 2011.

Upon being asked to compose the soundtrack to Egg Sack Lee, Encarnacion who had been eager to work on "beat-less" music, had quickly put together one or two samples and sent them to Uffre. And although the latter had responded positively to the songs, time began to pass and the project seemed to drift towards the pace of losing momentum. This continued on up until October 2010 when the two got together and decided to set a deadline in an attempt to inspire productivity. They agreed that Encarnacion should in fact, work for a week on multiple compositions, and without having yet viewed the film, whatever he produced in those 7 days would thus become the soundtrack to Egg Sack Lee. By the end of the week Encarnacion accumulated 9 songs, however he asked for 2 more days, and replaced one of the compositions and with this, the film's score had been recorded. Naming the album Deth Spiders, rather than Egg Sack Lee, Encarnacion's song titles similarly do not reference the film.

The approach to Deth Spiders was mercilessly improvisational, no piece of music had been written or rehearsed. Very few loops were used, and even these were surrounded by free takes of improvised sound. All first takes were kept, Encarnacion would rather begin an entire new track than fuss over "searching" for the right sound, tone, rhythm, etc. The very limited use of beats and drums on Deth Spiders was due to the need to loosen the songs from their tempo, which always remain present but without a percussive aid, could become a bit more abstracted. In addition to the abstraction of tempo, melody has been purposely minimal, resulting in long drones and underlying, subdued textures of noise. Due to time constriction and the fact that most of the songs were created back to back (some within minutes of one another), most of the same instruments and effects were used, thus by-producing a limited lexicon of sound for the album.

After the completion of Deth Spiders, Encarnacion and Uffre quickly teamed up once again for the soundtrack to CUIDATE, the second installation of Uffre's Blackberry series. This time, Encarnacion sat in the producer's seat mainly, editing and arranging Uffre's noise recordings. The two have since planned a full collaboration project which would seize efforts to combine Encarnacion's hip-hop/electronica background with Uffre's Alternative/Punk-rock past to create something neither artist has delved into before individually.

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