O.P.M.
O.P.M. stands for "On Probation Mormons" which I like to think is a missionary take on "N.W.A." (Nigga's With Attitude). And what started out as a silly project (mix cd - made up of miscellanies recordings from two missionaries personal tapes) eventually turned into a sort of "missionary black market production company". as you can tell not many copies of these albums have been made. the reason is not only because we didn't want to get in trouble but also because we were doing it for ourselves and so we only needed copies for the people directly involved and maybe a few others and that's it. there are copies of these recordings that have been burnt and traded with other missionaries but nothing too big. (except I heard that 100 unmarked copies of the Rap CD have been made and passed out at BYU) I put these recordings up here now so you can hear the fun/insane things that me and other missionaries recorded over my two years in the "Oregon Portland Mission" and I hope you enjoy.
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O.P.M. - "New Happy Endings" RECORDED/RELEASED: June, 2008/July, 2008 PRESSED: 8 FEATURING: Shaun Mayo, Ryan Avery, Hamani Hill and Skyler Tanner NOTES: This album was recorded, mixed and "pressed" within a 6 week period of time in the apartment of Hill and Avery (and our friend Marvin). This is a great mix of funny songs, good songs, clever songs, awful songs and hippy jamz (which Mayo is definitely responsible for since he is a "granola") all songs were recorded on Avery's 4-Track and mixed/mastered by Paul Eagleston |
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New Happy Endings (Mayo,
Avery, Hill, Tanner) |
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O.P.M. - "Woodburn Double Feature" RECORDED/RELEASED: November, 2007/December, 2007 PRESSED: 20 FEATURING: Ryan Avery, Spencer Hawks, Legrand Scanlin and Adam Coombs NOTES: What started out as a Christmas album project for "our moms" eventually turned into 2 albums of fun. One is just silly songs we wrote and the other is all Christmas related. All songs were recorded on Avery's 4-Track and mixed/mastered by Paul Eagleston |
WOODBURNING |
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RECORDED/RELEASED: September, 2007/October, 2008 PRESSED: 00 FEATURING: Ryan Avery and Russell Reed NOTES: These are the first experiments with 4-track. All songs are unreleased and have only really been heard by the artists who made them... until now. All songs were recorded on Avery's 4-Track and mixed/mastered by Paul Eagleston |
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Earn Your Stripes
(Avery, Reed) |
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O.P.M. - "I am Kevin bacon" RECORDED/RELEASED: May-June, 2007/August, 2007
PRESSED: 10
FEATURING: Chesley Lewis, Cade Robertson, Shaun Mayo, Ryan Avery,
Garret Gubler and Jesse Joseph
NOTES: Tracks 1-12 were recorded live @Mayo's birthday celebration
@Dabney Park on June 14th, 2007. Track 13 was sung to Avery one
night over the phone because he couldn't get to sleep. Track 14 was
recorded on May 23rd, 2007 @Changs Mongolian BBQ for a performance
art tape Avery was making for Space 55 Theaters "7 Minutes in
Heaven". The story was too long for the performance so it is
featured here on this fantastic compilation. All Songs were Recorded
on Avery's handheld tape recorder. |
CADE ROBERTSON |
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O.P.M. - "avery+mayo tape" RECORDED/RELEASED: May, 2007-August, 2007/August, 2007
PRESSED: 3
FEATURING: Shaun Mayo, Ryan Avery, Garret Gubler and Jesse Joseph
NOTES: Songs 01-27 were recorded on May 19th, 2007 during a
Mayo+Avery sleepover. All songs are first take improv songs done in
a very "Night Wolf" style and most of them will probably never see
the light of day outside of the few copies that are in the
possession of the artists involved and the few tracks available
here. Tracks 28-29 were recorded on June 25th, 2007 in
Avery+Gubler's apartment after lunch. These tracks also feature the
lovely voices of Gubler and Joseph. Track 30 was recorded on August
8th, 2007 and left on Mayo's answering machine. Also this is the
first album to ever feature "Makkorop" which is a new genre started
by Mayo and his friends in Idaho. It involves only mouths but isn't
"skat-ing" and is way cooler than "beat boxing".
All Songs were Recorded on Avery's handheld tape recorder. |
01. Mr. Rogers |
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O.P.M. - "rap cd rhapsody" RECORDED/RELEASED: November, 2007-January, 2007/January, 2007
PRESSED: 50
FEATURING: Pres. Gessel, E. Larson, E. Baker, E. Saunders, Sis. Ott,
E. Spain, E. Nicholes, E. Clark, E. Beck, E. Avery, E. Diamond, E.
Bodin and Shawn
Bardwell
NOTES: This is the first of the O.P.M. recordings. It was made
during the first two "transfers" that Elder Nicholes and Elder Avery
served together. The two missionaries decided to make the CD to
celebrate them serving together and being the best companionship the
world has ever known... it includes a handful of songs and a ton of
answering machine messages and other things recorded off of peoples
phones. They made 50 copies and passed 35 of them out at a "transfer
meeting" and gave copies to a bunch of missionaries and the mission
president. Within 3 days of the album being "released" it was
"banned" from the mission. President asked for all copies to be
returned to him or destroyed (he got a total of 8 back.) Because of
all the "controversy" the CD started many rumors were created
including one stating that we went to a recording studio and spent
our monthly allotment to have this album put out. Also one that
President Gessel threatened to send us home. And I would like to
make the record clear right here that both of those statements are
nothing more than just rumors. |
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Opening - Presidents
Thoughts on Rap |