Through a process that is still not fully understood, Wibi sometimes exerts its will onto albums by other people, causing them to manifest Wibi tracks. This is a catalogue of all such known instances.
TMBG Jail - Free When You Call From Jail
Between home music and Silent Flower Observers of Southern California, and back when we actually listened to They Might Be Giants, we made and contributed some songs to a TMBG cover album. Observe how easily any song can be converted into an experimental dark ambient song to make covering it much easier. ("(She Was a) Hotel Detective" was pretty fun, though.)
"Whirlpool" actually isn't even a TMBG song, but a Meat Puppets song that TMBG covered. We knew it through TMBG. -🪴
05. Wibi - I Palindrome I (Wisp)
07. Wibi - (She Was a) Hotel Detective (Lub, Wisp)
09. Wibi - Twisting (Lub, Wisp)
12. Wibi - Whirlpool (Wisp, Anne)
14. Wibi - Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love (Lub)
Dream Tourist - New World Mall
A couple years ago, our friend Krishan (poetmistry) joined a collab where each participant would send in unfinished songs they had lying around and they'd remix one another's unfinished songs. He asked us if we had anything in store, and we sent him 30 pieces. One of them was a loose electro cover of "The Nerd Voice" by They Might Be Giants (a 45-second jingle they had done for an audiobook), for a follow-up to Free When You Call From Jail that lost momentum.
As it turns out, the collab Krishan was in also lost momentum, but we told him he was free to use our sketches for whatever. Eventually he showed our "The Nerd Voice" cover to a rapper whose debut album he was producing, and he freestyled over it. (Highlight: "You're an incel. Exhale, inhale.") The album as a whole is pretty good. -🪴
07. Freestyle #2 Nerd (Wibi, poetmistry, Dream Tourist)
notoriously ambiguous artist collective - Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts, Disc 2
For a while, we were a bit infatuated with netlabels, and we wanted to get more into the Bandcamp scene. This involved sending an outtake from Sell It To Old People As A Gift For Young People (originally held onto for a split single between Prod and Squishy Things) to a compilation album by (the?) notoriously ambiguous artist collective. We remained anonymous, since this was when we were even less sure what we wanted to do with our online identity — and a lot more inclined to seem cool and not weird, and not to spoil it by mentioning our mental disorder and bringing in identity politics. Blech. -🪴
