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half-pint demigod is a collaboration between two musicians who have never worked together. Performed by musicians who didn't hear any of the material until months after they recorded their parts. Produced by a guitarist who didn't play a single note on the album, and didn't have anything to do with recording the material. And written by a songwriter who didn't hear any of the material until the album was already done. It all started innocently enough: Yogi invited Andre to produce remixes of the material from Any Raw Flesh? Quickly sensing the possibility to snatch a difficult defeat from the jaws of easy victory, Andre proposed taking this familiar concept for a highly esoteric spin: he decided that the only sounds he would use in his remixes would be the actual musical performances which were originally recorded for the original versions of those songs, during the making of Any Raw Flesh? There would be no drum machines, no synthesizers, no outside samples of other artists, and no new instrumental performances by Andre, Yogi, or anyone else. Sometimes the recorded performances of Any Raw Flesh? drummer Chris G were chopped up, filtered, and tweaked so that they sounded like breakbeats sampled from an old vinyl record, or were rigidly edited to resemble an ancient drum machine. Sometimes Yogi's guitar parts would be cut-and-pasted, like sentence fragments in a word processing program, so that completely new riffs and songs were fashioned from scraps of the old ones. Sometimes two different bass lines from two completely different songs would end up playing at the same time in a new remix. Stuck halfway between solo album and collaboration, existing as equal parts art statement and party soundtrack, it raises a number of questions: What does the album "mean" for each artist at this point in their respective careers? How will it be heard by their respective audiences, or by those unfamiliar with either Yogi or Andre? half-pint demigod, the music of Shawn "Yogi" Farley remixed by Andre LaFosse, is released December 6, 2005 on Wonky Records.