"Year of the Rat", from Enjoy Your Rabbit by Sufjan Stevens (2001)

Portions of "Rat Staring Contest" belongs to, and is courtesy of CharismaLove. Please watch his hilarious video, which has been seen on The Tonight Show and G4's Attack of the Show, by clicking the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2jEM5aHHJc
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Track 3 of the electronica instrumental album Enjoy Your Rabbit, based on the animals of the Chinese zodiac.

Check out the annotations for details about the particular animal and its relation to the zodiac.

A strings version of the album, Run Rabbit Run, is a collaboration with the Osso String Quartet and has been released on October 2009. All tracks are available on YouTube... look at the right of this page and you'll see some.
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Courtesy to Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Also support independent artists through donations and going to their shows. It is my belief that they make the best music around - free of all restrictions of the commercial music industry, where money and profits are the only priority.

Check out the annotations for details about the particular animal and its relation to the zodiac.

A strings version of the album, Run Rabbit Run, is a collaboration with the Osso String Quartet and has been released in October 2009. All tracks are available on YouTube... look at the 'Related Videos' section and you'll see some.
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Courtesy to Sufjan Stevens and Asthmatic Kitty Records.
Support independent artists through donations and going to their shows. It is my belief that they make the best music around - free of all restrictions of the commercial music industry, where profits and chart positions are the first and only priority.

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[kvan1917]

I love this track. Has a very gothic and mysterious feel to it.

[PenaltyKillah]

@kvan1917 :) After all this time since these uploads, I still enjoy getting comments from ppl like you :)

And I agree with the "gothic and mysterious feel"... isn't it perfect for a retro VG?

[negativethoughts]

this tune's strange but good

[PenaltyKillah]

@negativethoughts That's electronica for you :DD

[sayatheblakat]

Finally someone's posted these. I've been waiting =^-^=

[PenaltyKillah]

Yeah I was surprised no one posted them before. After listening to the tracks, I knew they had to be uploaded. Thanks for playing! (Hope the animations/effects weren't too tacky lol)

[PenaltyKillah]

@tortoisexplosion Thanks, that was my intention :D

[MyEggIsBoiled]

This is some very ambitious work by Sufjan. Instrumental electronica. Absolutely unique in its own right.

[kvan1917]

@PenaltyKillah Yeah, it sounds like it would fit perfectly in an old Metroid or Castlevania game. :)

[checkabreak]

why not buy the album? how much you spend on beer or levis? do you buy anything? buck a song !! but than again what a horrible thing is to spend money on art .... (L) <<<

[sayatheblakat]

No they were good. Good job