BAM

This page is about the blog. For the album with the acronym BaM, see Bushes and Marshmallows.

This article is missing trivia. The basic details are all here, but if you know some fun facts on these tracks, you should add them.

BAM
Genre	Breakbeat, Ambient, House
Running time	05:17:56
oldgarbage.zip	Partial download
Download	Partial download

Blödsinn am Mittwoch (officially translated as Silliness on Wednesday), commonly shortened to BAM, was a blog run by C418. The original concept was for him to release a short song every Wednesday, but this later expanded to include albums and songs as long as 50 minutes. 53 "BAMs" were released between 2007 and 2009; There were 65 in total.

Bushes and Marshmallows was my english translation to a blog I used to host, called “Blödsinn am Mittwoch,” which translates into “silliness on Wednesday.” On that blog I created some piece of music every Wednesday, even if I had no time. It helped me get better at making music, and get better at making mediocre music under pressure, haha.

—C418, c418.org

"BAM #1" was the creation of my blog. I thought of releasing songs every week and ended up having a normal blog with random song releases. But if you try to listen to them in order, you may notice how my quality level moved every time. One of the things I like about these “BAM”s. I can follow myself in the path of music creation.

[...]

Oh and hello! You actually got this far! Thanks for going that deep into my history, you lurking bastard.

—C418, Daniel's old blog

Only 60 BAMs still exist as the first 25 tracks were included in oldgarbage.zip and many were not archived by the Internet Archive. An appropriate source for each surviving BAM will be given, as well as details about what the lost BAMs might have been. C418 unofficially released a collection of BAMs in an archive, although a handful were not included as they were left on his old PC at his former residence in Berlin. Only a few that are not included in oldgarbage.zip and the unofficial BAM archive still survive on YouTube.

Artwork

• 

  The blue track artwork used by most BAM releases.

• 

  Alternate black artwork used in some later releases.

• 

  Official C418 avatar in a similar style to the BAM cover.

Releases

notbam

notbam
Length	10:46

BAM #1

BAM #1
Length	1:00

This song was the creation of my blog. I thought of releasing songs every week and ended up having a normal blog with random song releases. But if you try to listen to them in order, you may notice how my quality level moved every time. One of the things I like about these “BAM”s. I can follow myself in the path of music creation. Actually this song was just a joke. I told myself to make a song thats just a minute long, as fast as possible. The next day, this blog was created.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #2

BAM #2
Length	1:00
Additional artist(s)	Koji Kondo, smn

Okay, this song was the next step into my “one crappy song per week” idea. It’s two things. Me playing a Super Mario level song from memory, and an old song of smn, a good friend of mine. It’s incredibly stupid and I should feel ashamed to put it up. Even today.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

I don't even remember how I was involved in that. I think it started out as a remix of one of my concept.less tunes? dreamethyltryptamine is pretty close. The melody kinda went through the memory wringer heheh

—sohnemann, Discord

Trivia

• The intro melody is from Super Mario World's Overworld Theme.

BAM #3

BAM #3
Length	1:00

I created this directly after #2. I was digging the intro and then fucked up everything else. Worthy of a facepalm.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #4

BAM #4
Length	1:00

I had to listen now to rember what it was. I think this song was where I finally got used to a weekly release. Because I noticed that I almost forgot to post it. Looking back to it today, I think… it’s stupid. These drums are absolutely disgusting. And the melody is weird.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #5

BAM #5
Length	1:51

Aaah.

This is the song where I broke my “only one minute per song” rule. I realized that you can’t tell a ‘story’ in just one minute. This song had to be longer than one minute. If you listen to it, maybe you’ll notice that it kinda ends after the first minute is over and starts over again shortly.

Overall, this song is meh.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #6

BAM #6
Length	2:08

This one’s actually decent. Not in the beginning, but it evolves pretty good. I like it that way. Back then when I released it, I wanted to make it longer because I liked it. Took me about a week to post the longer version. Nobody noticed anyway. I probably had about 5 visits a week. Today I have almost thousand a day. BUT that seems because those chinese people are streaming my music over some sort of internet radio. I hope they enjoy it. I can’t ask them because I can’t speak chinese.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #7

BAM #7
Length	1:47

Let’s see. Hm. Oh yeah, thats the song where I just focused on using a drum set from a magazine cd. Ew. Just ew. Skip this.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #8

BAM #8
Length	2:19

I have no idea what this is. Probably some kind of ambient click and dip. Not interesting.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #9

BAM #9
Length	3:13

Quite good actually. Gives me sometimes the “musician earwigs”. Meaning repeating a song you’ve made decades ago in your head until you beg for mercy. But this song really is actually decent. A neat twist at the end. Stupid drums in the middle.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #10

BAM #10
Length	3:05

I seem to make such songs quite often. Those kind of songs with more than one in them. It’s okay’ish I guess. I can’t ask anyone for their opinion. Imagining to ask my parents how they liked BAM#10 gives me the shudders.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #11

BAM #11
Length	1:55
Additional artist(s)	Beatbot

An unfinished project of a friend. I tried completing it with my style. Meaning fucking up his old version of it. He said it’s lovely. I say it’s kinda okay.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #12

BAM #12
Length	1:24

This song is from an album that nobody knows of because it was never released.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #13 - cheating

BAM #13
Length	4:12

Old stuff. Good though.

—C418

This song was from an album nobody knows of. That’s because I never released it. The song itself is very offbeat. Thats why I originally called it ‘cheating’.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• BAM #13 - cheating appears on Mixes as a remixed track named "Confusion".

BAM #14

BAM #14
Length	6:19

Ooh! Long!

—C418

Heh, my original commentary to this song was ‘Ooh! Long!’. Quite funny, considering that todays releases aren’t below 8 minutes.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• BAM #14 appears on Mixes as a shorter remixed track named "Incredibly detailed acid trip".

BAM #15

BAM #15
Length	3:46

This one is just boring.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #16

BAM #16
Length	3:08

This one kinda broke the style I always had. Kind of the point where I tried to do things different.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #17

BAM #17
Length	3:18

Probably the only chiptune song I’m not ashamed of. Except maybe for one of the boy songs. But I don’t have those anymore. I could ask smn if he has them.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• The "boy songs" mentioned in the description might be referring to iNTERWEBBS.

BAM #18

BAM #18
Length	3:19

This was between a pause of releasing nothing I think. Maybe thats why it sounds kinda weird.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #19 - nyryi

BAM #19 - nyryi
Length	4:12

…I have no idea what to say about this.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #20 - beatquirl remix 293

BAM #20
Length	3:03
Additional artist(s)	beatquirl

This song… well… let’s say the ‘melody’ you hear at the beginning was made from a friend that used VPN.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• There was a "making of" blog post about this song in German, but it was never archived.

BAM #20 - combat418 mix 293

BAM #20 - combat418 mix
Length	3:24

Kind of an old song I pasted these samples in. After that I was finally able to finish that song.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• BAM #20 - combat418 mix appears on Mixes as a remixed track named "20 kards".

BAM #20

BAM #20
Length	7:20

A VERY badly mastered song with a funny idea of using crying soundsamples. I made two other versions of this.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

yeah, better not hear them. very very badly mastered

—C418, #minecraft IRC

Connections

• BAM #20 appears on Bushes and Marshmallows as the first part of the track named "Edward".
• It also appears on Mixes as a remixed track named "20 kids".

BAM #21

BAM #21
Length	5:09

This song is from an album nobody knows of because it was never released. I think the basedrum is way too heavy. Like in #20. Bad bad bad mastering. Not so bad of a song.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

yeah, better not hear them. very very badly mastered

—C418, #minecraft IRC

If memory serves me correctly I think [the TTS voice is called Edward], yeah. I also seem to remember a silly in-joke that led to the Turret/Tourette syndrome pun

—sohnemann, Discord

Lyrics

Note that these lyrics were transcribed by a fan, but some were confirmed by sohnemann, so these are likely accurate.

Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret and I have a Tourette syndrome!
Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret and I have a Tourette syndrome!
Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret and I have a Tourette syndrome!
Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret. Hi, I'm Edward Turret and I have a-

...

I'm. Edward.

Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-and-I-have-a-Tour-ette-syn-drome!
(4x)

Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-
Hi-I-am-Edward-and-I-have-a-Tour-ette-syn-drome!
(2x)

"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-and-I-have-a-Tour-ette-syn-drome!"
(2x)

...

"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-and-I-have-a-Tour-ette-syn-drome!"
(2x)

...

(obscured vocals)

"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-"
"Hi-I-am-Edward-Tur-ret-and-I-have-a-Tour-ette-syn-drome!"
(2x)

(obscured vocals)

Connections

• BAM #21 appears on Bushes and Marshmallows as the second part of the track named "Edward".

BAM #22

BAM #22
Length	3:50

Heh. This was kind of a good idea. Adding distortion over EVERYTHING and make it the essential part of the song.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• Track missing in oldgarbage.zip and BAM archive but still available on the Internet Archive.

BAM #23 - 294

BAM #23
Length	5:50

No rhyming at all. I like it anyway.

—C418

I don’t like this song. It has COMPLETELY random lyrics. Spoken from different digital sources.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Lyrics

Note that these lyrics were transcribed by a fan and might not be accurate.
...
(???), please don't delete this song
I'm talking nonsense for today
(???), please don't delete this song
I'm talking nonsense for today
...
(???), please don't delete this song
I'm talking nonsense for today
(???), please don't delete this song
I'm talking nonsense for today
(???), please don't delete this song ((???), please don't delete this song)
I'm talking nonsense for today (I'm talking nonsense for to-)
...

Extra #1 - C418 & sohnemann - dimension zwei

Extra #1 - C418 & sohnemann - dimension zwei
Additional artist(s)	smn

Okay. This song I think was one of the first songs smn made in Ableton Live. Of course his song was not that good, but thats an usual thing. You never get used to a program after two or three tries. My version of it is not grand either. But I think at least it’s kind of enjoyable.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• This track is currently missing.

BAM #24

BAM #24
Length	1:47

Crappy.

—C418

This IS crappy. And totally intentional too. I can’t understand people liking this. Luckily there are none. I think.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #25

BAM #25
Length	2:36

This is just completely random.

I don’t even know what I should say about this.

Overuse of too much loudness?

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Extra #2 - herbst rotes herz (cat418 mix)

Extra #2 - herbst rotes herz (cat418 mix)
Length	5:25
Additional artist(s)	iceland bruce

A badly mastered remix. I don’t think that guy calls himself “Icelandbruce” anymore.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• Extra #2 - herbst rotes herz (cat418 mix) is remixed on Seven Years of Server Data as the first part of "What it would have sounded like if I were to DJ 5 years ago".

Trivia

• Track missing in oldgarbage.zip and BAM archive but still available on the Internet Archive.

BAM #26 - Not good.

BAM #26 - Not good.
Length	2:18

Hooray, I made one! Okay. It sucks. But hey, it's something. Wait till christmas.

—C418

This song was made while I was doing a ‘christmas special’. It’s quite dull. At work, a friend teased me a bit and asked if there would be a “christmas special bam”. I ended up actually making one. It’s BAM #27.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #27 - EP

BAM #27 - EP
AKA	bps
Length	15:34

Probably the first really long BAM. It’s worthy being called an EP. It has kinda weird songs. I never did something like this before. Hm. I should try more of those ‘Christmas specials’… Oh wait. Last December I released ‘zweitonegoismus’. Nevermind.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Tracks

• Orange juice lies on the floor because of Chip (aeiouw)

• Dipstick tries to convince himself (aeiouw)

• Mister Orange Juice Wong died yesterday (flu)

• Odd pinch (det)

• Mouse on venus destroys god in zoo (yeh)

Connections

For more info, see bps.

• The fourth part of BAM #27 - EP (Odd pinch) is remixed on Seven Years of Server Data as the fourth part of "What it would have sounded like if I were to DJ 5 years ago".

BAM #28 - GOD DAMNIT

BAM #28 - GOD DAMNIT
AKA	Komphund 3
Length	1:58

This is a strange one, innit? I kept making the synths go more and more nuts, but you still can listen to even when the melodys make no sense anymore.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• Shortly after this was released, it was replaced by an updated extended version.

Extra #3

Extra #3 - MEINE GUTEN VORSAETZE
Length	3:16

“MEINE GUTEN VORSAETZE” was created on the 1st of january 2008. I had fun creating it, although it sucks. Very. Deeply.

1. FUN FACT

This is the most popular BAM in China.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• Meine guten Vorsaetze is the german for "My good intentions".

BAM #29 - Soundcheck

BAM #29 - Soundcheck
Length	1:56

Nothing more than a song to check if I’m still capable to make music. This song said: “Kinda.”

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #30 – The Whatever Directors Cut

BAM #30
AKA	the whatever directors cut
Length	50:13

This album (it really is a full album) was fun to make.

When I had really a shitload of work to do, I asked myself if I still would be able to make music. So I started creating an album as fast as possible. I didn’t care for quality. All I wanted was quantity.

So here it is. An album actually created in under two weeks.

I have to admit, most of the songs are stupid. But I think there are at least 4, maybe 5 that are worth a listen.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

For more info, please see the whatever directors cut.

BAM #31 - rewrite

BAM #31 - rewrite
Length	1:46

back to teh basicz

—C418

Oh! This song was ripped from a live thing I was doing. It seems people like this one.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• The intro of the track is sampled on the track "Raubfezess" from the album da.

BAM #32

BAM #32
Length	3:07

Yeah well. Experimental.

—C418

Dunno what to say about this one. It just was there.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Extra #4 - xtr

Extra #4 - xtr
Length	1:06

It’s a nice little songy. I dunno why I kept myself from calling this a BAM. It’s just like all the other songs.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #33 - oshit

BAM #33 - oshit
Length	4:50
Additional artist(s)	smn

I asked my friend smn if he could do some lyrics. He gave me a lot of lyrics. And now this song is full of his voice.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

I keep mixing up which ones are Dan's and which are mine in that thing. The "Ououuw yeah" was me and one of the German phrases as well; the "Ich war noch niemals in New York" bit I'm pretty sure was him tho.

—sohnemann, Discord

Lyrics

Note that these lyrics were transcribed by a fan and might not be accurate.
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh shit
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh shit
(unknown german phrase)
Ich war noch niemals in New York
Ich war niemals in New York
Ich war niemals in New York
Ich war noch niemals!
Oh yeah (Ich war noch niemals in New York, Ich war niemals in New York)
Oh yeah, oh shit (Ich war niemals in New York, Ich war noch niemals!)
Oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh shit
Oh yeah (Ich war noch niemals in New York, Ich war niemals in New York)
Oh yeah, oh shit (Ich war niemals in New York, Ich war noch niemals!)
Oh yeah (Ich war noch niemals in New York, Ich war niemals in New York)
Oh yeah, oh shit (Ich war niemals in New York, Ich war noch niemals!)
Oh yeah (Ich war noch niemals in New York, Ich war niemals in New York)
Oh yeah, oh shit (Ich war niemals in New York)
...slamein hcon raw hci!

BAM #34

A bunch of small songs. And a desperate try to get more people on this blog. I stopped trying such things.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

fucking clip #1

fucking clip #1
Length	1:35

This one’s meh.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

fucking clip #2

fucking clip #2
Length	1:29

This one’s okay.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

fucking clip #3

fucking clip #3
Length	1:08

This one I find actually pretty interesting myself.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

fucking clip #4

fucking clip #4
Length	0:54

This one’s meh.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #35 - small ambient fun

BAM #35 - small ambient fun
Length	2:25

…Weird one. Meh.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #36 - small minimal fun

BAM #36 - small minimal fun
Length	3:02

This one’s random again. Nothing I personally would like to listen to. Nor would I think anyone else would listen to it.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #37 - because I said so!

BAM #37 - because I said so!
Length	4:24

Happy schmappy crappy song! My brother thought it’s too melodical.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #38, I guess…

BAM #38 - C418, unintentionally live!
Length	4:52

I just had fun with myself until I realized that I recorded all that. So thats that.

—C418, C418.org (old website

Trivia

• This track is currently missing.

BAM #39 - Audacitysong

BAM #39 - Audacitysong
Length	3:46

Inspired by TIGSource. At least they were having fun with opening exe files in Audacity. I took one BRZZ sound file and made a song out of it.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #40, heh.

Three this time. All made yesterday \o/

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #40.1

BAM #40.1
Length	2:12

Made in 10 minutes. Or so. Well, creativity began then.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #40.2

BAM #40.2
Length	3:09

After this, creativity was away.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #40.3

BAM #40.3
Length	2:16

As you can hear.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #41 - The Preview (completely new and original song)

BAM #41 - The Preview (completely new and original song)
AKA	cnaorg
Length	6:55

Connections

BAM #41 - The Preview (completely new and original song) appears on Mixes as two separate tracks, 20 kids and Confusion.

BAM #42 - The C418

BAM #42 - The C418
AKA	Mixes
Length	25:37

Connections

For more info, see Mixes.

• This BAM was uploaded to thesixtyone as "The C418".

BAM #43 - Chlordance

BAM #43 - Chlordance
Length	5:23

Okay.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Peanut butter.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• BAM #43 - Chlordance is remixed on Seven Years of Server Data as the second part of "What it would have sounded like if I were to DJ 5 years ago".

BAM #44

BAM #44
AKA	Number 44 then, earwalzer
Length	1:21

It’s from a minicompo in Tigsource. The goal was a waltz song.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• This track is currently missing.

BAM #45 - SINE ep

BAM #45 - SINE ep
AKA	sine
Length	19:42

(Beatbot!)

An EP with four tracks.

Love

—C418, C418.org (old website)

I was in Berlin with my family, just as some kind of holiday treat. And I had my laptop with me. Every night I was sitting on it until I fell asleep. Until this was on my hdd after the holidays.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

For more info, please see sine.

BAM #46. NO. I’M NOT DEAD.

BAM #46. NO. I’M NOT DEAD.
AKA	angesagt, ags
Length	5:16

Hello World.Â

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #47

BAM #47
AKA	null
Length	2:52

Something random and not interesting again.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #48

BAM #48
AKA	tropfen
Length	1:22

Self-advertising indeed. Hello tigs.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Trivia

• This track is currently missing.

BAM #49 - sirtet

BAM #49 - sirtet
Length	1:34

BAM is on a roll today! This song was a small “contest”. Michael and I gave us the mission to make a tetris backwards idm remix. And thats the Conclusion.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

The track appears on Seven Years of Server Data.

BAM #50 - Zweitonegoismus

BAM #50 - Zweitonegoismus
AKA	zweitonegoismus
Length	41:04

My most personal work. And the most experimental too!

I don’t exactly know my intentions of doing something like that anymore. I think it happened very naturally due to my dull and melancholic life at that time. I was just putting notes on what I’ve seen. There are two collaborations on this album, both including the voice of smn and once a “horribly out of tune” guitar by a very good friend of mine. As every free album I have done, it has flaws. When I put this out on the net, I felt a big depression because of my so called flaws. Today I think everything needs some kind of flaw to be sort of predictable, and maybe more friendly…

Some people wondered what the names could be, so here are the translations in order:

twotone, egoism, shiftless, headmusic, (phlips), ill, (phleps), sand, (anthem), plastic

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

For more info, please see zweitonegoismus.

BAM #51 - Lproj

BAM #51 - Lproj
Length	8:36

I decided to make BAM #51 a bit longer. Currently I’m doing pretty good and had a lot to add. I just don’t know when I’m done. Maybe a month, maybe two. Maybe tomorrow. Well, smn gave me lovely images, so I can at least start finishing a cover. I love to cover my works, it kinda gives me the feel that I accomplished something.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

Connections

• The track appears on Bushes and Marshmallows as a track named Monkey Park.
• Was uploaded to thesixtyone as "lproj".

BAM #52

BAM #52
AKA	konddnow
Length	2:36

Nothing special or good. Just to have an update.

—C418, C418.org (old website)

BAM #53

BAM #53
AKA	clrz
Length	4:41

Sorry, this one is not really good either.

—C418, C418.org

See also

• Bushes and Marshmallows
• Dissociated Tracks