The Internet Archive has launched the IUMA Collection on their service. This is independent music culled from the website, whose full name is Independent Underground Music Archive. Two songs from my duo with Justin Johnsen are included, listed under the short-lived band name, Delphinium.

Here’s the band story, taken from our old mp3.com page:

Delphinium are Justin Johnsen and Anji Bee, who have made music, DJ’d radio shows and created fanzines together since the early 90’s. 

Coming together as a recording project at Long Beach City College, Johnsen and Bee have gone through many changes to become Delphinium. Originally collaborating on Justin’s solo project, Ravensong (as well as Anji’s fanzine, “Substitution,”) their collaboration slowly morphed into the musical duet, Datura, with which they made a name for themselves in the underground industrial-goth scene of Long Beach and surrounding Orange County areas. 

Always eager to explore new ideas, the two became DJs at the notoriously avante garde college radio station, KUCI 88.9 fm (in Irvine, California) where they were exposed to many new musical ideas and partnerships. Datura began to take a back seat to a plethora of smaller side projects of a more experimental nature, as well as their heavy involvement in the radio station itself over the following few years. 

Now the duet has returned to complete and release their body of material, under the new name of Delphinium. Still searching for a label to release their first album, the band are offering a 9 song DAM cd through mp3.com with a combination of 24, 16, 8 and 4 track recordings. They also have a number of additional demo tracks which they plan to re-record digitally in the near future.

Well, obviously the re-recordings never happened, and we never hooked up with a label, either. But we have these two songs online as a record of my time previous to joining Love Spirals Downwards.