The Merry Times is a techno-inspired track that expresses the joyful significance I felt while experiencing Nova Scotia’s maritime culture, first vacationing there and then living there. I took the field recordings on the shores of Lunenburg, Halifax, and Laurencetown, Nova Scotia. I highly recommended a visit to all three places. (Lunenburg’s a UNESCO World Heritage Centre.) I recorded the mandolin, which is the source of the track’s looping hook and granular, glitchy ear candy, on the field recorder in my living room. I never thought I’d use the field recordings or the mandolin noodles in a track on a released album. It’s one of the amazing things about electronic music and music production technology nowadays: there are all sorts of ways to use all sorts of audio in very musical ways.