Studio Chapter 7: Metal XOR-C

Metal XOR-B had been taken down on July 27, 1996, because Jason was moving once again. The equipment was taken to the house where the previous Circle IX Studio had been located. The Studio was rebuilt and Metal XOR-C was ready for action on August 3, 1996.

Along with the new Studio came a new version of the music software Jason had been using. It was an upgrade to CakeWalk that allowed him to do not only MIDI with the computer but audio editing also. The problem with his computer was that did not have much storage, so the use of audio editing was limited. But he began experimenting on September 11, 1996, with "One Night" (which appeared on the 1996 Mune Mud album Equation of Time) and "Tim Is Tuff", an old Two-Tones song that had been re-recorded at the first Isthmus jam session. Neither of these songs got far due to the lack of computer storage.

The first new song recorded in Metal XOR-C was on September 19. It was called "Vestige". Unfortunately the song has long since been lost.

In early October he finally started working on "real" songs, ones that made it to albums or are still in the Studio's catalog.

After a couple of years of productive recording, the Studio moved again. The last song recorded at Metal XOR-C that appeared on an album (Purging the Great Abyss by ORC) was "Element of Fire" on December 24, 1998. There was another song recorded on January 4, 1999. This was "Mother Nature (Serenity Mix)". It was also an ORC song but it was not used on the album.

The albums released under the Metal XOR-C label were:
* Mune Mud Equation of Time [August 13, 1996]
* Isthmus Lambskin Temple [November 19, 1996]
* Isthmus New Mexico Igloo [December 17, 1996]
* Isthmus Ideas [May 6, 1997]
* Mune Mud Sleep State F [September 23, 1997]
* Isthmus Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 1 [July 21, 1998]
* ORC Purging the Great Abyss [March 2, 1999]
* Isthmus Parabolic Dish Festival Vol 2 [March 23, 1999]

So after two and a half years, the longest run thus far, Metal XOR-C was finished. On April 17, 1999, it was disassembled and moved once again, this time to become Metal XOR-D.

This period of the Studio's history lasted from August 1996 to April 1999.