In 1993 Bill Doss put out a cassette on the Elephant 6 label (in other words, by himself) entitled A Spiraling World of Pop, and credited to A Sunshine Fix. One of the songs, "Love Athena," became the first song on the Olivia Tremor Control's debut 7", California Demise, which also featured a Doss song called "A Sunshine Fix." This seems to signal that his solo project had not only gone dormant, but had folded into the Olivia Tremor Control, and it wasn't until after Black Foliage that he began to sell copies of a new single under the Sunshine Fix moniker--on the Olivia Tremor Control's "farewell" tour. That single contained two countrified songs, "Last Night I Had a Dream" and "Beaconary Word," that didn't quite fit into OTC's template, although the other Olivias appeared on the single: Will Cullen Hart, for instance, is given credit for providing the "barnyard electronique." A couple of the songs Bill Doss played with OTC on this final (for the time being) tour resurfaced on the Sunshine Fix's first album proper, Age of the Sun. (To hear them as live OTC performances, visit the MP3 section of elephant6.com.)
But the cassette, like so many early Elephant 6 releases, was never officially released, and for a long time only circulated among friends in Athens. I acquired a copy through an online auction last year, turned it into MP3s, and shared it on a gmail account with those in the E6 Townhall. I'm sure it's been pretty well disseminated since then, but now that Optical Atlas is up, the tracks can find a permanent home here. You'll find them below.
Side Two
a. Learn
b. Temptation
c. Turtle Song
d. Superman Suit [incomplete]
e. Leonard Upon Entering the Fish Market (Speaks of Apple Butter)