About the time Baltimore's ACR ex health clinic once supermarket Pigtown studio was amassing its toys, Chad Jones and Nathan Bell staggered in with a pile of songs and the promise of pay. Other players of instruments were lured in and given a few minutes to review the material. Music was made. Songs were shaped and recorded.

The group of people known as "The Assembly," which drew members from Candy Machine, Lungfish, Jackie- O Motherfucker Carnival of Souls, Estrojet, The Beautiful Losers, Runway Model, She Bites and others agreed to get together again sometime.

Here are some selections put to tape during the years surrounding the turn of the millennium.