2007-present
Members:
Wockenfuss: beats, rhymes
Talik: bass, guitar, keys, other stuff
Foots: vocals

Sticks Downey started innocently enough, born of the results of my tinkering with Garageband and my roommate's Roland SP-303 sampler. CAC was at a standstill, and and some point I became reinvigorated with the prospect of stacking some tracks together and rapping over the results.

When Biff made his move to AZ, it sealed the deal. I decided to set out on my own, though I had no idea where I was going. I bought myself an SP-404, rigged up a ramshackle recording setup, and I was off. Talik and I had collaborated on numerous projects in the past, and he remains one of the only people (other than Biff, but we share a considerable amount of DNA) with whom I can make music and not want to choke. Foots was the wild card, a friend of a friend who shares many of my influences and is one of the most creatively abstract people I know.

I spent the next year and a half cutting and pasting, writing and recording, working and reworking. I make the tracks, Talik does his thing (which is integral to the sounds that we spout), and Footsy has the unenviable job of singing along with me. She's a trooper. We finished recording our full-length in the summer of '08, and after some unexpectedly lengthy post-production sessions, it's finally here. It's called When the Belt Changes Hands, and it's the first official Sly Records release in many a moon.

I'm hoping it leads to more. I'm not withered and weary yet.

- Wockenfuss

Here's how you do it:

You can buy When the Belt Changes Hands from CD Baby here.
Our official site is here.
We're on MySpace here.

Sly Appearances:
Sly 015: When the Belt Changes Hands CD

- "Prolegomenon"
- “These Monitors Are Frigid”
- “A Frame Away”
- “Paper Champion” (featuring Biff Pocaroba)
- “I Am Going to Destroy You”
- “Forceful Exposition”
- “Do You Know?” (featuring Coolzey)
- “Iron Mike Sharpe”
- “Gambler's Conciet (Spinderella's Big Score)”
- “Sticks of Butter” (featuring the Buttery Lords)
- “A Very Blunt Question”
- “Leave it to the People to Decide” (featuring Biff Pocaroba)
- “End the Scene”
- “Here's How You Do It”