Time Rival - Cooked (Visitation No. 3) (2026) [Hi-Res]

TR: Not really a foodie, no. I mean...I like food but I usually go for the simple things. Cooked, first and foremost, is some Gen Alpha slang. My son's a pre-teen and into video games so he uses it in his vocabulary pretty regularly. I try to pepper it in when I talk to him just to be annoying. On top of that, though, it relates to the music because to me, this album has an over saturated, sun-bleached sound to it that connects the tracks together and makes it sound, well...cooked.

CNDHMN: Describe your journey to becoming a musician. Did you grow up in a household of music? Was it artsy? Were you always drawn to it or was it a later development?

TR: My parents aren't musicians but they did expose me to different types of music. Listening was a big part of my upbringing, and allowing me to have my own musical tastes in my more impressionable years helped. I had a tape collection at 6 years old and a growing CD collection shortly after that. Any money I got as a kid went into buying CD's.

I played trumpet in 5th grade band but it didn't really interest me. My journey as a musician really started when I was around 14 years old and a friends' older brother gave me a burned CD-R with some cracked music software on it. I taught it to myself and it really just grabbed my attention in a way nothing else did at the time. I decided to pursue music in college and played percussion in ensembles and orchestras. The engineering and production side was always more my speed though.

CNDHMN: You run the eclectic label Triplicate Recordings. Where'd the name come from and how does running it inform the music you make as Time Rival?

TR: There's a little backstory here, in the early 2010's I was invited to join an electronic music producer collective that we eventually called Mangled Music. There were about 12 of us ranging different styles. As the members started to lose interest and disband, I thought it would be cool to start a label with two of the artists in the group (George ìSuncastleî Ernst & Bryan ìBVSMVî Kraft) as a way to release our own music while sharing the workload. If you look back at the first year of Triplicate, all of the albums from 2018 come from the three of us. We picked Triplicate Records as a name because there were three of us, and it was a mildly amusing play on words.

As Time Rival, I record a seriously unnecessary amount of music and very little of it ends up on Triplicate Records. There are several other amazing artists that keep coming back to us and the release schedule is pretty limited, so I don't want to take opportunities away from them because I decided to make 16 albums this year. I set aside music throughout the year that I think would be good for Triplicate and I squeeze myself into the schedule when I can.

CNDHMN: There's a rumor you have a secret rap album as MC SOUTHSIDE MIKE called "MIC IT LIKE ITS HOT." If false play it like it's true. If true play it like it's a terrible secret. So? (BONUS: your top 5 MC's)

TR: Funny you should mention that, so I grew up listening to rap and very early on in my music production, I would find vocal stems of rap songs on file sharing services (this was pretty tough in the early days of the internet) and put them over weird beats I made. I certainly wouldn't call it hip-hop, it was a very strange fusion. I lost all of those old recordings so I doubt they will surface any time soon.