While playing in the bands Pink & Brown, Zeigenbock Kopf, and the Coachwhips in the late '90s, guitarist/vocalist John Dwyer found he needed an outlet for songs that didn't reach the same level of frenzied noise as those groups. He chose the name Orinoka Crash Suite, or OCS for short, and began recording the folky psychedelic songs in a lo-fi manner, mostly on his own at first. Orinoka Crash Suite contributed tracks to the Stealing Babies and Blank Memory compilations in 1997, You're Soaking in It... The Sounds and Smells of Load Records in 1999 under the name OCS (which was t...