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This track was made for the Electronic Oddities podcast https://www.mixcloud.com/DrExistenz/electronic-oddities-61-nineties-to-noughties/ via the Electronic Music Philosophy Facebook group.

Here's what I said about it:

This one was particularly interesting for me since I don't play the guitar at all. I could never get my fingers around the fretboard - and it turns out still can't. I spent an evening messing about with sounds in Logic - seeing what different effects could do. The following evening I switched to Ableton because it turns out that playing all but the most simple riffs is beyond me. With the guitar laid on it's back on my desk and using the tuner plugin to find notes I recorded a number of what you might generously call riffs. I then approached it from more of a sound collage perspective. As I played with the sounds I found myself making sounds that reminded me of music I've long loved from the likes of Cocteau Twins and Dif Juz (I was absolutely obsessed with 4ad for a few years buying everything they released on release day no matter what. Which sometimes turned out brilliantly - I bought 'Come on Pilgrim' the day it was released). I must admit I had to cheat for the main lead - it's sampled from one of the riffs into Simpler so I could play something more interesting... The piece also turned out to have a conceptual framework - I watched a documentary about Leigh Bowery - his living of his life as art had resonances with my love of Coil - and I wanted to reflect that somehow - his art and the music he liked aren't my thing at all however so I was looking for a mix of glitter and darkness - not sure if I found it but it works for me. The harsh notes at the end are (randomly) a brief homage to Beefheart and the use of metal picks. The title is what Bowery asked his friends to tell people after his death.

Sometimes it's nice just to play without thinking of muti-tracks and the technique of Frippertronics lets you make lots of sound doing just that......

A friend suggested I looked at writing library music. Made one track this morning. However the second track seems to have turned into 'accidental Tangerine Dream'......

possibly not that relaxing as ambient music goes

Mika Vainio was a massive influence and so shocked and saddened to hear of his death today.

Making music seemed better than making words so made this little track - restricted myself to my modular. Using the seaboard to drive the DPO via expert sleepers FH-1

You can see me recording this piece here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04AGT-AgonI

this just came together while I was trying out different sounds for another track I'm working on. Basically recorded it so I can throw it away and get on with the main piece I'm working on......

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Been listening to too many demos of Spitfire sample libraries that I can't afford......

After all the 'nice' music recently something with more teeth

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A gentle piano piece