New Recordings from Dave Johnston!

...and continuing with the evolving theme of featuring guest recordings in this here blog, here are two pieces from Dave Johnston, the other half of AcidF*ck, our infamous electronic lo fi sampling outfit  from many moons ago! There's a possibility of some future collaborations coming up too, so watch this space!

In Dave's Words:

My Mind Turned Inside Out was recorded first, It started off being put together on a mixer but then went on to recording into a mac and laptop and assembling tracks on that. 




Also, in Dave's words:
This second track, I See Demons, was recorded completely digitally and I was a lot happier with the result. The vocals are from an interview with a schizophrenic I found on YouTube!

Prawnshocker Fairy Cups delight

Arriving by email just the other days was news of my old chum, the Rev. Dhumpa Phatti from the House of Flange, putting out a new Prawnshocker album release. So here it is: Gorgeous Aural Madness through made through Grooveboxes and multiple layers of mixes, samples and Digital Effects. Enjoy!

Out of me Head

The origins of this series of recordings started …um... some 40 or years or so, when as a teenager at school I was packing books away at the end of a Physics class, and two students came and started setting up different bits of kit at the back of the class. Based around an oscilloscope and a function generator, they were setting up a series of electronic tones to record on cassette tape. Since I first heard those sounds – the way that they sounded like nothing else I had heard, and the way their tones could be altered and modulated  - I was completely hooked. I went back to that Science room several times afterwards, trying to recreate those sounds, but without any success. 

Eventually I got hold of a Function Generator – but it took a long time after that, hooking it up to various mixers, EQs and effects to try and get those electronic sounds again. And then, with the recent acquisition of an Alesis Akira digital delay processor – which is an amazing piece of kit – and rerouting signal paths into various effects pedals, it started falling into place. Finally, those sounds started coming back to match what was already in my Head...

So that’s what we have here – abstract tones, space noises, multi layered aural madness, all out aural attack, rhythmic beats and pulses – and sometimes, all of these in the same track. Enjoy!