Haha. For the first time in about 14 years, I’ve managed to get some old demos tapes, a cassette deck and a computer into the same room at the same time.
These two songs were made in 1993/4, and they were to be released as an EP on Go! Discs. The plan was to go into a studio and re-record them – these versions here were knocked out in my bedroom on an Atari ST, and a budget Yahama sound module. But then they dumped me in favour of Portishead. And there died my musical career, pretty much.
You can download or listen to them through last.fm
Listening to them now, the arrangements are a bit fiddly, and the sounds a bit samey, and they’re very much of their time with those rising and falling filters. And they go on quite a bit too long, probably. And a vocal would have been nice.
I can hear a bit of Orbital circa-Belfast in there, that I wasn’t really aware of before. And the crescendo bit in “where do we go” is straight out of The Cocteau Twins songbook circa-Head Over Heels, but performed on cheap synths.
Pleasant enough though.
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