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3. WANTING MORE
Nothing but raw greed informs this track. I was at an age where you want everything and I was no different to everyone else.
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2. GLIMS HOLM
I fed my Stylophone through the unbranded practice amplifier which had a built-in reverb which to my mind made it sound a little bag-pipey, hence the Celtic title; the name of a Scottish island.
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6. SALLY FORTH
Another reference to a girl, this time one who seemed to unthinkingly find herself romantically involved with a new boy every week. I think secretly I wouldn't have minded being one of those boys, and...
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8. TIMEWRIGHT
Classic Carrillion! The CR78 keeping time while Jase plays a root augmented by the Juno's rich chords and the Stylophone doodles on top. The title comes from a short science fiction story I wrote about...
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1. AWAITING DAWN
A bit of an in-joke this, as I was thinking about the time I was waiting for a girl called, you guessed it, Dawn, only to be stood up. The music reflects early optimism about the meeting but eventually...
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5. ENDTIME
I think I was thinking about the short segue 'Get Carter' on The Human League's album released the year before and a massive influence on my music. Very simple, the amp's reverb again on the piano and...
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4. NUMBEARS
Typical of my word play, this is a pun on 'numb ears'. It features Jason's bass going through the broken WEM copycat tape echo machine. The tape in this was so stretched it distorted anything you fed...
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7. SHE LIKES CREAM
More thoughts about sex here I suppose, but I cannot remember exactly what the inspiration was. Very hymn-like, I could imagine this played big and bold, like Ultravox's 'Hymn'.
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15. FOGGY POLAROID
I was using an old cassette on the four track for this and in the background I could hear a muffled voice going backwards... this led to the concept for the track and I therefore did not add any more...
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16. SUNNY LANES
By the time of this album I was on the brink of going out with Rachel Laine and the title of this track is a play on her name. Unusually this track does not feature the Juno 6 until the last part.
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17. UNCERTAIN PROSPECT
Ambient with a reversed Casio VL-1 rhythm again. The 'Uncertain Prospect' was my soon-to-be girlfriend Rachel... would she, wouldn't she?
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18. SLOWMO
Rather an unusually old fashioned sounding track for me - reminds me of a old dance hall. The organ-type sound is actually the Stylophone through Jase The Bass's amplifier with the built in reverb unit...
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19. EXPRESS
Technically complicated this track has the CR-78's rhythm 'dry' on one Portastudio channel while the same rhythm is fed through the broken WEM tape echo and then through Jason's amp with reverb on. I...
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20. MEMOIRE DE TOI
Inspired by a Jean-michel Jarre track a friend had recorded for me called 'Souvenir of China'. I tried to make this track sad and full of longing, but somehow hopeful... Rhythm from Casio VL-1, chords...
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