In around 1999, I first moved from using Atari with Cubeat and Cubase to working with an Apple and Logic 8. I just wanted to sit down and write a trackĪs ‘primitive’ as the early Ataris seem now, they were incredibly tight for working with MIDI, weren’t they? I didn’t have the time to be a full-time problem-solver in the studio. I just want to open it and start working.” I do everything on the laptop now due to lack of time. It took a long time to get to the level that MIDI instruments were at. It was actually difficult when I started writing on computers with softsynths and plugins. “Obviously that was all sequenced to an Atari. When I did Lunatic Harness, I was using a Casio FZ-1 sampler that I’d just map everything onto and if a sample needed an effect I’d have to sample it with the effect on it! “Yeah, I had to think of a totally different way to do it than I used to. Seems second nature to people raised on DAWs but that collage-style of assembling tracks was a lot harder back in 1997? Then I’d have different channels with different pitches so I could drag little bits up and down or have a filter, a flange or just pitch them up or down.” I got a folder of breaks from Konx-Om-Pax, who’s on the label, so I started using some of them in Alchemy in Logic or literally just cutting them with the scissors on an audio channel in Logic.
This was after I’d done Scurlage, as there aren’t really many breaks on it. “While I was doing that, it inspired me to get back into doing some tracks with breaks again. I do everything on the laptop now, due to lack of time. There’s an EP Brace Yourself, which only came out in America and it’s never come out digitally as the mastering didn’t match the other tracks. “I hadn’t listened to Lunatic Harness for a good while and, obviously, we’re putting it out again in July, so I was re-mastering some of the tracks from the original. What did you think when you re-explored your old work? Some of the new EP tracks are inspired by your brilliant 1997 album, Lunatic Harness.
I found I was able to write quite a lot last year.”
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That coincided with my wife going to work full time and the kids back at school so I had a bit more time and all this stuff came flooding out. I’ve spent so much time just running the label, dealing with artists or looking after my kids that I didn’t know if I could do anything. “I’ve always been working on the occasional track but that turned out so well that I thought I still had some ability.
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