KTEL WREKKAS

[ywhogoddess]

recognize that walk anywhere...... ;)

[jimixsx]

It's not just the girls who are into tree sex. Probably your cousin Emory likes nothing better than to get into the trees during a video shoot and bring himself to the place from which man and tree must return alone.

[DireMc]

Cousin Emory has to be pushing 100 by now, and his battle-axe of a wife swears he's as virile as ever -- proof positive that Possum Pie is hands down the most effective libido increasing food, particularly when the opossum has been freshly scraped off the road...

[DireMc]

All I'm interested in knowing is what the hell was my cousin Emory doing in the trees there, around the 3:10 mark? Last time I spoke with him, he was priming the cows for milking down in Normandy, TN...

[moggy23]

I'm still waiting for those drums to keep in time with the music. Nice vid, mind. Oh, and I quite liked that backwards bit.

[jimixsx]

Oh I love the looseness on this because everything including the drums was played live to multitrack tape rather than sequenced and quantised. Then that piece of tape was copied and added to the end and this version created by muting a few bits here and there to create the breaks. (What is this? The Future Music interview?-ED)

[moggy23]

Yeah, looseness can have a certain charm of it's own. I've got loads of stuff on cassette of portastudio recordings from the early to mid 80s that me or my friends did at the time.

Some are real gems, and they'd probably sound pretty dull if they'd been polished up proper, like. I hear where you're coming from, maaaan...

[jimixsx]

Yeah, baby...portastudio recordings are where it's at. This one was done on the cheapest of the lot, a Fostex X-15 which I'd dropped, smashed open, then glued up and used with a Korg M1 to make this track. The X-15 was so fucked that I had to hold the record button down during the recording too, all of which only served to create the minimal vibe.

In fact I'm going into my studio to smash all the equipment right now and then glue it back together and start recording some new Wrekkas hits.

[moggy23]

Ah, the Fostex! I remember it well. I had a couple of mates with Fostex ones. Hey, I'll tell you what this track reminds me of. Remember a band late 80s/early 90s called Natural Life, at all? They got signed to a major but never really got anywhere, just did the one album. Well, before they formed Natural Life, a couple of them used to go round my mate's to use his portastudio and put some ideas down. That stuff they did round at his sounds very much like this track you've put up here.

[jimixsx]

I do indeed and I think they were 'in the pot' as far as this one goes. This almost got forgotten about right after it was made. At the time I was trying to NOT develop everything as an instrumental but this one slipped through. Probably only took 4x the length of the track and then I just never heard it again until, maybe, a year later when I was looking for something to cut video to.

Now you've reminded me about Natural Life, I'm gonna have to trawl for some but yeah..I liked that lot.

[moggy23]

Yeah, they were cool. Better than many bands of a similar groove around then. Didn't they support Happy Mondays? I may be wrong, they were on the fringes of that scene anyway. Not sure what happened to that lot, apart from Shovell who still seems to crop up here and there. And I know a couple of them had a short-lived house clearance business in Catford that burnt down (or that might've been before Natural Life). Seem to recall seeing a Myspace tribute page around not too long ago...

[ywhogoddess]

what ARE you talking about? lol

[jimixsx]

Too many accounts and not enough operators. I haven't the floggiest.

[ywhogoddess]

swear that's the west entrance...

[jimixsx]

In the West, 17 horns blowin'

[jimixsx]

This one has hidden layers. There's a video within the video that's within this video. All to be revealed...in time.

[oneiros93]

groovy fuckers!!!

[jimixsx]

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