2009-Week 5

Most of this week was spent working on new stuff that will probably end up being this mythical album I keep going on about. I've got an ever-growing archive of loops that I've been extracting from old vinyl and I've been playing around in an almost random fashion looking for combinations that appear to work. I'm not sure how it will all end up, it's impossible to tell at this stage, I have a rough idea of what I want and I'm using chance to guide me along. I know what I don't want and that's a sensible album with 10 well produced and perfectly arranged tracks. I want loads of short messy tracks, sudden changes, unexpected shifts in tone and the odd moment of melodic beauty when you least expect it.

This week I have a video to share with you. It's a 2003 remix of Fiver to Bigwig that was released in 2002. I re-edited the track and video because Matthew Lewis (AKA Matthew Butler) who I sampled in Fiver to Bigwig sent me a full length version of his rendition of Bright Eyes that he did on Tiswas and I was able to make the entire track using just his vocal. I used this version of the video a couple of times as part of a larger AV set in 2003 and then it dissapeared into my archive and I forgot all about it until a couple of days ago.