The Big C
Code: Foetus 3
Gygno
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Holly created guitar and bass. Bass was played by Doomage on this, Holly guitar. The rinkity-dinkity synth and plain distorted organ solo were added by Strangely with words and the original singing from Haircut. But we got fed up with his singing so Strangely did it, better. Certainly on this one. Gary invented the fantastic drums instantly. It’s a very precise piece with thrashing guitars mixed well back from the starting noise and stuff. Strangely uses the proximity effect on the microphone and stressed sibilance on the tape-echoed vocal. Doomage set the bass guitar sound up brilliantly and the drums come through nicely, especially the toms.
Urbane Encounter
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Doomage riff inspired. Strangely orchestrated.
Nightmare in Eldon Square Shopping Centre. Played at virtually every gig. Took 3 years to record properly…Laziness I guess.
Wee Jimmy (Part II)
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Strangely made. Re-jigged for daftness.
EFS kind of piece. Fairgrounds and Tom & Jerry are in this as well as classical diminished descents. Jim from Derrim let us down with his tape deck. So he got a daft tune named after him.
Worms
Originally created as a jam Doomage guitar jam voiced over round his mum’s place by Strangely who didn’t have any instruments or gear at the time. Developed and recorded at the Pits using special one-hit super-stereo echo on the drum toms as an experiment. I can smell the worms coming, Hah!
The Katrina Syndrome
Friends
Created by Strangely with extra clangy Crawling Chaos additions. Originally derived as a cross between “”Baby You’re so Repulsive” by “Crime” and “Andy Warhol” by David Bowie. Samples to compare are here.
Jhonn’s Angel
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Doomage invention.
The vocals can be approached in many ways. This is one way.
The Vulva Boatman
Fraüline Le Moîne
D.S.S.
Skaill
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Neat jam played twice, one at 2x speed. Stopwatch timed to finish concurrently. PLAY LOUD.
From an atmospheric and powerful jam between Doomage and Strangely.
It was so good that the only addition needed was itself speeded up two times. It was copied onto another tape and then the fast one started at the correct time to finish concurrently with the slow (normal) one using a stopwatch. EQ and volumes were adjusted to suit the feel and pace. The piece sounded sea-like and Orkadian or Skerry-ish tied to the sound of ages. We pulled the right-sounding title from an atlas of the Orkneys, which is here. It’s quite close to Skara Brae.
I’ve turned the bass up even more here. It’s almost impossible to get it to sound like the PA in the room otherwise.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
[...] view this YouTube video This tune was the inspiration for me inventing the basic structure of the Crawling Chaos tune “Friends”. It’s bloomin’ marvellous. I heard it on Peely one night and that was it! Another bit [...]