A song I had performed with my old band Ha Ha Said The Car (Mk1) in the mid 80s, recorded for the first time last week.  Just as much fun as it was back then.  A bit out of my vocal range, but cured the problem by singing in two registers one octave apart.

Flying Saucer

A track made in 2012 using a Paperjams toy harmoniser. Made by aiming the mic at the speaker for feedback effects, and adding some whistling. A great little toy.


Lunar Landscape

These are early recordings from the mid-late Seventies, made using a home made "synthesiser" I cobbled out of bits of electronic kits and radios.  I had a domestic mono cassette recorder and experimented with layering sounds by covering the erase head with paper.  It didn't do the tape a lot of good, but it allowed me to create some quite musical sounds out of very little, recording a note or sound one at a time.  There is an "Electronic No.1" too, my earliest recorded tape, which I have yet to clean up, and compile from. It is mostly lots of squiggly noises, layered many times, not very musical at all, but I recall it being fun to do...I spent weeks on it.  I don't know if these are even listenable, but I'm sure you would like to hear how I got started....this was how!  

Electronic No.4

Electronic No.3

Electronic No.2

Two recordings of me and my friend Paul doing music up in my attic in 1980.  Creating a rhythm track first, with odds and ends, a tiny snare drum, playing it back through a Jen phaser pedal into an amp, and playing to it.  A couple of dubs later...

Jam In The Attic

Another Fine Mess

From the earliest existing tape I made circa-1975.  Sounds made with a home made "synthesiser" made with a Gakken Denshi Blocks electronic kit with various "pots" to change pitch and sounds.  There is guitar in there too, popped through a transistor radio like through a fuzz box.  Recorded onto a simple domestic two track mono cassette recorder.  Sounds are overlayed by covering the erase head.  The radio noises and guitars at the end I think were added a bit later, but not much later.  I created wind sounds by moving my mic from the front of the radio to the back.  There is some guitar, one played with a battery as a slide, picking out ethereal harmonics in front of it along the fretboard.  I've never heard anyone else making these sounds with a guitar!  

Electronic No.1

Haymeads

A classic Kloos track remade today! Originally recorded in 1983, the song was featured in "Sounds" psychedelic chart in 1984, appearing at No.2, after Dan Treacy (Television Personalities" declared it "an Arnold Layne for the 1980s." 


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Behind The Net Curtain

Johann Kloos is a Bishops Stortford born singer-songwriter, composer and producer based in Salford since 1994.  Began recording in 1975 with a cassette recorder, making music with home made electronics and guitar.  



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