Beer O Clock

Song written and sung by me
Arrangement and guitar by Ben Hurd
Synth chords - Daniel Malcolm

Recorded in summer 1989 between fourth and fifth year at school, live onto a cassette deck in Ben's parents house.

We were 15.

Tape been sitting in a box for 27 years.

Live jazz in a smokey club
She sits alone, drowning her sorrows
She's killing herself with grief
And all the things she never said

So it's February Again
Where lover's chocolate hearts melt in the heat
And it's February Again
Where Valentine shoots his poison tipped arrows

He lies in his dingy room
The radio playing an old song
He regrets all his motives
But can't forgive her for her own

So it's February Again...

It's cliche, it's catch 22
It's February forever
It is sad like a hollow vow
It's February forever more

February Again (1989)

An attempt at welding a dance beat to The Archers  - made at the time a lot of novelty rave records nicked tunes from children's TV and figured we'd have a go.

From same time period that I thought up Patrick Moore Plays the Xylophone (later done properly with Weebl)

And one I never managed to record called "Sheep that go bleep"

Recorded using Commodore Amiga with my friend from school (Shiekh Ahmed) in a room above his dad's Curry restaurant. 

The tape is a bit of a mess and it drops out a bit.

The Archers (1992)

Twenty Ten (2010)

Wolverhampton (2010)

Is This The Real Life? 8 Minutes of the first phrase of Bohemian Rhapsody going in and out of sync

7 Minutes of Ryuichi Sakamoto's Forbidden Colours - 3 tracks going out of sync.

More Forbidden Colours - 7 Minutes of unsyncing Ryuichi Sakamoto's Forbidden Colours

BIG THAMES - Nobody needs 6 minutes of the Thames TV theme looped, unsynced & reversed

The Extracist - 12 mins of Tubular Bells, slowed down & desynced

33 minutes of slow de-synced Satie to make you pause and feel the molecules in the air.

Satie Party II - 33 minutes of longer, slower, heavier Erik.

Nokia stole this from Francisco Tárrega (1902)- we're stealing it back.

Nokia ringtone layered three times with small offsets so it takes 10 minutes to sync back

The Extracist At 40 - long "video mix" specifically made so I could make a video to it.

Very slightly slower than the short mix so it would sync to frame rate - changed it to delays rather than detuning as I found that less harsh on my ears and carefully timed so it syncs at around 40 mins.

Also used a Flac source for the sample rather than ripping it from YouTube like the earlier version - this produces less hiss.

Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7WSPTzSHxY&t=1704s

The Extracist At 40 - Tubular Bells intro looped 3 times w/ slight delay so takes 40 mins to sync

Stretch Chariot - Chariots Of Fire slow, de-synced, takes 20 mins to resync

10 mins of Talking Heads "This Must Be The Place" with just the groove and none of the vocal.

Okay there is a "ooh" towards the end but it was pretty so I left it in.

robmanuel

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