A stitched together sampler for the (yet to be mixed) Ghost Smoke album, a collaboration between Tom Q (Babyhead), Brian Hargreaves (The Heavy) and Robbie Stamp (Sandpit Studio/Cyclick Samples). Recorded in a few places by many people, and soon to be finished at Sandpit Studio. Eta 2015.

Ghost Smoke Album Preview

An instrumental piece I cooked up with my man Uncle Thang in 2011 - me on Dnaelectro Baritone, Thang on start. These were recorded together in a couple of takes over the basic drums (programmed) and bass (Uncle Thang with my Stingray and my own homebrew bass fuzz). Stringy shit courtesy of a virtual mellotron and synth wibbling from my Jen mono synth.

Instamatic

A slow and heavy instrumental version of 'Mouse Trap' by Ride. I picked up my Danelectro baritone after listening to Earth ('The Bees Made Honey…' album) and soon found myself playing the main guitar part from 'Mouse Trap'…then I knew what I must do…recorded loud to be played loud.

Earth Spins

DRMS Example 3

DRMS Example 2

DRMS Example 1

Snippets from the mix of the opening track on the Ghost Smoke album: THEM. Features the intro collage, the rhythm section, music box, violin/viola part, zither and piano, guitar/lapsteel group and a chunk of the final mix. This is to accompany the second part of my mix diary on the Sandpit Studio website (www.sandpitstudio.co.uk).

THEM (Mix Snippets)

A sound-on-sound tape loop print of a vocal part hideously disfigured by knackered tape, a sticky pinch wheel and heaps of saturation. I left the tape loop running with the erase head removed whilst editing the vocal, which was passing through a LEM Baby solid state mixer/tape echo for some nasty distortion - I just captured what was left on the tape once I was done editing. This has now been tucked into the main mix of 'Redrum' from the forthcoming Ghost Smoke album.

Redrum LEM Baby Tape Warp

A monosynth jam with myself - six recording passes with a Synthetone SX1000 Jen and some pedals. No editing, just fader rides during mix down and a dash of reverb/delay and mixbuss EQ/tape saturation. The initial take created a rhythmic/melodic basis by chance as I fiddled with the delay modulation (square wave) on a Memory Boy pedal - an A was droning on the Jen, but it comes out with an E/A/D pattern - the rest is a response to that.

JenO (Tate & Lyle)

I broke the 'D' string on my 'Dog' classical guitar (a dog chewed the headstock, but also it's shit), so instead of replacing it I retuned it to some kind of G thing and wrote a couple of riffs over morning coffee, which I then triple tracked whilst trying out a new mic. One angry day I added 4 layers of loud distorted guitar to assuage my fury at the world. No real concept or even attempt at proper writing/playing, just some 'grrrr'

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