Eternal thanks to producer Paul Kendall for having the b**** to mute Xav's vocals during the moog solo.

...moog solo performed on Gary Numan's old minimoog, instead of my moog prodigy.

...cause I wasn't gonna play a solo, but the band convinced me to - and as always, Xav had to do some strange noises -literally- over everyone else's bits. And I like that moog solo. Producer Paul Kendall was right. Once more.

This sounds like a finished recording, ready for release, much like the Another Carcrash b-sides. Crazy song, crazy hair in the photo too!

WAs listenining to Bowie's "John I'm Only Dancing Again" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQZqDsx7rE recently in a club.  Was the fast  bit "Jumping John, the great goose is gone Got a lion in my hand, a Charlie on my back" just before the chorus the inspiration for the really fast lyric Xav comes out with just before the choruses on this song?

Left to right: Evan, Paul 'PK' Kendall, Xav.
Roundhouse Studios, London Bridge, mid 1996.
McCartney's studios back then, donyano.
Recording G's guitars / backing vocals / harmonies.
Amidst our travels from Chipping Norton residential studios, to Protocol studios, to TownHouse studios, to Blackwing studios, through London Bridge studios, to Mute Records' studios.
..What an easy going band lol.

This track still sounded like absolutely unfinished, UN-tethered, worthless cr*p, by the time we took it to Mute records. 
The fact that this track finally ended up sounding like this at all, it must be said, is down to Paul Kendall. Which wasn't easy either technically, nor due to the fact that Xav, by this time, was behaving towards everyone like a cross between Danny Kaye and Godzilla on m*th. 
This song was *not* fun to finish, or be present for, let's just say. 
These were the very last chords we ever played together, to start with.
Those very last ominous outro suspended chord/notes, which were very much PK's decision after he noticed Gage going haywire bending down her bass neck & note at the very end -and which Xav didn't want at all-, should give the mood of the time away. 

So ALL credit to Paul Kendall - I cannot stress enough just how S*** this song otherwise sounded.

Picture by Gage S.
..Who also developed yet another inhuman bassline on this track. 
That m8 section. I remember watching Gage come up with that bassline, thinking it was awesome, and when it came to recording it at Mute, having to collectively convince her to play less notes, as ended up recorded, cause it just went speed metal-like otherwise, and we were always after something more akin to INXS for that m8, as per her original idea.
..Gage, during studio time, at times transformed into somewhat of a speed metal bassplayer, almost performing orchestrally, like a fast cellist, coupled with John Taylor's or Paul Webb's sensibility for an impossibly sophisticated riff. 

I do remember Colin Thurston being *SO* impressed with Gage's bass playing, he used to tell me 'why on earth does she keep going on about John Taylor? I used to have to dub John's takes many times, even during the 'Rio' sessions... he couldn't have dreamed of playing what Gage does, in one take, least of all with the red light on'.
..And I still find this fascinating, cause we had both certainly grown up idealizing Duran and the bassline on the Seventh Stranger etc. 
..I learnt half my bass chops by playing along to JT back when, so wtf is going on lol.

Colin had recorded 3 classic albums with Bowie too, back in Berlin days, and with Iggy, and the early Human League, and Talk Talk. ..Colin v much knew his s***. He had seen rather a lot of studio time and 'stars' through the years, and knew just who did what and who didn't - he never gave Xav much extra time of the day.
Whereas Colin chose to stay with Gage and I during recording periods, upon our invitation.
..And we kept pestering him with duran trivia requests lol.

Evan : drum programming, keyboards, sequencers, moog solo
Gage : bass, backing vocals
G : guitars, backing vocals
Xav : vocals, backing vocals
Paul Kendall : who -literally, on this one- modeled in real time the way I executed all my moog lines, giving me directing advice on the spot as I recorded that very moog solo. That moog solo was literally executed by more than one mind. And as G and Gage were there too, asking for more of this or less of that, it's also fair to include them. That was one intense so-lol.
Fully executed -as improvised- on Gary Numan's old minimoog - so also once played by Ultravox's Billy Currie, as he was Numan's keyboardist for a long while - my absolutely inspiring hero whenever it came to these sort of weird guitar-like keyboard solos. ..Once I had sampled its worth, I exchanged my fairly useless DX7 for a bunch of analogue synths, including my moog prodigy, back in '89, cause Billy Currie.

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Really Slow Motion  - Edge Of Eternity

So back in 2011, one day i woke up and thought let me make a straight Disco House joint... and i wanted to sample my old piano since forever! so i went for it... and International Style was born! Did it in one day, passed it on to Eddy for mix & mastering & the rest its history.

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Mixed & Mastered by by Eddy Mendez

REAL EL CANARIO - INTERNATIONAL STYLE

I did this remix of the queen of latin music back in 2007 when i headlined main stage of Santa Cruz Carnaval... it never got released but i gave it away on my website and it did quiet some damage. It’s been played by quiet a few big guys.

I just updated the break part. Always felt like that part didn’t need that EQ so I just took it off (June 25th 2017)

Remix Produced by Real El Canario & Eddy Mendez
Engineered by Eddy Mendez

CELIA CRUZ - QUIMBARA (REAL EL CANARIO CARNAVAL 2007 MIX)

ArtEfficient Intelligenz is a composer multi instrumentalist whose trajectory includes work with producers Colin Thurston (Human League, Bowie, Iggy Pop, Eno, Tony Visconti, Talk Talk, Duran Duran), and Paul Kendall (Wire, Piquet, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Recoil, Goldfrapp). 
His work has also been personally praised by producers Dave Allen (Human League, Wire, The Cure, Neneh Cherry), Ian Little (Roxy Music's Avalon, OMD's Dazzle Ships, Duran Duran), Stephen Lipson (GJ's Slave To The Rhythm, Propaganda, McCartney, A.Lennox, S.Minds), Chrissie Hynde, or Supergrass. ..Where the strange ones go.
 
Evan has played live at legendary venues like London’s Shepherds Bush Empire -supporting Pulp during the Common People tour at their request-, or the old London Astoria. He has studied sound production, synthesis, programming, composition and audiovisuals his whole life, having charted with a few hard-tech productions, while also long-time studio collaborating, at his request, with J. Parsons, who engineered and produced some of Alan Parsons' projects.

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Supa Bupa - produced by Paul Kendall at Mute studios

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