A bit of an oddity. More of an indie groove from a mid to late 90s act that didn’t quite make the cut for TFI Friday.   I mean with those organ riffs and guitar licks, it’s no wonder I practically named it after the Charlatan’s ‘Only One I Know’. 
It’s not a brilliant mix and the rebake good be more interesting and dynamic. But it felt like a track without many places to go other than into 100+ versions of wasted time. 
So a quick trim, mix down. And move on. I’m sure Tim Burgess et al have a similar policy judging by how many albums they’ve released (15) and how few essential songs are contained within (maybe 5 or 6 at a push).  Great live. Great band. But may not have realized their potential. 

The Only One I Have

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Ok. Sit back, put your headphones on and put do not disturb on for about 10 minutes.  Yep, its 10 mins.  But the original was over 15.  The original being 'Hitched To Me' - which is here on soundcloud.  As is the remake from 2020 - 'Goodbye'.
this was meant to be just a remaster with a few tweaks on the original.  butas is often the case... took on a new life of its own.  It's still very much the original tune and structure (albeit cut back to a modest. ...ha ha... 10 mins.  unlike 'Goodbye' - it's not a new track entirely made from fragments of the old.  Its  genuine remix and elevation to be a senosry delight.
I used to think that Hitched To Me was the best thing I'd written,  and coming back to it - there are some awesome bits.  I hope any listeners give it some time to breathe.

Give Them A Hug

this is the shorter version of the remake of 'Copenhagen' - originally on 2006's 'Ambition' album.
this shorter version goes straigt into the breakdown and builds it back up.  
it starts with some porno like sounds.  which i can't remember whether i recorded them from a DVD (remember those!) - or it was a recording of a previous girlfriend. (Julia).  anyhow, it's only there for a bit.
this is one of those tracks made with 'Northern Exposure' (Sasha& Digweed's seminal mix album) in mind.  
the original chord sequence came from reversing some electric guitar playing that I couldn't get in time (due to being rubbish at playing) - reversed, it worked.  and from there.... nearly 20 years later, we get to this.  
i'll put up the full mix version as well - burt experience tells me that 9min long tracks don't get many listens!! haha.  enjoy!

Closed To You

this is the long version of the remake of Copenhagen.  It's quite trippy and mad.  all sorts of backwards guitars and different synths and samples going on....

Closed To You (Full Trip Mix)

a short little rework of another track from 19 years ago.  added some vocals, some ear candy and not much else.  
i do remember when I originally wrote this - that I was trying to use major keys for a change!!

April Showers II

This is a remake of a track from Monte Cristo Gamble [sic] in 2000 called 'Cornered To It' that i'd practically forgotten.  Mainly because I did a rework of it in 2006 called 'Second Corner' on Ambition.  (We'll hear a remake of that remake sometime this year).  I much preferred Second Corner, so forgot its origins.

anyhow, 25 years later, it gets some long overdue love.  the vocals from loopcloud on this one - sounds just like early Radiohead Thom Yorke to me.  Quite Haunting as the phrase 'I could have stopped you' goes on repeat and refrain.

Could Have Stopped You

Another remake!  This time of a track from c1998/99 called Juniper.  I wrote it with my good friend Liam in Ealing, London.  The original track was a sprawling ambient piece picking up fragments from other tunes i'd writen or was writing at the time. There was very little bass for some reason.  Probably because at the time, I had no idea what i was doing.  so if there was a kick drum, there was little bass. Compression was mystery, sideways compression seemed like something on the professionals could have.  

so now we've a bass, a shiny polish to the synths and an upgrade into a dance pop track with a classic 4 chord progression from G Minor.

Juniper (Do You Trust Me?)

This one is kind of a companion piece to Juniper.  They were both originally written around the same time, and share some beats, bass and a G minor key signature.

This 25 years later remake, pushes th 100 bpm jazz organ track into some pretty hectic dnb -yet still retaining melody.  and as such, reminding me of Chase and Status.  There's some lovely digital evolving pads going on from the Roland powerhouse keys of the 90s (thanks to Roland Cloud for those).

I've never been to Harare (in Zimbabwe).  though I studied it's socio-geographic history at University.  so know a bit more about it than just some random city.  hopefully the cover art feels like it represents in some way.

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30+ years of writing music.  now back to lots of hardware to complement the soft synths.  And of course, the compulsion to add the kitchen sink, fridge and oven is still there!

Kit:
Logic 
Cubase
Ableton Live
Reason
Expose
Loopcloud
Arturia V collection, Pigments
Arturia microfreak, minifreak, matrixbrute, minibrute, Spark 
Roland boutique Juno, Jupiter, JP3, 808 and 909
Arturia Audiofuse
Focusrite Scarlett
Roland Jupiter Xm, JD-Xi, Gaia SH-01 MDC-1 Dance Module
Korg Modwave, microKorg, MicroKorg XL, korg ER-1, korg 05RW, kaoss pad
Novation ultranova, mininova, a-station, Circuit Tracks
Access Virus-b
Beringher Deep Mind 12, UB-Xa, TD-3, Crave, MS-1
Nord Stage EX
Sequential Prophet 2000
Waldorf Pulse
M-audio Venom
Native instruments kontakt, massive, reaktor, FM8, battery, guitar rig, traktor, maschine, absynth, and the rest of the ultimate collection 
Spectrasonics Omnisphere
Spitfire Albion 
Aria orchestra 
Softube Parallels
Waves Gold and a lot of their plug ins. Abbey Road TG, brauer motion, butch vig vocals, ovox, flow motion
Isotope ozone
Sugar Bytes effectrix, looperator, turnado, factory, cyclop, obscurium 
Audio damage dubstation, panstation
AAS lounge lizard, strum, chromophone
UVI relay 
Fender Stratocaster 
Schecfer Diamond Electric 
Line6 Pod Guitar Mukti Effects 
Boss guitar multi effects and various other pedals 
Peavey Bass 
Yamaha DTX electronic drum kit 
Alesia drum pads 
Stanton turntables

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