A sixth track, ‘Glitter’, is now on the ‘Doggybag’ compilation.

It’s a bit of an eclectic track, even by our standards. Early versions used sampled beats from a Gary Glitter song and a sequence that sounded like the theme tune from ‘Airwolf’!

As the track progressed we dropped both, favoring a line that reminded us of ‘The X-Files’ and Andy’s tongue-in-cheek guitar licks, which I then mangled in the sampler.

Andy reworked the track to close the ‘Music For Imaginary Movies’ album though this is the original mix we recorded in 2003. A slightly different flavor… more bombastic and rockier than the ‘MFIM’ version.

Denim jacket and Quo patches are optional.

As a footnote, the final retroyoyo release, ‘The Jam EP’ should be ready in the next month. It’s a 6-tracker, featuring 4 live jams of unreleased tracks with the bonus of 2 great Dialog> mixes.

Keep ‘em peeled,

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‘Blacklist’, a dark minimal ambient piece, is another one that made it onto the ‘Music For Imaginary Movies’ album. Could be described as sounding like ‘a monk with the weight of the world on his shoulders’.

This is the original mix Andy and I did in 2003 (mastered by Hermetech in 2010). Slightly longer than the ‘MFIM’ mix with a different outro and more minimal effect treatments.

Enjoy (in a dark room with headphones).

When completed ‘Doggybag’ will be a pretty thorough compilation of previously unreleased tracks and mixes dating back from the sessions with Andy in 2003. I’ll be continuing to add to this until the bag is full.

First up we have ‘Flood’: An (over)-ambitious trippy-hop electronica piano waltz that heads into further unexpected territory. Andy said that he has yet to find anyone he’s played it to that likes it so being a contrary bugger I thought I’d set it free. In retrospect I think there’s a subconscious nod to Colin Newman’s ‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’ album going down here.

‘Low’: This is the original version of the track that appeared on ‘Music For Imaginary Movies’. There are a few elements here that didn’t make it to Andy’s mix that I personally preferred. Definitely one of my favorite self-penned tracks. It almost had a vocal at one point… (I had two great lines written) but in the end the track said everything without them.

Once again, many thanks to Gregg at Hermetech for the grand mastering job.

* The Jello EP should be out for the end of June. We’re planning on shooting the artwork for all the EPs in this series at once, which along with working out how to mod the website to my satisfaction and integrate and design a store page has put things behind schedule. (That and recording/filming Andy’s 40th birthday video, which might be released to an unsuspecting YouTube audience in the near future).