1 for the treble…

As this week is our double bass special I thought it’d be nice to flourish you with some home grown bull-fiddle work from my vault of old DATs. If you tuned in you probably heard the track on the sound-bed which featured my old friend Reg Edwards (pictured left) on upright duties, tapping away over a rare bit of crunchy jazz courtesy of the Abstrakt Knights aka Mike Wallis and Sam Ashwell. We released the Abstraktions EP in 2001 on my old Halflife imprint which was gearing up for our first label comp called Extra Life, a project which sadly never saw the light of day, however it didn’t go the way of the dodo until after I’d turned my own hand to the their track.

I’d originally planned on doing a simple remix for the dance-floor; it was the height of (dare I say it) broken beat and a little charged from playing a gig with Attica Blues’ Tony Nwahchukwu the night before, I set to work on what quickly morphed into it’s own song after I invited my friend Sarah Wayne to grace the microphone. After replaying the keyboard line on the rhodes, all which remained from the original was Reg’s bass work, and Sarah’s vocals gave it a whole new dimension so I swiftly renamed it Vibrations before, well, doing nothing with it.

I’ve got stacks of tracks sitting on DATs in old ice cream tubs, many of which I doubt I’ll ever share but listening back, despite sounding very “of the time”, I still quite like it and wholeheartedly believe the world should hear more of Messrs Edwards and Wayne’s work. It’s got to be said I must’ve been having an off day with the mix-down and I don’t remember it sounding quite so hissy but I was working with mainly dirty old analogue gear, and the majority of the track was played or sampled off 2nd hand goods which for no reason, other than I like making lists, I’ve enlarged on below…

Wrongtom ft Sarah Wayne “Vibrations”

Written by S. Ashwell, R. Edwards, T. Robinson, M. Wallis, S. Wayne
Produced & Engineered by Wrongtom at the Correctional Facility mk6, June 2002

gear used…

Akai S3000xl
Alesis ADAT
Congas
Double Bass played by Reg Edwards
Fender Rhodes
Greg Belson’s Drum Kit
Mac G3 with a crappy copy of cubase which crashed regularly
Moog Source
Rainstick
Rode NT2a Microphone
Roland SH101
Sure SM58 Microphones
Technics 1210
Vocals care of Sarah Wayne
Watkins Copycat

Click here to download the track (MP3, 9Mb)