Save the retype this is from my blog:
I love you and I love your needles
In early 2002 while on holiday in Victoria’s pleasant Bright (near the Aussie Alps) I took part in my now days neglected activity of penning untitled poems of a an anti-political nature, without much attention to form or style. On one page I quickly scrawled the words ‘I love you and I love your needles’ and stood back thinking, yep that stands on it’s ugly own. But not long after that on the next page I wrote down this:
The laughing ugly void
Transpiration like a droid
I’ll destroy myself for this
And get drunk off the political kiss
The system you know is drunk
But ignorance no one would have thunk
The people will be lost in the hiss
Any sense of clarity they will miss
Apparent patterns drugged into beats
Leaving the conscious the perform their feats
All so consumed by our deficiencies
We marvel at our lack of proficiencies
And grind until we are nothing
Idiotic silence is all that we will sing
For I can’t function as an organ
In a society atrophied in boredom.
Later that year I was again getting into the dream-composition and using Renoise for the first time to sculpt the ideas. The piece that ended up being for this song inspired me to select those words as lyrics because of the connection to the chaotic guitar arc at the end of the song as well as the lo-fi crumble of the drum audio.
Spurred on by the chaos theme I had some more ideas. Long before ever hearing Mykie speak of ‘arc music’ I was hit with the idea of placing sonic elements together that were not designed to go with each other. So, without reference to the backing track, I recorded my brother DJJC playing chaotically a modified flute instrument he calls The Flutt. I also recorded a session of us two with Riki Horwood playing a game called Scribble (an easy guess as to what we’ve modified there), which contains a young Rik complaining he cannot create words outside the English Language (he did successfully do 4-unit Enlgish after all). The ‘2 Smargaid Maerd’ version of the song has thoes elements burried, but just audible, in the mix.
A little later, after the mp3 of the song had been online, James DXU sent me a copy of his amazing Analogue Sessions Vol.1, full of live electro tweaking and arty sci-fi audio-scapes. On this record he had done a remixed version of ‘Needles’ that had improvised beat electronica during the end section. Yet again I was impressed and James improving my work, and thought to myself ‘one day I should redo that with his drums in it’.
That time has come, and it has allowed me to mix the song a little more boldly. James’ beatwork is the feature element, but you can hear louder versions of DJJC’s Flutt (on the left) and Riki during the Scribble match (on the right). The mastering is also a little more cleaner and meaner.
Why do this now? As mentioned before I need something to submit to Triple J’s Unearthed competition - so this is it. Unfortunately, they will only accept 128kbps mp3s, which by doing this I’ve been reminded how awful that sounds. So, I’ve decided to release a 192kpbs version for the public to enjoy. You can get the needles here:
http://www.thequietrevolution.net/mark/mp3…).mp3
I love you and I love your needles (modification)
Spin it live, or use it for theme music to get weird.
