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Mulholland (rudi) - No. 7 for '96

from HA HA TAPE by the cookdandbombd collective

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"Hullo. As cliched as it sounds (and is) my messy sprawl of a track was entirely created under the influence of very strong alcohol. After receiving Puffin's track I joked in a note to him that "1996 called: it wants its bassline back" or something along those lines (his track's bass n drums are reminiscent of LTJ Bukem - that's a compliment, of course) before heading off to a pre-arranged night in with a pair of pals.

I played the track there while we were getting smashed on 5 big bottles of Kentucky Bourbon No 7 and we talked about things we remembered from our lives around 1996. Then, I guess, at some point we must have dug out instruments and started bashing stuff out and recorded it on my friend's laptop; I'm not joking: I've absolutely no memory of the latter half of that night. Come the next morning my smaller pal had about a dozen loops featuring people hitting guitars and singing the same words over and over on his computer that I could do bugger all with. However, we had such a good time we thought we'd have another go the following weekend. What we should also have arranged was not bringing quite so much alcohol into the house.

The next weekend we repeated the trick, only this time on purpose (and with a keyboard), pausing only for the friend whose house it is to have an amazing, full-blooded, hilariously circular blazing row with his girlfriend (now ex, coincidentally!) for at least half an hour which gave us the idea for the ill-advised backing vocals that lurch in about half way through.

After that second night I was left with not much short of one hundred loops neither in tune nor in time with each other and it seemed like a fun idea to smoosh them together to see what would come out of it. What emerged was a forty minute drone track that I was rather pleased with (even though nothing was in time or in tune still) that I eventually, brutally, pared down to the blink-and-you'll-miss-it 16(?) minute long track you have before you.

It's a world away from the clinical electronic stuff I usually make at home and the clever, professional guitar-bandy stuff I produce when people give me money but it's kind of funny and sounds nice in headphones, I think. Since completion it has also genuinely brought about two changes in my life:

1. I no longer buy Jack Daniels in the largest bottles; I always had to finish the bottle and the blackouts were getting more frequent

and 2. I have finally learned how to actually master tracks rather than letting someone else do it (the levels were all over the place as there had been no actual production occurring during the making of). NoSleep would still have beautiful auburn hair were it not for me dumping that dog of a track in his inbox."

rudi

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from HA HA TAPE, released May 27, 2012

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