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On the 3rd of September I headed out to Wild Dog Hill, a recording studio in St Andrews (about 40km north-east of Melbourne) with Doktorb Robotnik (Adrian Lucas) on feedback electronics and Simon Gorman on processed keyboards to have a jam and make a couple of recordings. Simon invited along Dan, Caesar and George who play drums, guitar and bass respectively.

It was the first time Adrian and I have really played with ‘musicians’ (these guys were VCA music graduates). We make noise, soundscapes, amient, textural noise. There are rhythmic and occasionally melodic elements but its not exactly something you can hum along to. There was a beautiful clash of cultures and general confusion as we were sound checking. To set our levels Adrian, Simon and I would produce the loudest, harshest tones we were capable of making. Dan, Caesar and George played a perfect rendition of “Rapper’s Delight”
Anyway, the session ended up being a lot of fun, resulting in two half hour sets. Simon did a great job of mixing us as he was playing and making sure that everyone was involved and had space to contribute. I am most happy with the first of the two sets, I guess because it sounds more like our other recordings, only with the addition of more traditional musical elements. I’m looking forward to playing with them again.

Here it is. It’s long (29 mins). It’s big (40 Mb). It’s a 192kbps MPEG-4 audio aac file. Enjoy.