"Here before you is an album we have wanted to make for quite some time. A total passion play if you will. One for the crate diggers, the beat producers and the Library geekers among us.
Step 1 - Somehow find copies of two very rare 1970's KPM 1000 series LPs featuring only the sparse rhythm section of bassist Herbie Flowers and drummer Barry Morgan, rather imaginatively titled Bass Guitar And Percussion Volumes 1 & 2.
Step 2 - Set out to faithfully bring the original recordings to their logical conclusion 40 years later by putting our dirty little overdubs all over them!
Step 3 - back in your Eames repro chair, slap this platter on your Pioneer and drop the needle baby!
For those who don't know, Herbie Flowers & Barry Morgan are giants of the British session and Library worlds. The late Mr. Morgan played with Bowie, Elton John, The Walker brothers, Blue Mink and countless others and Herbie has recorded some of the greatest bass lines in the history of popular music, including Lou Reed "Walk on the wild side" , David Essex "Rock on" and David Bowie "Space Oddity".
The original records had bass panned on one side and drums and light percussion panned to the opposite side, and the tracks were usually only one minute in length. We extended them and added missing drum parts, fuzz guitars, spacey synths, percussion, Hammond organ, Rhodes, horns, vibes, marimba, xylophone and even banjo !
Shawn recorded his set, New York Trouble, at his London studio with Pierre Duplan, the incredible French engineer and one half of the Kramford Look. Andy Ross played flute & saxes while Dominic Glover blew his trumpet.
Tim added analogue synth madness to Electric Progression at his Brooklyn based studio, All Bright Electric." A1 -New York Trouble Barnyard Bam Bam A2 -New York Trouble Heavy Stakeout A3 -New York Trouble Where'd He Go? A4 -New York Trouble Street Freedom A5 -New York Trouble Light Stakeout A6 -New York Trouble Nightly Visits A7 -New York Trouble Hustle Don't Hate A8 -New York Trouble Discotech Stepper A9 -New York Trouble Cool, Not Cold A10 -New York Trouble High Five Shakedown A11 -New York Trouble There's Your Man B1 -Electric Progression Hong Kong Hang B2 -Electric Progression Non Sequensor B3 -Electric Progression Zen Furious B4 -Electric Progression Straight To Bed B5 -Electric Progression Better Thank Boogie B6 -Electric Progression Sonic Swarm B7 -Electric Progression Bionic Bossa B8 -Electric Progression Manhattan Moonrise B9 -Electric Progression Electric Procession
