Podcast: “I am from Mars”
My first tune from my first album. Lots of samples that I really have got round to getting permission for, but it’s all part of life’s rich pageant.
If you’re interested in the samples and don’t recognise them, the ones I remember are from:
- ZZ Top: Fool for your Stockings (descending guitar lick)
- Elvis Presley (unknown, dialogue intro from early stuff)
- ZZ Top: I Thank You (main guitar riff)
I can’t source the other samples but I remember playing the main guitar riffs, sequencing the bass and drums, and sweating over it a bit!
Credit is due to the providers of these lovely originals sounds we pilfer ….
Podcast: “Throttle Back”
Another of my favourites. The strings in this track were a bit of a breakthrough for me. The operatic singing was just a spur of the moment sample direct from Radio 3 ! No idea who it is. I like the abrasive lead synth line in the chorus bit.
Podcast: “Potato Glow”
Potato Glow is the first track on the 2000 album ‘Comfy’. It’s a very upbeat instrumental built up on layers of samples and a synth arpeggio I played almost by mistake. I still love it.
Podcast: “Plasticene”
Plasticene is a love song. An obsessive lovesong, from the kind of lover that someone could really get the creeps from. But me means well.
Podcast: “Leave Me, I’ll get by”
Leave Me I’ll Get By is a song written in 1990 and I finally got enough skills together as Minnellium to record it in 2004. Now there’s a learning curve for you.