So as you may know I am working on my third album “And The Revolution” and I am very excited. I have slowly been piecing together ideas and themes, and tonight I created several different chip drum kits. I usually make 1000’s of sounds, write 100’s of drum beats and then jam over them to create the tracks. Last night was pretty good I created probably one of my best beats yet and it’s really slow and over 16 bars for a track called “I don’t need a friend tonight”.

On this album I will be returning to the use of circuit bending, I will even use some real humans on the album too? It will be interesting to see how the album turns out, a few people have asked to be on it and I have asked a few people to be on it so it will be a little be different. I know I am pleased with the five ideas already in construction so thats a good start.

One of the first tracks “Improvised Electronic Device” is finished or at least I think it is almost finished I have one thing left to try on it and then I can say I am completely happy. I have played it a few times live and it seems to go down pretty well, and Imogen Heap said she liked it so thats definetely a good sign. I tried something different in the bridge shuffling the main rhythm along a teency weency bit at it makes it crazy which is nice. It’s also quite annoying as it’s the first song to be finished it’s set the bar pretty high, and so the other tracks have got to be pretty damn hot.

Inspiration has come from my keys falling out of my pocket when getting into the car, which created a crazy rhythm which I then hummed and recorded into my phone, and recreated on some lovely chip drums.  A keyboard that had fallen behind a bookshelf which occassionally issues notes as it’s dying batteries gasp for their last breath, yesterday it was a descending fifth. I have also returned to listening sci-fi radio programs from the 60’s which inpired the “Holst-esque” bridge in “Improvised Electronic Device” which sounds like some alien laser beam.

And yes I know it’s weird having an album title first, before the album is finished but thats just the way my mind works.

Tomorrow I will be working on it all day, which is bit of a luxury as at the moment it’s all go. But right now 1.27am and it’s time to watch some cartoons.