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Track by track with Beardyman

“I was hosting lots of instances of Sugar Bytes’ Turnado, which still is my effects engine. And on the front end was Ableton hosting various different VSTs. Then iZotope plugins to do live side-chaining and compressing and EQing. I also had Guitar Rig, a Korg R3, and Alloy. And an audio engine that I had coded that was multi-threading the audio and stitching it back together on real-time.”

A Cheerful And Sunny Disposition

“I thought this was an apt track to start with. The lyrics go, ‘I think I’ve led my life inside a machine/All I wanna do is be real/You know what I mean?’ I thought that could be taken in a bunch of different ways.

“A lot of these lyrics are very personal. They are about me coming out of a shell of something. The feeling of starting anew, and breaking free of things.

“This is all about leaving the novelty behind and just making some fucking music. I

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