Condition Red
“This features Yuka Ikushima. I met her through doing stuff with Howie B and Toshi and Kudo from Major Force. I got the backing music together, got her in the studio, and just told her to do her thing. I remember distinctly that it was a case of getting the engineer out of the room, and just recording without her worrying. Because, it wasn’t formed. And she was used to being a session singer, and knowing exactly what she was needed to do.
“I also discovered that I liked the sound of putting a snare through an old Maestro ring mod from the ’70s. It cropped up a fair bit on everything I did.”
Fair Seven
“There’s a fair bit of me scratching on here. It’s part of an actual live dialogue between Chris [Bowden] on sax and me on the decks, swapping bars. I’ve worked with him since the Mo’ Wax days.
“Chris’ sax goes through a Lovetone FX pedal. And they were beautiful. From the same era as the Sherman Filterbank. There were vibratos and filters and ring mods
