It probably has about 10 different tracks worth of recorded synths some pads from a Roland Alpha Juno, some more funk from the Moog Voyager and a Kawai SX-240.For drums, aside from the usual 808 and909 and sampled drum machines (via an AKAI S3000), I sampled a small loop from an old breakdance record to add a layer under the other drums. The TX7 through an Ensoniq DP/4 is also responsible for the pad in the big spacey middle section. I used a Moog Voyager for some simple bass early on and and at the end of the track, but the main big funky bass line is from a Yamaha TX7 filtered through the Voyager filter. Since it’s based on an old unfinished song, I had a good bit of material to begin with which is why it sounds like a few tracks in one.The main synth from the start of the track is a Crumar BitOne filtered through an Akai MFC42. When I finally set up my new computer (iMac Pro), new desk (A&H GL2400) and new audio interface (MOTU 16A), I got a bit power mad and wanted to make some complicated stuff to see how far I could push it. I had a sort of improv clip section of my live set with all of these old synth lines I’d recorded, and the synth you hear in the first section of this track seemed to go down well every time I played it, so that was really the starting point for the track. But it was summer, my studio computer was shit and I hadn’t set up my new one so I didn’t really want to get started on anything.I started going back into old project files and getting bits from unfinished tracks to make my live set a bit more danceable. Most of it wouldn’t really work in a club, so when I started playing it out live I quickly realised I needed more material. I finished my latest album in April 2018.
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