In your own words was two experimental ideas brought together. Playing with a new frequency modulating synth borrowed from my brother-in-law and then experimenting with the quantize function on Ableton in real-time. (for the non-nerds or music creators… Quantize is a tool that drags your human/sloppy playing tightly onto the machine timing of the computer - all software and machines that record music have quantize and the quantize tool can be adjusted to be more rigorous, to use different types of patterns and you can introduce varying amounts of “swing” to the effect too - in this case “swing” is controlled from 0-100% and I had it controlled by a single knob on a controller. As the beat moved forward, I would turn the knob changing the amount of swing from 100% down to 0% (super straight and mechanically tight - lesson over.)

You can hear the beat gradually sliding from one to the other in the beginning. Meanwhile I'm twisting controls on the new synthesiser with mixed success, until it does feel like things are evolving. That's all captured here. It moved into a space that felt genuinely interesting and so I continued to develop the music, adding guitar, bass and then piano.

During the drum sessions for what became Believers Vol. 1, I had Chris Boot experiment with a couple of beats over the top, moving between different ways of interpreting the time. And that secured this piece, which just never found a home on that album or anything since. So here it is now.

Alongside that is Pep Talks, which I released a couple of months ago, as I'd always imagined the two going together on an album. And closing out this single is a brand new remix of Unity Gain from the Paroxysm album by the brilliant We Are The Horsemen, production project of DJ and Honest Jons legend Havinder Singh-Nagi.

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