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Personality Son
This is the project I worked on during 2001 when I was
seventeen/eighteen. It started off with a series of experimental
collaborative recordings with friend and fellow Koept artist, Iermoc.
Recording live onto my 8 track, I was using familiar and unfamiliar
instruments and equipment (my drum kit, various synthesizers, a pocket
sampler, CD players skipping, radio interference…) and tried to play
and use them as openly and freely as possible. This way of working was
new and exciting to me and I had no exact aim or direction, the whole
process was more about discovery. These early bits and pieces ended up
on the Iermoc and Personality Son album, "…".
My next project (Personality Son, "Contaminate That Won") allowed me
to grow and build on my experiments with more confidence and
direction. There was still plenty of experimentation but it was
clearer what techniques worked well for me. I used similar equipment
as before and the same 8 track for recording. Each track was recorded
live in one take, and I would layer the sounds on top of one another
without too much thought of the final outcome. I just played what felt
right. This way of working meant I could finish a piece in one or two
sessions. I would start an idea and finish it off in between my
kitchen porter shifts. I made ten tracks in total, nine of which ended
up on the album.
The last track I made as Personality Son is on the Koept 12 inch,
"[Inept-05]". It is titled "Derehctub", the name I have chosen for my
current project. All recordings mentioned can be found in the main
menu under output.
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