The Special 12 Singles Series #12

Cedric posted the following regarding these recordings:

“This is my failed attempt at ghost noted shuffeling Tony Allen beats! Ha! There is a digital tabla machine running through some DD-5 delay pedal that is being played by a mini hand held tape recorder playing throughout! I wrote the bass line…hummed it to Juan…Omar came up with the guitar and chorus section and Adrian played flute on it. It was squeezed in during tracking drums for Amputechture, and rushed…very very rushed. I had other parts and chorus bits but I didn’t want to get in the way of the record (studio time is expensive!). The samples are from 2 places […] On “Private Booths” the samples at the start are from an interview with a psychic who participated in the Montauk Project…I sampled it from a UK TV show called Disinformation (RIP!) […] The other sample is from a movie called Shock Corridor by the late Sam Fuller. Side 2 “Sapta Loka” is a bit of an homage to ambient German music from the [1970s] … it’s one long drone spliced in four places and stacked on each other playing at the same time. A shitty Casio and a banged up Chaos pad (very 2005!) are being run and it’s all recorded through a hand held mini recorder dumped onto a ProTools file. […] Omar co-wrote the piece.”