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Started recording on the first night we met up [23rd November 1996] - Martian T Jamboy 'a man who looked like he had trouble with relationships' - former petrol pump attendant and aspiring arty, and Ade 'Agent Dave' Bordicott, 'a youthful steve wright' with a background in graffiti, computers and musical invention. Martian was a struggling artist and Ade was on pills for his nerves: and fuelled by booze, crisps and Ade's quality merchandise, recorded virtually every rehearsal from then on. Everything recorded live over endlessy varying sequenced beats. Earthy grooves, a mutual love of PiL, ApheX Twin, Autechre, Genesis P'Orridge, JoY Divisoin, Leftfield.

Using the guitar as a source of sound rather than rhythm or melody, bass as rupturous tune-machine, minimal beats using every drum as an instrument in itself. Same for the voice - just an instrument. Using delays and effects as a means of stretching and dissecting sounds. Turntables, tape machines and live percussion - not just restricted to drums, bass, guitar.

Ade is like the inventor [the lab had steadily expanded until it WAS his entire flat], I was more the 'stupid ideas' arty bloke. But neither of us had been in the situation before where we could just play, without having to discuss what 'type' of a song we were going to do - we were dead lucky in that we had a lot of fairly obscure musical reference points in common - new wave, noise, hip hop and dance stuff are not the kinds of sounds that musicians want to hear. They all talk about being influenced by hip hop - but it's all just surface level. We still love beats and guitars but none of it is emmediate - our influences are just that, we don't have to go out and do a 'hip hop' number. It's the difference between PiL being into dub and The Clash DOING dub. The beats and the bass were always the starting point, and we'd add guitar and tapes to add texture - delay, reverb and dirt with everything.

Everything I've done since has been influenced by the sounds that we worked out at this time. MeMeplex Prime are currently in the process of blackmailing Ade [now a memeber of The Compsey Tribuneral and Nubia] into joining them on 'big bottom end' and 'decks of cruelty'.

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