This was an instrumental track I wrote at the end of 1998, when I was living in Richmond. I'd been using midi for songwriting/backing tracks for a while, using various little electronic boxes, but decided to bite the bullet and buy a keyboard (a Roland XP10). After setting it up, I found a few cool sounds and built this song around those. One of those sounds was the bass - which I always thought was a great little Faith No More sounding bass (obviously the song isn't very Faith No More). I always liked this song, but one of my favourite things about it still niggles me. One of the melodies (played by the sitar sound at around the 1:35 mark) is a rip off of "El Rodeo" by Kyuss. I put it there as a temporary melody while I came up with something better, but never did. It always sounded like it should be there. So it stayed. But now I can't listen to the song without thinking about Kyuss... (which isn't *such* a bad thing). I do think this a funky little track though - I love the start of the song with the piano riff - it's just a bit unusual, which sets the tone for the song. And the ending / outro is pretty cool as well (some nice guitar playing)

I wrote and recorded this in an afternoon - when I was supposed to be doing some contract Visual Basic / Access programming... but just really couldn't be stuffed. I still think the afternoon was better spent doing this :)

Hope you enjoy it.

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