DexDexTer Chemistry Of Youth 1996 Candidate Mix, remixed by Paul Kendall at Mute Records

Salvaged from Xavmania's dexdexter playlist, the sound here has phase to it, so must be from an old cassette. I kinda like this Protools-ed version and remember parts of this mixing process and adding a couple of fx on 16bit Protools as per PK's advice - who didn't know what to do with my drumming, and spent a long time editing this one. But hey, who doesn't get their drums edited this day and age. Even the news is daily gridded and quantized, let alone music. I wasn't a horrible drummer, I was into rhythm since I used to drum the f out of my school desk age 10, competing with Mendoza, big chap who sat next to me, last row of the class so we 'couldn't be heard'. And I was sometimes on drums with the school band, though I was made to learn my basic chops on bass guitar - to the House Of The Rising Sun, first ever song that actually made sense to me, as far as music lessons go, though I was also *forced* to learn some Mozart around then, towards my piano studies, which is why I gave them up as soon as. ..More Vangelis, thanks. Unless I'm mistaken, The House Of The Rising Sun is a not-even-overnight masterclass on chord progression, key & key changes, & harmonic relations, if nothing else. And it teaches you bass guitar, right there - there being a literal before and after. So much later on, whenever we couldn't get band drummers to organically play along to live sequencers, I'd prerecord all my keys, and sacrifice for the good of the band and go hit things live, without any real technique - perseverance and willpower will plenty compensate. ..But studios -leaving one's primal drum chops forever registered to a metronome- were something else entirely. Rattle and hummish lol. Remastered it a bit - added some low end bite and 'hi end def', considering. As can be seen, we had just discovered Protools and digital manipulation of an entire audio track, so we kept demanding this Prodigy-tal treatment on a couple of sections, which we were advised wouldn't work, in time - and surely enough, they don't really. Lol. There are sections of this edit which were done for good reason and did improve the track. So, this song ended up a fragmented version of itself. Very COY indeed. Relol. Evan : drums, keyboards, sequencers Gage : bass G : guitars, backing vocals Xav : vocals, backing vocals