discography2

Jul 1999 (MD) Rails: (featuring Graham Walters, Jamie McClelland, Andrew Pike)
White Abstract Composition/Catching Trains/Merchant Trader/Scaffold Structure III/The Day The World Turned Auerbach/What Does Assertive Mean?/View From A Reflected Train/The Sixth Form Tapes/Inverse Reversed Perversity/Only A Diseased Bird Kills It�s Young/Equus/Travelling Man/Note

This minidisc of songs was more listenable than the others, and has a much more techno/trance feel, it being recorded totally on computer using a number of programs. Best tracks here include the upbeat, dancey 'Catching Trains', 'View From A Reflected Train' (the title of a piece of A-level Art coursework submitted by Pete on his course at the time), and the short, funky closer 'Travelling Man'. There are also spoken word segments, Pete questioning the use of English language in "What Does Assertive Mean?", a 17 minute excerpt of a day in the sixth form in "The Sixth Form Tapes" and Andrew Pike's improvised skit in "Note".

Aug 1999 (MD) Addict: (featuring Ken Springall and David Rainbow)
Ken Sings At The Age Of Four/David Rainbow DJ Mix/Intermission/Peter Muscutt DJ Mix/Cradles (Black)/North Circular/Korridor (Klinik Fill Mix)/Make Time/Addict/Untitled IV/Untitled XI/Film Music

One of the funniest introductions ever I think - a well used sample of Kermit the Frog segues into Ken singing 'Ghostbusters' when he was four, soon joined by his dad crooning "Singin In The Rain" down the mic. There then follows a rather super David Rainbow DJ set lasting about ten minutes, featuring Michael Jackson, Mr Oizo and 187 Lockdown. The intermission track was stolen from an Offspring album, and then Pete shows what he could do with some CD mixers, playing music by Chemical Brothers, Fun Loving Criminals, House Of Pain and...The Cardigans. There then features some rather bleak techno based songs and a Plastikman track, before some more Muppets samples and assorted other things. Bit of a hotchpotch of things, but still OK.

Mar 2000 (MD) You Haven�t Lost Your Touch:
I Guess I Love You/Rock The Bass/Take Me Back/Interlude/Mitternachtenfahre (Midnight Driving)/Interlude 2/Drifting Away/Occidentalis (Full Length Mix)/Dolphins (Ken Springall Original Mix)/Hightailing/Obsessional Professional Avocations/My Heart/Underneath

Recorded using Playstation music program "Music 2000", this is a rather cheesy collection of dance music punctuated by the odd moment of goodness, notably the Muscutt/Walters composition "Occidentalis" which totals around 14 minutes and is really rather lovely flowing drum and bass, and the original 1997 version of a song created by Ken Springall on his Dance E-Jay program called 'Dolphins', although Pete reckons his mix of the song was better. "It was more upbeat" he says. The 'Obsessional Professional Avocations" song distorts a sample from a movie called 'Beneath The Valey Of The Ultravixens" and is very funny.

May 2000 (MD) I Can�t Believe They Shot My Children (compilation):
Planets/Ceefax Music/Mono/Studio Improvisation/Somebody Out There/Originals (Excerpt)/Chemical Brothers Versus Thunderbirds/Originals (Excerpt 2)/Flat Beat It/Memories Of A Cold War Soldier (Part 2)/Ethnosense (Excerpt)/Catching Trains/Scaffold Structure III/Mellow Composition/Ken Sings At The Age Of Four

A compilation of songs recorded from 1997-2000. Best track is undoubtedly 'Planets', a near 10 minutes of pure cosmic sounding loveliness recorded on a Casio keyboard lent to Pete by his then school-librarian, Anne Kirk. There are excerpts from the now lost "The Originals" recording, as well as some new songs such as 'Memories Of A Cold War Soldier (Part 2)' and 'Mellow Composition', both acoustic songs. "Somebody Out There" was taken from a lost 1998 minidisc of keyboard recordings.

Jul 2000 (MD) The Previous (featuring Ben Miles and Gary Chappell)
Introduction/CB Radio Conversation 17.7.98/Somebody�s Stolen My Horse/Cum One/Last Day Of Term/Direct/Ceefax Muzak Suite (For Early Hours)/Sister?/CB Radio Conversation 13.5.96/Ping Pong/Cum Two

A second compilation, featuring odd bits and bobs that were taken from substandard minidiscs of material. It is, in essence, the best of a bad bunch. What is included are some CB radio tests, recorded to make sure Pete's friend Ben Miles' equipment was working, some random samples from obscure albums, music recorded from early morning BBC programming, and some excerpts from dodgy mid 1990's porn films.